Christmas Bowls Tournament

Press, Volume XCIV, Issue 28158, 22 December 1956, Page 5

Christmas Bowls Tournament

nat *°nal bowling championship 1 ment at Auckland and the ■* n? . tand Centennial tournament at - mvercargill. have considerably affected .. en *ries for the Christchurch Centre’s Christmas fours /Ornament. Seventy-six fours have mered the contest which will com- - on December 26. Five greens be in use. There will be eight rounds of section ' ar *d all fours with six or more ms will qualify for post-section play. r’/ will commence on the afternoon S December 28 and the final will be b on Saturday afternoon. Deccm--29. All games will be played over f. ends, but a time limit of 2£ hours T®. been imposed. Major interest will centre round the • flection in which some very strong ■' Ws are entered, including one by C. Spearman (R.S.A.). s®e B section. F. White ’Runanga). has already skippered a Dominion winning four, has a good of reaching the post-section ’ an< l Tregoning (Awamoa) is •Way r who s^ould reach post-section Competition in most of the other ■ sections is fairly even, but in k c h there is a four which appears to a little stronger than the rest. of Uc « will depend on the condition i*<i^ eens as to bow the games will ’ they are fast there will be n y players who will find drawing j.^, c °ntro) of length rather difficult iiiri re h as been only one Saturday Lv ng , the scason when the greens gj. ® been really fast. If. however. ■- tJr 118 are holding, some of the weaker could surprise. < tourname nt has attracted only ith Urc l ours from outside of Christu,. these beina from Runanea and