Around the Greens

Press, Volume CI, Issue 29748, 15 February 1962, Page 19

Aroun d the Greens

Fixtures arranged for this week are: February 15, all day tournament at Cashmere and Woolston WJH.C., night tournament at Beckenham; February 17, all day tournaments at Allenton (Todd Cup) and R.S.A. (elimination), open pairs at Rakaia (Langley Cup); February 18, Sunday tournaments at Rakaia, Canterbury, Kaiapoi, Redcliffs, Southbridge and Woolston W.M.C.: February 19, night tournaments at Beckenham and Sydenham; February 20, night tournament at Cashmere, mid - week inter-club fours; February 21, all day tournament at Lincoln, night tournaments at Kaiapoi W.M.C. and South Brighton, secretaries-treasur-ers’ tournament at United. The annual fixture between the Sumner and Rangiora clubs for the Macintosh Bowl, played recently on the Sumner green, was won by Sumner by 222 points to 177 Final points in the Christchurch centre’s competitions are:—Manning Cun: Elmwood 196 5 points. Cashmere 192 5. Beckenham 188 7. St Albans 184. Canterbury ’B2 Kaiapoi 180. Spreydon 179 8 Opawa 176. Shirley 172. Sydenham 170. Fendalton 164. Christchurch 157 5 Thrre Fours: Christchurch I 45 points. Fendalton II 411 Sydenham 401 Dallington I 371. Shir’ev II 37 Canterbury I 331 The winners of the Rhbinson Shield have not yet been decided as two teams may have -cored the possible of nine wins

Those remaining in the Canterbury club's fours competition are: K Riley. D Langley. W Cooke and G T Erridse. In the singles championship. with several semes to be played. C Ashton. T Round and B O. Alexander are still prominent.

Once again the Spreydon club’s pairs championships has been won by H Berry and J Howatsor. They are a formidable pair but their road to success was not an easy one and H Slade and B Wv’att took a life from them in what was possibly the best game of the competition.

A play-off to decide the winner of the Beckenham club's colts championship will be nece-sary. B Collings and J. Cable drew 17-all on Saturday. In a most interesting same the scores were level on the sixth, eighth, twelfth. nineteenth and twenty-first ends

For the second year in succession. N. Duff and C. Cogswell have won the St. Albans club’s pairs championship after coming through with both lives intact. In the final game against G. Hales and W Bell the result was in doubt until the last bowl had been played.

During the national tournament in the pairs championship, T. Henshall (Spreydon) delivered a bowl on the wrong bias when he was three down on the head and his bowl collided with another on the next green. According to the rules he was entitled to another shot. However, he declined the offer and the head was lost. This action was typical of the man and one of the sporting gestures that make the game.

The St. Albans Club’s presidents’ fours was won by H. Rankin, I. Stewart, F. Hartland and W. Cole (skip). Cole is a new member of the club having been a prominent player with the Anderson’s Bay club in Dunedin.

Semi-finalists in the Dallington club’s fours championships are teams skipped by E. Stickle, E. Greenwood. V. Sharp and R. McKendry. In the singles, players remaining are R. Pirrie (twolifer), A. Duthie, V. Sharp and A. Kirk.

A most popular win in the Canterbury club’s pairs championship was that of E. Palmer and his lead. G. Mantell. who is a life member and a former greenkeeper of the club. In the final they beat L. Milliken and J. Simon. 20-17.

The Spreydon club has found a worthy champion colt in R. Fehsenfeld. A secondyear player, Fehsenfeld has concentrated on the development of his own natural ability He played a big part in the success of F. Howatson’s tour in the recent Dominion tournament and with his purposeful approach to the game, he is expected to develop into a very good bowler.

Sir,—During the centre pairs championship on Saturday, I noticed one bowler being reprimanded for having his toe on the mat. I personally consider this as a pettiness. as the great sin in foot-faulting is to be off the mat at the moment of delivery. The great difficulty in bowling is to add that yard of weight with the swing of the arm and not by “carrying" the bowl that extra yard. ’n one of the final matches in the Dominion singles competition. Bob McDonald was faced, not only by a good bowler, but by one who was a good yard off the mat when he delivered each bowl and yet the umpire did nothing about it

Furthermore, almost without exception, the bowlers who drive a lot, foot-fault to the extent of some yards. The position as it is at the moment is most unfair to the honest bowler and it is high time something was done about it both by clubs and the Christchurch Bowling Centre. —Yours, etc.. FAIR PLAY.