Issue No.9 Autumn 1996
"THE
DORKINIAN” 
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Contents
Then and Now Changes in the School over the years
A Day Remembered Rob Worsfold
Letter from Denmark Nick Ridley (1952-59)
News from Louise Cooper nee McFadyen (1949-57)
Claire Taylor Bursary Winner 1995
Mr James Clegg remembered by his son Tony Clegg
Dorkinian Golf Harold Child
Calling all singers Mike Dobson
Old Dorkinian Football Club Peter Mills
Old Dorkinian Cricket Club Dave Wilcockson
Editor's Odds and Ends
With this edition of our newsletter we enclose a separate set
of papers relating to the EGM and AGM on Saturday 12th October. The format will
differ from that of the past two years as the first meeting will start at 11
am, with registration and coffee beforehand, and lunch after the AGM. The rest
of the day will be yours to organise (or not) as you wish! We certainly hope
that many of you will take this opportunity to renew old friendships, and
perhaps tell us about it for the next newsletter?
Assuming that the motion at the EGM to change the name of the
Association is passed, we need to rethink the heading of our Newsletter ‑
ideas please!
Apart from the apparent fall‑off in membership to which
Sheila refers later we have had other disappointments this year ‑ the
poor turnout from our membership at the School Spring Concert on 25th April
when we saw only lan Taylor and his brother Michael, and, even more upsetting,
the Strawberry Tea scheduled for 9th June was cancelled because only 4 members
applied for tickets ‑ is this really an occasion which members do not
want?
It's good to see that Mike Dobson ‑ CALLING ALL SINGERS ‑
is happy to try again in 1997 to arrange a musical event alongside the AGM.
Sheila Sandford, our Membership Secretary, stands down after 3
years’ hard work, and I thank her very much for all that
she has done for the Association. In view of her enthusiasm for corresponding
with members, I feel sure that she will remain in touch! Congratulations to
Peter Mills, Ron Peters and Derek Rattenbury on their
awards for "5O Years’ Service to Football" ‑ see ODFC report. I thank Rob Worsfold for his
contribution, and subscription, offered on a recent visit to
Ashtead, and in the circumstances forgive him his pun! Louise Cooper's
"Potted History'' leaves me feeling that I haven't done as much as I thought!
Thank you, Louise, and I hope your health improves soon.
We hope there is sufficient variety in this Newsletter to give
something of interest to every member. It would be helpful to know which items
are particularly appreciated, and which are of no interest!
David
Mountain (01327 273227) September
1996
DIARY
1 AGM ‑ Saturday 12th October ‑ for details see
separate set of papers.
2 Golf Day ‑ Thursday 26th September ‑ closing
date has already passed, but if you are interested in the next one please
contact Harold Child (0 1306 88583 1).
THEN AND NOW
CHANGES IN THE SCHOOL OVER THE
(RECENT) YEARS
In 1976 the original Grammar School
(built 1931), combined with the adjacent Mowbray Girls' School (built 1959),
and with the Archbishop Langton School in Beare Green to form the Ashcombe School.
The main DCGS block is now called the 'Ranmore Building' and the Mowbray School
is called the 'Bradley Building' (after the farm which once stood there).
Since then a lot of building and
renovation work has gone on to enable the school to accommodate the 1400 pupils
who now attend Ashcombe School: new Labs (1990), new Design Technical Building
(1990), new carpeted 6th Form Block (1990), Mezzanine Floor to the Study Centre
(we know it as the old School Hall) (1992), new front Secretarial Office from amalgamation
of smaller rooms (1992), and a new major wing to the west (1993/4). This last
building included a new 450 square metre Assembly Hall, 5 new Labs, 10
Classrooms, Drama Studio, 2 Music Rooms and Practice Rooms, as well as Art and
Technology Facilities. Construction was very fast for such a large building and
it was formally opened on 31st October 1994. But it doesn't end there. A new
Sports Hall costing nearly £1 million is planned with funding from the National
Lottery among others.
Pupils in the school are now
covering a wide variety of activities which in our day we either hadn't heard
of, didn't do, or had to do for ourselves: commercial and industrial work
experience, Duke of Edinburgh Award Scheme (over 40 pupils start every year),
visits to French Battlefields, expedition to Africa, installing water supply in
Romanian Hospital, to name but a few, as well as the pupil exchange visits we
also had to France and Germany (any reminiscences of the Hamburg ferry and
train journeys?). Over 100 pupils apply to university, and pupils from the
school represent Great Britain in such sports as golf, gymnastics and pole
vaulting.
