Comment on "new" USCA handicapping system

arthur.....it seems now that the croquet elite have achieved their lofty handicaps, they have pulled up the ladder and left those of us higher hdcps. languishing in the mire of a system that punishes a loss to a player 8 levels better.....perhaps penalty points should be assigned to losses of 1 or 2 levels to better players w/ no consequence of losing to a player of 3 or more levels better.....there should be "something to lose" for playing someone more closely matched w/ nothing to lose for taking on a player ranked as being far superior.......best to cindy.....BIGG

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Mid-South 2005 Won by Louisiana!

Fiasco II is over and Ron Hendry has taken the MidSouth Defenders Cup home
to Louisiana. With considerable help from Bill Martin Louisiana barely beat out
Georgia.

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Roy Gee calls for Peace but will do battle next week

I am looking forward to seeing all my Mid South friends In Alabama at the end of this month. Come on people lets play croquet. Competition is good. Let's settle this on the court not in the courts! ;)Roy G

Martin Mid-South Dropout

Ladies and Gentlemen,

Due to personal concerns I will not be participating in this years event. My best wishes go out to each of you whatever you choose to do.

Yours truly,

Bill Martin

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Fiasco

See the hapless fiasco victims!

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Martin responds to Arkansas Pundit

From : Bill Martin to Jeff Caldwell 8/5/05



Okay Jeff:

You ask for immediate feed back, so; here it is! First of all, it offends me to see this type of "bickering" taking place. Not surprised, just plain disappointed! Granted I've had my share of flare ups, however; it now appears that what seems to be a personality conflict has been downgraded to a genuine "FIASCO"!!! This personal vendetta epitomizes the point I made in an earlier e-mail response to "pot shots" at the good folks in Alabama. In that correspondence, I strongly recommended that we make PEACE by having a face to face "meeting of the minds".

The only way I can imagine that happening is to have the tournament in Alabama if they are still inclined to host it. After all they earned the right to host it by winning last year and the year before. Yes. they had "ringers", and yes, I'm sure every person wasn't happy. Over the years there's been a lot of reasons for people to be unhappy about this tournament. I personally have been upset more than once with the lack of organization surrounding this event. I have personally voiced my disappointments openly and not behind any one's back.

My dear friends, we are supposed to know that the SPORT OF CROQUET is a GENTLEMANS game. If we are to have dialogue to organize the proper time, place, and format to play this tournament in the future, let us do it as GENTLEMEN!! And let us do it without isolating certain folks and alienating ourselves from others. In other words, let's take the Christian approach.


I love you all,

Bill Martin

The pen is mighter than the sword!

From: jeff caldwell
Date: 08/04/05 23:37:42
To: dan.hise@butlersnow.com; esbryan@bellsouth.net; franzj@obu.edu; gpearson@memphis.edu; jeff caldwell; jjohnson@mcglinchey.com; malwall@comcast.net; rdavidsanders@msn.com; waden@jam.rr.com; bill_in_tn@msn.com
Subject: mid/so tourny
Arthur, what in the world are you trying to do? the mid-south defenders cup consists of tenn, miss, ark, and ala and it is based on a 4 player format. you are not delegated to change this format. also do not hold a tourny as the mid-south defenders cup unless all states are agreeable to changein format. you have abused this tourney with excessive ringers and putting on the worst tournament in the defenders cup history. you cannot bully your way through this. it is a very sad thing you are trying to do, why i don't know' . in the past the date for tourny has always been agreed on by all states not crammed down our throats by you or anyone else. i think tenn, miss, and ark are in agreement the tournament will be held either in memphis or jackson, by this i mean the majority! please inform the usca that the tournament you are holding in august ios not the mid-south defenders cup. i think for all parties concerned you should resign ala as you are the only legimate member of that team. please remember you asked for us to include ala in this tournament, we did, but we did not make you commander in chief. PLEASE RESIGN. thanks, jeff caldwell

Jeff and the "grand bawahna"

From: jeff caldwell
To: gpearson@memphis.edu
Sent: Wednesday, August 03, 2005 10:19 PM
Subject: mid-south tourney
i see where arthur has posted the tourney to be played in birmingham, have you and david (tenn and Miss) agreed to this? i did not realize arthur was the grand bawahna. has he got an all ala. team? has everyone agreed on the date. i say boot alabama period. thanks , jeff