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Thursday at 7 p.m. On Monday, August 27 , it is hoped to play a friendly game with
Woodley at the Finchampstead Road ground.
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Sat 25 Aug
BASEBALL
After being five runs down in the second innings, Wokingham Monarchs settled
down against Standard Telephones baseball team at the Barkham Road diamond to
win 11—6, on Sunday. Some of the best pitching this season was by W. Smith for the
Monarchs.

BASEBALL CLUB
A meeting of the Monarchs Baseball Club was held in Wokingham on Wednesday,
when Mr. F. Clemas was elected chairman and Mr. E. Page, treasurer. The club are to
organise a dance and other functions to raise money, which was said by the secretary,
Mr. G. Moffatt, to be urgently needed.

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Sat 8 Sept
BERKS “BIGGEST AND BRIGHTEST”
Thousands Enjoy Carnival Fun At Wokingham
Thousands invaded Wokingham on Wednesday by almost every possible means of
transport and on foot, to join in the Festival carnival—claimed by the organisers to be
“Berkshire’s biggest and brightest event.” This boast had ample justification; from
early morning to well after midnight the fun was such as few town in the country
could have equalled this Festival year.
The day dawned dull, but promptly at 8 a.m. nearly a hundred “Raggers,” dressed in
colourful costumes, assembled at the Town Hall. They rode, walked and clowned
their way through the crowds throughout the day, jingling their collecting boxes at all
and sundry
The Mayor of Wokingham (Cllr. W.J. Willey) signified the carnival opening when
he released the first balloon of a balloon race in the Market Place at 10 a.m., after
which the Farnborough S.J.A. Pipe Band began a tour of the town. Then began a non-
stop variety programme which continued until the early hours of Thursday.
As the special buses unloaded their exuberant passengers, complete with rattles,
flags and hooters, a puppet show began for the children’s benefit in the Market Place.
Motorists passing through the flag bedecked streets, stopped to gaze in wonderment at
the picturesque proceedings. A word of praise is due to the harassed policemen and
policewomen, who, with the help of special constables had their time filled coping
with the congestion of traffic and pedestrians.
On a decorated stage near the festooned Town Hall, the Hon. Peter Remnant, M.P.,
and Mrs. Remnant were introduced to the crowds, as were seven Mayors and
Mayoresses—Cllr. And Mrs. H.G. Mullard (Abingdon), Cllr. And Mrs. F.C. Morris
(Henley), Cllr. J.B. Maudsley and Mrs. Norris (Maidenhead), Cllr. J.W. Slater
(Newbury), Ald. and Mrs. W.O. King (Oxford), Cllr. and Mrs. T.W. Knight (Reading)
and Cllr. and Mrs. R.H. Tozer (Windsor).
Carnival Queen’s Arrival
At 1.10 p.m., the carnival queen, Miss Isobel Buckner, aged 21, drew up to the stage
with her two attendants, the Misses Elizabeth Perkins and Pauline Froud, and two
pages. The “royal party” were given a tumultuous welcome by the several thousand
spectators.

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