Around the Greens

Press, Volume CVI, Issue 31279, 27 January 1967, Page 15

Around the Greens

The entries for the Christchurch Bowling Centre’s open pairs championship has sorely taxed the resources of greens in Christchurch. A total of 368 teams have entered and the 23 sections will play on 23

greens. GOOD PERFORMANCE

The performance of the Christchurch Club which does not have as large membership as many other clubs in tieing for first place in the three fours with Dallington and also doing very well in the Manning Cup was extremely good. Members of the club also played quite well in the national championships in Wellington. The four skipped by R. Lulham was a trifle disappointing because it failed to qualify but a composite four skipped by M. Le Cren which contained three Christchurch players went through to post-section play. In the pairs K. R. Smith and M. K. Boon played solidly to hold their two lives on the first day but then dropped two matches quickly. SHALLOW DITCHES

A move is to be made at the biennial conference of the Australian Bowls Council to reduce the depth of ditches to two inches.

Its sponsors claim that it would eliminate the unbeatable shot where a toucher comes to rest within a few inches of the jack in the ditch.

Under New Zealand and Australian conditions a ditch is about six to eight inches deep and a ditched bowl or the jack is not visible to the players. In South Africa the ditch is only two inches deep so that a ditched bowl and the jack are visible. OPAWA With one round to complete before the semi-finals of the club championship pairs, R. Creswell still has two lives intact, M. Dawson and Croft

each have one life. In the championship rinks M. B. Scott and C. Rowe have two lives and H. Larcombe and F. Rice have one life. There are still two rounds to play.

There are five two-lifers and six one-lifers in the singles, with four rounds still to play. K. G. Murray still retains two lives in the rinks and singles and one life in the pairs. R. Croft, a new member, is enjoying a very successful season and he still has two lives in the singles and one life in the pairs. The championship colts are half way with their competition and there are three twolifers and five one-lifers. It appears that F. Burrows (twolifer), W. Cumberpatch (twolifer) and M. Ogilvie (onelifer) have the best chance of success.

Hie Robinson Shield teams ably skipped by R. Brown and T Marquet have won all their games and must have a good chance of winning the title for Opawa. During the Christmas break a lucky find was made by a person living in the Shirley district. While looking through the rubble of a house that had been demolished he found a silver cup, which upon being cleaned up was found to belong to the Opawa club. It was the club president’s fours trophy with only one winning four inscribed on it—the year 1915-16. KEEN MEMBERS

The Riccarton Working Men’s Club has made a considerable gain in membership and now has a total of 81 active members.

A new pavilion is under construction and should be completed soon. A three-rink indoor mat is being laid and will be used for winter play.