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Pickwick Bicycle Club Magazine Volume 11 No.2 September 2014 !13

SAMUEL PICKWICK AMAZES FELLOW PLAYERS…………

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The annual Pickwick Bicycle Club Golf Day took place on 12 June in glorious weather at
Harpenden Common Golf Club,where we were once again made most welcome. A later
start time of 11.00am produced a greater number of golfers than last year with a total
of twenty two players,nine of whom were members. There were four cyclists and seven
who attended just to dine, so that thirty three people sat down to a late lunch of
soup,smoked haddock gratin,steak and mushroom pie,lemon tart and coffee, at 4.30pm.
Chef Martin and his staff looked after us very well as usual.

The standard of golf was variable but there were some very creditable performances
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and Samuel Pickwick stunned everyone by chipping in on the par four 15 for a gross
three and a huge five stableford points. Unfortunately he couldn't resist drawing
attention to this magnificent effort by offering to take wine at luncheon, with anybody
else who had achieved this on the day.

Hon Sec decided not to award him Jinkin's Balls (given for
something remarkable) on the grounds of smugness. Baillie Mac
Something was confident in retaining his firm grip on the
aforesaid Balls, he was the holder for the last three years, but
these were wrested away from him by The Hon Mr Crushton
who submitted a truly remarkable low stableford score of
eight, perhaps one of the worst scores ever achieved. In
mitigation it was only his third game of golf and his Pickwickian
spirit was much admired in that he took it all in good humour.
His fellow Pickwickians look forward to seeing him next year.
Samuel Pickwick suggested that any winner or the stableford trophies should have their
handicaps reduced by three shots to be slowly re-accrued by a shot a year if the said
winner failed to win again in that period. This was put to the members,who agreed.

The cyclists had a convivial day, ably lead by Mr Justice
Stareleigh. I understand local hostelries were once again
involved. The Blink Bowl for cycling was awarded to Alfred
Jingle for an outstanding performance in turning up and cycling
the full distance. There was also a special presentation to Mr
Justice Stareleigh for some reason still to be explained!