Around The Greens

Press, Volume XCIX, Issue 29101, 13 January 1960, Page 9

Around The Greens

G. James, W. E. Clark, J. Henderson and C. E. Gollop beat R. R. Roberts, R. L. Jackson, A. F. Roberts and N. Reardon in the final of the Cashmere club’s fours. The match was very even, and on the eighteenth head the score was 20all. Gollop’s rink won the next three heads, the match and the championship.

There was great interest in the performance of the Elmwood team, skipped by C. H. Manning, at the national bowling titles at Dunedin. Manning, a former New Zealand councillor, stands high in the regard of tournament players and it was with considerable regret that many players read of his elimination when the final results were posted. Two successive losses early in the tournament were his undoing, and his late run with three straight wins was just not good enough.

The oldest active member of the St. Albans club is S. Perry, aged 85. Perry continues to amaze the younger players with his consistency, and in the early rounds in the club’s singles and pairs championships he had two lives intact in each competition. A regular skip in the Manning Cup, Perry has also skipped in the three-fours competition.

C. L. Spearman, of the Christchurch R.S.A. Club, was out of form with two straight losses in the first games at the national championships at Dunedin. He never appeared to get going on the greens he was drawn on.

A player who impressed at the New Zealand bowling championships at Dunedin last week was G. S. Dunn, who had a very steady Canterbury four. Dunn started badly with a loss, then took three games in successiontwo of them with grand margins Another loss followed, and he began the final day badly needing two wins to qualify. Those games were never in doubt. Number one finished 36-12, and number two 31-12.

R. D. Barron, of Sydenham, was expected to uphold the honour of Canterbury when his team took the first four games reasonably comfortably in the national bowling titles at Dunedin last week. But on the third day the team unaccountably failed to get the touch of the green, which was running true and fast. Two losses followed, and the fate of the four was in the balance on the last day of the qualifying round It registered a win in the morning 30-21, and its supporters felt that the four was back in form; but in the afternoon a three-point loss spelled finish to its hopes.