Indoor Hotels TWO CANTERBURY TITLES

Press, Volume XCVIII, Issue 28999, 14 September 1959, Page 13

Indoor Hotels TWO CANTERBURY TITLES

Wins For Williamson And Melhopt

Four of this year's representative indoor bowling team met yesterday in the finals of the Canterbury Indoor Bowling Association's singles and champion of champion singles titles.

In the champion of champions final. A. Williamson beat G. N. Taylor, 14-11, a repetition of the last meeting of these two in this final two years ago. In the Canterbury singles championship final, R. Melhopt beat Mrs B. Penney, 20-16 In the final between Williamson and Tavlor, Williamson gained two on the first head with a running shot which carried the kitty to the back edge of the mat. With the second head declared dead, he scored another two with a drive in the third Taylor, finding his touch, scored two at the next hea’d. adding two more on a burnt fifth head. Williamson, surprisingly, burnt the sixth head, giving Taylor a 6-4 lead, but gained one on the seventh with a delicate drawing shot. Taylor gained the shot in the eighth, but Williamson with a one and a two took an 8-7 lead at the tenth. Taylor tied the game In the next head, and with a two on the twelfth took the lead again. Williamson drove brilliantly for one in the thirteenth, but Taylor, making an almost impossible drawround his opponent's shots, maintained his lead Gaining one on the fifteenth head, Williamson took the lead with two on the sixteenth and In the two final heads ensured his win by holding the shot each time.

The final of the championship singles produced exciting and solid bowling, with Mrs Penney fighting back all the time against the steady drawing of Melhopt. Mrs Penney scored two in the opening head, with Melhopt snatching one in the next head with his final bowl. Melhopt scored four in the next head, and Mrs Penney with he> last shot turned Melhopt’s two into one for herself. Melhopt’s steady drawing gained him two In the next head, and Mrs Penney, playing with precision. took the sixth head, only to lose two shots In each of the next two heads, the eighth on a burning Mrs Penney drew her shot for two in the ninth, gained another two on a burnt head, and with a devastating performance, scored three to tie the game at 11-all. Melhopt in the next two heads gained two to Mrs Penney’s three, but in the next three heads scored five with a , cci ' ra j£ drawing. Mrs Penney struck back in the seventeenth head with two. but Melhopt in the final head scored two for a 20-16 win and the championship.