SECTION PLAY ENDS

Evening Post, Volume CXXXI, Issue 14, 17 January 1941, Page 4

SECTION PLAY ENDS

THE BOWLING FOURS

FORTY-FOUR TEAMS GO ON

FOUR LOCAL CLUBS

(By Telegraph—Press Association.)

CHRISTCHURCH, January 16. At the end of the fourth day;s play iii the New Zealand fours bowls championship, 44 teams secured the necessary six wins or more to put them into post-section play, in which each ; of them starts off afresh with two lives;

The weather today was fine and, though a few of the greens were holding slightly, most of them were running faster than they have been since the commencement of the tournament. A fairly strong easterly wind made conditions tricky on any green that was at-all exposed. . •

High scores- were recorded in many instances, chief among .them being the win of W. F.Had win (Hutt) from E. A. Smith (Edgeware), 46-5. Other high scores were:— "' ' ' ' ,

.G. W. Samms (Woolton),; 38-12,: against, E. A.. Johnson (Leeston).

S. a K. Smith. (Nor,th :End, Invercargill), 34-13, against W. Brown (United). ;

J.JM. Giles, 34r16, against-W. D. Bennett (Hastings). . ...-....= Many teams, starting the day with only four wins.to their credit, fought desperately to get. the required six, but. there, was , the: usual .crop of surprises. . W.i J., Crawford (Otago), was. the only one to beat C. Spearman (R.S.A., Christchurch), the score: being, 22-21, and both finished up with seven wins and one loss, : , \ /;.;

J. Veitch (Dunedin) only just made his games, winning the first but losing the second, 39-28, to W. D. Ramsay (Shirley). . One of the surprises was the failure of W.-Anderson (Dunedin) to qualify. He had five wins up.to this morning, but lost to A. Clark (Barrington), 29----14, and W. Buist (Oamaru), 25-15.

The greens chosen for post-section play are all in excellent order and some first-class bowling Is expected.

THE RINKS THAT QUALIFIED

The following are the fours, that enter the post-section play:— .

T. F. Mitchell (Blenheim), A. G. Spiers (St: Kilda), H. S. Maslin (Hawera), H. Wilson: (Linwood), J. Gunn (West End, Timaru), P. Munn (Canterbury),; J. ;Tisdall (Awamoa), A. Clark (Barrington), W. O'Neill (Runanga), H. P. Perry (Thorndon), J. M. Giles (United), G. H. Woolley (Auckland), R. S. Higginbotham (Ponsonby), J. RV Smith (Kelburn), W. CarswelL (Taieri), R. Burgess (Woolston), J. S. Martin (United), J. Kyle (Karoro), R. Haworth (Canterbury), T. Ferguson (Balmacewen), W. J. Crawford (Otago), W. Gilbert (Karori), R. E.OMcNish (Canterbury),1 E.R. Moss (Karoro), (Auckland), J. Burgess XRiccarton)* J. Veitch. (Dunedin), T. F. Chambers (Sumner), J. Whyte (R.S.A., Christchurch), A. Bell (Tauranga), J. N. Dv Feu (St. Albans), J. S. Bain (Hokitika), J. T. Calder (Phoenix), W. F. Hadwin (Hutt), J. W. Turpih (Canterbury); A. S. McDougall (Caversham), W. L. Rowland (Balmoral), L. W. Beasley1 (New Brighton); J. Ure (North En<3, Invercargill), D.-H. Thomson (Phoenix), R. A. Barnsdale (Christchurch), H. C. Alloo (Owaka), R.McKinley (Canterbury), P. J. McComish (Southland).