Howard Cheyne writes:
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Surbiton Welcomes New Members.....
On Tuesday Evening Surbiton’s second entrance way into the grounds was completed ahead of schedule for the MacRobertson Shield. In a carefully planned manoeuvre a local gentlemen excelled himself by crashing through the fencing at the bottom of Manor Drive. Not happy with this and with no real desire to hit the brakes he continued to plough on through the flowers, then narrowly missed George’s trailer, slightly clipped George’s BBQ and still with no desire to stop, missed the new oak benches by inches. By now most people would have decided it may actually be time to stop but our demolition expert proceeded to run over and leave tyre marks on the hoop trolley to lawn 3, miss hoop 4 by a matter of inches (it would have hit the hoops from last week) and eventually come to rest on the east boundary peg high. A journey of a good 50 yards from the fence!
Once the car had come to rest when there was really nothing left to hit, a somewhat shocked Sam Murray and Philip Hellen who were playing on the lawn at the time against Guildford in the U League approached the car with bewilderment followed closely by the rest of the Surbiton and Guildford Team. Eventually out stepped an even more puzzled chap.
He was taken into the clubhouse to sit down and offered a drink and a slice of cake before we collected some information off of him. This information, apart from the usual, mainly consisted of him saying his foot had slipped onto the accelerator pedal and that also the car was a hire car while his other car was being mended in the garage!!
While this happened photos were taken by Sam of this outside agency before it was reversed off the lawn and George was rung with a simple explanation that a car had rolled past hoop 4 onto the east boundary and would he like a peep.
Importantly nobody was hurt and Michael Hague even got an important ruling from George on what happened to the Surbiton white ball which visibly moved as the car passed by it. However even more impressive was Mike Lambert’s Hoop trolley which probably did more damage to the car and somehow remained intact apart from a bit of extra rubber on the handles.
Naturally Surbiton’s hospitality and now legendary entertainment package will prove quite a draw to visiting clubs until the new moat around the border is dug in the off-season. Unfortunately this was not enough distraction to stop Guildford taking the spoils on a wet and miserable day which was also confounded by our failure to recruit this possible new member who literally landed on our lap!
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