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UK champ wins Thai Adventure go-kart c’ship
Andy Prior, ex go-kart
champion in the United Kingdom, won the Thai Adventure (UK tour company)
Go-Kart Championship last week. Photo shows Nick Hearn, Managing Director of
Thai Adventure Tours, presenting Prior with his trophy sponsored by Murphy’s
Bar.
Mr. Anusak Rodboonmee, head
of the Pattaya Tennis Association, organised a meeting with the heads of the
10 Tennis Associations in Chonburi. The purpose of the meeting was to plan
the 16th annual Chonburi Tennis match, which Pattaya will host this year.
The meeting was held at the Asia Hotel.
Splinter Golf Group
Monday, 9 June, Rayong Green Valley
(Stableford)
A last minute change in venue took the group to an empty
Green Valley course in perfect condition. Threatening storms did not
materialize and conditions were excellent. Martin Furzer, after a four week
layoff, scored 38 Stableford points to win. Gerard Lambert was 2nd with 35
points, closely followed by Stan Fry with 34 points. Steve Ross was
conspicuous by an unusual absence from the winners podium.
Wednesday, 11 June, Bangpra
(Stableford)
The perfect conditions once again stimulated excellent
scores by the three prize winners. Martin Furzer, following his success on
Monday and returning a casual 41 points, was the winner - clearly having
benefited from his UK trip.
Harry Riley, 2nd, scurried close behind with 40 points,
and Richard Holt was 3rd, scoring 39 points.
Friday, 13 June, Rayong Green Valley
(Stableford)
John “Legionnaire” Hurst, back this week from Australia,
won the A flight convincingly with 40 points, 24 of which were scored on the
back nine! Brian Imrie took second place with 36 points.
In the B flight, it was good to see a first time winner,
Don Antonio, with an excellent score of 40 points. Commenting on his very
steady round, Don attributed part of his success to the much sought after
Tiger Woods hat he was wearing, one of many he has recently produced for the
US market.
In second place, and posting his hat-trick for the week,
was Martin Furzer with 34 points. Look out for the space-age black and
silver bottle cooler Martin now carries everywhere, alleged to carry cold
water.
Near pin prizes of free green fees donated by Rayong
Green Valley were won by Brian Imrie, Arthur “Big Shirt” Busch, Stan “The
Man” Fry and Martin “Bottle” Furzer.
It was a hot day with the course in perfect condition.
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Classroom 11 rise from the ashes
Both sides gathered for a
group photo after being thoroughly worn out from the match.
Roy Mitchell back atop PGS leader board
Roy Mitchell returned to the top of the Pattaya Golf Society leader board
with a net 6 under par 66 on Tuesday, June 10. With his scratch 87 off 21
handicap, Roy won the weekly “fun” tournament of the PGS at Pattaya Country
Club.
Peter Johannson shot 1 better than his handicap to finish with a net 71,
good enough for second place. George Meigh, seen practising at Asia Pattaya
golf course on an off day, climbed back onto the podium with his net 1 over
par which earned him a third place finish. Billy Russell finished fourth
with his net 2 over par 74. Jo Banks rounded out the top five with a net 3
over par 75.
Roy Mitchell also won closest to the pin honours on holes #5 and #16. Jimmy
Little won closest to the pin on #7, and Billy Russell won closest to the
pin on #12.
The Pattaya Golf Society once again returns each week to the First House
Hotel on Soi Buakao for prize giving and socialising. Each week, the top
three finishers are awarded prizes, as well as all four closest to the pins
on par threes.
The Pattaya Golf Society welcomes all golfers to participate in the fun.
Trans-portation for the golf outings leave every Tuesday from the First
House Hotel on Soi Buakao, departing around 10:30 a.m.
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Wednesday quiz tightest for months
Rising Sun stars celebrate their Sunday Quiz
Championship.
