There was a large attendance of members of the Shanghai Lawn Bowls Club, at the annual meeting held on Tuesday, at the offices ci Messrs. Maitland & Ca., with Mr. O. Crewe Read presiding.
Remarking that he had to recall with regret the deaths of Messrs. J. D. Gaines, D. MacIntosh, H. J. Smith and H. McAdam, in whose memory the committee had given $50 to the King' Daughters' Society, the Chairman asked the members to stand for a minute as a further tribute.
He continued:—I feel that I must make special reference to the death of our old friend, Mr. J. D. Gaines, who was our Vice-President in 1920 and who presided over our last annual general meeting. On May 1, last year Mr. Gaines sailed for his homeland, to enjoy a well earned holiday at the termination of which he was retire from active business. When he left Shanghai he was apparently in good health and T am sure we all looked forward to the pleasure of seeing him again some day. Mr. Gaines was one of our most enthusiastic bowlers and did everything in his power to promote the game of lawn bowls it Shanghai, and, to show our appreciation of his good work for the club, we elected him an honorary life member. Mr. Gaines endeared himself to us all and the sad news of his unexpected death came as a great shock, not only to the members of this club, but to hundreds of his friends in Shanghai. Your committee cabled to Mrs. Gaines the club's heartfelt sympathy and in due course we received her grateful thanks.
You will notice that our membership is now 233, which shows 2 small increase over the previous year, but I think goes to prove that the game of lawn bowls has come to stay. We were not quite successful in our inter-club matches as during the previous year, but still we made a very creditable showing and for the good of the game I think it is preferable that we should not be too much in evidence in all these matches. 1 am, however, pleased to say that we won two out of the three open championship events. The Singles Championship was again won our esteemed fellow bowler, Mr. George Dunlop who also won our Club Championship and who has consistently shown up for the past two seasons. The Pairs Championship was won by Messrs. R. Simmons and George Dunlop, both of whom have our hearty congratulations.
Text read from the printed page and cleaned; old type leaves the occasional error.