Indoor Games

INDOOR games started in the club in mid 1937 and have always been popular since then. In Table Tennis, Anwer and Rehman were the club champs in the fifties before the youngsters ousted them.

History of Indoor Games

INDOOR games started in the club in mid 1937 and have always been popular since then. In Table Tennis, Anwer and Rehman were the club champs in the fifties before the youngsters ousted them.

Bridge started in 1937 and in the same year while playing against SVIG and the Christian Union our players won acclaim. DARTS started in the seventies and our players regularly participated in competitions though we did not win any honours.

In the mid sixties members felt the need to have snooker in order to provide more indoor recreational facilities to the members. Therefore a Billiards tables were bought and the game started with gusto. In 1973 the club entered the Whitecap Tournament which was won by Waheed Khan of our club while in the Jamal Pirbhai Aggregate Cup Moshin Ali reached the semifinals. In 1977 Iqbal Dhanji playing for the same tournament lifted the Clubs Closed Tournament trophy.

In 1979 snooker captain Waheed Khan won the East African Open Championship while Tariq Chaudhry won the prestigious Soni Gold Cup. In the same year we also won the Brighton Knockout trophy for the second year running.

In 1980 the club entered the Kenya Billiards Control; Council (KBCC) league and our senior team was runners-up. Our snooker superstar Mohammed Tariq won the Soni Gold Cup. He also won the Aga Khan Open Snooker Tournament, while Waheed Khan was the runner-up.

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