The interport dinner in honour of an" end. "to the Hankow and. Hongkong. lawn Ptne Ytwe tmerport "lawn [bowlers was held at" the Shanghai Bills "matches "Just "at the most {club on Saturday and proved a most interesting stage of the games, eleven ends having been played before the players. were forced to leave the green. In the Shanghai and Hong-Kong match the score stood at 10-all, and in the Shanghai snd Hankow tone it was 10-9 In favour of the former.
On the resumption of the Interport lawn bowls matches on the Police green, on Wednesday afternoon, the Isuccessful function. W. Alston Turnbull, President of the Shanghai Lawn Bowls Association, was in the chair Jand there were 8 bowlers present.
The chairman in his opening speech traced the origin of local bowls, dat-Jing back to 1916, particularly "'mentioning Messrs. Godwin and Munro, both players representing Hankow at that time. He also suggested the formation of a Far Eastern Associa-
Shanghai four skipped by Porter, bowling brilliantly together, beat the Hongkong four skipped by U, M, Omar by 22 shots to 15. - In the Shanghai's match with Hankow, the latter, skipped by E. Owen, also playing great bowls, beat the Shang-hal four skipped by' A. J. Hall by 21- 16, The Police lost both their games against the Interport teams, the Hankow four skipped by 8, J. Godwin easily beating H. E, Peck's by 23-15, fand the Hongkong four skipped by E.G, Post beating R. Conduits by 20-14, Amidst intense excitement Shang-nat and Hankow won their matches and the Interport lawn bowls series, both by the narrow margin of one shot, on Thursday afternoon, on the Lawn Bowls Club green, Shanghai eating Hongkong by 18 shots to 17 and Hankow accounting for Shanghay by 19-18, thus giving Shanghai and Hankow two straight wins and the series.
The Shanghai lawn bowlers, ina spectacular finish on the last two completed the rout of the Hongkong bowlers, by registering a third straight win by the narrow margin of 22 shots to 21, on the Yangtszepoo Bowling Club green, on Saturday, On the same green, the Hankow bowlers confirmed' the good opinion already formed of them by easily beating Shanghai by 23-18, and also registered their third straight win, In both matches the bowling was exceptionally good. Whilst Hankow definitely were superior to Shanghai, the match between Shanghai, and Hongkong produced the hardest tussle, although Shanghai were badly in arrears at the 19th. The last two ends will go down in the bis-tory of local bowling as the most remarkable recovery ever made in Interport matches, Shanghai, when all seemed lost, snatching victory by the narrow margin of one shot by getting a 5 on the 20th. and a 3 at the last end. Tt must be admitted that it was the failure of the Hong: kong skip, Omar, who had been bowling splendidly, to save on the last {wo ends that gave Shanghai the victory.
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