BOWLS

Press, Volume LXXXIII, Issue 25139, 21 March 1947, Page 10

BOWLS

EASTER TOURNAMENT Eighty entries have been received for the Christchurch Bowling Centre’s Easter tournament. There will be three 16-end games of section play on Good Friday, three on Easter Saturday, and two on Easter Monday, to be followed by one round of post-sestion play. The first game on these three days will be started at 9.30 a.m. The following is the draw:— Section A (first day, Canterbury; second day, R.S.A.: third day, Elmwood). —G. Dickson (Lihwood), G. W. Bailey (Hornby), S. Marriott (Opawa), A. Britten (Sydenham), J. G. Hankins (Woolston), A. A. Austin (United), E. J. Hatherley (Elmwood), J. Morrison (Beckenham), J. Carrington (Shirley). R. E. McNish (Canterbury), C. Brunsden (Edgeware), C. Mitchell (.Westport). Section B (first day, Sydenham; second day, Linwood; third day, Edgeware).—G. Macdonald (Elmwood), O. G. Moody (Edgeware), C. Woodham (Hornby), St. G. Atkinson (United), J. Cairns (Woolston), W. A. Britten (Sydenham), E. J. Ritchie (Linwood), C. Madsen (Opawa), W. D. Ramsay (Shirley), H. McLean (Canterbury). W. D. Craig (Beckenham), J. Breeze (Hokitika). Section C (first day, Elmwood; second day, United:. third day, R.S.A.). —W. Brown (Canterbury), D. Jones S. Stewart (Beckenham), H. Kebby (Riccarton), H. Maloney (Woolston), J. M. Giles (United), A. L. Willis (Elmwood), A. F. Rollinson (Opawa), D. Gibson (Shirley), C. D. McGarry (Edgeware), F. J. Edwards (Rangiora), R. C. Hocking (Sydenham). Section D (first day. Edgeware; second day, Elmwood: third day, Sydenham).— P. C. Jones (United), K. R. Smith (Edgeware), F. Robinson (New Brighton), A. E. Seymour (Sydenham), J. Woolcock (Woolston), A. Wotton (Belfast), H. J. Falconer (Linwood), P. J. Bond (St. Albans), A. Harrison (Barrington), W. Parnell (R.S.A.), G. B. Heley (Elmwood), A. Steele (Beckenham). Section E (first day, Linwood; second day, Sydenham: third day, United).—S. E. Perry (Edgewhre), A. Holmes (Rakaia), F. Baxandall (Woolston), J. Bruerton (Karoro), W. Campbell (Beckenham), C. James (United), F. Redpath (Linwood), H. McDonald (St. Albans), A. S. Crowe (Barrington), H. Hirst (R.S.A.), A. Besley (Sydenham), G. H. Lindley (Elmwood). Section F (first day, United; second day, Edgeware; third day, Canterbury).—R. J. Jones (Woolston), J. E. Gagliardi (Edgeware), J. C. Southern (Papanui), C. Taylor (Sydenham), W. R. Featherston (Elmwood), N. S. Wyber (Christchurch), D. O’Connell (Beckenhdm), T. A. Morland (St. Albans), W. P. Gilligan (Barrington), J. H. Campbell (R.S.A.). ♦ Section G (first day, R.S.A.; second day, Canterbury; third day, Linwood). —R. J. Chisholm (Sydenham), C. H- Manning (Timaru), J. R. Smith (Christchurch), C. Clarkson (Fendalton), R. Shore (Imperial), S. Lorking (Beckenham), J. Hadley (Papanui), J. Shrimpton (Spreydon), F. W. Allan (Elmwood), J. Blackler (Edgeware). Advt. WOMEN’S CHAMPION FOURS A team skipped by Mrs Palmer (Shirley Club) won the Christchurch Ladies’ Bowling Centre’s champion of champions fours competition played on the Sydenham greens yesterday. In the results which follow, the names of skips only are given:— First round: Mrs Palmer (Shirley) 17, Mrs Adcock (Sydenham) 15; Mrs Cook (United) 26, Mrs Andrews (Heathcote) 23; Mrs Cordery (Linwood) 19, Mrs Nankivell (Woolston) 18; Mrs Brandon (Spreydon) 20, Mrs Faulks (Beckenham) 19. Second round: Mrs Palmer 18, Mrs Cook 17; Mrs Cordery 27, Mrs Brandon 19.' Final: Mrs Palmer 32, Mrs Cordery 5.