Owen Cup Tourney Won By Kahutia: Wairoa Team Visit

Gisborne Herald, Volume LXXVI, Issue 22914, 5 April 1949, Page 6

Owen Cup Tourney Won By Kahutia: Wairoa Team Visit

BOWLS

An outstanding attraction for players of the Kahutia Bowling Club at the week-end was the visit of a Wairoa club party to contest the A. Owen Cup. a trophy presented for competition between the two clubs. The home representatives were successful in a majority of the games played, setting up a total of 342 points aganist Wairoa’s 251. Details of scoring were as under, Kahutia teams being mentioned first in each instance: Morning Round. —N. Tasker, A. Owen, H. Downey, H. E. Powell (s) 31 v. Ingoe, Noble, Grant, Galbraith (s), 12; B. Watts, S. Wilson, G. Robinson, A.’ Hearle (s) 26 v. Burridge, Tomkinson, Atkins, Bennett (s) 15; Morris, J. Dower, E. File, J. Russell (s) 17 v. Mortlock, Campbell, Bainbridge, Dunne (s) 16; Corbett, R. Copeland, J. Robinson, C. C. Somervell (s) 19 v. Tear, Millar, Martin, Fraser (s) 21; T. Sangwell, H. Jackson, J. Fulton, G. P. Weatherley (s) 22 v. Single, Signall, Cook. Johnstone (s) 17; D. Harries, R. Connop, E. Esquilant, P. Meredith (s) 25 v. McLaren, Marshall, Cummins, Cook (s) 8; G. Hookham, Bennett, P. Sim, Reeves (s) 26 v. Fletcher, Young, Buckingham, Stuart (s) 12; H. Crawford, E. Searle, A. Falconer, T. C. Bennett (s) 16 v. Plummer, Smith, Archibald, Brown (s) 19. Afternoon Round. —Hearle 14 v. Brown 19; Weatherley 14 v. Dunne 20; Reeves 23 v. Galbraith 21; Jackson 20_ v. Bennett 15; J. Ward 28 v. Fraser 11;' Powell 17 v. Johnston 16; Hearle 14 v. Brown 19; Somervell 25 v. Stuart 10; O’Donnell 20 v. Cook 19. The week-end also saw the decision reached in the Wairoa club’s recent two-day tournament, both finalist rinks comprising Kahutia members and the final match accordingly being played on that club’s greens. The game resulted:—A. Owen, E. Owen, S. Frank, S. Gooch (s) 10 v. N. Tasker, H. Weatherley, W. Te Whata, G. Weatherley (s) 8.