The old parts of the School have the
same smell and sensation it always had and still manage to bring back the old
memories, but the new parts seem to blend in rather well. So why not take a
trip down memory lane and have a look at the Old and the New on the 12th
October, when we have our AGM and Annual Reunion. You'd be most welcome and
we'd love to see you and hear any anecdotes you must surely have of your school
days.
John P Gent
MEMBERSHIP SECRETARY'S REPORT - for the year to 31st August 1996
1996 has been another busy year, continuing to work with Nigel
Doe (when time permits for both of us) on a computer programme, but having a
big setback when my laptop rebelled and refused to do any further work for the
Dorkinian Association or the many other interests I have. A repair has just
been completed at considerable expense but now time is running out to get
things prepared in time for inclusion in the September Newsletter.
It is very disappointing to report that membership has again
fallen this year to 240; the figures since the formation of the Association in Autumn 1992, are as follows: ‑
YEAR: TOTAL MEMBERSHIP: RENEWALS: NEW MEMBERS:
1993 147
1994 325 120 205
1995 310 270 40
1996 240 215 25
One encouraging factor is that nine of the 1996 Ashcombe
leavers have given us their names and addresses so that they may be kept in
touch with the activities of the Association.
If the Association is to survive, we must enrol new members
and encourage people to renew their subscriptions (more of this later).
Inevitably we have lost some members for various reasons, including some who
have moved away and lost touch, or others who have decided against renewal.
We must all appreciate the fact that each member of the
Committee is a keen volunteer but with only a limited amount of time to give
and we therefore rely on your co‑operation
in renewing subscriptions, responding to invitations, etc. on time.
With all this in mind, and the database just about up and
running, those of you who do not already subscribe by means of a Bankers' Order
will find enclosed a PERSONALISED invitation to do so. If you could consider
subscribing by this method, it will make a lot of difference to the workload
and help to keep the Association's finances in the black. In fact it has been
suggested in some quarters that a condition of membership should be that all
new members subscribe by this method to avoid the time and cost of chasing up
those who have overlooked to renew their membership. I sincerely hope that we
can look forward to your co‑operation by adopting this method.
This will be my last report as Membership Secretary ‑
during my three years I have greatly appreciated the little notes which
accompany your cheques ‑ some from my contemporaries, some from those I
looked up to when at school, and some from younger members. I particularly
appreciated the human touch ‑"Sorry but the cat has walked all over
the paper and left paw prints" or "My toddler has insisted on getting
in on the act and has done a drawing for you" ‑ comments such as
these have certainly brought a smile to my face, so thank you!
Sheila Sandford.
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MEMBERSHIP MISCELLANY ‑ Autumn 1996
It is touch and go whether the 1996
Membership List will be ready to be printed for inclusion with the September
1996 Newsletter there is still a lot of data to be entered on the "custom‑built"
database and this is a time consuming task.
When you do have it to hand, you will notice that a number of
people of moved house, and one has even changed her
name! Congratulations to Barbara Eyre on becoming Mrs. Drew,
and a special thank you to her for taking the trouble to let us know this and
her new address in the Wiltshire.
THANK YOU to those who send good wishes to the Association and
express your appreciation of THE NEWSLETTER, which is of course an especially
important link for those of you who live away from Surrey.
Barbara Booth (nee Wareham) writes that she has
become a grandmother (can't believe it!!); she also
says she would love to participate in the Golf Day's but dates so far have
clashed with her competition days at Sherbourne. Please try to fit the
Dorkinians in soon, Barbara!
It was good to hear from Jill Corpes
(nee Chatfield) that her grandson Jack is almost two years old (many of us
remember the anxious night of the 1994 AGM as the baby was due that day! What
it is to be an expectant Grandmother!). Although only living at Guildford, Jill
is kept busy with domestic problems but it would be nice to see her again at
the AGM if it does not clash with a holiday in Cyprus with old school friend Barbara Henderson‑Begg
(nee Blakemore)!
Eric Jeal
writes from Cornwall to point out that he and Jim Spencer seem to be the only two
High School boys still in circulation. Eric was at school between 1922 and
1929. He made the journey to come to last year's AGM where he was given a warm
welcome ‑ he generously donated a pot of his own Cornish honey for the
raffle ‑ and I can vouch for the fact this was quite delicious (Janet
Hadgraft won it!).
Caroline Butterfield (nee Hughes) says she is rather tied down
with three children who never seem to get tired ‑ or show any sympathy
for a baby sitter! It WILL get better Caroline ‑ and we hope one day you
will be able to make the AGM.
