INDOOR BOWLS

Press, Volume XCI, Issue 27679, 8 June 1955, Page 4

INDOOR BOWLS

NEW ZEALAND PAIRS TITLE MATCH WON ON LAST END (New Zealand Preu Association) AUCKLAND. June 7. • K. Pilgrim, of Horowhenua. won the *nal of the New Zealand Indoor Bowling Federation’s pairs championship on the last end this afternoon. He beat J. Morris, M Waikato. 17-16. Mrs E. J. Peterson. Pilgrim’s lead, was the first woman to win a final in the six-year history of the tournament, and Morris’s lead, 16-year-old «<m Haynes, is the youngest competitor to play in a national final. A crowd of about 500 watched the final, tod also applauded a skilled demonstraeight bowler * Irom toe BUnd 1 Leading 12-7 at one stage, Pilgrim apMorris pulled up the fifteenth end. U-15. The accuracy of all four players was, undiminished, and they eased their powls into small colonies round the kitty •Morris took the seventeenth end to draw •ven at 16-all, but the kitty was behind to impenetrable barrier of bowls when J* n '* de shot, and the bold draw Jjfled to detach Pilgrim's bowl from the The qualifying rounds of the singles will to played tomorrow, and the post-section •n WUI 6nd the tournament ; Today’s results were as follows* ' Quarter-finals —B. Waddell tWellington) T f® c y (Auckland); J. Morrii R - Edge (Waikato); cl T tWeH:rrgton> beat H. Cullum 1 . £ * (Horowhenua) *— L. <,urker> v Hawke’s Bay).

(Waikatp) beat (wX ton), 8-5. Final—Pilgrim beat Morris, 17-18.