ROUND THE GREENS

Wanganui Chronicle, Volume 87, Issue 61, 15 March 1943, Page 6

ROUND THE GREENS

WANGANUI BOWLING CENTRE SATURDAY’S RESULTS. Clubs in the Wanganui Bowling Centre continued their Fours Competitions on Saturday, under ideal weather conditions. At the St. John's Club green a number of club championship games were played. Next Saturday the Gordon Cup Pairs Competition, a Centre fixture, will be decided on the St. John’s Club green. WANGANUI EAST CLUB. Club lull rink competitions were played at the Wanganui East Bowling Club on Saturday, when the attendance was not as large as usual. Results are:— T. Dennison, Beauchamp, Mackay, Fletcher 22 v. Gray, Cooper, Cowan, Carveil 22; C. Willis, Curtis, M. Stewart, Burns 25 v. Fear, Colman, Dempster, Partridge 18; Walpole, Bell, Begbie, Gaunt 25 v. Carmody, Northey, Clark, McKessar22; McGrail, Tate. Hawkins, Purnell 20 v. Green, Bradshaw, Rogerson, H. Stewart 8; A. Willis, McPherson, Webby 19 v. Cross, Boswell, Haworth 11. COSMOPOLITAN CLUB

The third and final round of the Shield competition between the Cosmopolitan Bowling Club and Victoria Club was played on the Cosmopolitan green on Saturday. Playing conditions were ideal and Cosmopolitan won by 90 points to 44. The results (Cosmopolitan mentioned first) are: Watson, Driver, Powell, W. Baxter 27, v. Sammonds, Gurr, O'Sullivan, Fry 19: Taylor, Ryburn, Stroud, Holden 29. v. Martin, Davey, Fugleman, Ward 16; Gow, Fayen, F. Benson, J. Baxter 34. v. Ghent, Vincent, Miller, W. Baxter 9. GONVILLE CLUB

A further round of the Fours competition was played by members of the Gonville Bowling Club on Saturday.' Results are:—• Reynolds, Brown, Sanders, Baddeley 21, v. Blomfield, Hendra, Chisholm, Beard 21; Edlin, Riding, Cornish, Tinney 24. v. Banks, Bell, Russell. Mailman 23; Jackson, Dempsey, Richards, Laird 19, v. Berryman, Foster, McCormack. Svenson 17; Stewart, Richdale. W. Healey 23. v. Anderson, F. Piper. Fisher 16; Vincent, R. Spurdie, P. Anderson, Naumann 23. v. M. Anderson, Stent. Carline, J. Healey 15; A. Spurdie, Copley, Lynch, Fyfe 20, v. Otto. Sherriff, J. Smith. Corby 18; Martin and Laing 19, v. Lints and Hoar 15. Two pairs. Edlin and Richdale and Banks and Anderson have qualified for Gordon Cup play next Saturday. WANGANUI CLUB

The fourteenth round of the Wanganui Club Fours was played under good conditions at the Wanganui preen on Saturday, with the following results:— Smith, Addenbrooke. Muir, G. S. Gordon 16, v. Low, Silk, Tomsett, C. P. Brown 15; Uttley, D. A. Morrison, Bracks, London 18, v. Graham. Hart, Buchan, Patterson 15; Ansley, Hanson, Holland. A. Anderson 22, v, McSkimming, Sutherland, Wilkie, Boulton 17; Hammond, Roberts, Hally, Treloar 24, v. West, Littlejohn, Bebarfald, Roche 17; W. Cook, McElwain. W. Gordon, V. R. Cooke 23, v. Bish, Reynolds, Culloty. Moir 15; J. Morrison, Wright. Dick. Quarterman 23, v. Greener, Masters, Bretherton, Steel 14; Collingwood, Chelley, Gilmour, Boyd 23, v. J. H. Johnston, Babbage, Sanders, Crawford 13; Higginbottom, F. Johnston, G. A. Brown, Jack 21. v. Wilkinson, Willis, Adams, Hales 11; Doig, Doull. Marsell, Stone 30. v. Eversfield. Harmer, Armstrong, W. M. Gordon 20; Crosby, Blythe, Young, Harris 24, v. Strouts, Nicholl, Doust, F. W. Wilson 10; Lander, Brydone, Cade. Lowe 25, v. Tremain. Bennett, Aylmer, Tilley 16; Robertson, Horton. Barclay, Goodey 39, v. Walker, Kilgour, Halligan, Bond 18. ST. JOHN’S CLUB There was a good variety of play at St. John's Bowling Club’s greens on Saturday as, in addition to elimination games for the club fours championship, the final (as it turned out to be) of the A Pairs, a semifinal game in the Gordon Pairs, also a “Ferns” game and a “friendly” game with a Rapanui Club four, besides practice games for other members.

