Rare feat for Chch bowls family

Press, 29 March 1979, Page 34

Rare feat for Chch bowls family

The Carter family (pic-1 lured right), of Fendalton, '■i should not want for expert:! opinion anytime they discuss!’ bowls- there are three cham- i ’

pions to express a view. Frank started the ball roll- : ing when he won the Christ- ’ church men’s singles cham- !: pion-of-champions title last month. A few weeks later I his son, Chris, won the ‘men’s colts’ championship. I Yesterday Gwen. Franks wife, joined the circle when (she won the Christchurch (women’s first-year players’ j title. For one family to provide three centre champions in ■on season is a remarkable ’achievement and one with-: lout precedent in Christ-! ichurch. Mrs Carter who represents’ the Fendalton women's club? had some anxious moments! beiore she won her final. As a two-lifer she met the last!

remaining one-lifer, Ora Bate (Kaiapoi). at St Martins in the morning in a game which Bate controlled all the way to win, 23-13.

i They then met again in I the final and again Bate was : the more ' consistent draw (player. But Carter played some fine running shots to stay handy. Two fours on consecutive ends put Bate ahead, 15-13, and she went into the last end leading, 22-18. But Carter scored a four to tie the scores and she won the extra end with a two, making the final score 24-22. Three other championships were concluded at St Martins yesterday, the best fin- ! ish being in the champion- ! of-champions fours which was won by Rita Hobbs’ St 1 Martins team of Ethel Tay(lor, Jenny Foote, and Betty Higgins. Hobbs trailed Elsie Brown!

'(Spreydon) nearly all the I way and Brown, whose team i was Audrey Allsop, Irene i Dickson, and Gladys Park, led, 16-11, with four ends remaining. But Hobbs then scored three singles and on the last end she got the three she needed to win, 17-16. Hobbs drew the winning shot herself, a superbly judged draw with her first bowl. In the semi-finals Hobbs beat Alice Sinclair (Woolston W.M.C.), 24-14, and Brown eliminated Lorraine

iCarson (Woolston), 26-9. Lex Kimber (Linwood) and her lead, Marie Watson, collected their second cham-pion-of-champions title this season — they had pre-| viously won the pairs — when they had a runaway: win in the triples final. The. third member of the team! was Jo Hamilton. !

Kimber beat Alice Macfarlane (Burwood), 25-7, Macfariane’s partners being Rene Taylor and Ena Davies. In the semi-finals the Burwood team played much bet-

ter to beat Beryl Logan h (Shaw Avenue), 19-17. andh Kimber’s form was again I < good with a 29-12 win overh Brenda Dailey (Cashmere), ii Morrison Avenue, after i

getting through the semifinals with a 15-13 win over Christchurch-Richmond, went on to win the' interclub championship by beating Linwood, 25-10.