In a series of exciting trivial pursuits matches on June 11, Bob’s
warriors forgot their armor plate for once and went down 86/91 to Cheers
who were firing on all cylinders in spite of having several players from
Wales. Palmer’s, the potential wooden spooners, had a victory over
Sixties 89/82 but everyone enjoyed the excellent pea and ham soup put
out by Bobby Jo. Fawlty Towers, recovering their traditional strength
and aided by an army of Sang Thip specialists, sent Rising Sun to their
doom by a margin of 100/90. The maximum points available were 120.
For once, the quiz adminis-trators, still smarting from unfair
comparisons with Bob Monkhouse and Bamber Gascoigne, slipped in a tricky
one. “For which film was Ronald Reagan overlooked in a cinematic White
House?” The correct answer of Casablanca, this being the Spanish for a
white colored dwelling, produced a loud chorus of discontent not heard
in Pattaya since the Beach Road was restricted to one way traffic.
Otherwise, there were few real problems although it is not commonly
known that Fidel Castro has turned 70, guesses ranging from 48 to well
over 90.
Please note there will not be a Wednesday quiz on June 25 as many
players wish to go to the Pattaya Sports Club party. Therefore, all
remaining matches will be postponed by one week. The final matches will
now be played on August 20 rather than August 13.
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Improve your Bridge
by Barrie Kenyon
It is hard to imagine that a grand slam can make when one
defender holds six, yes six, trumps. But it’s possible. South finished
up in seven diamonds which East doubled after his partner West had bid
hearts strongly during the auction.
Against South’s seven diamonds, West led the Ace of hearts which the
declarer ruffed. South reasoned that East’s double must be based on
exceptionally long trump diamonds which meant that any play based on
drawing trumps and cashing side suit winners would fail because East
would be left with at least one trump winner. His only chance was to
make all his and dummy’s trumps separately, seven tricks, and cash six
winners in the other suits. So declarer cashed three clubs and was
relieved to see West discard a heart on the third one – this opponent
had a void in trumps. He now cashed three top spades finishing in the
dummy and then led a heart. Poor old East, down to his six trumps,
ruffed with the seven and declarer over-ruffed with his Queen. He ruffed
a club in the dummy with the diamond ten and led another heart,
over-ruffing East’s eight with the King in hand. He ruffed the last club
in his hand with dummy’s Jack of diamonds and, at trick twelve, held in
trumps Ace and six over East’s nine and five with the lead in dummy.
East was doomed whichever card he played.
This hand illustrates the dangers of doubling unless you are sure of
defeating the contract. Had East not doubled, then the declarer might
well have played one round of trumps at trick two, in which case he
could never have recovered and must go down to defeat. East doubled on
instinct because he assumed he must surely make at least one trump trick
and he hoped that his partner West, who had bid hearts strongly, could
make the Ace in that suit. Both of these were mistaken assumptions
(South has a void in hearts) and East, by an untimely intervention,
allowed the declarer to succeed in a contract which would ordinarily go
down. Both sides were vulnerable and the board produced a swing of 2330
points for the North and South pair. A good job the family silver was
not at stake.
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Pattaya International Marathon returns in July
Daneil Shunga from Kenya edged out Timothy
Moni to win the 1996 Pattaya International Marathon.
The streets of the city will be filled with world class athletes when
the 5th Annual Pattaya International Mara-thon and Mini-Marathon returns
to Pattaya on July 19th and 20th.
Last year, over 1,000 runners representing at least 10 different
countries participated in the event. Just as many, if not more, are
expected to test their endurance in the running of the Pattaya
International Marathon 1997.
Again this year, there will be a 21.1 km half marathon for those who
want a bit more of a challenge than the 10 km mini-marathon, yet aren’t
quite up to the grueling endurance needed for the full 42.195 km
marathon. All three runs will start at the same place as last year on
Pattaya Beach Road in front of Soi’s 4 and 5. The marathon will begin at
5:00 a.m., the half marathon at 5:30 a.m. and the mini-marathon at 6:00
a.m. on Sunday, July 20, so get to bed early the night before the race.