Julia Thompson (nee Redwood) has recently moved to a new address in Leeds and now has a second daughter Helen. Congratulations!
Gillian Spurgeon has now retired from teaching and has her house on the market ‑
so I guess she is living in a perpetual state of "tidying up" ‑
quite stressful! Perhaps by the time this Newsletter reaches her, she will have
found a buyer for a highly desirable cottage in Kent!
Ian Simmons' Mother deserves our thanks ‑ she is STILL trying to persuade
him to write a piece for the Newsletter! She tells me that he went out to
Brazil in 1981 for two years ‑ and is still there! Ian is working near
Sao Paulo ‑ we really would like to hear about life in Brazil, Ian ‑
please!
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Please keep the information coming, giving us little glimpses
into your interesting lives ‑ many of us think our lives are rather
ordinary, but they are certainly not to the readers of the Newsletter!
Sheila
Sandford, Membership Secretary,
73,
Copthorne Road, Leatherhead,
Surrey, KT22 7EE.
Tel: 01372 ‑ 372936.
Not relevant now years after but Sheila asked then:
ARE YOU COMING TO THE AGM ON 12TH OCTOBER
1996?
HAVE YOU
READ THE DETAILS OF THE DAY WHICH ACCOMPANY THE AGM INFORMATION?
HAVE YOU FILLED IN THE BLUE FORM AND POSTED
IT TO ME?
AND ‑ FINALLY ‑
DARE I ASK IF YOU HAVE READ AND ACTED ON THE MEMBERSHIP RENEWAL INFORMATION
WHICH IS ALSO INSIDE THE ENVELOPE?
Thank you!
Rob Worsfold ‑ "A Day Remembered"
My recollections of
sporting activities at Dorking in the 'sixties are centred on cross‑country,
football and the javelin. For the first three
years it was cross-country, then finding that ninety minutes on the football pitch
was less inclined to aggravate asthma than long distance running, I started
taking the game seriously in the Fourth year, My aspirations with the javelin
only gathered force in the Sixth, and in my last school Sports I remember
coming second, just ahead of my old friend Graham 'Fred' Ballinger and some
distance behind Barry Green who was virtually unbeatable at that time.
My integration into
Second XI football was a gradual process, and although some
details are clearer than others I have a vivid recollection of the day on which
I finally cemented my place in the team. I was in Form 5A, so the date would
have been some time in the autumn of 1966, and we were away at Glyn after
school.
I was not in a constructive frame of mind
that afternoon. Weeks of training, and one or two appearances for the squad in
which I did not think I had acquitted myself too badly, and here I was on the
coach as first reserve. Shielding my disappointment, my thoughts were diverted
in turn to the latest Searchers single, the forthcoming visit of the DCGS Model
Railway Club to Eastleigh, and a certain red‑haired girl in the Lower
Sixth. In short, my mind was on anything but football.
There was a bite to the wind and it was cold
on the touchline. Even my attempts to encourage the team appeared ineffective
as we went one goal down shortly before half‑time. My hopes of coming on as sub
for the second half also came to nothing. Finally in
frustration I sought the sanctuary of the dressing room and opened a book; 'The
Diary of Anne Frank' which had been lent to me by Miss Barter.
It was a short read. Someone came to haul me
out to replace David (sorry, surname forgotten) who had turned his ankle. The
news was better; Dorking had equalised, there were twenty minutes left, and I
was on the right wing.
For five minutes we defended desperately as
the opposition tried to move in for the kill. For me it was a case of
attempting frantically to pin down my opposite number who was in full flow.
Perhaps he overdid it, because suddenly I was getting round him and the
defenders and crossing the ball into the box. Someone hit the crossbar and gave
me a thumbs‑up. I began to feel more confident and concentrated on floating the ball high across the goal mouth at every
opportunity. Eventually it paid off. I crossed five minutes from time and Alan
(Eastman) met the ball beautifully and shot cleanly past the goalkeeper.
Dorking led by two goals to one.
That was how it stayed. Alan had some
encouraging words moving in my direction as we left the field, and there was a
real buzz on the homeward journey because a tricky match had been won by a
narrow margin. In our post‑match euphoria, I even forgot about the girl
in the Lower Sixth. At that moment the only thing that mattered was football,
and the date of the next match.
These days it's walking instead of cross‑country,
and cricket and tennis have taken over from football; but in conclusion I must
acknowledge just how much I owe to Mr Day, for his continued encouragement to
participate and to keep up a high standard of fitness throughout my seven years
at Dorking, and beyond.
