Tournament Summer [Paperback]

Gordon Allan (Author)

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Book Description

Publication Date: April 26, 2001

There are open or seaside bowls tournaments going on somewhere almost every week of the summer in England, and in this book Gordon Allan describes his journey round fifteen of them, from Broadstairs in the east to Teignmouth in the west. He has not set out to give a blow-by-blow account of the play. Instead he has attempted to convey by thumbnail sketch the flavour of each place, its background, history and traditions, confining match facts to the bare results of singles finals. The author touches on the perennial difficulty of finding markers, remembers happy days bowling in Sussex and Devon, and ends the book with a list, with approximate dates, of the principal English tournaments, numbering nearly fifty. Open tournaments have been in existence in some shape or form for almost a century, and in the words of the noted England player, George Scadgell, they are 'the very finest entertainment in our game'.

#outer_postBodyPS { display: none; } #psGradient { display: none; } #psPlaceHolder { display: none; } #psExpand { display: none; } There are open or seaside bowls tournaments going on somewhere almost every week of the summer in England, and in this book Gordon Allan describes his journey round fifteen of them, from Broadstairs in the east to Teignmouth in the west. He has not set out to give a blow-by-blow account of the play. Instead he has attempted to convey by thumbnail sketch the flavour of each place, its background, history and traditions, confining match facts to the bare results of singles finals. The author touches on the perennial difficulty of finding markers, remembers happy days bowling in Sussex and Devon, and ends the book with a list, with approximate dates, of the principal English tournaments, numbering nearly fifty. Open tournaments have been in existence in some shape or form for almost a century, and in the words of the noted England player, George Scadgell, they are 'the very finest entertainment in our game'.

Editorial Reviews

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"It is a pleasure to see an authentic participant's eye view.written in an appropriate meandering, anecdotal style, extolling the civilized if old-fashioned virtues of one of the sport's most traditional institutions - the seaside tournament..." - David Rhys Jones, The Times.

About the Author

Gordon Allan entered journalism straight from school in Aberdeen. His Fleet Street career was spent mostly at The Times.

Product Details

Paperback: 48 pages
Publisher: The Alpha Press Ltd (April 26, 2001)
Language: English
ISBN-10: 1898595372
ISBN-13: 978-1898595373
Product Dimensions: 8.2 x 5.3 x 0.3 inches
Shipping Weight: 3.5 ounces

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