Club Games. Cameron, Bates Caird, Gilbertson 20, v. Billinghurst, A. Handley, J. Pepper, G. H. Handley (Rapanui) 19; Mew, Hicks, C. S. Brown. Green 19, v. Miller, McCaul, McPhail, W. D. Harris 17; Holland, Williams, Bamford, McNatty 22, v. Hunger, Dawes, W. Brown, Clinkard 20; Chesswas, Barry, W. Robertson, Wallace 23, v. Dennis, J. D. Robertson, Mackie, Brass 23; Kirk, jnr., Richardson, Downey, Kirk, snr. 32, v. Garrick, J. Lee, Laughton, Murch 30; Burns, F. Whitlock, Coltman, Johnson 23, v. Noble, Smith, Ashwell, Delves 18.

Ferns Game. —Olsen, Peters, Colmer, Bassett 19, v. Scott, Glenny; H. Lee, D. J. Armstrong 17. A Pairs. —Final: Ansell and Glover (two lives) 20, v. Sedon and Benefield (one life) 13. Gordon Pairs. —Goddard and W. Pepper (one life) 22, v. Davidson and Moffatt (two lives) 21. Club Fours Elimination games (to eliminate two skips and one three): Pidgeon, Suddaby, Carrad, Hutchinson 11, v. Simpson, Rickard, Shaw, Bourne 8; P. Whitlock, Hargreaves, Ormsby, H. S. Harris 17, v. Hay, Hamilton, Woods, Mackay 14. The latter game counted for threes only. Bourne was eliminated and Carrad and Ormsby qualify. Second Round: Simpson, Suddaby, Woods, Mackay 11, v. P. Whitlock, Rickard, Shaw, Hutchinson 104. Hutchinson and Shaw were eliminated. Mackay and Woods qualify. Following is the full list of qualifiers for the final games in club fours championship, their wins and losses in section games being given:— Leads.—Pidgeon, 10 wins, 2 losses; Goddard and Taylor, 8,3; Mew, 7, 5.

Twos. —Richardson, 11, 1; Richard, 9,2; Peters, 8,2; Noble, 9, 3. Threes.—Bamford, 6,4; Carrad, Woods, Ormsby, 7, 5. Skips.—Benefield, 7,1; Broadhead and Herd, 9,3; Mackay, 8, 4.

Fixed teams will be drawn from these players and the semi-finals will be played on Saturday, March 26.

The win of F. Ansell and J. Glover (two lives) over Sedon and Benefield (one life) in the A Pairs championship, places Glover in the proud position of being both senior singles and pairs winner for the season. His win in the singles, over Kirkwood, makes his sixth in succession and seventh in all, a very fine record, indeed. In addition, Glover won the centre champion of champion singles, for the third time.

The club’s "B” singles final was won by W. Goddard from W. Anderson after a closely-contested game that equalled the standard of the best senior games. This remark applies to several other games in this competition.

The B Pairs winners were J. Kirk, jnr. and H. Lee from Allen and D. Taylor. Taylor won the first game but as Lee had two lives a second game was necessary. Both pairs played excellent games. VICTORIA CLUB Teams from the Cosmopolitan Bowling Club attended at the Victoria Club’s green on Saturday to play the third and final round ot the Ban-