Australian pair defeated

Press, 1 February 1988, Page 38

Australian pair defeated

PA Auckland Until a late stage of the second round of the pairs championship of the World Bowling Championships at Henderson yesterday, it looked as' if the great English players, David Bryant and Tony Allcock, were about to be beaten for the second time.

Caucau Turagabeci and Peter Fong of Fiji held them steadily and past the halfway mark of the 21end game in which they were actually level at 11all. Then the Englishmen, muttering about the quality of the green they were playing, spurted with two consecutive fours and these were enough to carry them to victory. The day’s sensation was the defeat of the Australian pair of Bill Wain and Dennis Katunarich by the

Scots, George Knox and George Adrain, by 19 to 13. After an easy scamper past Papua New Guinea in the morning, the top pairs contenders from New Zealand, Rowan Brassey and Peter Beiliss, struck Tartars in the afternoon before beating Arculli and his fellowHong Kong Chinese, Frank Souza. The big game of the triples in the third round was the effort of Western Samoa in tying with Australia at 21-all. There are no more than 300 bowlers in Apia and none elsewhere in the Samoan islands. Results.—„ , Pairs Round one: Section A: Papua-New Guinea 26, U.S.A. 13; Australia 28, Argentina 9; New Zealand 29, Malawi 17; Scotland 39, Japan 11; Wales 22, Swaziland 11; Hong Kong 32,

Botswana 15. Section B: Canada 21, England 19; Ireland 24, Israel 23; Zimbabwe 24, Guernsey 23; Fiji 32, Zambia 8; Western Samoa 22, Kenya 21. Round two:

Section A: Swaziland 27, U.S.A. 9; Australia 54, Japan 5; Scotland 22, Malawi 17; New Zealand 39, Papua-New Guinea 10; Wales 18, Hong Kong 14; Botswana 21, Argentina 10. Section B: England 22, Fiji 17; Ireland 24, Jersey 23; Zimbabawe 22, Canada 14; Israel 39, Kenya 6; Zambia 23, Western Samoa 16. Round three:

Section A: New Zealand 18, U.S.A. 16; Scotland 19, Australia 13; Wales 36, Botswana 8; Malawi 28, Papua-New Guinea 22; Hong Kong 51, Japan 4; Swaziland 23, Argentina 15. Section B: England 32, Jersey 19; Canada 27, Zambia 18; Israel 20, Guernsey 11; Western Samoa 23, Zimbabawe 19; Fiji 21, Kenya 19. Triples Round one: Section A: England 20, Ireland 11; New Zealand 16,

Wales 16; Australia 17, Guernsey 16; U.S.A. 27, Japan 22; Western Samoa 22, Canada 13; Fiji 21, Malawi 14. Section B: Scotland 22, Botswana 9; Hong Kong 17, Kenya 17; Zambia 27, Jersey 21; Argentina 18, Zimbabwe 13; Papua-New Guinea 32, Swaziland 10. Round two:

Section A: Ireland 29, U.S.A. 7; New Zealand 17, Australia 15; England 22, Wales 16; Fiji 22, Canada 17; Malawi 26, Japan 10; Western Samoa 26, Guernsey 9. Section B: Scotland 27, Argentina 10; Papua-New Guinea 18, Hong Kong 15; Israel 21, Zambia 18; Jersey 19, Zimbabwe 14; Botswana 28, Kenya 11. Round three:

Section A: Ireland 27, Malawi 18; New Zealand 28, Canada 18; Australia 21, Western Samoa 21; U.S.A. 14, Wales 11; England 45, Japan 7; Fiji 16, Guernsey 16. Section B: Scotland 25, Israel 13; Hong Kong 31, Argentina 14; Zimbabwe 18, Swaziland 15; Jersey 22, Kenya 15; PapuaNew Guinea 20, Botswana 19.