Bowls: Poore turns the tables for VPs.

WARWICKSHIRE Vice-Presidents and Warwickshire County Bowls Association met in a six rinks match at Welford Indoor BC and it was the VPs who won the bragging rights with a narrow 120-117 victory.

Rink details (VPs' names first): Alan Kemp, Royston Andrew, Derek Stokes, Bryn Poore 32; Jim Atkins, Syd Yeoman, Phil Richardson, Jack McPhun 16.With eight ends played, the VPs were trailing 11-2 with their only score a fourth-end two against one three, two twos and four singles.

Things then took a dramatic twist. in the VPs' favour when Poore and his colleagues powered in with eight winning ends of one six, one five, four threes, and two twos to go 29-11 ahead to set them up for their eventual victory.

Tony Edwards, Eric Heath, Bryan Fitzpatrick, George Smith 29; David Williams, Roger Eaton, David Washbourne, Gerald Butcher 15. The Smith combination dominated play from start to finish to score on all but five of the 21 ends.

The VPs led 10-2, 16-6 and 22-9 at five, 10 and 15 ends respectively and their final tally was made up of one five, two threes, five twos and eight singles against first and 19thend doubles, a 12th-end treble and eighth and 21st-end fours.

Mike Brayne, Frank Mohan, Richard Wilsden, Colin Spencer 21; Peter Holland, Mick Shuter, Alex McBain, Peter Bishop 14. A good start by the VPs saw them 11-3 up after eight ends and they kept in front by more or less the same margin before finally winning with seven shots in hand.

Roy Batchelor, Clive Andrew, Les Boulton and Tony Parsons 14; Bob Morris, Brian Dickenson, Alan Install, Ted Buckley 19. When the Parsons rink registered an 11thend five it put them 12-9 in front but their lead was shortlived, for their opponents responded with 4, 1, 3, 1, 1 against 16th and 18th-end singles to go 19-14 up and at that point the game ended due to the four hours time limit.

Ted Simmons, Doug Haywood, Ron Campbell, Mike Gilks 9; Eric Tallis, Roy Adams, Bob Hope, Phil Jones 22. Gilks and his colleagues were in with a shout at only 10-7 down after 13 ends but failed to get on terms when their only other scores were 17th and 18th-end singles against one four, three twos and two singles.

Alex Bray, Archie Hogg, Mike Westell, Gareth Willcock 15; Charles Hebson, John Robinson, Alan Seager, John Pink 31. With seven ends played, Willcock's foursome were 5-4 up, but five ends later were 17-5 down after conceding a five and four twos. Things became much worse for the VPs when they dropped a 19th-end six to go further behind at 30-8 but they made their final tally a touch more respectable with a penultimate-end seven before losing a last-end single.