BRITISH BOWLERS

New Zealand Herald, Volume LXXIV, Issue 22877, 4 November 1937, Page 8

BRITISH BOWLERS

NEW ZEALAND TOUJi ARRIVAL NEXT MONTH EMPIRE GAMES PLAYERS [ynoM our own corkespoxtif.xt] LONDON, Oct. 13 On their way to the Empire Games in Sydney a numbgr of British bowlers are to tour New Zealand. Composed of 19 men and 16 women, the party will leave Southampton on October 2G by the Arawa. They will arrive in Wellington on December 2, and will travel first in the South Island as far as Dunedin, and then in the North as far as Auckland, before leaving for Sydney from Wellington on January ii. The team is Composed of first-elnss players, all of whom wero first nominated by their counties and finally selected by the English Bowling Association. Four of the members have already been selected to represent England at the Empire Games, and a fifth will be picked on form when the team reaches Australia. Another member will represent Ireland, and it. is likely that thgteam will also he relied upon for a Scottish representative. Personnel of Party Travelling with the partv will be .Mr. J. G. Cuthbert (Wembley and London Scottish), who has been appointed vice-captain of the English team at the Empire Games. The cantain, .Mr R. Weeks (Somerset), will not travel to New Zealand. He will leave for Australia direct in December. The personnel of the party is:—Mr. and Mrs. J. G. Cuthbert, Mr. and Mrs. J. J. Smith (Leicester), .Mr. arid AJ rs T. C. Keed (McKeesport, Pennsylvania, and Orlando, Florida), Mr. and Mrs. A. A. Templeton (Kilmarnock, Scotland), Mr. and Mrs. G. W. Powe (Brighton), Mr. E. Morris (Leicester), Mr. H. H. Child (Hounslow), Mr. and Mrs. F. C. Angel (Penarth, South Wales), Mr. E. Shuttle (Reading), Mr. and Mrs. E. How (Cheltenham), Mr. and Mrs. E. Tappenden (Hitchen, Herts), Mr. W. Clarke (Bel-

fast), Mr. G. Hiseock. (Fulham), Mr. R. Raines and Miss H. P. Baines (Belfast), Mr. and Mrs. G. E. Gardiner (Belfast), Mr. and' Mrs. F. James (Belfast), Mrs. M. A. Mowbray and ,Miss E. Robinson (Morecambe). Mr. .8. Jones (Croydon), Mr. and Mrs. C. T. Marcon (Bracknell, Herts), Mr. and Mrs. J. B. McAlpine (Glasgow). Mr. S. Brown (Gerrards' Cross. Buckinghamshire, and London Scottish). - English Rink lor Games

The English rink for the Empire Games will be Mr. Cuthbert, Mr. Shuttle, and Mr. Tappenden, and one other yet to be selected. Mr. Shuttle is captain of the Berkshire County Bowling Association, and Mr. Tappenden is vice-president of the Hertfordshire Bowling Association. Mr. Jones, who is one of the best-known tourna- J ment players in England, will part-£. ner Mr. Weeks in the pairs for England at the Empire Games. Three of the party—Mr. Smith, Mr. Templeton and Mr. Marcon—recently accompanied Mr. Brown, who will act as manager and secretary, to Florida on a bowling tour, when Mr. Smith and Mr. Marcon were runners-up with their rink in the winter national tournament of the American Lawn Bowling Association at St. Petersburg. Mr. Brown reached the semi-finals of the pairs in the same tournament. Well-known American

Mr. Reed, who 1 is an American, is accompanying the team, as he is a member of an English club, Gerrards Cross. He is recognised as one of the best-known skips in the American Lawn Bowling Association, and it is said that there is not a man in the united States who can exceed his record of major prizes. The Irish representative at the Empire Games will lie Mr. Clarke, who is to play in the singles. Another interesting personality is Mr. Gardiner, who is the immediate past chairman of the the Irish Bowling Association. Five days will be spent at Wellington, and the party will then proceed to Christchurch on December 7. The remainder of the itinerary is: Timaru. December 11; Mount Cook. December 13; Queenstown. December 15 to 17; Dnnedin. December IP to 21; Xapier. December 23; Rotorua! December 25 to 31; Auckland. January 2 to 4; tour of the . west coast of the Xorth Island to Wellington. January 5 to 11; sail from "Wellington for Sydney. January 11. A team captain will probably bp appointed during the voyage.