SPORTS AND PASTIMES

Ashburton Guardian, Volume XLIII, Issue 9747, 13 December 1922, Page 3

SPORTS AND PASTIMES

BOWLING. BULLOCK PENNANT. Following are the scores (section B mentioned first in each match) secured in the Bullock Penn ailt match, played on Saturday, between sections .B and C of the Ashburton Bowling Club, the former being defeated by 79 to 77: • Haydock, Bonnington, O’Brien, Stewart (s) 10, v. , Irwin, Christie, Dixon, Galbraith (s) 28; McClymont, Aston, A. T. Smith, Templeton (s) 18, v Brydon, McElrea, Easterbrook, A. Lane (s) 14; Knight, Dobson Buxton, Morgan (s) 22, v. Meddms, McSherry, Percy, Rae (s) 25; Todd, McEachen, Dunlop, Bootliroyd (s) 27, v. Cap-stick, J. Campbell, Barnett, Craighead (a) 12. - , LAWN TENNIS. THE ENGLISH ASSOCIATION REFORM MOVEMENT. LONDON, December 11. The annual meeting of the Lawn Tennis Association was unusually crowded and lively, owing to the reform movement, details of which were recently cabled. Wallis Myers, the reformers’ leader, critcised the council strongly for giving Spain a walk-over in the Davis Cup. He pointed out that Italy was making its debut in the Cup. Czechoslovakia, Belgium, and even Roumania, although all realising that they were sure to be beaten, and most of them short of funds, had contested matches. If the council considered Britain’s tennis prestige, it would not have made such a humiliating surrender. Mr Myers also attacked the inhospitable treatment extended to foreign overseas competitors. He quoted Patterson’s statement in Australian newspapers, contrasting the casual official reception received in England with the way the Australians were treated in the United States. The council includes a good proportion of reformers, five out of six candidates in the southern area, and six out of nine in the home counties, being reformers. Mrs Lambert Chamhe'rs was elected. She is tho first woman elected to the council. The reformers’ scheme for a constitutional reconstruction was referred to the new council, but a motion to debar representatives of manufacturers competing in auv tournaments was defeated bv a large ma.iority.