THERE ARE NOW FOUR TEAMS within the Oxshott Membership as the brand new season of the Oxshott Snooker and Billiards League will get underway tomorrow.
The Oxshott Membership has 4 groups at current, with doubtlessly, 5.
The season has been prolonged from 15 weeks to 21 weeks, and every month, a group will get a “week off” from enjoying.
Oxshott A, B, C, D are the provisional groups, and out of doors of the Oxshott groups, there’s Hersham, Surbiton, and Leatherhead C enjoying out of Leatherhead, with Leatherhead B enjoying out of Surbiton – in the meanwhile.
Groups will area three gamers on a night, with two gamers in reserve, with C groups within the League getting a 21 level begin handicap.
The Oxshott League is considered one of Surrey’s oldest leagues courting again to 1910, and a few main faces have seen their faces by way of it together with the likes of Harry Champion, a founding member of the Oxshott Membership in 1910 who handed away within the 60s, (we’ve researched Harry Champion by way of speaking to different members of the membership, studying the British Newspaper Archive, and likewise the ebook One Hundred Years of the Oxshott Membership) who was one of many stars of the previous of billiards and snooker, and, in additional fashionable instances, Jimmy White, the six instances World finalist has additionally visited the membership. There has additionally been others.
The fixtures are on a Tuesday night.
First fixtures to be performed this week, are…
- LHead C v Hersham
- Oxshott C v Oxshott B
- Surbiton v Oxshott A (SnookerZone’s Chris Gaynor is in Oxshott A)
League Snooker is for everybody, so pop all the way down to your native snooker membership, or social membership if there’s one close to you and see if you happen to can put your title down for a group if there are areas obtainable. Play for a bit and see if you happen to can work your means up.
There’s additionally a Staff Cup after completion of the League which this time shall be in Might and likewise just a few different occasions occurring till the top of the season.
These embody the Snooker Singles, Pairs competitors, Billiards, and Cyril Wadham/Harry Champion occasion.
There are thus far 18 entries for the Snooker Singles occasion, which we now have additionally entered. The draw for the occasions shall be up in the course of the season.
As new groups have been added at late discover, the Oxshott admins have been working onerous to inform individuals and get the league up and working on schedule for October fifteenth. Nicely completed to their nice organisation and common info to gamers!
Good luck to everybody who has entered the League and competitions and benefit from the season!