Nick Ridley (1952‑59) ‑ writing from Denmark
I continue to receive and enjoy the Newsletter ‑
regrettably I cannot make any of the meetings. Life is fine in Copenhagen,
though I am still spending around 100 days a year elsewhere in the world. The
children have been educated and have left home, so Marianne and I have the
house to ourselves. Should any Dorkinians be in Denmark, they will be sure of a
warm welcome here ‑ telephone 0045, for Denmark, 4465 3774, fax 0045 4466 5747.
Louise Cooper, nee McFadyen ‑
1949‑57 ‑ wrote to us on 1st April:
"As I have just read the Spring
edition I thought I would put pen to paper (as wed as paying my subs!). When I
left DCGS, in 1957, I went to
Eastbourne Training College where I trained as a Junior Teacher, taking Music
as my special subject. While I was teaching in Bedford, I met my future
husband, who was in the RAF and stationed at Cardington. There was much family
opposition as he is 25 years older than I am, he was a widower and had two children. However, 34 years later and
4 further children on, I think I made the right choice!
After various moves around the country we ended up here in Calne as Ted was Families Officer at RAF Lyneham after his retirement from the RAF and prior to his "age
65" retirement. After my youngest child started school I began a part time
post as librarian at our local comprehensive school. I stayed there for 11
years, and really loved it as it extended into careers work, finding work
experience placements and giving library lessons. Needless to say, I still did
a great deal of singing and am ever grateful to Doc Morgan and to Hebe for all
their encouragement and the thorough grounding they gave me.
I also became a School Manager at two of our local primary
schools, and got involved as a parent with the various
activities my children became involved in ‑ cubs, brownies, scouts,
guides, ballet, riding, music, youth club ‑ you name it!
After Ted retired, he became involved in local politics and in
1982 he was Mayor of Calne. It was an extremely busy
but highly enjoyable year, with never a dull moment, and I learned a great deal
about local history.
Seven years
ago, Wiltshire began to encourage "old" teachers to apply for
refresher courses, and so I returned to primary teaching just as the National
Curriculum was introduced! I have really enjoyed being back in the classroom,
and I think that my broader horizons help both me and the children. Sadly, I am
quite unwell at the moment and early retirement on health grounds is on the
cards. In spite of that, I am an avid bobbin‑lace maker, vice chair of
Governors of the local comprehensive school, a member of the Civic Society and
a doting grandmother ‑five times over.
I still keep in touch with Dorking friends and scan the
membership list wondering what has happened to various people whose names have
been very much a part of my life in the past. I enjoy reading about other
people's lives, which is why I am immodest enough to send this potted history.
My younger brother, Ian, transferred to DCGS for the Sixth
Form and went to Cambridge to read Pure Maths. He worked initially for Shell
Overseas, married a Spanish girl, Maria, and had one son, James. Eventually he was running his own business in
California, but unfortunately 8 years ago developed leukaemia and died. James
is still in California, but Maria lives in London, and is still in touch with
some of Ian's original Dorking "Gang" He used to relate that, when he
first started at DCGS, other Sixth Formers would ask if he was anything to do
with me, as, when they had been younger, they had been animals in the Roberts
House Play I produced ‑Toad of Toad Hall!
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Dorkinian Association
Bursary
Our Bursary of £250 is awarded each year to a pupil who is
undergoing further study, shows qualities of excellence and leadership and is
considered well able to act as an ambassador for the School. This
year it goes to Dominic Jewel, an outstanding candidate.
Dominic is the 1996 leader of the National Youth Orchestra,
performing in major events across the country, and even in Europe, and was to
be seen at the NYO Promenade Concert on 10th August. He begins his studies at
The Royal College of Music in London in September, and we wish him well ‑
and hope to hear from him from time to time. The following extract from a
recent NYO Newsletter suggests that he could supply some good copy!
Dominic Jewel ‑
ON AIR!
Leader of the NYO, Dominic Jewel tells of his brush with broadcasting! given coffee on a luxuriant leather sofa while I waited for Margaret Howard, the producer. When I
finally met her she introduced me to the man I had been sitting opposite for the last twenty minutes – Janos Furst! ‑ and took me to the studio for the interview. She was so professional
that I didn't really need to worry (although I still did) and professional
that I didn't really need to worry (although I still did) and after it had
finished I somehow lost all recollection of what had occurred whilst I had
been in the room. However, I do know that, after interviewing me about my experiences and career aims as a
musician,
she suggested that I might consider a career in broadcasting! W hen I was asked,
before Christmas, to do an interview about the NYO for Classic FM, I agreed
and thought nothing more of it until
I found myself on a
Monday afternoon
walking around Camden looking for their studio. After walking up and down several times
past what I thought was a small office ‑ getting dodgy looks from the security guards ‑
I realised that it was in fact the
studio and went in. I was led into a vast subterranean cavern where I was
Lesley Dickinson, Dominic
Jewel and Amy Wilson.
