Bowls to Bellis

Press, 17 July 1978, Page 6

Bowls to Bellis

The Hoon Hay Working Men’s | Club four skipped by Lloyd 'Bellis had a clear-cut win in the ifinal of the Bradley Cup indoorbowls tournament yesterday. It beat Tom Clark’s Avonhead team, 16-7. with the final end not played Bellis made a grand start to the final, leading. 12-2, after onlx five ends. Eight points came from members of Clark’s team killing the jack. Clark scored a single on the sixth end and Bellis replied with a single on the seventh. Clark scored two on the next end but killed the jack on the ninth to make his position almost hopeless.

A superb draw-shot enabled Clark to gain a single on the tenth. He was holding four shots on the eleventh until Bellis drew a shot inside three of them to restrict the score to a single and put the Hoon Hay win beyond doubt. Bellis eliminated the titleholder. Tony Gorman (Northcote). 6-5, in the quarter-finals and needed an extra end to win his semi-final against Ray Ellis (New Brighton R.S.A.). Bellis played the perfect block on the extra end and Ellis could not break it Results:—

First round —D. Khouri 10, W. Trembath 6: E. Hall 9. K. Becker 6; W. Fitchett 8. Mrs D. Fridd 6; D. Hatsell 13. G. Barnes 8;

R. Woodley 9, G. Forrester 7; Mrs J. Boaz 7, L. Moody 6. M. Immers 12, S. Henderson 7; Mrs D Adams 9, C. Lennon 3; G. Falconer 14, Mrs E Old 3; N. Hocking 11, D. Watts 9: R. Ellis 11, L. Roberts 5: Mrs J. Stewart 15, T. Thompson 2; D. Philpott 10. G. Jackson 6. Second round.—P. Shearer 9, B. Weir 6; Hall 6, Mrs Stewart 3; F. Perham 10 Mrs N Tomlinson 8; L. Bellis 7, Mrs V McLeod 6; Immers 10, Mrs Boaz 8; Woodley 10, Falconer 4; L. McLennan 16. Mrs E. Thompson 6; T. Austin 7, F. Cater 6; T. Clark 7, Mrs B. Highant 4; B. Crooke 9. Mrs M. Norris 5; T. Gorman 8, J. McGuigan 6; Ellis 11, Hocking 8; Khouri 8. Mis Adams 5; Hatsell 7, Fitchett 6; Mrs B. Tomlinson 10, E. Taylor 6; Philpott 11, N. Sher 8. Third round.—Woodley 10. Immers 9; Ellis 12, Shearer 6; Hatsell 11, Khouri 7; Gorman 9, Perham 5; McLennan 6. Crooke 5; Bellis 9. Austin 5; Philpott 11, Hall 8; Clark 8, Mrs Tomlinson 7. Quarter-finals.—Bellis 6, Gorman 5; Ellis 14, Hatsell 5; Woodley 11, Philpott. 10; Clark 7, McLennan 6. Semi-finals.—Clark 8 Woodley 6; Bellis 9, Ellis 7. Final.—Archie White, John Graham, Brian Eatwell. Lloyd Bellis 16; Jean Furlonger, Ken Smith, Graham Champion. Tom Clark 7.