Around The Greens

Press, Volume CXI, Issue 32521, 3 February 1971, Page 15

Around The Greens

The open singles will be completed on the Christchurch club’s green today and the draw for the quarter-finals this morning is:—

K. G. Murray (Opawa), v. M. S. Robinson (Barrington); R. Kinzett (South Brighton) v. M. K. Boon (Christchurch); J. P. Anderson (Linwood) v. G. J. E. Hayward (Elmwood); W. R. Wilkinson (St; Albans) v. E. Raudsepp (Kaiapoi W.M.C.). Murray has' an advantage over the other seven in that he still has two lives. 4t * *

An open tournament at Amberley on Sunday, January 24, was won by a team from the .Christchurch club comprising B. S. Johns, W. J. Cole, S. E. Lawson and L. C. Lindley. Not surprisingly, this team, which advanced into the latter stages of the Dominion fours in Wellington last month, held too many guns for the other 15 fours which took part, although a local team skipped by R. W. Cormack put up a good fight before going down 16-11. « s» #

One two-lifer and five onelifers remain in Amberley’s singles championship. The two-lifer is K. McFarlane and the one-lifers J. Hayes, P. Croft, J. Stackhouse, C. James and J. Clark. In the pairs there are no two-'ifers and the semifinalists are Hayes, McFarlane, H. Denton and Cormack. McFarlane’s team is still unbeaten in the fours and the only other skips still with a chance are S. Ashworth and Stackhouse. * The final positions in the Christchurch Bowling Centre’s three inter-club competitions are:— Manning Cup. Bumham Camp 220.5 points, St Albans 172.75, Cashmere 166.50, Christchurch 162.50, Spreydon 162. Three-fours.—Fendalton II 45, Christchurch I 40, South Brighton I 39, Barrington II 38, Spreydon I 35 j, Fendalton I 36|. Robinson Shield.—Papanui 11 8, Bumside II 8 (playoff to be held), Burwood I, Burwood 11, Burwood 111, Edgeware, Fendalton I, Linwood I and Spreydon I all 7. 4« * #

The semi-finals of the Dallington’s fours championship have been played and the skips through to the final are G. Rowland and D. Martin.

Rowland beat V. Claridge 20-19 on an extra end and he gained the. winning shot when he trailed the kitty, after being one down. Martin beat Garvin, who was defending the title, 30-16 «nd with his lead L. Scull and his No. 2, C. Ford, playing extremely well Martin had few problems. The quarter-final lists in the singles are D. Stuart, who has two lives, I. McAllister, R. Pirrie, S. A. Joyce, H. Lack, D. King and H. Drewery. 4s 4« ♦

The finalists in Cashmere’s fours championship will be R. Speer’s team of J. Lewis, V. Usherwood and H. Kent and the team of J. Curtis, E. Heinemann, B. Marriott and A. Roberts skipping. Roberts’s four is the same which he had when he went down in the final of the Christmas fours a few weeks ago. In the singles seven onelifers remain. They are L. Polson, L. Dailey, K. Donaldson, J. Curtis, J. Stevenson, Roberts and H. Archer. In recent matches Archer eliminated Donaldson and Polson put out N. V. Burtt. Burtt, however, still holds two-lives in the pairs with the one-lifers F. Fiecken, Donaldson and G. Crossen. Burtt just kept his two lives When he beat Speer recently in a game which required an extra end of obtain a result. W. Turtle, still with twolives, looks well placed to take the colts title. >S 4s 4s

A wonderful example of the rewards that can come to those who fight to the last was witnessed during the final round of last Saturday’s play in the open pairs

tournament. Two games being played on adjoining rinks took on a similar pattern and with about threequarters of an hour to go before the bell the scores were almost identical, the differences being about 10 points. One of the skips who was trailing suddenly decided that he had had enough and to the surprise of his opponents and apparently his lead he conceded, threw his bowls into his bag and was out of the gate before onlookers had had time to realise the game had terminated.

