Quoits Meeting

5 July 2017 by

A big thank you to everybody who competed at the Quoits Championship 2017.  It was a fantastic evening with a good turnout . The weather was beautiful and good to finish off with a few beers.

It was a very close contest this year with the winners being Mike Whiteley and Dave Ascough by the skin of their teeth.  Well done to both of you.

Thanks to John and his team from the Quoits club for their support and to Glenys at the Beck Hole Pub for catering for us.
Overall a great evening so thanks again to everybody.
Darren

 

 

 

 

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June Quoits Meeting

24 May 2017 by

 

Our Sports and Social Officer Darren, has bravely organised another opportunity for members to lose their digits and compete with FARTS and Round Table at Quoits. This is always a great evening finishing off with a few beers, pie and chips in the unique Beck Hole pub. Quoit off is at 6.30pm on Tuesday 13 June, at the Beck Hole Quoits Club.

 

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Meeting report: Quoits, 5 July 2016

9 August 2016 by

Many thanks to everyone who attended the Quoits evening at Beck Hole on 5 July 2016. It was well attended with a good mix from 41 club, round table and FARTs with the weather been a perfect summers evening.

After a very close competition the winners were Richard Grunwell and Richard Frank having won 4 games and no losses. The same score was also matched by last years champions Michael Whiteley and Dave Ascough but on count back of points conceded per game the two Richards proved victorious.

I would also like to thank John Morley the chairman of the Beck hole Quoits club and all the members who assisted on the night for their time and patience and to thank Glenys the landlady of the Birch Hall pub for opening for us for beers and food.

Thank you to everyone and let’s hope to have a rematch next year.

Thanks
Darren

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Annual Quoits challenge: Tuesday, 5 July 2016

22 May 2016 by
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A winning throw from a well-known newsletter editor in the 2015 challenge

Once again, the annual three-way challenge between 41 Club, FARTs and Table looms.

Date: Tuesday, 5 July 2016

Time: 6.30pm onwards

Venue: Beck Hole Quoits Club, Beck Hole, Goathland

Web: http://www.beckhole.info/quoits.htm
Cost: £5 per head to the Quoits Club (you will remember that the Quoits Club pass on this payment in its entirety to their supported charity and, for the last two years, this has been Yorkshire Air Ambulance). There is also beer, sandwiches and pies available in the adjacent pub, during and after the match.

How to book: this is an opt-in meeting, so please contact Darren Kellett (email address in second May 2016 newsletter) to confirm your attendance, no later than Friday, 1 July 2016.

Darren Kellett
Sports Officer

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Double our Quoits again

9 August 2015 by

Assorted Tablers, F.A.R.T.s and 41ers descended on Beck Hole, near Goathland, on Tuesday 21 July for this, the second annual three-way challenge at the ancient game of Quoits.

This type of quoits isn’t throwing your little rubber ring up to a pathetic little board with picture hooks on it. Oh no. These quoits can remove a leg (or worse) if you get in the way. And grown men have been known to sink without trace having put a foot wrong in t’ mud pit. And, of course, anyone foolish enough to park anywhere near the pitch had a nervous few hours as the band mastered this skilled game and quoits crashed, banged and walloped all around the village.

The multitude also very quickly mastered the walk to the pub, too, returning (eventually) to the pitch carrying several pints of the Birch Hall Inn’s “Beckwatter”. This caused untold grief to the poor sod who was trying to organise the competition but, after the third pint, it didn’t matter. The excellent chaps from the Beck Hole Quoits Club had a good laugh as they pretended enthusiasm at our efforts.

Chairman Richard thanked them warmly in the pub afterwards when pies and sarnies were the order of the day evening. The Quoits Club charge us £5 per head which they then immediately pass on as a charity donation to Yorkshire Air Ambulance (an important service when a smashed ankle is a real possibility  – certainly, at least, when Table played).

The eventual winners were the team of the F.A.R.T.s Chairman and Secretary, Messrs Ascough and Whiteley respectively.

As they are both 41 Clubbers, too, we’ll take the positive out of that.

