Around Greens

Press, Volume XCVII, Issue 28540, 20 March 1958, Page 13

Around Greens

A triple win has been recorded for a Lincoln Bowling Club team, skipped by W. G. Macartney. He won the club’s championship, the pairs and the singles.

Arthur Connew, a prominent Auckland bowler, has been making a specialty of jubilee tournaments. He has the singular distinction of having won in succession the Ponsonby, Remuera, Rocky Nook, Carlton and Mount Albert jubilee tournaments. In addition to this he has won other tournaments, including 10 centre titles, which entitles him to a gold star and bar, and more than 30 club championships.

Of the thousands of bowlers some apparently like to distinguish themselves from the rest and perhaps at the same time add colour to the game. As a result the almost uniform yellow cleaning cloth has given way to more artistic colours; many bowlers wear neatly clipped moustaches; Churchillian cigars have become almost commonplace and some bowlers have combined several or all of these devices. But a Wellington player, J. Duncan, recently eclipsed this at the Taranaki open fours tournament where his moustache and cigar were secondary to his monocle; he still did not reach the finals.

C. L. Spearman took all three R.S.A. club titles—the singles, pairs with C. Cox, and the fours with J. Thompson, V. Lloyd and Cox. The Syme Cup was won by A. Nottingham and the Colts’ Cup by P. Edgington.

Veteran bowlers at the Hunstanton Club (Norfolk) were staggered recently at the performance of a 12-year-old boy who was filling in a position in one of the club’s triples. The boy, who was at the green watching the bowls, was asked by his father to fill a Isfstminute vacancy. He practised for about an hour on the green, and during the match he not only gained several touchers, but by the end of the game was outplaying his father.

Although the score of 20 to 14 would suggest that the experienced George Gibson had a comfortable win over Arthur Britten in the final of the Sydenham club’s singles championship, this was not the case. The game was more closely contested than the score indicated and was considered one of the best singles finals played at the club in recent years.

When he skipped the winning team in the Auckland Bowling Centre’s Christmas fours tournament, George Webb, of Mount Albert, gained the last point for the coveted five-pointed gold star. Since he began bowls with the Mount Albert Club in 1946, Webb has compiled an impressive record in centre competition. He is the club’s first gold star holder, but has yet to win a club title.

The Christchurch Workingmen’s Club has recently completed its open pairs championship. The winning pair was J. D. Rennie and L. W. Whittington (skip). This pair still had its two lives intact at'the end of the tournament. The losing pair in the final was A. Walker and K. Duncan. Rennie still has his two lives in the fours event, which is well advanced, but the championship singles has been held up by bad weather. • After five years as runner-up, E. C. Wearne qualified as the Seatoun club’s champion in the Wellington centre’s champion of champions competition—and won the title. Although he has been one of Wellington's most consistent bowlers for several years this was the first Wellington centre title to go to his credit. Wearne beat R. W. Clevely, 17-16, in the final.

Bowling fixtures arranged are:—Thursday, March 20: R.S.A. all-day tournament, Beckenham floodlit tournament. Saturday, March 22: champion of champions singles and colts, Opawa allday tournament. Sunday, March 23: Christchurch W.M.C., Rangiora, R.S.A., Rakaia tournaments. Monday, March 24: Beckenham floodlit tournament.