TLW66 - Nomads Results

Whilst watching the World Snooker Championships I've noticed that all the playersnow sprout a sponsor's name or two on their waistcoats, and it set me thinking ...how about a few sponsor's names on the T-shirts of our WSC players? OK, maybe abit late for this year but, daft as it sounds now, with a rapidly increasing likelihood ofa Sowpods breakaway (and perhaps a world ratings system) it's a thought for thenew millennium!Robert Richland, Pinner, MiddxAny suggestions for potential sponsors? On second thoughts, let's not drag the goodname of the ABSP through the courts again....' PGLucy White complained, quite rightly, about the number of unrated players who endup winning prizes in low divisions. I suspect that part of the problem is that unratedplayers are usually shown with a rating of zero, and this leads organisers to thinkthat they should be in the lowest division. The Committee has repeatedly tried to getorganisers to place people in the correct divisions, without much success. Inorganisers' defence, though, it is often hard to find out how good such unratedplayers are.Tournaments like Swindon present a particular problem, as they attract a largenumber of beginners. It's almost Impossible to get those decisions correct. Therewere many unrated players in Divisions E, 0, and C there.Graeme Thomas, Hatfield, Herts-o-Here's two Scrabble articles that appeared in the world wide press since we last met.The following snippet was picked from the Associated Press's website during April:A year ago John "Knuckles" Connolly was facing the sack after some disappointing results at theend of his 10-year reign as Queensland's rugby union coach.Now a reprieved Connolly has revitalised the Reds, leading them to the top of the Super 12qualifying and two wins from their first title since the competition expanded from 10 teams...Connolly's players say his intense will to win goes beyond the rugby field. "We played a game ofScrabble in Christchurch In March and Knuckles showed that he was one of the best cheats ever,"rookie Reds fly-half Nathan Spooner said."He was amazing. He was coming up with all these words - Greek letters and printer's measures- and they were all In the dictionary. Then he came up with the word 'fong', which he reckonedwas a musical instrument."Connolly opened the dictionary and Spooner took his word for it, giving the coach enough pointsfor a narrow win."Then he came to me the next day and told me not to be so gullible", Spooner said. "There wasno such word. I guess 'Knuckles' just fbnged us..."