AROUND THE GREENS

Press, Volume CI, Issue 29742, 8 February 1962, Page 8

AROUND THE GREENS

Fixtures arranged for this week are: February 8, all day tournament at United, electric light tournament at Beckenham; February 10, open pairs, Dickson Bowl v. Ellesmere, all day tournament at Christchurch W.M.C.; February 11, Sunday tournaments at Allenton, Belfast. Christchurch, Oxford, R.S.A., and United; February 12, electric light tournaments at Beckenham and Sydenham; February 13, electric light tournament at Cashmere, mid - week inter-dub fours; February 14, Elderly brothers at United, all day tournaments at Christchurch and St. Martins, electric light tournaments at South Brighton and Spreydon.

R. Morris and R. Grinlinton (Papakura) beat N. Donaldson and J. H. Rabone (Auckland) in the final of the Auckland centre’s open pairs championship, 21-17. In the Opawa club’s colts’ competition, R. Hyslop has reached the semi-final with one life remaining and if he meets R. French in the final it could very well be an interesting game. In a recent match these two played excellent draw shots with Hyslop winning by two on the last head.

The Sydenham club’s fours championship was won by E Fox, who beat D. Finney in the final. The final of the pairs will be between A. R. Besley and F. B. Hickman. In the final of the Opawa club’s pairs championship. C. Rowe and F. Banandall beat L. Derbidge and W. McNabb after a very even game. The score was 19-all on the nineteenth end and on the twentieth Derbidge was lying shot, but Rouq*. with his last bowl, trailed the jack for three shots to make the score, 22-19. Rowe went further into the lead on the last end to emerge the winner, 25-19.

Part of the sixtieth anniversary functions of the St, Albans club will be a twoday tournament on February 24 and 25. A limited number of entry forms are available from the club secretary.

The final of St. Albans cluib’s pairs championship will be played between N. Duff and W. Cogswell (twolifers) and G. Hales and W. Bell (one-lifers). In the fours those still remaining are: J. Hopper (two-lifer), A. Gray, J. Edmonds, S. Robinson and W. Bell (onelifers).

Those remaining in the Barrington club’s competitions . are: Blakeway and Shaw (fours), Bradbury, Blakeway and Sams (pairs) and Joseph, Blakeway. Bradbury and Lloyd (singles).

The Christchurch centre’s team, skipped by the president, F. W. Larcombe, after losing its two games on the first day of the Auckland club’s centenary tournament to F. Day (Otahuhu) and E. Sutton (Disabled Servicemen's) had a resounding success on the second day when it beat the national pairs champion, R. McDonald (Onehunga), 21-18. Other prominent names to lose on the second day were T. T Skoglund (Carlton) to Day 26-16, and W. P. O’Neil (Carlton) to V. Read (Whangarei).

I. Anticich and A. Torrance beat R. Torrance and A. Pask in the final of the New Brighton club’s pairs championship. In the fours, E Ford (skip), P, Sutherwood, H. York and G. Davis beat R. Porsey’s team in the final. The final of the singles will be played between F. 800 l and the winner of the Por-sey-York. game.

E. R. Reay and H. Pool will play the final of the Elmwood club’s fours championship on Saturday and the final of the pairs, to be played later, will be between C. Adams and B. Pearce and J. Huggins and Reay (sub.). In the colts’ competition the winner of the F. Wright-J. Cooper game will play W. T. Newbeurg in the final. Those remaining in the singles are: R. Norris, G. Hayward, J. G. Fitzgerald, Adams, Pool, F. Tomlinson and Reay.

The weakness of the two-life system as used in Dominion tournaments was further emphasised by the success of the “sudden death” system conducted at the recent Taranaki open fours championship. Many of the 1400 bowlers who contested the Taranaki tournament also played in the last national championships at Christchurch and nearly ail felt that the two-life system was unnecessary, unwieldy and out-of-date. With the excessive numbers competing in the Dominion tournament the need for a second chance was out of character with modern sport.