Sport

Christmas Eve at the Front

An interesting letter has just been received by Mrs Packer, of Broadclyst, from her husband, Corpl Packer of A Company, 1st Battalion Devonshire Regiment, who is serving with the Expeditionary Force in Northern France. In the course of a letter he describes a remarkable incident which occurred on Christmas Eve between the British and German trenches.

Westward Ho! Club to Close After 80 Years 13.07.1956

Sport. Short history of the Union Club originally for golfers. Capt SL Bell, Rev IH Gosset, Hon Denys Scott, Capt HJ Fletcher, Colonel Langley, Mr EM Allen, General Boyle, Mr GH Moorhead, Capt SL Bell, Col Stanley Smith, Mr RV Mitchell

Women Bowlers' Prizegiving

Members of Victoria Park and Ladies’ Bowling Club and the Mayor and Mayoress of Bideford after the Mayor (Mrs E J Brown) had presented the season’s cups and prizes at the Club on Thursday week.

The doll, which the Mayor and Mayoress (Mrs L B Galliford) are holding, will be the club’s mascot. It was dressed and presented to the club by Mrs B Cupit, this year’s captain.
Tea followed the presentations.
Cupwinners were: Mrs L Elliott, Mesdames L Elliott and L Taylore, Mrs F Blackmore.

Record breaking scorer, Mike Grigg, is honoured by Rugby Club

An inscribed tankard, in recognition of his notable scoring last season when he created a new individual record of 252 points – over a hundred more than the previous best – has been presented by Bideford Rugby Football Club to Chief’s full back Mike Grigg.

Mike, a 14 stone farmer from Monkleigh, has just completed his eighth season with Bideford, first playing for the Chiefs soon after leaving the North Devon Technical College.
Before the club president, Mr Terence Bird, presented the tankard, the chairman, Mr Mervyn Bird, said of Mike’s score ‘It is a truly magnificent effort by any standard’. Proposing a toast to the Devon Rugby Football Union, Dr R A Cooper claimed that the main advantage Bideford had over many other teams was that they played as a team and to this was added classical, text book rugby, with the ball being thrown about a lot. Responding to the toast, Mr B W Rogers, referred to the problem of joint use of the Sports Ground.
Proposing a toast, the headmaster of Grenville College, Mr J R Crabbe, said it was an excellent thing that Bideford could field three teams each Saturday.
Reference was made to the loss sustained by the deaths of Mr Arthur Chope and Mr Norman Chope, two brothers who were founder members of the club. A minute’s silent tribute was observed at the beginning of the dinner.
Read the full article dated 29 October 1965.