The Club
The club plays in Frant Memorial Hall which is located here. The outdoor club from which the Short Mat club was spawned plays on the green next door.
What's occurring?
Last Match
Last match: Fri, March 25th, 2022 versus Heathfield Result: Frant 64, Heathfield 30
Next Match
Next match is against Rotherfield on Mon, January 13th, 2025 at 19.00 at
Rotherfield Dress: Club tops if poss & greys, format: 3 triples.
Forthcoming Events
On Tue, December 17th at 19.30, Pre Christmas roll-up. Venue: Frant Memorial Hall.
Inter club matches
The club has not played matches against other clubs since withdrawing from the Wealden League in 2022. Following the pandemic years, appetite for travelling long distances in darkness down country lanes to the southern clubs often in foul weather had waned and the league's decision to return to an arrangement of First and Second divisions from the post-pandemic's North and South divisions was the deciding factor. Nevertheless we are registered with ESMBA and ESSMBA and this season we have a couple of friendly matches arranged with Rotherfield. This will be a new experience for some of our members who have not yet played short mat matches.
The club has been fairly successful in the Wealden league in the past being runners-up in the first division in the 2015-2016 season. It remains to be seen whether or not our standards have dropped!
Join us
The club has roll-ups on Tuesday evenings starting at 7.30 pm. Recent welcome additions to our membership means that we cover the hire cost of he hall with a nominal roll-up fee of £3 per head but we do still have room for more new members. No experience is needed and we're happy to welcome people to one of our roll-up evenings. Please ask one of our contacts for details.
Quiz hat-trick
Following successful entries to Frant's quiz nights for the last two years a team entered the most recent quiz on December 7th. With several of the original team being unavailable for a variety of reasons, our team was only six members out of a maximum of eight with a couple of family members roped in. The bowls club team successfully answered Christmas themed questions with Captain / scribe Di needing little help from the rest of us. Most of this help was only needed for the spelling! However every team member contributed to our success so deserved the bottle of bubbly we each received as the prize. Congratulations to all. Also many thanks are due to Sharon, who organised the quiz and to Steve, the patient quizmaster.
Competitive roll-ups
As well as our internal singles and pairs competitions, this season we're running what the outdoor club calls the Tuesday Cup. This means our roll-up match scores are kept with each individual scoring the team score each game. At the end of the season the best eight scores for each player determine the overall winner. Latest scores and positions are posted each week. This has raised the competitive nature of our roll-ups.
History
The club has now been going for at least 25 years as this picture from 1996 shows. Sadly Graham Elton (back left), Brian Potter (in front of Graham) Alby Cox (beside Brian), Dick Smytherman (beside Alby) and Malcolm Pittam (behind and right of Dick) are no longer with us.