Claire Taylor, last years Bursary winner, has had a very successful
first year at Lancaster University, and sends us the following comments:
Well I can't believe that this time last year I was anxiously
awaiting my A‑level results and hoping that I would make it to the
university of my choice; 12 months on I can honestly say that my choice was a
good one, I have had a very enjoyable and eventful year at Lancaster. Although
I firmly believe in the old adage that 'Life is what you make it', undoubtably university life has the potential to be very
difficult without financial assistance. The bursary that I was awarded last
summer by the Dorkinian Association was extremely helpful.
At Lancaster you are required to study three subjects in the
first year; I spent a good part of my bursary on the books that I needed for
each course. I also used it to help pay for the vast amounts of stationery,
computer disks and photocopying cards that are needed. However, I have also
been actively involved in the Hiking club, an interest that I think stemmed
from my participation in the Duke of Edinburgh expeditions when I was at The
Ashcombe School. I have therefore used part of the
bursary to finance the various trips that I have been on and essential
equipment. In the last year I have spent a lot of my free time trekking and
climbing in the Lake District and the Yorkshire Dales, neither of which I had
been to before. Next year I hope to make it to Scotland.
University life is undoubtably very
different from life in the sixth form. With regards to work, the onus is most
definitely on you. Although tutors are available if you need help, it is up to
the student to seek them out. Basically you need to be very motivated if you
are going to succeed. For example, going to lectures is optional and it is up
to the student to get themselves out of bed! As for the social side, most
people find it very easy to make friends and settle in. At university there is
something for everyone, it is important to make sure you look around and find
out what clubs, societies and people suit you. I hope my next year at
university will be as good as the last!
JAMES CLEGG ‑ Scripture Teacher 1945 until mid
1960s.
Mr Clegg's son has very kindly written to us:
I write to let you know that my father, James Clegg, who was
on the staff at the Dorking County Grammar School from 1945 until he
retired somewhere in the mid 1960's, has died. He passed away peacefully in
Ross Cottage Hospital on 24th March, at the age of 94 years. He enjoyed a long
retirement, which started with study for an M.Litt. degree
from Lancaster University.
He was very proud of the achievements of the pupils at
Dorking. I well remember in my early teens, around 1947, one pupil
from a Dorking family coming to our home for lessons in Chinese, and I think he
was the first English boy to gain a General School Examination ‑ School
Certificate in the subject, who had not lived in or had any connection with the
Far East. Both my parents were fluent in Chinese, having worked as Methodist
missionaries there for nearly twenty years.
Shortly, his ashes will be interred in the churchyard at Whitchurch, near Ross‑on‑Wye, close to the
River Wye and within sight of Symonds Yat Rock, in
the area where he enjoyed walking in the later years of his life. He battled with Parkinson's Disease for the last 16 years, but was still managing to move from
room to room two weeks before the end came. Only days earlier he was watching a
Tom Mangold T.V. programme, yet another former Dorking student!
With best wishes to you all for the future.
Yours sincerely,
J. Anthony Clegg.
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OLD DORKINIAN GOLF - Harold Child, calling all golfers
Ten members of the Association met together at Dorking Golf
Club on 18th April 1996 for the association's second golf day. How encouraging it was to have seven of last September's participants
wanting to chance their arms once again. The only absentee (Mike Scotcher) was excused as he was taking an early holiday,
but hopefully will return to the fold In September.
It was particularly encouraging to welcome Frank Kerr, Clive
Huggins and Mike Dobson to the hopefully ever growing number of participants. also to receive letters from people who were interested but
unable to come along.
Once again the 18 hole Stableford
competition was played off full handicaps with the exception of Dorking Golf
Club members, who gave two courtesy shots to
visitors. which produced the following result:
Winner ‑ Roger Griffiths
Runner ‑
up ‑ Clive Huggins
Best
front 9 holes ‑ Colin Burbidge
Best back
9 holes ‑ Frank Kerr
The golf was preceded by a Ploughman's lunch and followed by a
three course evening meal, prize giving and then a lengthy session of talking
on a wide variety of subjects until quite a late hour, when it was decided that
it may be prudent to leave the 19th before we outstayed our welcome.
