KING’S Six emerged winners of the Hilbert ‘Bumpy’ Ali 80th birth anniversary feature dominoes competition, played at the Everest Cricket Club last Wednesday night.

The competition, organised by International Six, of which Ali is a long-standing member, and sponsored by Shew’s General Store of Leopold Street, Georgetown, saw King’s Six enter the final sitting one game behind front-runners Ali’s Six but registered 15 games to their opponents’ 14.
King’s Six late-ditch effort saw them end on the same 77 games as Ali’s Six but they came out on top by scoring seven sixes as against five by the Birthday man’s side. Jeet’s Six, who were never in contention, ending in the cellar with 66 games.
Basil ‘Super Cool’ Jeet, who is visiting from overseas, led the way for the winners with 15 games and received support from Sham Seeram (14), Claude Stuart (13) Lennox Collison (13) and skipper Looknauth ‘King’ Persaud (12).
The top markers for Hilbert ‘Bumpy’ Ali’s team were Mahadeo ‘Bomb’ Persaud with 17 games, Manniram ‘Packer’ Shew 16 and Nazir ‘Doc’ Ali 15. ‘Bumpy’ only managed 10 games.
Captain Soomdat ‘Rico’ Jeet led his team with 14 games while Paramanad ‘Rough’ Jagdeo had 12.
The winning and second-placed team were recipients of trophies as well as the top three players in the respective teams – Basil Jeet of King’s Six, Mahadeo Persaud of ‘Bumpy’ Ali’s Six and Soomdat Jeet of Jeet’s Six.
Hilbert ‘Bumpy’, who turned 80 on Wednesday, is credited with being the oldest player competing on the local scene.