Whitefield
Last Saturday saw finals day take place at Halfway and District.
After a wet start to the morning the sun came out and first up was the ladies and gents championship finals.
The gents final went right down to the wire and David Armstrong came back from 20-17 down to win 21-20 in a cracking game.
The ladies final was also a good game and lasted longer than the gents’ game.
Sandra Keary emerged triumphant after defeating Patricia Logan.
The other finals started after the championship games. Jim Wilson defeated George McCutcheon in the gents senior singles. Graham Mitchell beat Jim Lynn in the gents John Docherty Cup and Pat McWilliams beat Shirley McIntyre in the Ladies Nessie MacFarlane competition.
The Tam Lorimer Mixed Pairs final was the last game off and it went right down to the wire. Iain and Fiona Firth were six down playing the last against Maureen Lewis and Watty Islip but managed to get a six to take it to an extra end.
The game was against them again until Fiona moved the jack with her last bowl to win the game.
There are still nine finals to be played, dates as follows: Pat McWilliams and Flo Thomson will play Helen Torrance and Fiona Firth in the ladies senior pairs tonight ,Wednesday, at 5.30pm. A further four finals will take place on Sunday.
Sandra Keary will play Helen Torrance in the Ladies Presidents competition.
David Armstrong will play David Fergus in the Gents Presidents final.
Fiona Firth plays Maureen Lewis in the Ladies Senior Singles and John Smith and John Kerr will play Martin and Jim Wilson in the LBA Pairs.
A further three finals will take place on Sunday, September 10, when Robert Thomson and Martin McIlree will play John Murray and Jim Wilson in the Senior Pairs.
John Smith and Charlie McIntyre will play William Anderson and Gordon Spiers in the SBA Pairs and Sandra Hughes and Flo Thomson will play Sandra Keary and Helen Torrance in the Ladies Presidents Pairs.
The last remaining final will take place on Sunday, September 17 when David Armstrong plays John Sheppard in the Gents Vice Presidents clash.
This Saturday the Newton Cup 2+2 Rinks takes place with a 9.30am for 10am start.
The sheets are on the bowls house noticeboard for the remaining September competitions.
On the seniors side there are two Gemmell Trophy games this week. Halfway were away to Burnside on Tuesday and are at home to Kirkhill on Thursday. Victory in both these games will see Halfway win the trophy.
The Seniors Balloted Pairs will take place on Wednesday, September 6 and the Seniors v Ladies match will take place on Wednesday, September 13. Cambuslang seniors played two rinks in the Cambuslang District Seniors league every Wednesday morning at 10.30am.
Last Wednesday the league finished with games away to Burnside BC which the club lost and finished the ten club league in ninth position, with Kirkhill BC getting the wooden spoon and Mount Florida crowned the overall league winners.
Mount Florida invite all teams to send one rink today for coffee at 10 am followed by a few ends and a light lunch during which the trophy will be presented.
Cambuslang wish to thank CDSL convenor Hon. President Ian Skillen for organising another successful year.
The ladies section continue to meet every Tuesday and Thursday afternoon, all ladies welcome.
All the ladies finals were played last week. Championship winner was Trisha Coyle with Mary Russell as the runner-up. The presidents champion was Elaine Barton who beat Mary Russell.
However, Mary defeated Jessie Johnston to win the Galloway Cup
Nominated Pairs winners were Mary Russell and Cathy Meikle with runnersup Elaine Barton and Liz Power.
This Saturday, September 2, the gents were scheduled to play Kirkhill BC away, but the fixture has been cancelled. Burnside’s finals weekend started on Friday night and this saw the first of a series of games over the weekend that were wonderful to watch.
No fewer than three of the singles finals games finished with two or less shots between the winner and second place. Well done to all involved.
On Friday night Philip Wolfson and Robbie McCutcheon competed in a tight game for the Sir John Train Cup. The game was nip and tuck all the way and Philip finally won through by 21 shots to 19.
The Nominated Triples final was also played on Friday but had to be stopped after eight ends when the heavens opened and heavy rain made the green unplayable. The game is due to be finished today.
Saturday brought a number of the key singles finals starting with the Handicap final with Alex Abercrombie and David Lyburn competing for the title. Once again this was a very tight game and Alex finally managed to win by 21 shots to 20.
The Gents Championship final was yet another cliff hanger of a game between Walter Matthews and Peter Horne. Peter is no stranger to finals and is recognised as a very capable bowler but he could not stop Walter who finally won the game by 21 shots to 20.
The Ladies Championship was also played out between Frieda Thomson and Margaret Perston in a cracking game of bowls which was eventually won by Frieda.
Burnside also had the Presidents Prize final keenly competed for by Cammy Taylor and Robert Whiteside, both are at the younger end of the age scale but recognised as great bowlers.
A fierce and keenly competitive game was won in the end by Cammy Taylor.
Sunday saw three finals being played. The first was for the James Trophy the finalists were Pat Caughey and Jean Worrall.
Both ladies played great bowls and There was a good turnout of the members of Kirkhill Bowling Club for the annual finals day held on Saturday.
Unfortunately at 8am the bowling greens were flooded owing to heavy rain from the previous few hours. However, by 2pm they had dried out sufficiently for the finals to take place.
Congratulations to all winners and runners up, an excellent achievement from all participants.
The Men’s Championship was won by J Burns who defeated D Wilson. G Savage was edged out in the Ladies Championship by G Sheridan.
Men’s Presidents champion J Burns beat K Harkin while C MacLeod triumphed in the Ladies Presidents final against S Gallagher.
The Vice Presidents winner R Lewis won the trophy by beating I Savage and the Nominated Pairs was eventually won by J Armour and E Donaldson, with B Gallacher and C Lamont the runners-up.
The Balloted Pairs was won by C Lamont and R Dobinson who defeated J Burns and K Harkin.
Newly crowned Seniors Championship champion R J Wilson overcame a tricky tie with D McKay.
The club plate was won by C Durnian and K Harkin was the runner-up while the Ladies Convenors’ Trophy was picked up by N Marks who edged M Smellie in the final.
The matches were hard fought and provided excitement and entertainment for the spectators. The remaining club finals were played over the weekend with a number of cracking games deciding who lifted the silverware for this year.
Joyce Kelly added to her impressive collection of trophies for the year by winning the Ladies President’s Cup and the Ladies Cup against Heather Blair and Anne Grant respectively.
The last gent’s final was in the Secretary’s Cup which was won by Gerry Boyd against Jimmy Welsh.
Well done to all our winners over the past two weekends and commiserations to the runners-up.
The seniors finished a credible second to Mount Florida in the Cambuslang and District League after finishing strongly with good wins against Mount Vernon.
The Monday night gents aggregate was won by Alex Hart and Tam McLinden.
Pick up your copy of next week’s Reformer for more pictures from finals days across all the bowling clubs.