The next opportunity to partake In
this social occasion Ion is Thursday 26th September 1996 at Clandon Regis Golf
Club, but entries closed on Friday 6th September. A further meeting in the
spring of 1997 has been proposed but no details are available at the time of
going to print.
If you are interested in joining in, please call Harold Child
on 01306 885831 for details. Please don't be shy!
CALLING ALL SINGERS - AGM, 12 October 1996
While thanking those of you who replied so enthusiastically,
the net response to the call in the Spring Newsletter numbered nine only, which
I'm afraid, does not quite give us a quorum. Thus, there will be no musical
event alongside this year's AGM, partly because of numbers but also partly
because of voices offered!!
However, I personally am happy to try again in 1997 as I am
sure the responders are, so the call remains in force! If you are interested in
a "come and sing bit of fun" please let me know at "
Mike Dobson.
Association Secretary.
[Phone/Fax 01234 7716851]
OLD DORKINIAN FOOTBALL CLUB ‑ Peter Mills, Hon. Secretary.
The ODs are looking forward to the start of their 66th season,
fielding five sides in the Old Boys' League, and a sixth, a Veterans' XI, in
the Jack Perry Veterans' Cup Competition.
In a new innovation in the coming season the Club have entered a side
in the Leatherhead and District Sunday League which we hope will be a
successful venture.
Our close relations with the School continue, and Peter Mills,
a School Governor, was honoured to be invited to their recent Sports Dinner
where he was pleased to present a trophy, donated by the Club, for the 'Played
Player of the Year' award.
The Club have recently reached agreement with Dorking Colts
FC, most of whose members attend the School and who share our second ground at
Westhumble, to become our nursery club. By this arrangement we hope to ensure a
steady flow of new remits to further secure the Club's future.
The Football Association have recently honoured three long
serving OD members with awards for '50 Years' Service to Football' ‑
Derek Rattenbury, Ronald Peters, and Peter Mills. The
awards are in the form of a medallion accompanied by a personal letter from
Graham Kelly, Chief Executive of the Football Association, and were presented
at the Annual Meeting of the Club at Pixham Lane.
The Club welcomes supporters to their main Saturday fixtures
at Pixham listed below, to enjoy the play and the after match hospitality.
28 September
3rd v Glyn OB
16
November 2nd v Clapham OB
05 October 1st v Bromleians* 23 November 4th v Meadonians
12 October 2nd v Suttonians 30 November 2nd v Wilsonians
19 October 3rd v City of London** 07 December 2nd v Reigatians
26 October 2nd v Wake Green** 14 December 1st v Salvatorians
02 November 1st v
Glyn OB 21 December
2nd v Glyn OB
09 November 1st v Addeyans 28
December 1st v Hamptonians
* AFA(S) Cup
** AFA Cup
Those who live in the South and wish to follow the Senior XI's fortunes can follow their results by tuning in to Ceefax TV on Saturday evenings after 7.30 pm, or on Sunday.
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OLD DORKINIAN CRICKET CLUB - Dave Wilcockson, Hon. Secretary
CRICKET CLUB ‑
SEASON TO 20TH AUGUST 1996.
Although the weather has been less reliable
than last year the cricket club have so far won 14 games compared with only 11
victories in the whole of last season. Three matches have been drawn whilst
three others have been washed out half way through. Ten games have been lost including two on the recent tour of south Wales. The standard encountered in
Wales was very high, particularly the batting, with three opening batsmen
scoring centuries! Games were played against Llanelli,
Gorseinon and Maesteg and,
despite the difficult matches, the hospitality shown
to our players was outstanding.
The two most consistent batsmen have been
Tim Hodgson who recently hit 91 not out to record his highest scare and Mike
Haigh who scared his maiden hundred at Meadowbank in early August. The bulk of
the bowling has again been done by Dave Wilcockson with 70 wickets to date.
The annual over 35 six‑a‑side
tournament in July resulted in a win for Old Midwhitgiftians
who surprisingly beat favourites Horsham Trinity in the final. An enjoyable day
was supervised by the two umpires, one being Alan Fox fresh from officiating in
the women's test matches between England and New Zealand. The presentation of
awards was held at Dorking FC's clubhouse with Dorkinians' Gavin Beech being
voted "player of the day". David Culton
organised the event which was again sponsored by Denbies Wines.
The club's annual supper is due to be held
at the end of November.