The other skip who was behind kept plugging away and suddenly he pulled in a five and this was all the encouragement he and his lead needed to storm home and snatch victory on the last ends.

It was a pity that the skip who had so prematurely thrown in the towel had not stayed and seen just how abruptly the complexion of the other match changed. It might have done more for his game than all the mumblings about his own form he was probably indulging in. 4s 4s #

Those remaining in the Bumside’s clubs singles are J. Gilmore, T. Brady, R. Marks and N. E. Bell, who still has two lives.

the pairs has been decided with K. Shivas, whose lead was Brady, beating V. Blag den and G. Orchard (s) 23-14 in the final. The final of the fours will be between Shivas and the winner of the semi-final between B. Potete and M. Waterhouse. The Burnside colts teams which came through the Robinson Shield competition unbeaten was J. H. Forbes, E. Reid, R. Marks and Gilmore (s). The Finlayson Cup handicap singles has reached the I last rounds with E. Watt tc meet the winner of the game between I. Skipwortl and R. Veitch in the final 4* 4® 4s A. G. Rogers has won th Fendalton club’s colts cham | pionships and he achieved i’ without losing a game. Eight teams remain in th( fours championship and al' are one-lifers. In the pair: there are 15 teams stii' with a chance, although G. E Bennett is better off than the others as he is the only two-lifer. In the singles there are two two-lifers —C. S. Peate and M. Welsh —and 14 onelifers. The junior singles championship also contains two two-lifers, D. J. Brown and C. J. Simpson. 4s 4s *s There has been an upset in the Linwood singles championship with the defending titleholder, J. P Anderson, being eliminated He lost his first life to K. Wilkie and his second to F G. Burgess, who bowled with great steadiness after taking, an early lead. Burgess woni 20-11. S. J. Snedden is still a. two-lifer and the one-lifers | besides Wilkie and Burgess: who have reached the quar-ter-finals are W. White, C. H, Miller, I. Smith and B. J. - Smith.

Anderson kept in the fours contest, another title he is defending, when he beat > Snedden, and other recent I winners in this section have i been L. E. Russell and E. J.| Greenwood. 4s # # The monthly Sunday tournament at South Brighton last week was won

by a team from the club skipped by B. Reade. It was the only team to finish with four wins and its other members were C. Meier, B. Trist and J. Law. Seven teams tied for second place and in a roll to the kitty another South Brighton team, one skipped by B. MacManus, was successful.

In the club’s pairs championship only T. Dixon still holds two lives, while the one-lifers are P. Meier and S. Ives. 4* sjs 4>

The Sumner club has completed three of its major championships. In the final of the fours T. Wood’s team of J. Jones, J. Mullany and G. Beaumont comfortably beat the team of R. Hannah, C. Philpott, T. O’Donnell and D. Brydon (s).

The pairs champions are P. Madden and A. Jackson, with the runners-up R. Hannah and Bryden. In the final of the colts event, H. Warburton narrowly beat D. Call.

4s 4> 4s In a game of some wonderful drawing, C. Baxter beat M. Hayes 16-12 in the

Elmwood club’s singles and another game in the same competition which produced a keen battle was G. J. E. Hayward’s 19-14 win over W. T. Newburgh. A recent pairs game resulted in G. P. Thomas having a comforable win over G. Hayward. 4i * 4t

In recent championship singles games at Christchurch, G. Barnes, only a second-year player, went down by one point to E. Bradshaw and D. Langley had a comfortable win over an out-of-form W. J. Cole.

K. Smith had a good win in the fours when he scored a three on the last end to beat E. Trenberth by one point and in another rinks game J. Tatam beat R. Sarney in a game which took a number of turns. Tatam went well clear on the first half of the board, but then Sarney’s team came right and the result hinged on the final end. Sarney had the last head in his favour, when Tatam played a forcing shot with his last bowl. It was off line, but clipped a wing bowl and deflected in to be shot.