FIRST and second round matches in The Hamlet Bowling Championship at the Carr Mill Hotel, with a total of nearly £7,000 in prize money up for grabs, get underway this week with games on Sunday and Monday, June 10 and 11.

Further first and second round games will be staged on June 17, 18, 24, 25 and July 1 and 2, with third and fourth rounds on July 8 and 9 and the last eight on Sunday, July 15.

Matches this week are as follows:

Sunday, June 10 (1pm start): J. Gurney (Northwitch) v J. Gatley (Warrington), F. Derbyshire (Lowton) v R. Morgan (Sale), N. Ditchfield (St Helens) v M. Holden (St Helens), R. Whightman (Warrington) v C. Slater (Keighley), A. Buckley (Oldham) v J. Leadbetter (Prescot), P. Craig (Rochdale) v C. MacDonald (Macclesfield), J. A. Conroy (Moston) v R. Goodhand (Warrington), E. Hall (Keighley) v D. Griffiths (Oldham).

Monday, June 11 (7pm start): A. Fidler (Billinge) v I. Smout (Redditch), M. Gilmore (Wallasey) v M. Morris (Halifax), R. Nicholson (Halifax) v D. Gilmore (Wallasey), D. Lewis (Leigh) v C. Blakeley (Halifax), F. Heyes (Billinge) v D. Scott (Silsden), T. Gatley (Warrington) v H. Birch (Upholland), P. Boydell (Leigh) v I. Broadhurst (Macclesfield), G. Hickey (Halifax) v S. Davies (Liverpool). Sunday, June 17 (1pm start): G. Glover (Rainford) v J. Taylor (Warrington), B. Formstone (Gresford) v D. Walker (Swinton), J Cornes. (Northwich) v M. Prescott (Bolton), G. Telford (Altrincham) v M. Allman (Leeds), J. Carney (Wigan) v A. Ward (Leigh), K. Jones (Wrexham) v R. Hitchen (Halifax), M. Telford (Altrincham) v I. Grady (Tarleton), C. Massey (Aintree) v B. Cox (Wigan).

Monday, June 18 (7pm start): A. Williams (Leigh) v A. Kenny (West Kirby), P. Gartside (St Helens) v G. Schofield (Gt Harwood), D. Lawton (Clevleys) v G. Ward (Gt Harwood), D. McDermott (West Kirby) v R. Moxham (Barrow), K. Strutt (Diggle) v M. Leonard (St Helens), A. Hill (West Kirby) v P. Culley (St Helens), L. Lawton (Clevelys) v A. Prescott (Leigh), T. Moxham (Barrow) v M. Tunstall (West Kirby).

Sunday, June 24 (1pm start): S. Frith (Weaverham) v G. Marsh (St Helens), P. Fielding (Rochdale) v C. Craig (Castleford), P. Bradley (Bollington) v J. Webster (Castleford), P. Owen (Stoke) v F. Perkins (Wigan), J. Clarke (Warrington) v L. Heaton (Bolton), R. McKernan (Bollington) v T.. Heyes (Hyde), A. Owen (Stoke) v C. Heyes (Hyde), A. Cairns (Rossendale) v .L Welles (Warrington).

Monday, June 25 (7pm start): G. Wilson (Oldham) v J. Daniels (St Helens), J. Metters (Blackburn) v P. Connolly (Rawtenstall), G. Curran (Formby) v J. Rawlinson (Runcorn), G. Parker (Kendal) v I. McNeill (Rawtenstall), T. Johnson v M. Chapman (Blackburn), M. Gilpin (Kendal) v J. Russell (Patricroft), A. Wolfe (Formby) v G. Cookson (Winsford), F. Lord (Rawtenstall v I. Nicholson (Kendal).

Sunday, July 1 (1pm start): B. Henstead (Pemberton) v N. Grant (Worsley), M. Chamberlain (Stockport) v D. Holden (Fleetwood), K. J. Melling (St Helens) v A. Moorcroft (Haydock), A. C. Land (Frodsham) v J. McCaul (Leigh), R. White (Worsley) v P. Marrow (Wigan), I. Grimshaw (Leigh) v T. Round (St Helens), J. Jones (Mold) v A. Sims (St Helens), A. Shacklady (Ormskirk) v D. Scarisbrick (St Helens).

Monday, July 2 (7pm start): A. Pickavance (St Helens) v R. B. Elshaw (Wigan), D. Fox (Mirfield) v C. Campbell (Deganwy), I. Rutter (Wigan) v P. Slinger (Blackburn), B. Kirk (Stoke) v D. Sillitoe (Doncaster), N. Fletcher (Blackpool) v S. Hirst (Mirfield), R. Burgess (Adlington) v W. Burlinson (Warrington), B. Duncan (Bamber Bridge) v C. Bebbington (Warrington), B. Williams (Deganwy) v A. Ward (Blackpool).