POGSON PAIRS
Mid Cheshire Bowling League Pairs Competition
1963
The association organised a pairs competition in 1963 and this attracted 66 entries with an entry fee of 5/- (25p) per pair.
Played at the Gladstone club on Saturday 1st September.
Bill Rutter and George Johnson (Winnington Park) beat Herbert Buckley and Jack Kennerley (Farmers Arms) 15-9 to win the Mid Cheshire bowls association new pairs competition at the Gladstone club on Saturday evening.
In the semi final Rutter and Johnson eliminated Ken Plumb and Reg Buckley (Moulton RBL) 15-14 and Buckley and Kennerley defeated Jim Bland and Harry Ledward (Castle Private) 15-3.
The cups and prizes were presented by Fred Johnson, vice chairman of the association.
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1970
George Mainwaring and Eric Hamman (Lostock Alkali) beat Keith Birkett and Stan Frith (Farmers Arms) 21-20 in an exciting pairs knockout final at Wharton Cons on Friday. In the semi finals Mainwaring and Hamman beat Alan Dobson and Peter Johnson (Meadowbank) 21-9, while Birkett and Frith eliminated Len Bowden and Horace Birtwistle (Davenham) 21-17. There was an entry of 96 pairs
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1971
MID CHESHIRE PAIRS
Winsford Liberal pair Jack Wilkinson and Ray Lewis won the Mid Cheshire bowling association pairs cup at Castle private on Friday,in a one sided final. Lewis and Wilkinson, the former Witton, Arsenal and Sheffield Wednesday centre forward, trounced Farmers Arms pair Peter Hayes and Ian Forster 21-9. Hayes and Forster beat Fred Dodd & Bill Hatton (Winsford Libs) 21-15. The trophy was presented by George Astles, a member of the special council and secretary Owley wood bowls section.
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1972
Played Friday 8th august.
Outstanding Farmers players Stan Frith and Keith Birkett won the Frank Pogson pairs competition at Owley Wood on Friday. They defeated Fred Dodd and Cliff Barrington of Delamere 21-10 in the final. Birkett, Cowley cup champion of the previous Friday, and Frith had a walk away 21-5 win in the semi final against another Delamere pair, John Crawford and George Powell. The trophies were presented by Mrs pogson.
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1973
FARMERS PAIR SNATCH POGSON TROPHY
One competition Winsford Liberal club bowlers have not won this season is the Mid Cheshire associations Pogson pairs cup.
Stan Frith and Keith Birkett winning an exciting final.
Jim wilkinson and Jack Hunt, the Liberal's pair seemed to have the final all sewn up when they led 19-10. But Frith and Birkett showed great coolness and consistency to inch up, draw level, and then win the final end.
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1976
The Frank Pogson memorial pairs competition at Wharton Cons club on Friday was won by Winnington Park's John hitchen and Phil Webb, who beat Farmers Arms duo Bill Crank and John Goolding 21-14 in the final.
The semi finals saw Hitchen and Webb combine superbly to outclass Bert Frith and Jack Fletcher of Winnington Park 21-2, while Crank and Goolding had a much harder game to eliminate Robbie Buckley and Don Whitehead (Moulton RBL) 21-13.
The referee for the evening was Percy Wilkes, and the trophies and prizes were handed out by Mr Jack Plumbley.
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1977
Played at the Lostock social Club on Friday 12th August.
Eric and Bob Holland won the Mid Cheshire Pogson pairs on Friday, when they beat K Hulse and J Shaw from Winsford Liberal 21-13 in the final before a large crowd. Eric and Bob from the Farmers Arms beat Winnington pair P Webb and J Hitchen 21-19 in an exciting semi final.
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1983
PAIRS WINNERS FOR A THIRD TIME
Northwich Guardian, Thursday 25th August.
Just six days after his triumph in the all England merit, Stan Frith was amongst the prizes at Winsford Liberal on Friday.
In the company of Owley Wood colleague Keith Birkett with whom he shares all his winnings anyway, Stan won the Mid Cheshire Pogson pairs competition, this year sponsored by Knutsford Motors.
The duo had won the competition twice previously in 1972 and 1973 and thus became the first to win it three times.In so doing they kept the title at Owley wood for the third year in a row.
In the final Frith and Birkett beat their great Wharton Cons rivals Keith Burrows and Barry Cookson 15-11 after being 14-4 ahead. There uncanny understanding and Frith's perfect placement foiled the Winsford pairs comeback at the death, with Cookson lying two and hoping to close the gap further, the All England champion showed precisely how he had come to win that title, with an inch perfect delivery.
Thanks to a £150 boost from Knutsford Motors who's sales executive Dave Campbell presented the Awards and prize money, which totalled a record £340, winners shared £120, runners up £60, semi finalists £40 and quarter finalists £20.
Semi Finals
Frith/Birkett 15 v 6 K & M Winnington
Burrows/B. Cookson 15 v 5 J. Barker/T.Shaw
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2004
In the final event of the Mid Cheshire calendar Farmers Arms duo Alan Thompson and Dennis Leather claimed the Pogson pairs title.
Thompson and Leather beat Kevin Duncalf and Stephen Field of the Beech Tree, Barnton 15-11 in the final. Earlier the Beech Tree pair eased past Keith Birkett and Alan Hough (Wharton Cons) while Thompson and Leather scraped past John Gurney and Alex Clare of Castle Private.
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2010
A FAMILY AFFAIR
Northwich Guardian, Wednesday 18th August.
Father and son tandem Alan and Tom Vickers retained the title after beating clubmates Jimmy Harrop and Sean Yearsley in Sundays final at Winsford Cons.
The Wharton duo edged out their rivals 21-14. But they almost fell at the first hurdle against Slow & Easy two Mark Woodyatt and Peter Illidge, who fell short by a single chalk in the last eight. Vickers and Vickers then beat Beech Tree's Kevin Duncalf and Julie Green, conquerors of the finals other family pair Glynn and Simon Cookson.
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2012
Northwich Guardian, Wednesday 26th September.
Glynn and Simon Cookson emerged victorious from Thursday's Pogson pairs final at Winsford Cons. The Wharton Cons tandem were winners by a single chalk against Comberbach challengers Stuart Kellett and Matthew Thurwell, lifting the silverware for the first time since the turn of the Century.
They had ended defending champion Steve morrey's bid to win back to back editions earlier in the evening.
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2014
VICKERS IN ANOTHER WIN
Northwich Guardian, Wednesday 3rd September.
alan vickers, who won the Pogson pairs last season with son Tom, repeated the trick when playing with Wharton Cons team mate Glynn Cookson on Sunday.They defeated Comberbach tandem John and Jon Gurney by 21-18 in the final at Winsford Cons. It marks the fourth time that Vickers has been part of a winning duo.
The Winsford pairing saw off daniel and Nigel Moores, also of Comberbach, in the last eight as well as Castle Private's Nigel Faulkner and Steve Baskerville in the semi finals.
Like Vickers, Cookson is no stranger to winning the Mid Cheshire bowling association competition, recording his seventh final success at the weekend.
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2015
PAIRS SUCCESS
Northwich Guardian, Wednesday 9th September.
Jason Cornes and Paul Mackie claimed first prize in the Mid Cheshire bowling associations Pogson pairs for the second time on Thursday.
The Castle Private duo defeated clubmates Adi Faulkner and Rob Winnington in the final at Winsford Cons, where play resumed following a postponement a fortnight earlier.
Winnington had ended the run of his parents, Mark and Barbara of the Hazel Pear, in the semi finals.
FINAL
Mackie & Cornes 21 v 10 Winnington & Faulkner
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