BOWLING Greymouth Family's Prowess

Greymouth Evening Star, 16 January 1947, Page 9

BOWLING Greymouth Family's Prowess

Champions in North Island

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Proficiency in the game of bowls is common in the Skoglund family, father and son of which were third and skip respectively in the Otahuhu rink which won the recent Christmas fours in Wellington.

Mr. Peter Skoglund’s father, grandfather of the skip (Mi - . J. T. Skoglund, of Greymouth) introduced bowls to the West Coast about 55 years ago, establishing a green on his own property. It was there that Mr. Peter Skoglund and his brothers first played bowls.

Two of the brothers, J. and A. T. Skoglund have been singles champions of the Greymouth Club. The youngest brother, Mr. K. Skoglund, plays occasionally at Kaikohe. Mr. Peter Skoglund has won the singles championship of the Stratford Club, and the Wellington Club handicap singles from scratch. With his son, Mr. T. T. Skoglund, he won the Wellington Christmas fours first in 1939.

Mr. S. O. Skoglund, the eldest so.: of Mr. Peter Skoglund has been several times champion singles player of the Manawtu Centre, and has also skipped the champion fours and pairs of the same centre.

The youngest son, Mr. T. T. Skoglund, has been singles champion of the Wellington, Mangere and Otahuhu clubs. He has skipped the winning four at two Wellington Christmas tournaments, and two years age skipped the Otahuhu four which won the Taranaki tournament. He and his club mate, Murdoch, were the last of the two-lifers left in the singles championship of the New Zealand tournament at Auckland in 1945.