Bar Opening Hours
Christmas Eve – 3pm to 7pm
[Mulled wine and mince pies]
Christmas Day – 12 noon to 4pm
Boxing Day – 3pm to 7pm
[Fun squash competition and Boxing Day quiz]
Hogmanay – 12 noon to 4pm
1st January 3pm to 7pm
2nd January 12 noon to 7pm
[Sky- Rangers v Annan 12:45, Celtic v Motherwell 3pm]
Merry Christmas, one and all. See the What’s on Events poster here.
The upcoming poker nights are
FRIDAY 14th DEC
FRIDAY 11th JAN
FRIDAY 8th FEB
REGISTRATION FROM 7pm FOR A 7.30pm START
BUY-IN £7 (£5 paid out on night, £1 to league winner pot, £1 to club)
RE-BUYS FOR 1 HOUR (£5)
SECOND FRIDAY OF EVERY MONTH
Points for top 5 places every week and after 6 months (APRIL) winner of league receives league winner’s pot.
Christmas Party Night – Sat 8th Dec 2012
Dumfries Sports Club – Nunholm Road
Cocktails and Shots, Professional Entertainment,
M and S Buffet, Disco.
Starts at 7pm till late.
Tickets are £6.
On sale at the bar now or text if you would like a ticket reserved – 07581 067 056
Christmas themed fancy dress….. (but it is optional if you really don’t want to)
….Non Members are welcome so bring your friends too
Poker Night on Friday 14th
See website and Club notice board for more information soon.
Also in December …… At Christmas the BAR WILL BE OPEN;
……Want to have fun and support your Club at the same time? Then come along and partake
Christmas Eve from 3pm to 7pm with Mulled Wine and Mince Pies.
Christmas Day 12 noon to 4pm with Mulled Wine and Mince Pies (small pressie on the tree for the kids if you let us know you are coming).
Boxing Day 3pm to 7pm Squash and a Quiz if enough people.
IMPORTANT Please try to let us know if you are planning to come to any or all of the above 3 dates . Most of our input is in the capacity of volunteers and will be buying some of the above out of our own pocket as a gift to the Club, trying to generate a bit of fun and interest, utilising the fantastic facilities we all enjoy and hope to continue enjoying.
Thank you.
Carol and Dougie Brotherston
Christmas Party night at the club on Saturday 8th December.
Cocktails, Entertainment, Buffet, Disco
Starts at 7pm till late.
Tickets are £6. On sale at the bar NOW.
Christmas themed fancy dress.
POKER AT NUNHOLM – SECOND FRIDAY OF EVERY MONTH
STARTS FRIDAY 9TH NOVEMBER
REGISTRATION FROM 7pm FOR A 7.30pm START
BUY-IN £7 (£5 paid out on night, £1 to league winner pot, £1 to club) RE-BUYS FOR 1 HOUR (£5)
Points for top 5 places every week and after 6 months winner of league receives the league winner’s pot.
Coinciding with 2020 World Squash Day Dumfries Squash Club are holding a charity event to support the Aberlour Child Care Trust with a Disco and Buffet from 7pm on Saturday the 20th October. Tickets can be bought behind the bar (£5).
It costs £5 to take part and for that you can take part in the squash competition during the day and also attend the disco buffet and games at night. You can do both, or one or the other for the £5 entry.
Squash games are open to all ages and stages, and money raised goes to Aberlour Futures Dumfries. Sign your name up on the squash noticeboard if you would like to participate.
Note: the Moat Brae Trust Project will feature on the BBC’s One Show when Joanne Lumley appears on the programme this Friday at 7pm (the 6th).
The JM Barrie Anniversary Match took place at Dumfries Cricket Club last week on Thursday, perhaps with the help of a sprinkling of pixie dust since the Nunholm ground avoided the absolute worst of the rain which brought stories of flooding elsewhere locally.
Peter Pan teams
The overs were reduced to make it a Twenty20 match and the Dumfries Select XI batted first. Galloway’s Anton Vosloo hit three boundaries but the Barrie Invitation XI (the Allahakbarries) found their feet and he was bowled by former Scotland opening bowler John Blain operating off a somewhat shorter run than usual.
Meanwhile author Nicholas Hogg was showing the style bowling rapidly from the other end and the literary attack continued with the off-spin of William Fiennes. Marcus Richardson smacked a full toss straight to deep wicket for 22 and Fraser Conn, of Galloway, after a lively 24 went to the spin of Keith Morton and to the catch of the day by Kevin Telfer, in reverse and in mid air, which would have got him into Peter Pan’s 1st XI (which is also the title of his book on Barrie’s cricket team). At half way, after 10 overs, the Dumfries Select had reached 66.
Dumfries’s Josh Geary, first with circumspection, and then, when he had found the pace of the wicket, with alacrity added to the local’s total. Skipper Stuart Corbett-Byers succumbed stumped for 13 in the closing overs to the, self proclaimed, outswing bowling of limited guile of Adrian Turpin.
Simon Smith claimed his second stumping off Willy Morton and Beveridge saw his beefy blow thump into the hands of Blain on the boundary in front of the pavilion as he somehow managed to take the catch and prevent the six at the same time.
Meanwhile Geary was reaching the boundary with regularity and he rounded off his eight fours with a towering six towards the tennis courts and was promptly retired. The Dumfries side completed the first innings with a challenging total of 154 for 6 on the board.
