Another coin afternoon on the lawns, with prizes for the season

The president and members of the West Toowoomba Croquet Club held another of their enjoyable coin afternoons on their lawns yesterday. There was a large attendance, and a very happy afternoon was spent with croquet and other competitions, for which attractive prizes were given. Tea was served in the bowling pavilion, which was lent for the occasion and was decorated with the club's colours and quantities of winter roses, sheaves of white arum lilies and purple violets. After tea the president (Mrs. M. Carmody) presented the prizes won during the season. The winners were: Championship, Mrs. Bridgman; runner up, Mrs. Compagnoni. Singles Handicap, Miss Fryar; runner up, Mrs. Miller. Doubles Handicap, Mesdames Bridgman and Marshall; runners up, Mesdames McLean and Stuart. The Bain Novice Handicap, Miss Fryar; runner up, Mrs. Norris. The club members present were Mesdames M. Carmody (president), Compagnoni (hon. secretary), Fryar, McLean, Miller, Bridgman, Blake, Hale, Krimmer, Norris, R. Walsh, E. A. Baker, Carter, Bullock, Dumigan, Murphy, Johnson, Marshall, A. T. Parrot, Searle, Stewart, Thorburn, C. Villaume, O'Brien, Misses A. Tolmie, Fryar, and McKinstry. The visitors included Mesdames E. Rowe, O. Booth, A. R. Godsall, Gerard Boyce, J. B. Kingsford, F. Hodgson, T. Trousdell, Cooke, Dickson, N. O'Kelly, W. Elvery, Corbett, A. Langmead, A. Gaydon, J. Haimes, E. J. Melville, J. McKinney, A. Collins, C. Ware, A. V. Grahame, Priest, Andrew Crombie, Walker, McLean, McNally, Carrell, F. C. M. Burne, D. G. Ryan, Dickson, Isaacs, Harden (Brisbane), C. Loxton, W. Morgan, Gilbert, Fitzpatrick, J. Seeley, J. M. Harris, Blair, Allen, J. E. Searle, Perkins, N. McDonald, G. H. Buchanan, Ziegler, Ziegler, junr., Misses E. Rosenstengel, Clare Ryan, Melba Reid, Joyce Fitzpatrick, Connolly (Brisbane), Priest, Ruth Godsall.

The article as it was printed in The Toowoomba Chronicle, 12 June 1928. Scan from Trove, National Library of Australia. (Trove, National Library of Australia)