Further research and kind contributions of photographs by John Higgins and Billy Flaherty help to expand the story of the Wareham & Bergen Trophy. A programme for the 1961 match, held in Bergen, reveals the match history from its inception in Singapore in 1955.
Messrs.
Misses
Assistants:
Messrs.
R. E. Howard
(Blackpool)
J. Hurst
(Lancaster)
Jim Yearsley
(Southampton)
B. Galloway
(Portsmouth)
A. Pipe
(Portsmouth)
K. Adams
(Liverpool)
J. Peake
(Belfast)
B. Taylor
(Southampton)
W. Mason
(Liverpool)
R.Cox
(London)
R. Gillespie
(Southampton)
The Trophy was presented to the Ship by Mr. Cyril Wareham
during the 1955 World Cruise.
Misses
Masters
Misses
Misses
Assistants:
Messrs.
J. Walmsley
(Liverpool)
Silver
(South Africa)
Oulton
(Liverpool)
Hughes
(Belfast)
Lyons (Capt.)
(Liverpool)
Johnson
(Liverpool)
Plumb
(Liverpool)
MacCabe
(Liverpool)
Mike Pingree
(Southampton)
Begley
(Liverpool)
Rodrick
(Bournemouth)
The Committee wishes to express its thanks to all Departments
for their assistance towards making these games possible.
From the 1st match at Singapore on the Great World Cruise of 1955, a total of 13 matches had been played. Before finding a permanent home at Bergen in 1957, matches had also been played in Kobe, Naples, Haifa and Villefranche. The first match in Bergen was played in 1955. It only became an annual event from 1958 onward.
Out of the 13 matches, only one was a draw, the score 2 - 2 played at Bergen in 1956.
The Balmoral Rangers won the following games…
The Sandringham Dynamos won these games…
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