Shows Magnificent Form in Beating Harmer by.
21-11 in Singles; A
Certainty for Interport Shanghai, Aug. 25.
LAYING a magnificent game throughout the match, H. Wallace, leading local lawn bowls pi layer, easily retained his title on the Shanghai Lawn Bowls Club g eons yesterday when he defeated his Clubmate, E, R, Harmer, by 21 shots to 11, in the final of the Shanghai Lawn Bowls Singles Championship. Wallace won the Championship last year, when he also captained Shanghai's inter~ port team to victory against Hongkong.
Taking the lead from the very start, Wallace never lost it and he gradually widened the gap between his score and Harmer's. He was up by seven.shots to nothing before Harmer opened his score at the 5th head with a two, Exciting Bowls in semifinals of the Shanghai Pairs Championship, played on the Recs Greens yesterday, when the favourites, H, Wallace and G. Sinclair, and Sequeira and A.A. were unexpectedly beaten, Sequeira and d'Assis of Hongkew Golf Club, lost to A, M. Souza and Gutierrez of Clube Lusitano by 22 shots to 17, while Wallace and Sinclair of the Shanghai Lawn Bowls Club, were defeated by R. Conduit and 'W. Craig of the Police, by 26 shots 10 21 Both semi-finals were exciting and produced a fine brand of lawn bowls, the game between Conduit and Wal-Jace being particularly good.
Conduit showed some of the fine play that enabled him, on Saturday, lead his rink to victory in the League match against C. Int. Sequelra's rink of the Hongkew Golf Club, His steadiness and ability. to rise: tothe occasion proved the deciding factor In a particularly hard-fought materi. "Craig gave him every support. the two playing exceptionally. well altogether, Wallace did not have the best of luck, og both he and Sinclair played 'a brand of bowls that should have Overcome most opposition. The lead alternated no less. than Ave times, with the Police couple taking com: mand at the 18th end to eke out a tuuilting, victory, At the 10th head, Wallace had Jestablished the overwhelming lead of 14 shots to 4, and he managed to retain this margin to the end.
Harmer played much better after the 10th head, and he did very well Indeed in preventing Wallace from increasing his lead. He managed to score, however, at only six. heads, whereas Wallace scored in 13 ends, }Both scored a three.
Wallace's present excellent ¢orm makes him a certainty for selection to the Shanghai interport team to meet Hongkong in the middle of next month, He is in the final of the Rinks [Championship and the semi-finals of the Pairs Championship. It he should win both titles, he' will have made a "hat-trick," an achievement that wit be dimeult to surpass. shot "Total Ends Shots Wattace 2
6 2
3 3 3 2
2 1 5 2 6 2
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