Oxford Advanced Weekend 12-13 July 2003
Guy Towlson won the Oxford Advanced Weekend by Mark Gooding
Guy Towlson won the Oxford Advanced Weekend. The hot weather seemed to significantly affect the standard of play of all players, with no occurrences of feats of association croquet worthy of mention. Although Eugene Chang had a valiant attempt at a triple fail at rover - which I guess deserves a mention given that he had the second highest handicap there.

Other notable events were:

Jamie and Matt's 6 hour marathon game. Gabs and Geoff agreeing to draw on account that neither of them were getting anywhere fast (much to the manager's upset). Guy achieving 14 separate peels in one game - taking 14 turns. Russell deciding that a beige sports jacket, a whitish t-shirt and green swimming trunks were predominantly white. Leave being requested by Simon (wedding), Russell (dad's birthday do), Jamie (baptism), Russell (swim in the river) and Gabs (for an afternoon nap in the shade - twice)

Photographs by Russell Bretherton
Eugene Chang Stuart Romerill
Romerill bares toes Romerill hides toes Snow affixes clip Snow appraises break
Snow, Gooding, Romerill, Chang, Towlson cricket pavilion
beautiful women ... ... flocked in their dozens ... ... to watch the croquet
more spectators more of spectators Matt Winn-Smith
Gabrielle Higgins
Final standingsGame Results
Guy Towlson 5/5
Mark Gooding 4/5
Stuart Romeril 4/6
Russell Bretherton 3/4
Mark Snow 3/7
Geoff Youd 2.5/5
Derek Stoaling 2/5
Simon Procter 2/5
Gabrielle Higgins 1.5/3
Jamie Bell 1/3
Eugene Chang 1/6
Matt Winn-Smith 0/4 		Stuart Romeril bt Mark Snow +18
Stuart Romeril bt Gabrielle Higgins +11
Russell Bretherton bt Mark Snow +8
Simon Procter bt Matt Winn-Smith +17
Guy Towlson bt Eugene Chang +9
Mark Gooding bt Derek Stoaling +16
Geoff Youd bt Jamie Bell +6
Guy Towlson bt Stuart Romeril +14
Eugene Chang bt Derek Stoaling +21
Geoff Youd bt Simon Procter +13
Derek Stoaling bt Jamie Bell +17
Mark Snow bt Matt Winn-Smith +10
Stuart Romeril bt Geoff Youd +9
Gabrielle Higgins bt Eugene Chang +13
Mark Gooding bt Russell Bretherton +2
Guy Towlson bt Matt Winn-Smith +13
Russell Bretherton bt Eugene Change +13
Mark Gooding bt Mark Snow +7
Guy Towlson bt Mark Gooding +24
Jamie Bell bt Matt Winn-smith +3
Russell Bretherton bt Stuart Romeril +2
Mark Snow bt Eugene Chang +3
Geoff Youd DREW WITH Gabrielle Higgins
Derek Stoaling bt Simon Procter +6
Stuart Romeril bt Eugene Chang +12
Mark Gooding bt Simon Procter +13
Guy Towlson bt Goeff Youd +10
Mark Snow bt Derek Stoaling +17
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