The response of the Barrie XI was dominated by Scotland keeper Simon Smith who opened and deployed his pull shot to the boundary effectively in the opening overs. Druce bowled tightly but Alan Davidson took the first wicket. The Dumfries bowlers applied pressure at one end whilst Smith kept the score mounting. At their ten over half way point the guests were 45 for 2 but when Joe Clarke bowled Smith for 46 with the score on 64, and then immediately bowled another, the prospects of a successful chase subsided. Politely it wasn’t pointed out at the time that he normally bowls right arm quick and not left arm spinners.
Dumfries had the Barrie XI on the hook and after Corbett-Byers, satisfyingly for him, dismissed John Blain lbw, fourteen year old Dean Brotherston was deployed to take three of the last four wickets to fall as the batsmen tried to reach the boundary. However there was a remaining Dumfries blast from the past from the visitors as former Club Captain Roger Lever enthusiastically hit a couple of boundaries to show that class is permanent as he had also demonstrated earlier with his bowling.
The Barrie XI were all out off the last ball and one short of the century to complete a match which was enjoyed by the players and the spectators alike. Dumfries were victors in the scorebook, however the match was really a win for the supporters of the Barrie XI since it had proved to be a successful day in aid of the Moat Brae Trust.
Many thanks go to the players and the umpires who were keen to play and particularly to those of them that had travelled, more in hope than in expectation of a match, and also to the club’s ground volunteers whose efforts surprised those who arrived at Nunholm with an Anniversary Cricket Match that actually included some cricket.
Match Scoreboard: JM Barrie 75th Anniversary Match at Nunholm
In aid of the Moat Brae Trust. Thu 28th June
Dumfries Select XI 154 for 6 (20 overs)
J Geary 58 rtd, F Conn 24, M Richardson 22; J Blain 1 for 12
JM Barrie XI 99 all out (20 overs)
S Smith 46; D Brotherston 3 for 6, J Clarke 2 for 5
Dumfries Select XI Man of the Match: J Geary
JM Barrie XI Man of the Match: S Smith
See the Peter Pan Moat Brae Trust website.
The Tennis XI
The big cricket match of the weekend took place on Sunday afternoon, after the cricket section played some Twenty20 Cup fixture.
It was then that the might of Dumfries Tennis Club took to the field to see if Dumfries Squash Club could cope with playing outside.
Unfortunately for them they emerged blinking from the clubhouse in the dazzling sunlight and could still see the ball.
Hope of the side
After the hope of the side, Creedon, even after all his decades of experience, and kitted out in his ‘blues’, contrived to hit his own wicket the squash players then got the ball warmed up.
Fourteen year-old Dean Brotherston (the ringer) scored 46 retired and Jim Scriven was punishing on anything on the leg side hitting 30. Michael Goldie opened the bowling attack to good effect taking two wickets in his two overs.
A challenging total of 142 for 8 in 20 overs required a tennis player to play the equivalent of a five set big innings. However top scorer was D Strachan with 17 who then lost the bragging right at home, by being bowled off stump by F Strachan.
It was the Squash XI that nicked a victory, winning by 28 runs after the Tennis XI fell short ending up on 114 for 6.
Thanks to Bevo for organising the game and the post match barbecue. It was good to see the Sports Club so busy on the Sunday afternoon. Revenge for the Tennis in a possible re-match later in the summer was being plotted in the bar afterwards.
To celebrate JM Barrie’s passion for cricket, to commemorate the 75th anniversary of his death, and to raise funds for the work of the Peter Pan Moat Brae Trust, the Trust is holding a match between a J. M. Barrie Invitation XI (the Allahakbarries) and a Dumfries Select XI at Nunholm, the ground of Dumfries Cricket Club, on Thursday 28 June 2012. The match will be 40 overs a side, starting at 2pm, preceded by a fundraising lunch.
Although he was only moderately skilful, Barrie loved cricket. He played his first serious cricket at Dumfries Academy and went on, when his burgeoning career took him to London, to form his own side, the Allahakbarries, who played mostly on a nomadic basis in the south of England. His players were literary men like himself and included such famous names as Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, P. G. Wodehouse, Jerome K. Jerome, A A Milne and E. W. Hornung. The Allahakbarries played only twice in Scotland, at Kirriemuir, where he presented the village with a pavilion, perhaps the only one in the world to have a camera obscura built into it!
Absolutely Fabulous Cover Drive
Tickets for the match are priced £5 (children under 12 free if accompanied by an adult) and are available from:
[There is continued free access to the club for Sports Club Members]
Lunch places, including entrance, match programme and a 3-course lunch with wine, are available, priced £35 per person (lunch from 12 to 2).
For a lunch place contact the Trust on 01387 255549 or email info@peterpanmoatbrae.org .
Funds raised from entrance fees, programme sales and advertising, the lunch, an auction and from business sponsorship will help to support the work of the Trust.
The auction includes two cricket bats signed by Alec Stewart and Paul Collingwood (as wielded by Joanna Lumley) and various prizes relevant to the locality – Auction Prizes
You are invited to help us realise our vision… what role can you play?
For more details see www.peterpanmoatbrae.org or read the Trust Press Release on this and associated events PPMBT Cricket Events – 13 June 12.
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