Singles star wins triples

Press, 9 August 1976, Page 3

Singles star wins triples

Lloyd Bellis won his second Can.rhury indoor bowls championship of aie season when he won the triples title yesterday.

He had beaten Gary Barnes for the singles earlier in the season and the injured Barnes was present, crutches and all, to see his team-mate beat Albert Kennish.

Bellis won by 8 points to 6. but his victory was a little more clear cut that the score indicated. He led, 4-3, after seven ends, then scored the first two of the game on the eighth, and got another at the tenth. Leon McLennan and Trevor Austin, two trying for their fifth, gold star, wins, did not last long in post-sec-tion play. McLennan went out in the second round, 4-9, to the very steady team skipped by Dennis Whiteside.

Austin, the champion, lost his third-round game to the 1974 pairs champion, Brian Eatwell, the latter coming dramatically from behind. Eatwell got two on the last end to draw, and another tw’o on the extra end to win, 10-8.

Ray Ellis, a Canterbury selector, who put Whiteside

out in the third round, had no chance in the semi-finals against Bellis. Bellis scored seven on the first three ends — this was virtually his winning margin — and the final score was 13-5. The relatively unknown Kennish came from behind magnificently to beat the multiple champion, Alf Williamson, in the other semifinal. Williamson led 9-5 after seven ends, but Kennish rattled home with a two, a single, a three and another three to win convincingly, 14-9, Bellis had Pat Botica leading and Alan Quirke, skip of the 1971 champion four, played at two. Kennish’s team was Ron Barnett and Bill Reeves. T h i r d-round results were:— Ellis 9, Whiteside 8; Mrs B. Mitchell 1, G. Tibble 3; E. G. F. Smith 9, E. Chaney 7; Bellis 10, Mr J. Boaz 2; Kennish 17. W. Dennett 7; Williason 13, F. Perham 4; G. Forrester 10. S. Robinson 4; Eatwell 10. Austin 8. Quarter-final. —Kennish 8. Eatwell 6; Ellis 10, Mrs Mitchell 6; Bellis 9. Smith 4. Williamson 6. Forrester 5.