The Gambart Baines Challenge Cup May - September 2009

Scarborough Bowls Centre
Peasholm Road
Scarborough
YO12 7TT

01723 353992
Email:
info@scarboroughbowlscentre.co.uk
Qualifying Rounds 2009 - The Tournament's 90th Year

The Gambart Baines Qualifying Rounds will take place every Thursday from 21 May until 17 Sept (inclusive) plus Bank Holiday Mondays - 25th May and 31st August
The final will be on - Sat 26 Sept.

Competitor's Parking £1.00
Tickets available from Reception
Enjoy a Full English Breakfast from £1.95
Available 9.15am till 1.00pm
Bookings welcome
The Gambart Baines Challenge Cup, first won by Mr Zena Smith from Cleckheaton in 1919 is still proving to be popular ninety years later. This annual competition played on two crown greens in Alexandra Gardens, part of the Scarborough Bowls Centre, attracts competitors from all over Britain.The competition is organised and managed by volunteers from the nine clubs who make up the Scarborough and District Crown Green Bowling Association, on behalf of
Scarborough Borough Council.
Mark Holmes of Leeds won the 69th Gambart Baines Challenge Cup with a prize of £1,000 at the finals played on 27th September 2008 in Alexandra Gardens, part of Scarborough Bowls Centre.He was presented with the trophy by The Mayor of the Borough of Scarborough, Councillor Eileen Vickers.

Shirley Groves, one of the main organisers said, "The support we receive from local bowlers is tremendous and the location for the competition is superb. The staff at the Scarborough Bowls Centre are most pleasant and visitors can enjoy a full English breakfast before play commences at 10.00 prompt and refreshments and meals are available all day"

The final will take place on Saturday 26th September at 10am when a minimum of 32 qualifiers compete for the magnificent Gambart Baines Cup, which will be presented by the Mayor of the Borough Scarborough

The Mayor of the Borough of Scarborough, Councillor Eileen Vickers presents the Gambart Baines Challenge Trophy to Mark Holmes
A crowd of over 200 enjoying the 2008 final in glorious sunshine.
For further information please ring reception on 01723 353992
Qualifiers and Runners Up 2009 - The Tournament's 90th Year
Thurs 21st May J Wilcox Crossgates beat P Mellor Glossop
Mon 25th May P Wakefield Mexborough beat N Cranston Crossgates
Thurs 4th June T Hopkinson Jump beat M Holmes Barnsley
Thurs 11th June J Cooper Scarborough beat G Hanson Sheffield
Thurs 18th June J Westall Bradway beat R Hepplewhite Buckswan
Thurs 18th June A Webb Castleford beat P Hill Meanswood
Thurs 25th June P Wilcox Crossgates beat C Bielby Bridlington
Thurs 25th June A Deighton Bridlington beat S Leach Rochdale
Ernest Gambart Baines (1858-1920)
Ernest Gambart Baines, was born in 1858, the son of Clementina Baines, who owned a waxworks, which toured in both England and France with Madam Tussaud. Originally brought up in Newcastle, he moved to Leeds from where he, like his mother, operated a touring waxworks. He moved to Scarborough in the early 1900's and ran the Gambart Waxworks exhibition in Scarborough from 1904. One of his interest was Crown Green Bowling and he was associated with the Pavilion Bowling Tournament for many years and gave considerable support to the Scarborough Bowling Tournament. The handsome Challenge Cup which is used today was first presented by Ernest Gambart Baines in 1919. He was a staunch Conservative and represented Scarborough's Central Ward from 1917 until his death in 1920. He was a generous benefactor and presented the town with its first motor fire engine, named Jessie after his wife. He also gave Scarborough the Foreshore water fountain as well as supporting Christ Church by providing prayer books.
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