Around the greens

Press, 14 March 1978, Page 25

Around the greens

Wally Hadlee completed a double at Fendalton when he added the triples title to the fours he had won earlier. His triple of Ted Bradshaw and Gordon Connal beat Jim Fogarty’s combination in the final. Robin Howman, who is aged just 18, is Fendalton’s colts champion. In a very good drawing game, he beat Ron Crossan in the final. Neil Howman’s team of John Roach, Robin Howman and Arthur Vivian was the only four-game winner at a recent sponsored tournament at Fendalton. Vin Thomas’s team was second with three wins and a draw and Doug Brown was successful in a play-off for third. Bernie Johns was the most successful player in the Christchurch club’s championships this season. He won the singles, was the lead in Stan Lawson’s champion pair and also won the fours with Lawson. Another member of Lawson’s four, Peter Jolly, also completed a good season when he skipped his team of Dave Langley and Garry Barnes to victory in the triples.

The honours have been well shared at Burwood. Cyril Hill retained his singles title, as a two-lifer, George McFadzien, with Arthur Whitty as his lead, took the pairs and Keith Andrews’s team of Pat Corkin, Reg Hill and Ven Austin won a keenly-fought fours championship. R. Shears matched Hill by winning the colts title without dropping a game. Roy Bailey has good cause to remember his first season at Mount Pleasant. He won all four championships, a fine feat in a club of more than 80 members. Ray Ditchfield’s team of B. White, D. Hubbard and R. White has won both the fours title at Allenton and Tie Ashburton sub-centre’s 'hampion-of-champions

f ours. Bruce Ferrick also won for the club the subcentre singles championship. The club’s pairs was won by Rob Lindsay, who had litchfield as his lead. At their third meeting, Rruce Sinclair beat Pat Butts ■o win the triples title at St Albans. Sinclair’s team was Andy Hughes and Jack Ednonds. Green winners at the final -pen fours tournament of he season at St Albans were Neil Banfield (Sprey-

don) and Don Miller (St Albans). The runners-up were Peter Remi (Hornby) and R. McNabb (Beckenham). R. T. Masefield’s team of C. H. Moore and W. R. Macdonald held on to beat R. Donovan’s combination of T. W. Weir and T. A. Robinson, 25-20, in the triples final at Akaroa after breaking away to a 23-9 lead at the completion of fifteen ends. Masefield earlier took the singles, beating G. E. Hunn 21-9 in the final, and in partnership with Macdonald he is also through to the pairs final as a two-lifer. The last one-lifer is L. F. Le Lievre.

Neil Banfield, whose team was Ted Kearns and Bill Ditfort, has won the triples at Spreydon without losing a game. In the final, Banfield beat Frank Murdoch, John Forman and Ron Fraser. Cedric Cox beat George Miller in the colts final.

After a final which lasted just on three hours and a half, and included countless burnt heads, Warner Barber and Dave Trainor (s) beat Duncan White and John Gill (s), 18-17, in the pairs final at Papanui. Trainor was the outstanding player and he secured a break near the finish which left Gill needing three shots to force an extra end, but a shifted kitty made his task very difficult and! he had to settle for a two. I

Merv Robinson, partnered by Keith Charteris, has won the pairs at Barrington as a two-lifer. Ivor Hanson, with

Dave Thompson as his lead, also came through the draw without a loss and Robinson won the two deciding games, 22-11 and 17-13. Hanson had better luck in the president’s fours, his team of Doug Papps, Jack Huggins and Harry Mullins beating Cliff Cox’s entry in the final. Bryan Smith and Morgan Moffat (s) were odds on favourites to win the pairs at Linwood when they reached the final on both sides of the draw. However, they were then beaten, 2511, on one side by Stan Snedden and Ossie Cowie (s) and then 26-25 on the other side by Bernie Timms and Jim Kelly (s). In the latter game, Moffat led 9-0 after just two ends and it was a four on the last end that gave Kelly his victory.

Kelly was never in much trouble in the final against Cowie. He led 14-0 after nine ends and won 24-5 with two ends unplayed.

Peter Dixon and Graham Stanley collected their second title of the season at South Brighton (the triples was the first) when they narrowly beat Dave Wadman and Bernie MacManus in the pairs final. MacManus, 14-4 down at one stage, finished strongly and narrowly failed with his last two bowls to get the trail that would have won him the game. The final score was 24-20.

In the semi-finals, Stanley beat Jack Dale and MacManus eliminated Tom 'Dixon.