ANOTHER BOWLING STALWART PASSES

Auckland Star, Volume LXXII, Issue 211, 6 September 1941, Page 6 (Supplement)

ANOTHER BOWLING STALWART PASSES

«r,, rher l e . w , in be , regret, states Irundler," at the death of Mr. A. H. Blackburn president of the Devonport Bowling Club for the 1933-34 season, and a strong supporter of the game for many years. Looking up a few days ago the account of Professor Maxwell Walker's win in the Auckland provincial Easier pairs of J913 a few weeks after his sensational final m the New Zealand singles at Christchurch, it was a surprise to find that Blackburn was already a orominent player at that early date. He was in a rink chosen to represent DevonportLowe, Whittaker, Blackburn, Orchard— to challenge the Qrey Lynn holders of the iidwin Stars, and Devonport won by 21 HeaT agamßt Burfoot » G - Clark, Courtnay, - 8 * eoincidence that Clark, now praying for Mount Albert, is the holder of the companion to the Edwin Stars, the Denison Puis; and that his team would have been defending them last Saturday but for the heavy rain, on the very day that his game in 1913 happened to come under notice.