Around the greens

Press, 14 December 1977, Page 21

Around the greens

An eight in a fours match happens very- rarely. Some' bowlers never record one, i which makes the achievement of a Fendalton team (in the Manning Cup compe-i tion last Saturday quite re-' i markable. ; It scored two eights in : beating a Linwood team, (41-15. The members of the jFendalton four were John i Roche. David Cross. Heel Robertson and Vin Thomas |( s 4 ■ The local skips.. Brian McGowan and Kevin McMenamin, took the first prizes ati Papanui’s month triples tournament last Sunday. i McMenamin, whose team (was Alan Brown and Jim I Charlesworth, was the only ifour-game winner on one 'green and in a play-off be-' : tween four teams with three (‘wins John Gill’s entry' of Bob; (Hewitt and Duncan' White' (took second prize. On the other green, Me-1 Gowan, who was partnered I by Stan Lawson and Mick ; Williams, and Jack Tappin, (whose team was Snow; (Bolitho and Evan Ambrose,! Iboth finished with three wins: land a draw. McGowan won: I the play-off. I Rain prevented a spon-| (sored tournament at Canter-1 (bury last Sunday being ■played out. After four rounds; (there were six teams with (unbeaten records and the (names had to be drawn by' ; lot to find the placings. i The winning team was Les ,Woodhouse’s combination of (Ken Brierley and two firstjvear players, Michael Burke (and Neil Young. Roy (Thomas’s team of Bob Sad-; (let, Claude Broom and Neil; 'Boon was second. ( The other skips with four; (wins were Bruce Mason, | Mervyn Hills. Travis Coup; (and Ray Thomson. The Burwood team of'

i Cyril Hill, Alex Smythe, Bill ■ Dennis and Jack Steel (s’) . won the R.S.A. elimination tournament played on rhe 11 South Brighton and Woolston ■ AV.M.C. greens last Sunday. ■They will now go on to the national final at Wanganui in i: March. ,; Thirty-six teams contested ■ the elimination and placed i second was last year's wintfning Akaroa four of Snow ; Truman. Bill Hutchinson, (Lance Le Lievre and Ted : Armstrong (s). The finalists have been Jfound in the fours champion- . (ship at Barrington. They are ithe teams skipped by Irvine ijParry and Fred Rodgerson. (1 In the semi-finals, Rodgerrlson went clear of Herb ((Leigh in the middle stages .(and held on to win in spite! sjof Leigh coming back into /the game with a five on one Jof the latter ends. Phil Bennett led Parry,' .ill-0, after six ends in the [[other semi-final, but Parry’s! ('team fought back well to , (win, 21-18. ■ : Die only remaining two,(lifer in the singles at Bar--1 (rington is Cliff Cox. The onei'lifers are D. Strez, 1. HanIson. Bennett, A. Tall. L| iWall, D. Sams, N. O’Connor| .land M. Robinson. Parry, the; .(title-holder and K. Charteris,! .(the beaten finalist last year,! ((have both been eliminated. (i A recent game in the . triples championship be- , tween Robinson and Cox lasted just over four hours, ; Robinson, whose team is • Charteris and Parry’, winning . narrowly. . i >•: w Some fine driving by Alan .(Stuart kept his Burnside I (team in contention for a long (time in a Watson Shield ■•challenge against Cashmere J last week. The Cashmere i-four, skipped by Keith Donaldson, won. 19-16, after I Burnside had led 15-14 with' ! I three ends to plav.

Stan Whiteford is the' ’first player to reach the fifth; round in the singles at St! Albans. He did so by beating Harry Van D’alsum. Andy Hughes and Vin Smith are’ the only two-lifers among the players through to the fourth round. Skips still in the fours are: Bill Cogswell and Pat Butts,, (both with two-lives, and Eric; Truscott. Bruce Sinclair. lan: 1 Leslie and Harold Hartley, all one-lifers. In the pairs. Sinclair had' a one-point win over Cogs-1 i well and Rob Woolcott came| (from well behind to relieve; (Hartley of his first life. The president's fours has j been won by Don Miller’s (team of Athol Mann. Alf (Salmonds and Brian Milne. ; Dave Langley (Christchurch) and Clarrie Bateman [(Beckenham) were the winning skips at the last open Sunday tournament at St Albans. The runners-up were Malcolm Lunt (Cashmere) and Bert Horne (Beckenham). $ tk xk A former champion, | Walter Hadlee, has lost, both! his lives in the singles cham-i pionship at Fendalton. Hej (was beaten narrowly by Neil Flowman and Tom Lock.' Howman suffered a similar; ; reverse when he was beaten. 20-21, by John Pugh. A sponsored tournament at Fendalton last week was won by Sonny Calder’s Linwood team of John Saundercock, Edward Ashby and Stan Sneddon. Ernie Me-; Cahon's Fendalton entry was: second and the minor plac-: ings were filled by Ron! Small (Spreydon) and Ron( Croft (Fendalton). Christchurch juniors were* successful, five matches toj three, in games against the! combined North Canterbury clubs at Amberley on Sunday.