WHITELAW, CAMPBELL QUALIFY AT BOWLS

Northern Advocate, 28 December 1949, Page 6

WHITELAW, CAMPBELL QUALIFY AT BOWLS

" TWO of the 22 teams in the Northland Bowling Centre’s annual full rink tournament had qualified at the conclusion of the seventh of the nine rounds of sectional play this morning. Whitelaw’s Kensington rink had gone through with seven straight wins and Camphell’s Whangarei rink recorded its sixth win.

Nine other teams had a chance,of qualifying for post-sectional play tomorrow.

Whitelaw’s team, which was skipped in the three games yesterday by J. Johnston, had a hard fight in the sixth round against Dingle’s four, which has not opened its winning account in seven games. '

Macnay led Morrice (skipped by Dickey), 18 —6, when the luncheon break was taken 'ter 11 ends, Macnay did not score again for nine ends, each of these yielding a single to Dickey. Macnay led 18—15 at the 19th and took a three from the 20th to virtually seal the issue.

Dingle held an early lead but Whitelaw gradually gained the upper hand and eventually won out at 23-21 after Dingle had required five oh the 21st end to tie.

This morning, Whitelaw was in great form as skip and put an end to Everett’s hopes of qualifying by scoring a decisive 25-16 win. Everett won his first three matches and then lost four in a row. EXCITING TUSSLE

Fleming's Kensington rink went down to Englund in a very tight game, which Fleming needed to win to qualify.

Fleming led by one coming to the 21st end, but Englund took two from the head and won by a point. Fleming had to meet Macnay in the 9th round.

Campbell qualified after an exciting tussle with Taylor. The board showed 13-all as they played the 20th end.

Four other teams besides Fleming had scored five wins and needed a win in their ninth-round /games to qualify. They were Coutts, Tait. Taylor and Brewis. The draw was: Coutts v. Marwick, Tait v. Welch, Taylor v. Dingle, r -.d Brewis v. Chissell. Latest results are:— SECTION A Sixth round: Fleming 22, Gribble 14; Macnay 32, Welch 10; Morrice 20, Tait 12; Coutts 19 Whitham 15; Englund 24, Marwick 19. Seventh round: Gribble 28, Whitham 14; Marwick 23, Welch 18: Fleming 20, Morrice 14; Tait 28, Macnay 20; Englund 19, Coutts 16. . Eighth round: Englund beat Fleming. Gribble beat Welch, Macnay beat Monice, Tait beat Coutts. Marwick beat Whitham. SECTION B Sixth round: Campbell 23. Stark 18; Chissell 23. Beehre 7; Wilding 21, Auld 14; Webster 22, Everett 20; Taylor 25, Brewis 7: Whitelaw 23. Dingle 21. Seventh round; Whitelaw 25. Kvereft 16; Auld 26, Beehre 16; Chissell 20, Wilding 19; Brewis 29. Stark 17; Webster 24. Dingle 23; CamDbell 15, Taylor 13 Eighth Round; Whitelaw beat Campbell, Taylor beat Auld, Chissell beat Dingle. Brewis beat Webster, Beehre beat Stark, Dyer beat Everett.

Taylor held four shots when Campbell stepped on to the mat to deliver his last bowl.

He played the perfect bowl to draw shot and enable to team to go to the last one-up. Another single there gave him a hard-earned win 15-13.

Chissell’s Portland team distinguished itself by inflicting defeat on both Campbell and Dyer’s team, skipped by Wilding.

Yesterday, Chissell halted Campbell’s run of success in the fifth round.

. Wilding had five wins to his credit at the conclusion of the second day’s play but found tire Portland four too steady this morning and went down 20-10.

The game was always closely contested.

They were 16-all on the 17th. Chissell took singles from the 18th and 19th, but Wilding collected three at the 20th to go to the 21st one up. The head built up well for Portland and Chissell held the two required for victory when the skips changed ends. Wilding could not rise to the occasion. however, and lost by the odd point. Macnay scored a runaway win over Welch in the sixth round yesterday to leave him in the comfortable position of requiring one win in the three games today to qualify. WILDING. MACNAY DELAYED This morning, however, he struck the Hikurangi rink skipped by Tait playing great bowls, and was always trailing on the board. Tait eventually won 28-20 and thoroughly deserved his success. Wins scored in the first seven rounds were:— Whitelaw 7, Campbell 6, Macnay. Marwick, Wilding, Fleming. Coutts 5. Tait, Auld, Taylor. Brewis 4, Welch, Gribble, Englund, Webster, Chissell, Everett 3, Stark 2, Beehre. Morrice. Whitham 1. Dingle 0. FIVE QUALIFIERS The number of qualifiers increased to live when Macnay, Marwick and Dyer s team, skipped by Wilding, won their eighth-round game this afternoon.