June 2002 Volume 83 Number 6
"serving the protectors"
| June 2002 Volume 83 Number 6 "serving the protectors" |
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Bowls |
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| by Peter Baehnk |
SA POLICE BOWLING CLUB
Annual Bowls Carnival
The 44th Australian Police Bowling Carnival began with a march-on of teams from five states at the Surfers Paradise Sporting Club on April 7.
The action started soon after with the first of the fours championship play-offs. Two of the three South Australian fours – those of John McKnight and Rex Heins – survived the first round, but Lindsay Yeo’s rink was eliminated to the plate competition, which Yeo had won at the last carnival.
McKnight’s rink enjoyed a tight tussle against the Victorian rink of Trevor Melotte, who is always a strongly competitive player. No clear winner emerged until the final couple of ends. McKnight won, 24 shots to 17.
Heins and his rink had a much tighter game against the New South Wales rink of Jim Cranna but won, 21 shots to 20. Cranna was eliminated to the fours plate competition and featured in the final against another New South Wales rink skippered by John O’Connell.
In the next round of the fours, the two surviving South Australian rinks were eliminated from the competition. McKnight met Queensland’s Brian Chapman, whose rink was runner-up in this competition at the last carnival.
McKnight’s rink watched helplessly, as Chapman, playing through the head, continually converted, picking up five shots twice and a four-shot result over five ends. Chapman won the game, 23 shots to 17. He was narrowly beaten in the next round – a replay of last year’s final – by the eventual winner, Ian Miles (Victoria), 15 shots to 17.
Heins put up a tough fight but was outclassed by Western Australia’s Alan Hogarth, 27 shots to 16. In the quarter final, Hogarth’s rink met another WA combination, which was skippered by Graham Moon. Moon’s rink had displaced Yeo’s to the fours plate competition in the first round. Hogarth then played Moon to decide which rink would meet Miles’ rink in the final on April 12.
The game – because of a busy programme that day – had to be played under lights. Hogarth’s rink won the encounter, 21 shots to 12. The final appeared to be a one-sided affair, as last year’s winner stamped his authority on the game with a convincing 22-shot-to-14 win.
Lone SAPBC survivor in the fours plate competition, Yeo, met Victoria’s Bert Rutherford in the first round. He scored a convincing win, 25 shots to 14. He then met the New South Wales rink of Cranna. Yeo’s rink never seemed to get started, losing out to Cranna’s, 24 shots to 13. Cranna then played O’Connell in the final of the plate competition and lost by six shots (20/14).
Three SAPBC combinations, skippered by Nick Zuvich, Ian Matters and Frank Holden, progressed into the second round of the pairs competition, which began on April 8. These rinks were in the “top half” of the competition draw. The team of Holden and Rex Kruger was the outstanding competitor for South Australia in the pairs competition. It defeated the New South Wales team of President Bob Bunter and Jim Allen with a 27-shot-to-9 score line.
Zuvich and Matters’ teams were eliminated from the competition in the following round. Zuvich and his leader, Cos Cavaiuolo, lost to Cranna, 16 shots to 6. Matters and his leader, Keith Jones, were eliminated by their state team-mates, Holden and Kruger, 20 shots to 9. Holden and Kruger then met a WA combination, which they defeated, 16 shots to 9. This victory launched them into a semi-final berth against the New South Wales team of Ross Smith and Garry Marriage.
The match appeared to be a one-way affair, as Holden and Kruger suffered annihilation – 30 shots to 4 – at the hand of last year’s winners.
The three South Australian teams in the bottom half of the draw – those skippered by Ron Allen, Bob Peters and Ivan Doering – did not survive beyond the first round and were eliminated to the pairs plate competition. Each of those teams was then eliminated from that competition in the first round.
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