Friends of the Lion have a roaring Lowveld tour
After 25 years, a group of bowlers from the Island of Jersey, The Friends of the Lion, returned for yet another lawn bowls tour to South Africa.
This year, founder of the Stuart Weaving Friendship Foundation, Stuart Weaving, his wife Dorothy and 27 cohorts celebrated their golden anniversary during a seven-week invasion of the Lowveld’s greens.
Starting in Mbombela, they were entertained at both Matumi and LVCC, before venturing to Sabie Country Club.
The local teams were made up of members of Bungalows, Lydenburg and White River.
At Sabie, the teams played two games of nine ends each.
The Friends of the Lion know how to play bowls, and ran out winners by 88 to 68.
The following day the teams were in White River for the Lions’ fourth encounter with the Lowveld locals.
The format was one game of rinks over 18 ends, and the outcome much closer, as the touring side prevailed by just a single shot.
They moved on to the Highveld where they played against a number of clubs in Johannesburg, before some days at The Nest in the Drakensburg and a sojourn to the South Coast, to eventually to return home on March 4.
