Papatoetoe wins women’s final

Press, Volume CXVI, Issue 34072, 9 February 1976, Page 26

Papatoetoe wins women’s final

fIV.Z. Press Association; AUCKLAND.

In an all Auckland final, the Papatoetoe 'team, skipped by Mrs Margaret Hopkins, made no mistakes to take the New Zealand women’s Dominion fours championship on the Mission (Bay greens yesterday, jin greatly improved conditions.

The Papatoetoe team, Rene Milne, Joyce Vazey, Eunice Stitt and Mrs Hopkins, continued in the same form which took them to a surprise win over the strong Lower Hutt team (Delza Lowry. Win Robertson, j Margaret Walker and Louisa •Tricker) in the semifinals on Saturday. Mrs Gwen Whitney (Cornwall Park), again had to be ; content with one of the minor! iniaces when, with Sheila! Smith. Avis Stevenson. Mabel

Moore, the team was neverj in the hunt against Papatoe-j toe. The game ended on the! twentieth end when the] board read 24-15 in Papatoe-i toe’s favour.

In the quarter-finals games on Saturday, Mrs Whitney was in devastating form against Mrs Jean ’ Moffat (Avondale). The Avondale team could never master the difficult conditions and at the end of the twelfth end was trailing, 5-13. It lost all chance of a comeback when Cornwall Park scored a six on the sixteenth end to go into a handy 21-9 lead. Cornwall Park won the game, 25-10.