Around The Greens

Press, Volume CXII, Issue 33095, 9 December 1972, Page 9

Around The Greens

Skips to have recently qualified in the fours championship at Canterbury are: G. Craig, H. Fletcher, R. T. Bailey and J. Sanders.

An upset in the singles was the defeat of the seasoned Sanders by J, Aitken, who is still a colt. Sanders lost his other singles life when in a game which produced some fine drawing he was beaten on the last bowl by R. T. Bailey. M

Last year's singles chan pion, A. G. Murray, can from 11-1 down to beat/ Fletcher 19-16 and off players to have scored gP wins in the singles ard»Liley and F. Brebner. / In the pairs, M. Ham° n and Brebner (s) showel™pressive form to take Aife from the highly-rated olton and A. Hayes (s/who were later eliminatecFhen they went down / KMathews and R. ScoKs)Some fine leadinrfy KHore paved the wajor H. Lattaway to beat lurray, who has D. Colvillplaying for him. The score Y 5 22-14. The qualifying funds in the fours have com-

pleted / Linwood and the skips / hav e gained the necesy three wins are F. E - Smith, H. PlumG - Murray, J. P. Ellir- Muirson, H. Yates ant'J- H. Murray. 7Ri two rounds compisd in the singles the twoI'is still are L. Muirson, > Lyons, S. J. Snedden, B. Jfdtidge, B. J. Smith, I. E. mith, A. Ashley and H. foHoy.

y The only team still un(beaten in the pairs is the combination of B. J. Smith and K. G. Murray (s) and on their form so far must be warmly favoured to take the title. * # #

After four rounds in the singles at Spreydon the twolifers remaining are R. Fehsenfeld, W. McDonald, H. Berry, G. Honey and P. Capon. In the fours two teams have so far qualified, those stepped by W. Ditfort and A. B. Nottingham. * * *

The i first centre triples tournament, to be played at New Year, has drawn a satisfactory entry of 80

teams. For the Christmas fours, to be played a week earlier, there will be 82 teams, an increase of four on last season. » * #

C. Baxter staged a fine fight-back to beat C. Smith in a recent pairs championship match at Elmwood. Smith, who is partnered by K. Herbison, led 14-1 at one stage but Baxter, whose lead is R. Wear, drew level on the fifteenth end and then went on to win 21-19.

Other pains results have been.—E. McCahon beat C. Green; R. Thomson beat J. G., Fitzgerald; L. Sewel beat A. Gray; A. Croy beat J. C. McDonald; J. Shultz beat M. Hayes; and R. Green beet AJ McDuff.

In the president’s triples, being played on Saturday mornings, skips to quality

were S. Wilson and B. Cooke, both with three wins, and R. Thomson and R. Morgan, both with four wins. * * #

Clubs battling to get early rounds, of their fours over will be interested to hear that New Brighton has already completed this championship.

In a keen final, W. Armstrong’s team of J. Swift, W. Miller and E. Ford scored a narrow win over the combination of F. Latham, L. Russell, G. Fleet and D. Bodger (s). In their lead-up games to the final, Armstrong beat R. Goodland and S. Pope and Bodger beat T. Flaws, who had earlier eliminated I. Anticich. * * * There have been some upsets in the early rounds of the Fendalton championships,, not the least being the elimination of W. A. Hadlee and J. H. Pickles in the pairs. They lost their first life to W. P. Wratt and D. G. Sutherland and their second to R. Jones and E. A. CWVert. Pickles has also lost a life in the singles, an event he has twice won. He went down to K. Cornish. Another past singles winner reduced to a one-lifer is R. Balfiftger, his defeat was at the hands of E. Alexander.

The defending pairs champions, T. Lock and A. B. 8001, have suffered their first defeat. They lyere beaten by C. S. Peate and B. Taylor. Two teams came through with four wins in an or"! tournament at Fendaltor ‘ as l Sunday and in the v a y-.°“ W. Ditfort’s Sprey<° n beat a home team skipped by R. A. Croft.

1 The qualifiers in the fours : championship at Cashmere ! are A. F. Roberts (five wins), • L. Bradbury and L. Jones (four wins), R. Speer, G. Crossen, F. Fiecken, S. F. Shuttleworth, L. Polson, D. i Bunt and H. Kent, all with 1 the minimum of three wins. A recent pairs match which ended excitingly was that beLtween K. Donaldson and N. V. • Burtt. Burtt needed four to c win on the last end and he 1 held them until Donaldson ‘ burnt the head with his last bowl. On the replay Burtt 1 again held four, but Donaldson, in drawing to save, shifted the kitty and cut the number of shots against him two.

A feature of this match was the fine leading of Burtt’s partner, the veteran W. H« Down. He stuck determinedly to his task throughout and it is this sort of spirit which can make a lead’s role a most satisfying one. It also sets a good example for young players to follow.