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Silver Sponsors Handicap Singles October 2014

I’ve always been ambivalent about silver. The stuff turns black, is worth about one percent of gold and worst still is used to make silver medals … those runner –up, second, not first medals. Yet on the other hand it’s the most conductive and the most reflective element in the Periodic Table … and the irony of a gold medal in these categories is not lost on me. Furthermore a silver medal means there’s only one person on the planet better than you and over seven billion worse than you … hardly a tragedy I would think.

However when Australia won 16 silver and only 7 gold medals in the last Olympics, it became a national tragedy. Brett has been asked to address improvement and thinks he’s found an elegant solution. He is testing it at BTC where he is sponsoring a tournament for silver medallists with the winner getting a gold medal. After a few years of this competition he says the silver problem will be solved and we can move onto the bronze problem. Well done Brett … both elegant and crackpot. The government is now asking him for help getting legislation through the Senate.

Group A: Will Hoskin 4/28 won from Cora Trevarthen 2/20, Malcolm Rogers 0/17
Group B: Pat Hamilton 2/23 won from Chris Alizzi 2/22, Tim Baker 2/20, Chengdu Pham 0/10
Group C: Matthew Dunn 3/20 won from Doug Grant 2/15, Stuart Strange 1/17

The elegant solution is sped up with three groups and three gold medals to Will, Pat and Matthew. Congratulations guys … Australia is a happier place for your wins.

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