BOWLING Westport Four Has Narrow Win In Final Match

Greymouth Evening Star, 13 March 1948, Page 7

BOWLING Westport Four Has Narrow Win In Final Match

The Westport four skipped by Mrs Reed, yesterday afternoon won the West Coast-Buller Women’s Bowling Association’s second annual tournament when it defeated the Blackball rink skipped by Mrs Knowles by the narrow margin of 21 to 19. Mrs Reed’s success was all the more creditable as she went right through the tournament without suffering a loss. t The game was evenly contested from the beginning and provided one of the most interesting matches of the tourney. On the second last head the Blackball four was leading by 19 to 1.5 with Westport holding four bowls. Mrs Knowles drew the shot, leaving Blackball one up. Mrs . Reed played her last bowl of the head, pushing Mrs Knowles’ shot bowl out, thus leaving the Westport rink five up. On the last head, both leads played wide and Westport drew the shot. Mrs Brown, playing third for Blackball, drew this shot, placing her rink one up. Mrs Reed, with her first bowl drew Mrs Brown’s bowl off the head to lie one up. The Blackball skip, Mrs Mrs Knowles, failed with her last two bowls, leaving the Westport team one up, and the winners by 21 to 19. Play in the semi-finals was also keen and some good bowling was witnessed. Mrs Brown’s Dunollie four, who played consistently throughout the tourney, was eliminated by Mrs Knowles’s four by 15 to 5, while Mrs Reed defeated the Nelson rink skipped by Mrs Freeman by 21 to 13. Following the tournament, the players were entertained at a banquet in the Blaketown Hall last evening, when the president of the West Coast-Buller Women’s Bowling Association, Mrs R. Longstaff, presented the Adams Rose Bowl to the skip of the winning team and the runnersup prize to the Blackball rink. Semi-final Knowles (Blackball) 15, Brown (Dunollie) 5; Reed (Westport) 21, Freeman (Nelson) 13. Final Mesdames Payne, Glen, Gough and Reed (Westport) 21, Mesdames Nuttall, Simpson, Brown and Knowles (Blackball) 19.