Oxford's Glenn Allen spurred cup-holders England to a 38-12 victory over Jersey in the Rossborough Trophy international at St Saviour.

The English Under 25 champion, from the Isis club, powered to three wins and a draw in his four games.

Oxford's Kathy Hawes, one of six women in the 12-strong team, won two of her four matches.

England scored ten wins in 12 games to complete their demolition job.

Seven champion bowlers including Oxfordshire's English singles title-holder Greg Moon must decide whether to oppose their leader, world No 2 John Price, and play in a rebel televised tournament.

Banbury ace Moon, who stormed to the English crown at Melton Mowbray in April, has been invited to make his debut in a televised event in the inaugural British Isles invitational at the Castlemilk Stadium, Glasgow, from December 5-8.

This would be invaluable experience for Moon just a month before his debut in the Potters Leisure Resort World Indoor Singles Championship at Hopton on Sea, Norfolk. Reigning world champions Robert Weale of Wales and Scots David Gourlay and Alex Marshall are among the seven declared runners in the eight-man event who are members of the Professional Bowls Association, the players' organisation.

John Price, 40, the PBA chairman has called upon the seven "to think very seri- ously" about whether they should take part in the tournament.

Price, twice a world champion, says that the organisers of the new event, the British Isles Indoor Bowls Council, are breaking a 1997 agreement which handed over the control of the televised events to the World Bowls Tour, of which he is a director.

"If people start paddling their canoes off in different directions, it will be disastrous for the game," Price insisted.