300 Club

This month’s 300 Club Draw was held on Friday 23rd without your usual host and reporter, but ably administered by deputy Phil.  

This time around Roger Mackriell was in residence to see his number 63 win him first prize of £100.   This was followed by £50 prizes for Russell Canfield and a further £50 for Adrian Wilcox.  Finally Colin French, busy supping his pint of Roasted Nuts at the bar, won £25.  Congratulations as always to all winners. 

As mentioned last month, we have our Pre Season Forum on 15th March when we will do the March Draw, so make sure you are there to witness who becomes £200 richer along with 3 x £50s that we will be giving away.

Friday night was 300 Club Draw night and guess who won again for the 2nd month running but Tom 'Lucky Boy' Devaney. 

First prize of £75 went to Chris Loftus, 2nd prize of £50 went to the aforementioned Thomas, a further £50 was won by Diane Pomfret and our own Gerry Bryant won the 4th prize of £25. Well done all. 

Next month we will have prizes of £100, 2 x £50 and one of £25 to be drawn on 23rd February.

We have our Pre Season Forum in the diary for 15th March so we may do the March Draw then, so that’s another reason why you should be there to witness who picks up the top March prize of £200 along with 3 x £50s. 

We did the 300 Club July draw this month at a Committee Meeting on Tuesday because your dozy administrator forgot to do it last Friday evening, his excuse being that he was too busy and distracted behind the bar.

But better late than never, Jo Green was happy to win £75 with her number 59, Willimien Barnes won £50 with number 222 and Norman Hyde won £25 with number 115.

If you still want to have a number you can see what is available on the numbers chart in the display unit in the clubhouse lobby.

Congratulations to all winners and many thanks for supporting us.

We did the 300 Club June draw early this month because it seemed a waste of an opportunity not to do it at the Sports Club BBQ on Saturday night given it was attended by both Bowls and Tennis Club members, many of whom have numbers.

For the very first time in the 200 now 300 Club’s six and a bit year history we had four prizes, one of £200 and 3 of £50.  Also for the first time, we did the draw outdoors!

Of the 300 numbers we have 24 not yet taken, so if you haven’t got a number and would like one please let Ian know.  The numbers chart is in the display unit in the clubhouse lobby if you want to see which numbers are available.

And so to the Draw, the first prize of £200 was won by the Tennis Club’s Giuseppi Fiorello.  Next up was £50 won by our good buddy Tony Adamson who sadly hasn’t been well enough to join us so far this summer, then £50 for recent arrival at Thame Bowls Club David White and finally Peter Hughes, who played his first Friday League game a couple of days ago, won the final £50 prize.

Congratulations to all winners and many thanks to everyone for your support.

It was also a joy to see so many tennis players be coached and have a go at bowls on the green for an hour after we had finished eating.  They genuinely seemed to enjoy having a go at bowling and some of them worryingly showed great promise!  

We had the 1st draw of the new expanded 300 Club on Friday night 26th May and Ray Plested was our 1st prize winner of £100 with his number 133.  2nd prize of £50 went to Byron when his number 149 popped up again (extraordinarily only 5 months after he won with the same number) and a 3rd prize of £25 went to Gini Williams who with 252 has one of the new numbers. 

At the time of writing we have 24 numbers of the extra 100 yet to have names against them. 

Our plan is to keep the same prizes that we’ve always had, but add a £50 prize each month plus a 4th prize every quarter month (June, Sept, Dec and March) of a variable amount depending on how many numbers have been taken up. 

Thanks to everyone who continues to support the 300 Club. 

The final draw of this 200 Club year was completed on Friday 28th and the first prize of £75 was won by our good friend Mike Ralls with his number 39.  The second prize of £25 was won by who I believe was the very first person to join the 200 Club way back in 2017, Mr Derek Goodyear, with his number 41.

Thanks to all Bowls Club members who have supported the 200 Club this past year.  I will be writing to all members again shortly about the new expanding May 2023 - April 2024 300 Club which I hope will be equally well supported.

In the year just gone the 200 Club has paid out a total of £2,250 in prizes and will be able to contribute a further £2,550 to Sports Club funds.  This money helps the Sports Club cover borrowing repayments on loans taken out to help build the new clubhouse.

So far the 200 Club has raised £14,700 in the 6 years it's been running, so a big thank you to Bowls Club members who have significantly helped make this happen.

Ian Rutherford

200 Club Administrator

At Club Night on 31st March Melv Warner's number came up on the raffle machine winning him £200 which, when I told him on 1st April, he thought was an April Fool's joke.  At least Melv has won something recently, which is sadly more than can be said for his beloved Oxford United who haven't won since January.

I'm delighted that the second prize of £50 went to the great man himself Mr Bill Giles.  Bill has generously subscribed to the 200 Club since the very beginning in May 2017, so it was a pleasure to hand over some money in his direction. 

Thanks everyone who is a member for supporting the 200 Club this past year and we will be writing in a few weeks' time about the new May 2023 - April 2024 200 Club year when we hope to learn that you will support us again.  

This month the draw was held at the club after a number of our members had helped with a tidy up after the hugely successful Quiz Night.

First out with a 1st prize of £100 was Frank Woolley, still present at the club and clearly delighted with his win.  Second prize of £25 went to Robin Jenner who had been at the Quiz Night but had left just before the draw was made.  Congratulations both.

Two more months to go before the end of this 200 Club's year and the March top prize will be £200!

This month's winners are well known to most if not all of you!  Maire Duncan won the first prize of £75 with her number 191 and Janine Dennington won £25 with her number 182.  Well done ladies. 

We will have £100 and £25 prizes next month so watch this space.

As your 200 Club Administrator chap was unable at the last minute to attend the Christmas Dinner last week, the Draw was done instead on the Friday evening just gone in front of a decent crowd. 

So it is pleasing to report that Gordon Taylor, our outgoing Bowls Club President, newly elected Deputy Chairman and now also stand-in Chairman of the Sports Club won the £500 200 Club Christmas Jackpot prize.  

The overworked Mr Taylor was not present, unlike our £100 Second Prize winner, Mr Byron Harvey, who had difficulty keeping a straight face for the rest of the evening. 

Well done to both worthy and very popular winners.