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updated 23.9.07
CLUB AND COUNTY NEWS
KENT SUMMER QUICKPLAY 2006-7
16 teams of four entered. The Final 23.9.07 went Tunbridge Wells 4½ 11½ Beckenham & Bromley.
FRED MANNING
Fred Manning, one of the Union's most tireless servants, died aged 75 on Wednesday 6th June 2007. He held both the ECF President's Award (1997) and the more exclusive honour of an SCCU Life Vice-Presidency (2002). A glance at our Who was Who page will give some idea of his 29 years of service to the Union. He held six different offices at different times, usually two at once but, in at least one year, three.
But he only appeared on the SCCU scene in 1973. His Surrey associations go back much further. In his youth he was a member of the Streatham club, but he moved around 1960 to Wimbledon where he remained, holding offices over the years which we cannot attempt to enumerate. By the mid 1960s he was already very active in the Surrey CCA. He was Surrey Treasurer in 1965, and five years later was both Treasurer and Secretary. He was to hold the Treasurer's job continuously until 1997. In fact, during this long period, he held nearly all the offices the Surrey Association has to offer. Many will remember him as a match captain, or as Surrey Congress Secretary. He was also until 2001 Treasurer of the Thames Valley League. In his spare time he played golf.
Fred was a chartered accountant by profession, hence his services as Treasurer to at least three organisations, SCCU included. But he was universally known for his readiness to step into the breach whatever the job, and whether or not he could spare the time without overburdening hmself. Likewise as a player - of 130-ish strength - he would never decline an opportunity to turn out. He often headed the games-played list for Wimbledon. "Many a league organiser" - we quote from Fred's 1997 President's Award citation - "has had to keep a close watch as to whether FC Manning was still eligible for the lower teams."
Ill health curtailed Fred's activities in his later years, and many have felt the loss. He never married. Our sympathies go to Fred's surviving brother and his family.
Fred's funeral was on Wednesday 20th June at Croydon Crematorium. The golfing community was not absent. Chess players attended in numbers, from Surrey and surrounding Counties, joined by representatives of the SCCU and the ECF.
KENT LEAGUES: FINALS DAY at Dartford 20th May 2007
County Cup Maidstone I 5½ ½ Beckenham I
Lewis Cup (mean grade <= 160) Rainham I* 3 3 Beckenham II
Stevenson Cup <= 140 Dartford III 2 4 Lewisham III
En Passant Cup < = 120 Lewisham IV 2½ 3½ Dartford IV
Harvey Cup <= Petts Wood II 2 3½ Maidstone IV (Maidstone incurred half-point overgrading penalty)
Tom Fuller Cup < = 80 Weald of Kent III 2½ 1½ Maidstone V
Intro Cup < = 60 Beckenham VI 1½ 2 Charlton II (Beckenham incurred half-point overgrading penalty)
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