Three members of Ottery Bowling Club Margaret Bright, John Pethick, and Terry House had a successful day when they travelled to Chard and won the Invitation Open Triples. In Friendly matches Chardstock won in a triples game 64--92 but Ottery won against Axminster in a rinks game 83--57. In a touring match Ottery men’s team were successful when they played the Isle of Wight President’s team; the match was played on six rinks Ottery winning well on five of them the overall score being Ottery 127, Isle of Wights Presidents team 115.

J Ward, D Dalton, J Candy E Saunders 23--16 K Pollitt, B Light, D Rose, T House 18--16 T Bushell, D Rastall, P Richards, W Taylor 24--16 J George, G Kille, J Pethick, H Channon 25--19 D Garrod, G Beck, T Luff, M Smith 15--28 P Nicholls, B Bramley, G Beighton, N Lawrence 22--20