The Shanghai Lawn Bowls Club and the Yangtszepoo Bowling Club appear to be the best represented up to the present in the lawn bowls Rinks Championship, the third round of which closed on Sunday, as both these clubs still have two rinks each in the running. Though the cham-on ships are purely individual con-t inter-club rivalry is by no means completely in the background. The Junior Golf' Club, the Clube Lusitano and the Hongkew Golf Club are the only other clubs which are still represented in the title play with one rink apiece. The surer ing feature of the competition is the elimination of all the fours of the Shanghai Recreation Club, leaders of the league, in the early rounds.
The majority of the third round matches were worked off on Sunday as the day was specially set aside for these engagements. Several close encounters were seen, the closest being the 14-13 victory cored by A. Marshall's four over H. A. Ozorio's risk. Another hotly contested game resulted from the meeting of two ks some time ago when team managed to disposed of E. Owen's four by 2
Another S.L.B.C. aggregate eliminated from the championship by a fellow-rink with Munro's quartette outplaying T. S. Parry's four, 19-17. After a neck-and-neck race with J. P, de Campos' four, R rink w: upper hand by 2 matched fixture. able to gain the Of the one-sided engagements, A. M. Gutierrez and his four provided excellent form to account for the defeat of the strong rink headed by R. C. Aitkenhead, the final score being in favour of the Hongkew Golf Club players by 31-10. Also played on Sunday was the meeting between A D. Denton's and G. Pryde's rinks with the for quartette registering a fairly handsome triumph by 27-12, o other matches were played some go and resulted ud A. M. Souza's their way into the
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