A great evening with great folk at a superb venue.

Chairman Richard shows the stance that brought 41 Club a fine third place

Chairman Richard shows the stance that brought 41 Club a fine third place. Mike R-B opts for the only safe place in Beck Hole – behind Richard.

The President of 41 Club shows how it is done to the avid crowds

The President of 41 Club shows how it is done to the avid crowds

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Couldn’t resist including this – a certain person’s (ahem) winning shot from one of the games.

 

 

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Quoits challenge 21 July 2015

29 May 2015 by

Once again, we three way summer challenge between 41 Club, Table and F.A.R.T.

And, again, we’re at Beck Hole, near Goathland. Map from the quoits website below.

Do remember to allow plenty of traveling time to get there for a 6pm start.

As last year, the quoits people at Beck Hole ask for £5 per head which they then donate to their nominated charity. This year it is, again, Yorkshire Air Ambulance. A worthy cause and good value, I hope you agree.

The pub is alerted to our visit and it is the same as last year: great value pies, sarnies and great beer. You can buy your own food during the course of the evening, or at the end of the match when we have the prize-giving.

To plan, we need to get a good idea of names and numbers by the previous Sunday, 19 July.

This is an opt-in meeting so please use the form below to notify me of your attendance or otherwise.

To repeat, it is 6pm start, but we can accommodate some late arrivals – and it is easier if I am informed of your late arrival.

See you in Goathland! The honour of 41 Club is at stake after last year’s defeat!

David

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… but when the blast of war blows in our ears,
Then imitate the action of the tiger;
Stiffen the sinews, summon up the blood,
Disguise fair nature with hard-favour’d rage;
Then lend the eye a terrible aspect;
Let pry through the portage of the head
Like the brass cannon; let the brow o’erwhelm it
As fearfully as doth a galled rock
O’erhang and jutty his confounded base,
Swill’d with the wild and wasteful ocean.
Now set the teeth and stretch the nostril wide,
Hold hard the breath and bend up every spirit
To his full height. On, on, you noblest 41 Clubbers.
Whose blood is fet from fathers of war-proof!
Fathers that, like so many Alexanders,
Have in these parts from morn till even fought
And sheathed their swords for lack of argument:
Dishonour not your mothers; now attest
That those whom you call’d fathers did beget you.
Be copy now to men of grosser blood,
And teach them how to war. And you, good yeoman,
Whose limbs were made in Scarb’rough, show us here
The mettle of your pasture; let us swear
That you are worth your breeding; which I doubt not;
For there is none of you so mean and base,
That hath not noble lustre in your eyes.
I see you stand like greyhounds in the slips,
Straining upon the start. The game’s afoot:
Follow your spirit, and upon this charge
Cry ‘God for Richard, 41 Club, and Saint George!’

 

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Quoits – the challenge: 5 August 2014

27 July 2014 by

quoits_beck_holeAt the Round Table AGM last April, a challenge was laid down between our two clubs to a game of Quoits.

A scouting mission ably led by Richard Grunwell, Stephen Slade, Mike Shingler and your chairman led us to Beck Hole (near Goathland) which we decided was the best place to stage this important event (several other hostelries were sampled for balance).

The event has taken on greater significance since we are to be joined on the evening by a team from Fellowship After Round Table (the old ones).

The evening begins at 6.30 proper but if you can get there earlier all to the good. Remember it will take you about 30-40 minutes from Scalby.

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The cost will be a donation to Beck Hole Quoits Club of £5 per person. Plus your grub will be available in the shape of pies and sarnies at the pub about 20m along the road.They have their own cracking ale so bring plenty of beer pocket money.

If the weather is anything like our evening visit, it will be great.

There will be proper tuition from Beck Hole Quoits Club members if you haven’t played before.

We need to know numbers so this is an opt-in event. Please let me know at the latest by Friday, 1 August using the form below or by email. If you opt-in, we will need you to pay at least the £5 because the pub will order the food.

Hope to see you there.

David
Chairman, Scarborough 41 Club

Image and map courtesy Beck Hole info.

 

 

 

 

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