Indoor bowls champion

Press, Volume CXV, Issue 33858, 2 June 1975, Page 5

Indoor bowls champion

Trevor Thompson (Avonhead) scored an easy win over Alf Williamson (Fernleaf) in the ' final of the Canterbury Indoor Bowls Association's singles championship at the Kearney's I Road Hall yesterday. Thompson made a winning l break of six points on the first. • three ends. Although Williamson won six ends he could manage no ■ ‘ more than a single on each and • Thompson, with two further, singles and a two on the eleventh end made sure of the title. Both players had hard passages t to the final. In each case they! won by only a single point. Thompson beat the youthful Peter Ken, 10-9. after Kerr ]ed at the start of the last end by a point. Williamson had a 6-2 lead over! Noel Tomlinson after six ends in!

his semi-final, but Tomlinson fought back to level at 6-all on (the final end. Williamson scored a single on the extra end. June Boone won the Ethel ! Logan Memorial Trophy for the woman progressing the furthermost in the singles. 210 ENTRIES ’ There were 210 entries for the 1 title, and 82 qualified for post- ! section play, but a number of the 1 province’s top players failed to qualify. H Jack Burrows, who has twice • previously won the title, and the • normally-consistent Leon McLenlan, were among those who 1 dropped by the wayside. McLen- ' lan’s wife, Elizabeth — one of the top woman players — and I Ray Watkln were two others i • who failed to qualify.

Results: —. First round. —K. Sole 8. R. Shackle 7; A. Shankie 11, C. R. Ward 6; Mrs M. Berkeley 9. N. Bain 6; P. Thomas 9, P. Hamilton 5: Mrs J. Furlonger 11. K. Pegs 9; C. North 10. D. Whiteside 5: N. W. Tomlinson 11, D. Mitchell 8; L. Moody 12, J. Elcock 3: Mrs M. Cheyne 7, W. Mclntyre 4; T. N. Austin 13, A. Jordan 2; M. Penfold 10, C. Dawber 8; R. ■Shatford 10. V. Taylor 9: J. A. j Robertson 14. M. W. Berkeley 6: ■P. Kerr 8. G. Lancaster 7; M. ILowrie 9. S. Whiteside 8; J. Mc- ' Guigau 10. Mrs C. Cobb 9; T. i Boone 13, P. Brownie 3; Mr [Breach won by default. : Second round.—R Morgan 11. iR. Hartwell 5; W. H. Logan 9. [Mrs V. Flower 7: Mrs N. Sykes 10, Mrs L. Mclntyre 9; Mrs J. j Furlonger 10, C. Nort 9; Mrs [M. Cheyne 10, G. Dennehy 5; C. ' Pepperill 8, L. Dunston 7; M. Penfold 11, R. Shatford 9: T. Boone 10. M. Breach 4; B. Duncan 12. K. Avis 10; P. Kerr 10,! J. A. Robertson 4: G. Finlay 6. A. Spicer 5; G. Humphries 11. Mrs P. Fuller 10; Mrs B. Burgess' 18. A. Forrester 5; J. McGuigan! 9. M. Lowrie 8: A. Roberts 13. T. Daly 2; G. W. Thomas 13, D. Marschall 9: T. Thompson 13. G. Henderson 6; Mrs D. Henderson 13. D. Smyth 10: Mrs N. Johns 10. R Pigou 5; I. MacLeod-Smith 11, B. Gray 9; F. Chapman 9, E. Chaney 7; B. Glasgow 9, P. H. Logan 8; A. E. Williamson 15, Mrs M. Austin 3; Mrs B. Immers 10; H. Williams 8; Mrs J. Boone 11. V. Blackler 7; A. W. Gray 11, A. Stenhouse 4; N. W. Tomlinson 9. L. Moody 6; R.. G. Ellis 11. M. Lister 10; Mrs M. Berkeley 10, P. Thomas 8; T. V. Austin 10. L. Stewart 7; A. Shankie 13, K. Sole 7; G. Pocock 9. Mrs J. Stewart 5.

Third roufid.—Mrs B. Burgess 7, Mrs M. Cheyne 5; G. Finlay 11. C. Pepperall 9; F. Chapman 9, Mrs N. Johns 5; Mrs B. Immers 11, L MacLeod-Smith 5; T. Thompson 9. Mrs D. Henderson 5; A. Roberts 7. G. W. Thomas 6; G. Pocock 10 B. Glasgow <>; P. Kerr 10. M. Penfold 6; A. Shankie 15, Mrs M. Berkeley 3; Mrs J- Boone 9, G. Humphries 6; A. E. Williamson 14, B Duncan 5; A. W. Gray 10, R. G. Ellis 6; T. N. Austin 9. W. H. Logan 6; IR. Morgan 13, Mrs N. Sykes 3; IT. Boone 7, J. McGuigan 4; N. |W. Tomlinson 9 Mrs J. FUr- * longer 7. Fourth round.—-F. Chapman 6, Mrs B. Immers 4; P. Kerr 12, T. Boone 6; N. W. Tomlinson 7, A. Shankie 5; Mrs J. Boone 10, G Pocock 5; G. Finlay 9, Mrs B. : Burgess 8; T. Thompson 12, A. Roberts 9; T. N. Austin 13, R. ! Morgan 7; A. E. Williamson 12, ' A. W. Gray 6. ■ Quarter-finals.—T. Thompson 7, ' F. Chapman 5; A. Williamson 8, Mrs J. Boone 7; N. W. Tomlinson 7, T. Austin 6; P. Kerr 13, G. Finlay 6. Semi-finals. -- Thompson 10, Kerr 9; 'Williamson 7, Tomlinson 6. Final.—Thompson 10. Williamson 6.