WANGANUI CENTRE CHRISTMAS BOWLING TOURNEY TODAY

Wanganui Chronicle, 26 December 1950, Page 7

WANGANUI CENTRE CHRISTMAS BOWLING TOURNEY TODAY

Today the Wanganui Bowling Centre’s Christmas fours tournament is to start. Bowls are to be on the mats for inspection at 8.45 a.m. Forty-two fours have entered for the tournament and have been divided Into three sections of 15 fours in each. There will be fours here from the Hawera Bowling Club, Central Club (Petone), Devenport (Auckland) and the Feilding Club. The four which won the tournament last year has entered again. It is skipped by W. Burns, who has M. Blackwood as lead, T. Proudfoot two, and A. Brougham as three, ft is from the Wanganui East Club, which defeated a four from the same club skipped by Claude Haworth, last year. The tournament last year was I the North Island fours championship. | Today the green s to be used will be: Section A: Wanganui. Section B: St. John’s. Section C: Wanganui EastSecond round matches in the Nixon Cup were played by the smaller bowling clubs in the city on Saturday. Other clubs played the usual Saturday afternoon fours. St. John’s Club fours were played at St. John.s with the following results:— Gurr, Feeney, Gibson and C. P. Bates 20, Williams, Everetts, Downey and Weenink 23; Hudson, Souter, Goldsack and Kirkwood 23, Simmons, Woods, Bamford and R. Armstrong 25; Dunstall, Benefield, Cvitanovitch and H. S. Harris 20, Dawes, Simpson, R. V. Brown and Olsen 19; Malcolm, Stevens, D. Taylor, and McPhail 22, J. P. Peters, Henry, Glenny and Shaw ' 15; Grainger, Hunger, Congrieve and . Broadhead 17, Touliman, Bridges, H. Allen and Stringer 21; Dymock, Dann and G. McKay 20, Anderson, Hargreaves and Hounsell 25; Ayson, J. Aitken and J. Kidd 22, Hermans, McGrtiei and Tizard 25; Hicks, Dearsly and Rickard 23, A. Brown, Edwards and Eassett 25; Hunwick, Hasler ana Ginn 13, Langslow, Lee and Pepper 22; W. Taylor, P. Whitlock and G. Easton 20, Saltinstall, Dunlop and Kirk 22; Robertson, Hay, Watts and Brass 16, Mathews, Turner, Threadgold and Caird 28. Cosmopolitan Nixon Cup fours games played at the Cosmopolitan green resulted:— Hawkes, Harris, Spurdie and Hammond (Gonville) 26, Wilson, Moodie, Bigham and Goss (Cosmo.) 27; Staines Angliss Loader and Baxter (Victoria) 16 Hogg Nalder, Hawke and Macdonald (Cosmo.) 23. Club game: Barry,( Duncan, F. Clisby and Pluck 21, E. Fayen, Neal, White and Garrick 13. Victoria A second round Nixon Cup game was played at the Victoria green: Dale, Peterson, Brown and Denman (R.S.A.) 19, Glentworth, Barlow, Bilderbeck and Cunningham (Victoria) 25. Club games: Head senr.,’ Ander, Raukawa and Ward 16, Perrett, Spittal, W. Swan and Slight 11; Lister. Munro, McKenzie and Ansley 22, Thomas, Palmer, Doyle and Mathie 20. R.S.A. Results of the second round of the Nixon Cup competition played at the R.S.A. green: v. Gonville: Anderson, Corby, Tomlinson and Fisher (Gonville) 21, Merewether, Goss, R. Bourne and W. Bourne (R.S.A.) 13; Seiwood, Cresswell, Wilson and Tinney (Gonville) 24, Ward, May, Cordingley and Stewart (R.S.A.) 15, Keats, Gurney, Banks and Mailman (Gonville) 24, Rusden, Shepherd, Toop and Kinzett (R.S.A.) 18, Watson, Puddle, Willis and Edlin (Gonville) 21, Matson, Miller, Gray and Beauchamp (R.S.A.) 22. v. Cosmopolitan: Morrison, Baird, Pargeter and Holden (Cosmopolitan) L 21, Finlay, Browne, Rowell and Spooner (R.S.A.) 24.