SIDELINES

Press, 7 March 1984, Page 30

SIDELINES

NEVILLE POOLE (Sumner) had every reason to feel well satisfied with his performance in the recent Manawatu Lion Masters singles bowls tournament. Poole won five of his seven section games and. collected $3OO for finishing third in his section. His losses were to Phil Skoglund and the Australian, Ken Wood, and it was only on points differential that he dropped below Skoglund, who was also beaten twice, and missed a place in the quarter-finals. Poole’s victims included three New Zealand representatives, Peter Bryant, Rowan Brassey and Dave Baldwin. Poole gained entry to the tournament by winning ‘‘The Press”-Air New Zealand invitation singles back in October.

TWO FORMER CANTERBURY SOFTBALL REPRESENTATIVES, Alan Hall and Lindsay Anderson, have won their first national titles, but they had to move to Perth to do it. Both were members of the Western Australia state softball side which walloped New South Wales, 9-0, in the grand final of the inaugural Australian men’s national tournament at the Oriole Baseball Stadium in Sydney, recently. Anderson is a former New Zealand third baseman. Last week Anderson’s brother, Graeme, and Hall’s brother, Jimmy, were trying for an Australia-New Zealand double when they represented Noel Leeming Burnside in the Pan Am men’s club nationals in Christchurch.

MARTIN CROWE was the most successful batsman, Ewen Chatfield the best bowler for New Zealand in the three-match series of one-day cricket internationals against England. Crowe scored 113 runs at an average of 56.5. Behind him were Geoff Howarth (111 at 37) Jeremy Coney (65 at 32.5) and Richard Hadlee (44 at 22). The best of the others was Lance Cairns (23 at 115) Chatfield took five wickets, 13 runs each, Hadlee eight at 14.2, Stephen Boock one at 40, Cairns two at 525 Chatfield also led in the vital matter of runs conceded. He gave away 2.17 an over, followed by Coney (3.23), Cairns (3.6), Hadlee (3.8), Boock (4) ami Garry Robson (4.56). £