BOWLS CHAMPIONSHIP

Stratford Evening Post, Volume III, Issue 3, 10 March 1934, Page 2

BOWLS CHAMPIONSHIP

I West End Win Club Tide PLAY ON AVON GREEN By defeating the Hawera Park team. at Avon on Saturday, West End, New Plymouth won the Taranaki club bowling championship. The score was j:>!< points to 122. Early in the malch West End had crept ahead on the aggregates and retained the ascendancy till the end of the match, [hough Park was very close up about £i/ minutes before the first teams finished, when the totals were 105 tor Wear. End and 100 for Park. Those who watched the play saw high class bowling on a green that played perfectly. Members of the West End team won on four of the sis rinks and one rink won by the largest margin of the day—lS points- though one Park rink won by 16 points, the second best margin. West End gained the shield for the sixth time, having annexed it previously in 1924, 1926, 1928. 1929 and 1932. The shield was presented on behalf of the Taranaki Bowling Centre by Mr. A. H. R. Amess \ Stratford) who congratulated West End on its> performance. He thanked the Avon Club for having placed the green at the disposal of the teams and the Avon ladies for having given afternoon tea. The president of West End (Mr. M. J. Marsh), who received the shield, complimented Park on the fight it made and recalled that when the two teams met three years ag 0 West End won by only one point. Mr. J. J. Goodwin, president of Park, congratulated the winner. The games were played to 25 heads. The detailed scores are: Jury, Charters, Marsh, Boulton 25 v. Woolford. Brett. Thomas. Smith 18. Preston, May, Thurston. Billing 24 ; v. Franklin. Rayner. Bremford, Chad- : wick 19. Duff in, Sheeny, Turnbull, Douglass I 15 v. Parkinson, Butler, Thurston, i Goodwin 31. j Haiman, Tomlins, Christoffel. Honeyfield 16 v. Nielson, Ure, Villars. Mason 23. I Casey, Lee, Luscombe, Lobb 33 v. L. Walsh, Murdoch. C. Barnett. Col- j man 15. ! Mason, Ward. G. Sole, Beal 26 v. I Cran. W. Thomas, Hotter, Quia 16. j Totals.—l 39; 122. j