Greenall Whitley Crown Green Bowling Handicap introduced by RICHARD DUCKENFIELD This event is the most important competition in the Crown Green Bowling calendar and it's 80th anniversary.
Record prize money of E20,000 is being distributed in 1988, the winner receiving £2,500.
For the first time since it was inaugerated in 1977, the Ladies' Waterloo semi-finals and final will be featured. Today, the last 16 men are playing and this morning four matches are featured 'live' from the green at the Waterloo Hotel, Blackpool. Summariser MIKE LEACH
Commentator HARRY RIGBY. Producer KEITH PHILLIPS