Defending champion
M. Evans (Wales), who ; won the singles title at thei last world bowls champion-1 ships in Worthing two years; ago, practising for the Com- • monwealth Games on the Sydenham green yesterday. ; A 36-year-old school- • teacher from the Rhondda ! Valley, Evans has been play-i
ling bowls since he was 10. • He said yesterday that, with ; more practice over the next |week, he hoped to become better acquainted with ■Christchurch’s cotula greens, • which run about Bsec faster • than those on which he is • used to playing. Evans, who has been a I Welsh bowls international for
I nine years, described J)•Bryant (England) — the man Ihe replaced as the world •singles champion — and?’. E. B. Jones, of New Z»a•land, as his toughest rivals in the singles. Jones, he said, must star! with an advantage becan-i he was playing on his oik t igreens.
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Press, Volume CXIV, Issue 33434, 16 January 1974, Page 14
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142Defending champion Press, Volume CXIV, Issue 33434, 16 January 1974, Page 14
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