Former All Blacks Sir Colin Meads and Peter Henderson will be playing in the annual Outram 2000 fours bowls tournament at the weekend.
They will be joined by Otago rugby stalwarts John Hunter and Jim Johnstone in the four that will be competing for the $2000 winners purse.
Fifty teams have entered for the tournament that has been held for the last 20 years. Greens at Outram, Taieri and Fairfield will be used for the two-day event.
It is fitting that Johnstone should be in the team because he is the brother of former All Black captain Peter Johnstone who was in the All Black team with Henderson that toured South Africa in 1949 and played against the British Lions in 1950. Henderson played seven tests for the All Blacks in 1949 and 1950, and also finished fifth in the 100 yards at the Empire Games in Auckland in 1950. Bob Scott, another All Black of that era, competed in the Outram event last year.
The 60th annual bowls match between Dunback and Ranfurly for the Kennedy Cup will be played in Dunback tomorrow.
The cup was donated by Tom Kennedy, who was born in Dunback and was a policeman in Ranfurly. It is played by four rinks of men.
The two clubs had been playing each other in an annual match since the 1940s and in 1952 Tom Kennedy presented the cup. His daughter, Betty Matchett, of Oamaru, will present the trophy to the winning team.
A women's event, consisting of two rinks, has been played for the Menzies Tray for the last 15 years.
Both trophies were won by Ranfurly last year.
