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Way back when, before most of us knew what a boule was, 16 good people had the foresight and made the financial commitment to fund a fledgling pétanque club and get the “boule” rolling. These “foundation members” provided 10 years membership-fees up-front to provide the Prospect Pétanque Club with $1,600 capital to “kick-start” the developmental infrastructure needed to transform the defunct Prospect Gardens Women’s Bowling Club into a pétanque club. The rest is history and although the Cup was originally sponsored it is now hosted each year by the Prospect Pétanque Club in acknowledgement of this significant gesture by these “foundation members”.
“Cup honours” belong to John Wright for most wins when from 2002 till 2006 he won the cup for 5 consecutive years.
This is the first year when a Prospect member or ex-member has not been in the winning team.
Foundation members are:
- Jean Colbey & Jean Haddy
- Ian & Pene Davey
- Malcolm & Pauline Fleming
- Jean Philippe & Nora Gugliemi
- Deanna & Prem Malani
- Mike Mulvihill & Valmai Nicoll
- Allan Sanderson & Sue Waite
- Brett & Susan Williams
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A foundation member and current president Brett Williams presents perpetual and replica cups to '2008 Foundation Cup' winners Greg Anderson, Jenny Key and Brenton Key. |
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| Maurice Briest |
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| Trudy Morris |
In an attempt to please all of the players all of the time the Adelaide Club hosting their Friendship cup elected to play 5 rounds of doubles without finals. The most successful players on the day were the Prospect team of Dave Ward and Jean Philippe Guglielmi. [results]
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Adelaide Club President Rada Pierre with Dave and Jean Philippe at the presentation. |
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| Photos courtesy of Jean Philippe |
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| "Melee Mystro" Alan Matthews presenting a prize to equal 'highest aggregate points' winner Sebastien Ross. |
Ms Monique received the
Ms Piggy trophy for excellent pointing skills. |
Matt happy to be equal 'highest aggregate points' winner. |
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Prospect Pétanque Club cavaliers Jean Philippe, Maurice and Trudy encounter at arms length the awesome power of that other favourite French pastime – cycling! Although what must have seemed to the passing cyclists, a relaxing diversion from the hectic activity they were engaged in; not one rider stopped to throw a few boules.
Hosted by generous sponsors Jeanette and Fernando of “Chateau Dorrien” and organised by Stan Wilson of the Gawler Pétanque club, the event kept its promise of “Une course de Velo et La Pétanque”. The sensibly designed program incorporated set times to allow the participants to twice view the “flash past” of the Barossa stage of the “2008 Tour Down Under”.
Prospect Pétanque occupied the principale final with Maurice and Jean Philippe emerging victorious with a 13-10 win over Carol and Dave. |
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