Late sport N.Z. indoor howls
PA Wanganui Women are making a strong challenge for the singles crown tt the National Indoor Bowls tournament, at Wanganui. Two females, MrS K. Smith (Auckland) and Mrs P. Fletcher (Waikato), won through to the final eight of the 1979 singles late last evening and are poised to break the ice for their sex. No woman has ever won the
i premier crown, although two have reached the final. J A crowd of nearly 1000 watchi ed excellent bowls in the Wan- > ganui Sports Stadium as the original field of 2265 was boiled i down, sometimes sensationally, • to just eight. The other quarter-finalists arfi ; Aucklanders B. Kinnaird, R. 1 Mills, and B. Steu’art. R. J. Fre* . land and P. Troy of Waikato, ■ and P. Melville of
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Press, 13 June 1979, Page 6
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