BURY Croquet Club had two teams in action at the weekend. On Saturday the Advanced squad were visited by South Lakes, in a match using teams of three on an all-play-all basis.

The visitors' leader, Dave Nick, is rather out of the class of the Bury players. In the opening round Bury's number two Barbara Young played well above expectation to lose to him by only five points. Meanwhile Paul Rigge won by 10 on Time while Geoff Young was struggling and lost by 13. In the second round Geoff never got a real look in against Dave while the other two Bury players won their games, in each case with a strong finish after some trauma.

In the final round, of head to head games, Geoff had a disaster at turn four and never recovered. Barbara's opponent was in very hot form and won by a distance. Paul pegged out Dave's front ball and later reached an attempt at pegout but may have made a tactical error in not pegging out one ball, and thus on the next turn lost by one. The match outcome was a defeat by three games to six.

On Sunday the Short Croquet team entertained Llanfairfechan in pretty dismal weather. This involved each of the four players in all-play-all games. Mac Hardman and Colleen Forkin each broke even with two wins and two defeats. Len Forkin and Jean Hargreaves had clean sweeps of four wins, to give a match victory by twelve games to four.