SOLWAY NEWS
By Jimmy Graham
67/1529 The first Young Bird race of the season was flown from Appleby on Saturday 23rd July. Liberated at 11.00am into a light North-West wind the birds made short work of it and homed one hour later into Ecclefechan.
Not many losses were reported throughout the entire Federation but we have a long way to go yet………
Topping the Fed is Mr & Mrs Gus Power & Allen, timing five birds to take 1st, 3rd, 5th, 6th and 7th doing 1209, 1203, 1200, 1193 and 1188.
D & P Skelton timed in to take 2nd Open on 1208. D Graham came in 8th and 9th Open doing 1179 and 1174. The above members all fly in the Springfield Club.
Jimmy Dalgliesh from Hoddam takes 4th Open on 1203 and H Dobie of Brydekirk is 10th Open on 1160.
So that’s the first one by with and it’s back to Appleby next week!
Clubs:
Hoddam F.C. 7/130
Jimmy Dalgliesh had a good win here by four minutes doing 1203, the only bird in the Club over 1200.
A & S Little takes 2nd spot doing 1148. G Dalgliesh & Son also had a good race with five birds in the first ten and took 3rd Club on 1146. W Gilmour came in 4th on 1143. The Club had very good returns overall.
Annan H.C. 7/166
A good win here for Club Secretary Angus Simmons, his young Chec Pd Hen recorded a velocity of 1141 timing in at 12.02pm.
R S R & R J Rome came next timing two together to take 2nd and 3rd Club doing 1113 and 1111. The next three were timed by J F McCarton on 1090 and 1087. Good returns were also reported from this Club.
Lockerbie H.C.
This one went to G A & L Firth on 1055, who had twenty-four yards to spare over the second bird of Davy Robinson over in the far West of the Club. Davy’s bird doing 1031.
Ewan & Allen Hind took the next two on 1026 and 1007. Next in was the winning loft again to take 5th on 992.
Springfield H.C. 8/207
Gus Power & Allen had a field-day here timing five birds in the leading six! They took 1st, 3rd, 4th, 5th and 6th Club on velocities of between 1209 to 1188. Five Cock birds were timed , three of them were Poortvelt & Red Fox / Albert Marcellis breeding, the other being a Leo Van Rijhn & Van Reet.
D & P Skelton took 2nd spot with a young Blue Hen doing 1208.
Brydekirk H.C. 4/76
A good result here for H Dobie over in the far West, his young Blue Hen was doing a velocity of 1160.
Young Scott Irving ‘Junr’ timed the next three doing 1148, 1146 and 1143. The winner H Dobie came in with the next two.
Langholm H.C. 2/20
A clean sweep here for R V Graham who timed the leading six on velocities of between 1123 to 1071.
Eastriggs H.C. 4/74
C Halbert won here from Mr & Mrs Mark Goldie (no velocities).
Nith Valley 10/237
A nice win here for A Crosbie on 1160, this one should be well up in the Section. Well done old boy, nice to see you’re still in the business !
A Skachill takes 2nd spot on 1159, 3rd and 4th goes to G Russell doing 1155 and 1154.
Dumfries F.C. 8/226
Another fine win for Mr & Mrs Karl Guenther, in fact they were 1st, 2nd and 3rd Club with velocities of 1158, 1156 and 1119.
Only the two Clubs being involved in the Section result.
West Section Result 31/610
1st A Crosbie 1160
2nd A Skachill 1159
3rd Mr & Mrs K Guenther 1158
4th Mr & Mrs K Guenther 1156
5th G Russell 1155
6th G Russell 1145
7th A Skachill 1141
8th A Skachill 1133
9th Mrs L Hay 1122
10th Mr 7 Mrs K Guenther 1119
Hoddam Flying Club result from Clermont flown on 15th July –
1st Mr & Mrs J Graham 1185
2nd J Little 1111
3rd J Little 956
4th W Gilmour 564
5th Mr & Mrs J Graham 546.
Annan H.C.
1st RSR & RJ Rome 1142
2nd RSR & RJ Rome 1041
3rd RSR & RJ Rome 1005
4th S Ferguson 838
5th A Nicholson 452.
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