The Archive · 1941

Lawn Bowls Loops Start Tomorrow

Interest in lawn bowls will gather momentum tomorrow afternoon when local players will wade into active competition with the opening round of the Shanghai Lawn Bowls Association's league series. With both first and second divisions scheduled 1o start tomorrow a full programme of no less than eight encounters will be staged during the course of the ziternoon. Deliveries are not expected to fall below the standard of the past year as participants have been practicing religiously on their respective greens.

The principal aim of the nine aggregation competing in the first division this year will be to wrest the league title from the Recs who have shown remarkable form to win Max Schmeling it three years consecutively. Their first adversaries this summer will be the S.LB.C. "Blues" who have been pitted against them in the initial round. This tussle should be pro-iBaer's Claim to

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