Secretary Trophy 2005
14 May 2005, Meadows
Fergus instructed Rod and David that one of them should manage the Secretary Trophy competition – 14 point advanced games with bisques. Their first act was to delegate to Charlotte, who spent an evening trying and failing to work out how to get five people to play each other in five rounds – Rod eventually gave in and told her.
So Charlotte gave herself a bye in the first round, allowing her to provide some players with sustenance in the form of bacon rolls. This greatly improved Rod’s performance, who whizzed round in 1½ hours with at least one two-hoop break, to an impressive victory of 9-8T against George, who had declined the bacon rolls. (Though he too managed at least one break of two hoops.) David’s bacon roll had a more delayed effect, but allowed him to beat Ian Wright 14-10, before (but not much before) time.