Around the greens

Press, 22 February 1978, Page 24

Around the greens

Jack Dale, who won the singles champion-of-cham-pions for South Brighton last week-end, has also won the fours title at his new club.

Dale’s team of Bob Tolen, Reg Trist and Duncan Collie and Tom Dixon’s entry of Peter Dixon, Graham Stanley and Peter Meier both came through the draw undefeated and at their first meeting Dale won convincincly. The result was reversed at their second clash and in the deciding game Dale came from behind to win by four points. Peter Dixon, Meier and Stanley, with Stanley as the skip, received some compensation when they beat Trist, Doug English and Doug Helier (s), 27-20, in the triples final.. In the singles final, Dale had an easy win over Stanley after Stanley had taken Dale’s first life in the semi-finals. It has

been a family double for the Dales in the* South Brighton singles; Jack’s wife, Nan, winning the women’s title.

The very promising David Wadman has again won the colts title, beating Bill Allan in a closelyfought final. •J: $

Walter Hadlee has won the fours championship at Fendalton. His team of Andy Wilson, Ted Bradshaw and Gordon Connal all had the measure of their opposites in the final and won, 29-5. The beaten finalist was Ron Croft’s four of Eric Courtis, Staff Oxley and Ron Dorman.

Vin Thomas took the singles title for the first time when he came away on the latter ends to beat George Bennett, 21-14, in the final of this championship. Thomas, who eliminated Dorman in the semifinals, led early and then after Bennett had drawn

level at 12-12 regained the upper hand with some very steady bowling. Jim Fogarty’s team of Jack Wilton, Arnold Grimmer and Geoff Pidgeon was the only four-game winner at a recent sponsored tournament at Fendalton. Six teams had three wins and after a play-off Fisher (Elmwood) and McCahon (Fendalton) were placed second and third respectively. •is * *

Not unexpectedly, the entry for the Christchurch Easter fours this year is well down on last season, when the tournament was played away from Easter and on successive weekends. This time the event wil' be staged over the long week-end and has attracted 116 teams. There were 194 last season. *’ * *

Eric Scott had a comfortable win over Jack Edmonds in the final of the singles at St Albans. Edmonds slipped well behind early and did not open his account until the tenth end.

Edmonds, as lead for Bruce Sinclair, fared better in the pairs final. They came from behind to beat Maurice Graham and Tom Rowse (s) by three points. $ gt $

Gordon Johnstone has been beaten in two finals in the Edgeware club’s championships. In the singles, he lost, 12-21, to Ray Spear and in the fours his team of S. Herdman, F. Ward and J. Hayward went down, 1624, to Bill Hayes’s combination of L. Avis, A. Williamson and T. Payne. Avis, Williamson and Payne, who skipped, enjoyed another success when they won the triples for the third successive

year. They overcame a slow start — 9-0 down after five ends — to beat G. Roberts, who was substituting for W. Clarke, S. Birss and A. Fuller, 34-14, in the final. * *

Keith Browning clung to the narrow lead he had held for most of the game to beat Hapi Nepia, 18-17, in the fours final at Papanui. Browning’s team was Murray Clements, George King and Eric Farmer.

Browning and Farmer, as second and lead respectively for Brian McGowan, are also through to the semi-finals of the triples, where McGowan meets John Gill. King, the last two-lifer until narrowlv beaten by McGowan, will meet Kevin McMenamin in the other semi-final. •k * #

Les Woodhouse, who took the singles title at Canterbury with two lives (beating Harold Fletcher, 21-7, in his last game), has also won the fours. In the final, Woodhouse’s team of Jim Weir, Austin Dowling and Norm Steel beat Chester Ashworth’s combination of Sonny Whittington, Frank Stoddart and Bill Davis, 26-14, after the scoring had been close for three-quarters of the game. Ashworth, with Davis and Whittington as his partners, had better fortune in the triples final, where he drew two shots on the last end to heat Roy Scott’s team of Weir and Bud Whitford, 23-22. The colts title has gone to Basil Box, who was undefeated.

In the pairs final. Frank Pickering, whose lead is Fred Brebner, will meet Frank Lees, who is partnered by Jack Aitken.