PELHAMS were simply perfect in the league's second week. The Kinson ladies enjoyed one of the finest days in their history and surely one of the best ever recorded by a club in the league's history, writes David Briers.
Their four teams not only won but all triumphed 6-0 - rattling up a remarkable aggregate of 210 shots between them.
The maximum by their A Leaguers means Pelhams top the table with 12 points out of 12 after humbling Braeside 50-24. Jill Rankine, Mary Dyke, Beth Roberts and Mary Watts (29-11) sparkled against Molly Shutler while Carrie Munday, Audrey Lewis, Nancy Goosey and Audrey Judge (21-13) outgunned Pat Shepherd.
Argyll hold second spot following their whitewash (57-24) of Southbourne. Jean Revell, Nora Morgan, Rita Dunbar and Joan Halliwell swamped Betty White 34-8 and Audrey Walden, Annette Chant, Bobby Thomson and B and D president Jo Coombes accounted for Olive Fidler 23-16.
The winning shots margins have not been big but they have been big enough for Broadstone who have 10 points after two slender B League victories. Following the opening six-pointer (40-36) against Southbourne, they needed a final-end two from Vanessa Smythe, Jean Ames, Vicki Miller and Jeanne Abraham to pip Kings Park 40-38 and pocket four points. Abraham lost 23-13 to Beryl Nuttall but Shirley Bailey, Beryl Styles, Ann Stewart and Sylvia Edgson (27-15) made no mistake for Broadstone in the other contest.
Bournemouth's last-end thriller with Swanmore ended 3-3 (34-34) at Meyrick Park after the two rink scores were mirrored. Bournemouth's Jo Shaw, Pat Johns, Joan Belcher and Pam Harrison beat Gillian Head, Sheila Clarke, Jean Cadle and Jenny Osborne 21-13 but the home side's other quartet of Mary Rintoul, Margaret Irwin, Benita Needleman and Marcia Miller lost 21-13 to Daphne Prigg, Joan Fielding, Isabel Barr and Eileen Weeden.
The heftiest of those Pelhams victories came in the C League with a 68-24 caning of Braeside - at St Leonard's. Judy Jones, Audrey Grinstead, Sue McMillan and Norma Grinter produced a 37-15 dazzler and Betty Swain, Pat Jeans, Marion Pearce and Jean Perry (31-9) were just as impressive.
After a first-day hiccup, New Milton rekindled the form that nearly carried them to promotion last summer by beating Brockenhurst 4-2 (40-36). Nancy Peckham, Doris Edwards, Elizabeth Ben-son and Chris Edmonds (24-16) did the trick for Milton against Joan Bryant and that result more than compensated for the 20-16 defeat suffered by Judy Busby, Flora Miller, Wendy Reed and Sheila Nicoll.
Shelley Park crowned the first match on their new venue at Boscombe Cliff with a full house (51-34) against Bournemouth in the E League. Anne Scudamore, Jean Monk, Edna Lee and Hazel Skelt (28-17) took pride of place and received solid support from Sylvia Sayer, Joan Dugdale, Peggy Wolfe and Zillah Palmer (23-17).
Having been soaked when beaten in a hailstorm the previous week, the sun came out for Christchurch who crushed Milford 6-0 (49-28). Dorrie Ridgewick, Mavis Williams, Doreen Fisher and Marilyn Weigh (28-12) were the heroines against Dorothy Wanklin with Margaret Crisp, Ruby King, Mary Poore and Rosemary Shepherd (21-16) overcoming Diane Goodyear.
The third Pelhams win came in this section 47-24 at Broadstone where Jean Sparrowhawk, Emily Woodhouse, Mollie Lindsay and Brenda Rogers (25-7) showed inspired form alongside Jean Moore, Janet Fish, Pat Lodge and Peggy Stephens (22-17).
And to complete the four-midable Pelhams show, their G League outfit handed a 45-26 defeat to Highcliffe courtesy of Lilian Fox, Val Charig, Iris Marsh and Kath Head (21-9) and Brenda Wareham, Ena Bennett, Ethel Lambert and Jennie Stenzel (24-17).
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