Get your name in

Reporter: Keith McHugh
Date published: 26 March 2010


BOWLS: WITH the start of the new crown green bowling season imminent, organisers of this year’s Oldham Evening Chronicle Handicap are accepting entries for the competition.
Heats will be played at Nimble Nook and Crompton on Friday June 4 and Royton and Delph on June 11. Play on both nights starts at 6.30pm, with practice from 6pm.

The finals will be held, for the third successive year, at North Chadderton Social and Bowling Club on Saturday, July 10 (6pm start, 5.30pm practice).

Entry fee remains at £5. Players can enter by writing (no email applications) to Bob Nisbet at 22 Severn Road, Hollinwood OL8 3RQ with the fee and this information:


NAME, ADDRESS, DAYTIME PHONE NUMBER, YOUR CLUB and TEAM(S), CHOICE OF DATE.

No application accepted without accompanying fee; handicap committee judgments and rulings final.Entrants cannot choose their favoured green and, wherever possible, will not be allowed to play on a green at which they are a member.

If a player is drawn at a green at which they are a member, they will have two chalks deducted from their handicap.


CHADDERTON Bowling League delegates will meet at West End BC on Tuesday (8pm) for the collection of handbooks and scorecards.