The fourth round play in both the lawn bowls Single and Pairs Championships came to a successful conclusion last Sunday when the final matches in this round were all played off. The way is now clear for the semi-finals to be held, and judging from the close competition in the earlier róunds, these should be hotly contested. The Shanghai Lawn Bowls Association has already set aside Sunday, August 25 fcr the Pairs Championship semi-finals, but the date for the semi-finals. in the Singles title play has yet to be selected.
Sunday evening saw three of the four' quarter-finals in the Pairs Championship being decided, the r maining fixture having been worked off well ahead of the closing date for the fourth round. The encounter on the greens of the Yangtszepoo Bowing Club was productive of the keennest play with A. Macgregor and F.
Ward barely winning by two shots fo eliminate H. A. Ozorio and F. M. Machado bý 16-14. The losers put up a gallant fight and with their defeat, the Clube Lusitano have no more representátives in the Pairs Championship.
On the other hand, the Shanghai Lawn Bowls Club are extremely well represented with two couples in the semi-finals as the combination of W.
Monk and W. J. Ward have escaped unscathed up to the present, They played off their fourth round fixture sine time ago and managed to dispose of W. R. Chisholm and R. M. Jordan aíter an evenly-matched meeting, only six woods separating the totals of the winners and losers The S.L.B.C. however, will definitely have one team in the final as W. J. Monk and W. J. Ward will be engaging A. Macgregor and F. S. Ward for an all-S.L.B.C. semi-final.
One of the most impressive performances in the fourth round of the Pairs Championship was registered by C. J. Bull and A. Hogg, who decounted for the elimination of P. Shaw and H. R. Hill by 11 woods, 23-12, at the Shanghai Lawn Bowls Club. The hepes of the Police Recreation Club now rest upon Bull and Hogg to prevent the title from passing out of the hands of P.R.C. members as the championship is currently held by R. Conduit and W. Craig.
fine achievement was accomplished by G. V. Jensen and W. T. Manley on the Police greens, where they eliminated the strong combination of T. S. Parry and S. R. Harmer by as wide a margin as 23-15. The next opponents of the Shanghai Recreation Club will now be Bull and Hogg in the semi-finals, On Sunday, the Police greens was the scene of another fourth round meeting with C. M. Sequeira winning his way into the semi-final of the Singles Championship after a bitter struggle with B. F. Marques. The final score stood at 21-20 in favour of Sequeira, but it took him nearly 30
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