3 pin vs 4 pin Match- September 2019

[LEE_Cambs]

The challenge has been offered and accepted.

Cambridge 3 Pinners will play the 4 Pinners.

3 Pin Match @ Bottisham CSSC
Monday 16th Sept, 8pm Start.


4 Pin Match @ Townhouse, Ely.
Monday 23rd Sept, 8pm Start.

Format will be agreed early September dependant on numbers.

Any questions please feel free to email [e-mail]

[LEE_Cambs]

Due to availability we delayed this by one week.

I am pleased to say we go ahead this evening at Bottisham CSSC, 8pm Kick Off.

Cambridge 3 Pin Team:
Lee Mason (C) WH Milton
Jim Wilson Bot CSSC
Malcolm Wright Bot CSSC
Andrew Knibbs Carp Arms
Paul Tolkein WH Milton

Return leg @ The Town House Ely on Monday 30th, 8pm.

[taffy]

Jim Wilson Bot CSSC v Ally 'La-deh-Da' Stansfield-Prewett = Home win (Ally's first 3-pin game)
Andrew Knibbs Carp Arms v Alfie Noakes = Home win (Alfie had played 3-pin before once)
Paul Tolkein WH Milton v Andy Pollard = Away win (Andy hadn't played 3-pin before)
Malcolm Wright Bot CSSC v Taffy Lloyd = away win (malcolm lost 3,400 on the last ball. Taffy lost 970, still had a handy 1,650 though)
Lee Mason (C) WH Milton v Paul Mason = Home win (a great 14,50 from Paul who only had his 10th game of any BB and his first of 3-pin)
player X v Andy Pollard again = home win (extra player arrived, back in went our best player; Andy lost by 1,200 which was also the score of the break he lost...would have been tight otherwise....)

so 2-4 to the hosts. Played in a great atmosphere with both teams chatting 10 to the dozen all evening.

we join battle again next Monday evening at the Townhouse in Ely. First for us is 4-pin on narrow tables this Saturday and back to wides on Monday with the red and white swopped! we shall be giddy....

Taffy

Super enterprise !  Hope this eventually establishes some regular matchplay for you guys.

[LEE_Cambs]

Great report Taffy. We go again tonight but this time at 4 Pin, with the 3 pinners 4-2 up heading into the last 6 games.

Was a good evening had by all last week with 6 games and then two Captains of 3 Pin Teams had a game afterwards of break back and I tucked up on 4040 off the break, lovely.

Our team tonight is:
Lee Mason (C) WH Milton
Andrew Knibbs Carp Arms
Jim Wilson Bot CSSC
Malcolm Wright Bot CSSC
Paul Tolkein WH Milton
Ian McManus Carp Arms

How did the return (4-Pin) go at the Townhouse, Ely ?

[alanturner]

Oct 5, 2019 14:35:49 GMT tommo III said:

How did the return (4-Pin) go at the Townhouse, Ely ?

Wait your turn !!

No results published yet for the Sudbury 4 x 4 ?

Alan

[taffy]

If I recall the return leg was played in wet conditions! I kid-you-flippin-not!
The table was just inside the door and the landlord kept the front door open open all day. Entering the pub in my mae-wester and galoshes we put out a good team and were very hopeful that 4-2 could be equaled - but for the 4-pinners this time.

anyway, the cloth was damp and the game became a lottery. the game was again played in a friendly atmosphere and the final result was an honourable 3-3 draw. Ally and I got invited that friday to a private Bar Billiards/Beer/Pies party in someone's living room in Cherry Hinton (on the edge of Cambridge) and we talked of 'the greater game'. I think that most of the 3-pinners had never seen the 4-pin game played before and couldn't visualise the '70/110-shot' I'd recommended. Of course the object ball would go through a pin in 3-pin for that shot.

we never got to play Sudbury or wellingborough after this which was what i tried to organise. Nobody seemed to get it that we only had 6-7 players in total, the entire lot of us. So we were the ones that needed accomodating... and then Covid came...

Taffy