RECORD OF SECRETARIES & PRESIDENTS

 

SECRETARIES

 

1894     Mr. T. Laidlaw

1903     Mr. A. Lillie

1908     Mr. T. Young

1952     Mr. J. Young

1977     Mr. E.B. Young & Mr. J. Mabon (Joint Secretaries)

2007     Mr. J. Mabon

 

PRESIDENT

2007     Mr. E.B. Young

RECORD OF THE GAMES COMMITTEE SINCE' THE 1970's

 

1973 COMMITTEE
E. Sherriff, J. Young, W. Nairn, B. Nairn, T. Wilson, J. Mabon, E.B. Young, R. Quarric, P. Matheson, J. Dixon, P. McNulty, H. Ferguson.

JUDGES

J.R.B. Wilson, P. Playfair, F. Veitch, D.L. V Gray, J.A. Bryce.

1980 COMMITEE

E. Sherriff, J. Dixon, H. Ferguson, G. Naim, D. Gray, B. Young, J. Thomson, C. Taylor, D. Quarrie, R. Pringle, R. Wight, P. Matheson, W. Nairn, J. Mabon, E.B. Young, B. Nairn, R. Quarrie, P. McNulty.

JUDGES

J.R.B. Wilson, P. Playfair, G.N. Smith, RL Dick, D.L. Gray, E. Sherriff, A. Nicol.

1994 COMITTEE

E. Sherriff, J. Dixon, W. Nairn, R. Quarrie, R. Pringle, R. Wight, P. Matheson, P. McNulty, B. Young,

1. Young, D. Gray, J. Dixon jnr, G. Scott, J. Thomson, B. Nairn, G. Naim, A. Gray, 1. Walker, G. Leitch, l'.D. Lang. R. Nelson, E. Blair, K. McNulty, E.B. Young, J. Mabon.

 

JUDGES

P.A. Playfair-Hannay, E. Sherriff, G.N. Smith, A. Nicol, R.I. Dick, J. Playfair-Hannay, R.A. Baxter, R.B. Wilson, D.L. Gray, T.D. Lang

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1998 JUDGES

P.A. Playfair-Hannay, G.N. Smith, A. Nicol, R.1. Dick, J. Playfair-Hannay, R.B. Wilson, D.L. Gray, T.D. Lang J. Bryce.

2008 COMMITTEE

E.B. Young, J. Mabon, E. McNulty, J. Thomson, R. Wight, 1. Young, A. Gray, D. Gray, A. Bryce, B. Naim, K. McNulty, E. Blair, L Walker, T.D. Lang, G. Mabon, R. Brown, K. Johnston, S. Fox.

 

JUDGES

R.I. Dick, A. Nicol, T.D. Lang, R.B. Wilson, J. Playfair-Hannay, G.N. Smith, A. Bryce.

NOTEABLE CHANGES TO THE PROGRAMME OVER THE YEARS

 

1978   Youths 90 metres introduced.

 

1985   Adverts introduced.

 

1967  3200 metre introduced, Quoits re-introduced

 

1994   Tug-of-war introduced.

 

1994   Hill race introduced.

 

1998   Tug-of-war dropped.

 

2006   Youths 200 metre introduced, Quoits dropped.

         

2008   Ladies do the Double this year.  First Lady winner of the confined 110 Metre Sprint was Louise Bryce and also the first Lady to win the Open 110 Metre Handicap was Linda Nicholson, Peebles. Well done Ladies. This year the 200 and 400 metre were dropped and the lap race introduced.

            

 

THE VILLAGE THAT SPRINTS TO THE TOP

 

An interesting article from a National Newspaper in 1980 was uncovered as follows:-

 

A village of barely 200 inhabitants in the lea of the Cheviot hills has decided to put itself on the map.  It is offering the biggest prize money in Britain for sprinters in the summer games circuit, which includes such big crowd pullers as the Braemar Games and Grasmere Sports.  Top prize money for the 110 metres at Morebattle will be £300, with more than £1000 prize money on offer.  It has all been raised by villagers and local farm folk, mainly by weekly draws.  The village “stadium” is only a farm field, where volunteers cut the grass before the tracks can be marked out.