ROUND THE WANGANUI BOWLING GREENS

Wanganui Chronicle, 17 March 1947, Page 6

ROUND THE WANGANUI BOWLING GREENS

Under ideal weather conditions on Saturday a party from the Feilding Bowling Club paid the annual visit to the Wanganui Bowling Club’s green, and the Gonville Club entertained Marton visitors. WANGANUI CLUB On Saturday eight rinks representing the Wanganui Bowling Club visited Feilding to play the annual games with the Feilding Bowling Club. The _ gather was ideal and the greens •vere very fast. Morning and afternoon games were played. In the following results the names of the Feilding players are mentioned first; — Morning games. Say well, Sitchbury, Kitchen, Murch 21 v. Kilgour, Hammond, Tremain, Harris, 21; Sauer, Harford, Mitchell, Julian 15 v. Thompson, Miller, Graham, Stone 29; Wemys, Kerridge, Bos well, Roach 13 v. Otto, Brydone, Barclay, Patterson 13; F. Jarrett, Hurn, Garrett, Morgan 20 v. Skelsey, West, Gordon, Glengarry 13; Fergusson, Jones, Duncan, Packer 32 v. Hart, Ward, Bebarfald, Steel 10; Hensen, Taylor, Robson, Summer 24 v. Austin, Hoar, Greener, Anderson 25; McCall, Kilpatrick, S. Jarrett, McWilliams 17 v. Hendry, Johnston, White, Hales 20; Northcott, Shrimpton, Ewen, McAvoy 10 v. Armstrong, Halligan, Cade, Treloar 23. Afternoon games.—Wemys, Northcott, Rosanoski, McWilliams 19 v. Steel 12; Fergusson, Jones, Garrett, Julian 23 v. Anderson 22; Hayward, Kilpatrick, Mitchell, Roach 23 v. Hales 13; McCall, Shrimpton, S. Jarrett, Wenham 17 v. Stone 18; Robson, Harford, Boswell, Stockman 21 v. Patterson 10; Henson, Baker, Ewen, Packer 6 v. Glengarry 35; Phillips, Watt, Dewe, Murch 27 v. Treloar 14; Taylor, Hurn, Stitchbury, McAvoy 20 v. Harris 20. COSMOPOLITAN CLUB In the third round of the inter-club games between the Cosmopolitan and Victoria Bowling Clubs results were as follows on the Cosmopolitan green on Saturday:— Gray, Perrett, Grooby, Booth 23 v. Doyle, Lamerton, Vincent, Koorcy (Victoria) 19; O’Reilly, O'Reilly, McLean, Overend 16 v. Slight, Ander, Ansley, Dreyer (Victoria) 25; N. Fagen, Findlay, lauchland, Taylor 29 v. Gayler, Price, Mitchell, Cunningham (Victoria) 14. GONVILLE CLUB At Gonville on Saturday, the games for the Gonville Cups were revived, the club entertaining eight rinks from Marton. Results are as follow, with Marton mentioned first:— Clark, Lowrie, Sanders, Brabyn 26 v. Boyens, Copley, Piper, Chisholm 20; Scott, Lawton, Setford, Gibbs 24 v Allen N. Kirk, Edlin, Naumann 21; Thomas, Waterworth, Baines, Morris 20 v. Stuart, Reu, M. Anderson, Armstrong 19; Stent, Grant, James, J. Healey 27 v. Han, Petrie, Hutton, Rayner 14; Gibson, Freeth, Hempieman, Ball 9 v. Adamson, Whyman, Tinney, Stewart 29; Rubery, Charlton, Thompson, Hamer 19 v. Jones, R. Mailman, Svenson, P. Mailman 18; Mitchell, Taylor, Morgan, Bland 19 v. Brown, Berryman. Beard, Fisher 33; Fowler, McDonald, Williamson, Denbow 14 v. Reynolds, Gurney, A. Spurdie, Blackie 28.

Totals: Gonville 195, Marton 143. ST. JOHN’S CLUB GALA DAY

There was a satisfactory attendance at the St. John’s greens on Saturday on the occasion of the annual gala day. An ail-day tournament was piayed and resulted in a popular win tor Frank Moffatt’s team. Driving and drawing competitions were held at intervals. Other competitions were well patronised, as was the produce stall, under Mrs. Joe Glover’s supervision.

There was a £ood attendance of ladies and, under the supervision oi' Mrs. C. P. Bates, they provided an excellent afternoon tea and assisted generally in achieving the object of the <ala day, to augment the building fund.

The weather was excellent, the greens keen and all seemed to enjoy themselves thoroughly. The president Mr. C. P. Bates, thanked members for their assistance, whether by generous donations or small ones, or giving their time in providing means of achieving the objective. Following are the teams that took part in the tournament of five rounds: Williams, Goldsack, Davidson, Herd (replaced by Green later); Dymock, Glenny, Buckman, Caird; R. H. Tizard, Congreve, Rickard, F. Pepper; Kaywood, Hamilton, Garrick, Michie; Hicks, F. Bates, C. Downey, C. S. Brown; A. Brown, W. J. Brown, Robertson, Baxter; J. Robertson, Emmerson, Olsen, Wight; R. V. Brown, Suddaby, C. P. Bates, Shaw; Elliott, Keating, Ellis, Johnson; Watts, Greager, Ashwell, McPhail; Soughton, Henrickson, Ginn. Moffatt; Bridges, Gibbard, F. Haywood, Glover; Adams, Dann, Hunger, Weenink; Phelan, Burke, Lints, Aiken.

The teams skipped by Wight, Johnson and Moffatt tied with four wins and one loss. In the play-off Moffatt beat Johnson and in the final Moffatt beat Wight, the winning team being Soughton and Henrickson (visitors), Ginn and Moffatt.