DRUMMOND CUP

Ashburton Guardian, Volume 68, Issue 107, 16 February 1948, Page 5

DRUMMOND CUP

BOWLING

ALLENTON DEFEATS PARK CLUB Eight rinks from Park Club. Tim-iii-ii. visited Allenlnn on Saturday lor Hie annual mulch for the Drummond Cup. Alleiiton won by 171 to 150, regaining the cup which th<\v lost to Park hist year. The following arc the results, with Alleiiton skips first. Corbet i IS. Dewar 13: Pnihroyd 27, li. Millar IS: Turnbull 24. Walker Mi; Thomson, 29. Peebles 1(5; Hoitpll 24. Cullen 2M Thomas 21, ,1. Millar 21 ; Cowans 15, Earl L 9. Argyll.? 13. Worsley 26. ASHBURTON CLUB MATCH AFTERNOON PLAYERS v. THE REST An innovation was put on at the greens of the Ashburton Bowling Club on Saturday afternoon, taking the form of a match Afternoon Players v. The Rest. Nine rinks from each side took part and the result was —Afternoon 135, The Rest 192. Scores were as follow (Afternoon skips mentioned first): Warriner 13, R. McElhinney 21; Cookson 20, J. Lane 24; A. Lane 18, S. Mitchell 20; W. R. Lane 21, Coclcroft 17; Higgins IS, Lowry IS: Buxton 10, Bonifacio 27.; Milsom 15, Pryde 24; Porter 17, Rickerby IS; Maxwell 23, Lindsay 23.

During the afternoon tea recess Mr G. Bowman (president) suitably acknowledged and accepted on behalf of the club a trophy donated for the match by Mr W. J. Brown, expressing (he hope that the fixture would he an annual one. The trophy itself, a novelty consisting of a “jack” mounted on a polished wooden plinth, with silver plates affixed ready for engraving, came in for a great deal of admiration.