Top bowler misses
PA Wanganui. Canterbury's G. N. Barnes, winner of the title in Wanganui : in 1976, was the only former < singles champion to fall by the wayside during post-section playin the singles at the 1979 New Zealand indoor bowling cham- i pionships, which opened in ; Wanganui over the week-end. ; Eleven former singles cham- j pions were in the field of 2265 . players who chased a minimum of three wins each to qualify for , post-section play later in the 1 ' tournament. Barnes was unfortunate in j striking one of the toughest sec- i tions with the 1974 singles winner, T. Wright »Waikato>, and ( the 1974 fours winner. R. K. Christensen (Hawkes Bay), in ' the same section. Christensen and Wright both qualified—Christensen with three. and a half wins and wright with • i two wins and two draws. He had to draw or beat Christensen to survive in the very : last game—and the result was a.;' draw Barnes had to settle for two wins and a draw and just missed : qualifying. The defending champion, RJi
Dockary Jnr (North Wellington) dropped a game in his section—--11-9 to C. Whiteside .'Bay of Plenty)—and he struck some other close games before qualifying with three wins. Dockary, however, had to battle hard to beat Mrs F. Daw (Thames Valley). 9-7. Mrs M. Stevenson (North Taranaki), 14-10 and a default win in his other game was good enough to lei him qualify. R- Deming (Auckland) the 1977 ititle winner, coasted in with the possible four wins So did the 1972 winner, K. Boothbv ‘Waikato). and S. Johnston (Souththe 1966 champion. B. Stewart (Auckland;, the 1975 champion, won his first three games and dropped big fourth. K. Darling (Canterbury), who won the title for Otago in 197' .finished with three and a half wins, while R. Bethwaite (Wei- ' L. Bellis (Canterbury), and A H. Thomas (Hutt Valiev . itne only player to have won all (three titles, all scored three wins ;each. I total of 771 players qualified for post-section play which starts tomorrow afternoon after section play in the pairs.
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