QUALIFYING gets under way on Monday (6 30) for the Milnsbridge Lib-sponsored Huddersfield Liberal Merit, which carries £400 in prizemoney with £120 for the winner.

This is the 57th Liberal Merit – the second year of sponsorship from Milnsbridge Lib – with bowlers hoping to get their name on the prestigious Coronation Cup, so called because the event was first played in 1953.

It’s play down to two on each green (scratching 6 45 and then when called) and home bowlers who reach the final will be off -3, 2, 1 and 0 throughout the rounds.

The final for the last 16 is at Milnsbridge Lib on Sunday July 5 (5.00), with the semi-finalists and finalists receiving commemorative medals.

Qualifying venues and draw:

Almondbury Lib

Prelim – G O’Sullivan (Crosland Moor) v P Cooney (Lindley), EC Gray (Cowcliffe) v T Brook (Crosland Moor).

First round – T Chatfield (Golcar) v C Allen (Lindley), R Taylor (Milns/Marsden) v D Wagner (Milnsbridge), K Graham (Kirkheaton) v A Nagy (Milnsbridge).

Crosland Moor Manor

First round – S Pollard (Marsden) v P Conneely (Cowcliffe), J Abbott (Meltham) v R Saunders (Lindley), S Forster (Lindley) v A E Gray (Cowcliffe), L Fitzgerald (Meltham) v M Hinchliffe (Linthwaite).

Cowcliffe Lib

First round – G Martin (Almondbury) v R Whitham (Marsden), G Woodruff (Linthwaite) v Dan Beeby (Golcar), K Brown (Milnsbridge) v A Sharpe (Almondbury), G Siswick (Crosland Moor) v D Phillips (Marsden).

Golcar Lib

First round – M Martin (Almondbury) v R Barker (Kirkheaton), G Whitehouse (Marsh) v R D Heaume (Cowcliffe), B Morley (Lindley) v M Houlton (Milnsbridge), R L Senior (Lindley) v M Wilson (Almondbury).

Kirkheaton Cbc

First round – D Woodruff (Linthwaite) v A D Chapman (Meltham), B Gibson (Meltham) v T Shaw (Milnsbridge), T Randerson (Marsden) v S Halsall (Cowcliffe), B Walsh (Marsden) v G Boyes (Meltham).

Lindley Lib

First round – F Wrathall (Meltham) v N Jones (Almondbury), J D Wright (Marsden) v H Hopkins (Golcar), P Portelli (Meltham) v M Stead (Cowcliffe), A Heaume (Almondbury) v N Whitaker (Milnsbridge).

Primrose Hill Lib

First round – M Armitage(Linthwaite) v D Walkden (Lindley/Linth), M Atkinson (Crosland Moor) v M Waddington (Meltham), J Martin (Almondbury) v T Berry (Marsden), J Walker (Milnsbridge) v J Kaye (Meltham)

Meltham Cbc

First round – R Whitwam (Milnsbridge) v S Mcmahon (Linthwaite), M Hirst (Golcar) v G Haigh (Almondbury), G Sigsworth (Cowcliffe) v G Scarcliffe (Milnsbridge), M Gilroy (Milnsbridge) v D Singleton (Golcar).