Game date: 24 June 2012

The Fairest team soundly defeated Hatters in the latest in a long tradition of road bowls in Copmanhurst in the Northern Rivers of New South Wales, reports our local road bowls correspondent.In a two hour match on Sunday June 24, Fairest with 76 throws (1 penalty point) defeated Hatters, who ended the game with 84 throws (8 penalty points). The teams were captained by Mazza and Annie W and the match was umpired by Ken W.The match was held as part of the joint 120th birthday celebrations for the two captains, who proudly declared themselves “dragons” by virtue of their birth in 1952, the Year of the Dragon.Providing a slice of local Copmanhurst history, our Road Bowls News correspondent writes....

G'Day Folkie Friends ~ Mazza here!

I cut my teeth on Chewton Road Bowls in the '70's & early '80's.

So when I left Melbourne in '84, and got to Copmanhurst, (near Grafton), in the Northern Rivers of NSW, I introduced the tradition up here.

When we started, I was still hunting down some 4lb 'Bowls'(plus some 3lb-ers for the young fry). So we used sliced rounds of tree trunks, (true to Aussie Bush ingenuity), to slake our Road Bowling urges.

There have been many Road Bowl tournaments here in the decades since.

The "Dragon" Captains!