The finishing time for the marathon will be no later then 11:30 a.m. All
runners who wish to continue after this time may do so at their own
risk. The finishing time for the half marathon and mini-marathon will be
9:00 a.m.
The Pattaya “Fun Run” will also be back again this year to kick off the
festivities on the day before the International Marathon. It too will
begin on Beach Road in front of Soi’s 4 and 5. The starting time for the
“Fun Run” is scheduled for 15:30 p.m. on Saturday, July 19. The “Fun
Run” will be divided into two categories; the “Fancy” category for 10
runner teams and the “Rally” category for teams of 3 runners. The
application fee for the “Fun Run” is 100 baht, due before starting time.
Also on July 19, organisers have added a wait-people’s fun run for all
those who regularly serve food and drink to customers, divided into 4
categories. The entrance fee is 100 baht for each category, or 300 baht
for all four.
That evening at 19:00, a beach buffet will be held, sponsored by the
Food and Beverage Association of the Thai Hotel Association of the
Eastern Seaboard. More than 20 hotels will be providing scrumptious
victuals at a reasonable 150 baht per person.
Application fee for the marathon will be 400 baht if received before
July 14, 600 baht from July 14-20. The application fee for the half
marathon will be 200 baht if received before July 19, and 400 baht from
July 19-20. The application fee for the mini-marathon will be 50 baht up
to the day of the run.
Applications can be obtained at the Tourism Authority of Thailand (TAT)
Pattaya (Tel: 038 428-750, 427-667 or 429-113 every day), Revenue
Division of TAT, AAA of Thailand, all branches of Robinson Department
Store, or by post, address: Director, Revenue Division, Tourism
Authority of Thailand, 372 Bamrung Muang Road, Bangkok, Thailand.
(Please enclose a self addressed, stamped envelope, and send your letter
by July 11.)
The event is sponsored by the Tourism Authority of Thailand and the
Amateur Sports Association of Thailand under the patronage of His
Majesty the King. Other athletic supporters include the Chonburi
Provincial Authority, Pattaya City and private businesses in Pattaya.
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Classroom 11 rise from the ashes
The big hitting Ban Chang Bangers couldn’t
quite score enough to catch the number put up by the Classroom 11.
The Classroom 11, the pride of Pattaya’s cricket fraternity, defeated
the Ban Chang Bangers by 28 runs in the Pattaya Ashes conten-ded on
Sunday, June 15 at the school grounds in South Pattaya.
The Bangers may have been a little under the weather from the expert
tactics used by Kim Fletcher when most of the team visited TQ2 the night
before the game. Or could have it been that they were just worn out from
their recent appearance in the finals of the Chiang Mai 6s? Whichever,
the final score was Classroom 11 - 125, Ban Chang Bangers - 97.
Big Ronnie Glaister won man of the match for the Pattaya side after
scoring 23 runs and taking 4 wickets for only 12 runs.
Bob Short was awarded man of the match for the visitors after taking 2
wickets and nearly pulling out the game for the Bangers with a late 25
runs.
Each side manned 13 players for the limited 30 overs encounter. Special
rules included batsman must retire after 30 runs, and no batsman could
get out on the first ball. Both Kim Fletcher and Stan Fry from Pattaya
utilized the second rule, getting out on the first ball but being
allowed to carry on. For Kim it didn’t much matter for he was bowled out
by Mike Newman on the third ball, but Stan Fry took advantage of his
second life by going on to score 12 runs.
Tommo added a bit of flavour to the match when he was run out by his own
man, Steve Fraser. Tommo “threw a wobbler”, tossing his bat and gloves
and was suspended for the next match.
The return match between the two sides is scheduled for Sunday, July 13
in Ban Chang.
Box Scores on page 21.
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