DISAPPOINTMENT

As our correspondent, Rancho found while attempting to book for the next encounter, Celt Matt had suffered a groin injury (while falling out of bed this morning?), & Celt Chris was fully engaged giving his car a push start. I got this disastrous news rather late on, & so did friend Mike. It thus occurred that the Captain arrived at the Club dressed in immaculate white as for the MCC or Wimbledon, (still dilapidated tennis shoes, however - donations welcomed), but with no match. In these days of modern communication methods, this seemed a pity.

I seems unlikely that this proposed meeting will be consummated in the near future, as our resident Yank departs for a 3 week holiday over there on Friday. We expect Ken & Joyce may be back before Rancho. Keep active you others!