BOWLING

New Zealand Herald, Volume LXXV, Issue 22960, 11 February 1938, Page 16

BOWLING

ROTORUA TOURNAMENT END OF SECTION PLAY AUCKLANDERS IN „ SEMI-FINALS [HV TELEGRAPH —OWN CORRESPONDENT] ROTORUA, Thursday

At the conclusion of section play tliis afternoon seven teams qualified for the final matches to decide the holder of tlio Rotorua Bowling Club's open rinks championship for the 1938 season. The successful rinks were: —Ponsonb.v (Letham), Carlton (do Launay), and Botorua (Bakes), each of which secured nine wins, and .Auckland (Walker), Mount Eden (Purdy), jHallyburton-Johnstono (Sharp) and Matamata, (Stewart). At the close of the first round of post-section play, Ponsonby, Matamata and Carlton had been eliminated, leaving four teams to meet in the semi-linals to-morrow morning.

The draw lor the semi-finals is as follows:—Kotorua v. Auckland; HallyburtonJohnstorie v. Mount Eden. The winners of these matches will meet in the deciding game for the title in the afternoon. In the two concluding rounds of section play there were again several surprises. The most unexpected of these was the defeat of Letham (I'onsonby) by Johnson (Gisbornc), who previously had registered only two wins. I'onsonby up to that stage luid the distinction of being the only unbeaten rink in the tournament. 11l section. A there was another surprise when Purdy (Mount Eden) went down to Ritchie (Carlton), bringing Auckland (Walker) into the reckoning as a possible winner Of the section. The Gisborne team led by Williams, which won the championship in 11)3(1, faded out of the picture when beaten by Parkinson (Hastings). Sharp (Hallyburton-Johnstone) beat Hartley (Poverty Bay) to enable him to qualify with eight wins, while Stewart (Matamata) beat Gardiner (Otahuhu) and Cottingham (Auckland Transport) to draw level with Sharp. Do Launay (Carlton), with one loss and two wins to-day, was an easy qualifier and winner of section D. Rotorua is represented in the qualifiers by Collins, French, Budd and Pakes,%ho throughout the tournament have suffered only one loss. It was left to another Gisborne team (Crowley) to provide the final surprise of play in the sections. Whittle (Grey Lynn) being outclassed in the final round and losing his chance of bcirisr among the qualifiers in tlio first matches of post-section Pl Tl',o following aro the results of to-day's SECTION A

Tenth Round. Frankton Railway (Graham, Hedditch, Moreton, Crowley), 21, v. Rotorua (McFarlane, Herd, Butt, Fowkes), 10; Hastings (Bennett, Duff, McLennan. Parkinson). 20, v. Gisbornc (Waire, Neal, Riddell, Williams), 12: Auckland (Hardie Neil. Woolley, Parkhouse, Walker), 23, v. Carlton (Walker, Bates, Elliott, Little). 17; St. Heliors (I3oycc, White, Wright, Russell), 'JO, v. Hereta,unga (Wilis, Harvey, Maher, Maher), 8; Carlton (Palmer Harrison, Rowe, Ritchie), 21, v. Mount Eden (Sutherland, Comes, Kerr, Purdy), 10. Eleventh Round.—Mount Eden, 25. v. Gisborne, 21; St. Heliers, 23, v. Grey Lynn, 10; Carlton (Little), 22, v. Frankton Railway, 20: Rotorua. 20. v. Hastings, 18. Summary.—Auckland and Mount Eden, eight wins, one loss: Gisborne and Hastings, six wins. 4 losses; Rotorua, Heretaunga and St. Heliers, live wins, five losses; Carlton (Little) and Frankton Railway, forir wins, six losses; Carlton (Ritchie) and Grey Lynn, two wins, eight losses.

SECTION B Tenth Hound.—Waiuku (Barriball, Harkle. Neal, Whiteside). 18, v. Auckland (Robertson Pitcaitnly, Keys, Bennett), 10; Rawhiti (Tremain, Mills, Kenncr, McKinlay), 22, v. Gisborne (O'Brien, Blackburn, Hodgson. Johnson), 21; Epsom (Paterson, Bull, Buchun, Wallace), 22, v. Remnera (Danield, Wallace, Short, Wooller), 10; Ponsonby (Frieberg, Letham, Rolfe, Letham), 25, v. Putaruru (MiDermott, .Tones, Paxton, Delaw). 12: Whitiora (Booth. House, Davis, Michell), Ml. v. C'arlton (Robinson, Inglig, Pollard, Loffley), 24. Eleventh Round. —Whitiorn, 25, v. Epsom, 18; Auckland. 21, v. Rotorua, 17; Gisborne, 2L, v. Ponsonby, 1-1; Remuera, 22. v. Putaruru, 1.1. Summary.—Ponsonby, nine wins, one loss; Whitiora, seven wins, three losses; Epsom, Putaruru, Rotorua and Auckland, six wins, four losses: Remuera, four wins, six losses; Gisborne, three wins, seven losses; Rawhiti, three wins, six losses; Waiuku, two wins, seven losses; Carlton, two wins, eight losses.

SECTION C Tenth Round.—Thorndon (Jensen, Gibson, White. Casey), 21, v. Auckland Transport (Ward, Sims, Nash, Cottingham), 13; Grey Lynn (Tonge. Person, 'league, Prince), 21, v. Carlton (Baker, Truscott, Bird, Taylor), 15; Hamilton (Totman, Land, Rowe, Pilkington), 23, v. Poverty Bay (Graham, Graham, Moore, Hartley), 10; Matamata (Gibson, Young, Loveridge. Stewart), 21, v. Otahuhu (Ogilvie, Harper, Sykcs, Gawliner), 14; Rotorua (Kurney, Sutherland, Banks, Corbett), 21, v. Carlton (Wickstecd, Matchett, Birkenhead, Brownlee), IG. „ , Eleventh Round.—Thorndon, 21. v. Carlton (Taylor), 10: Matamata, 21, v. Auckland Transport. 12; Hallyburton-Johnstone. 24, v. Poverty Bay. 20; Hamilton. 28, v. Grey Lynn, 14; Rotorua, 21, v. Otahuhu, 17. Summary. Hallyburton-Johnstone and Matamata, eight wins, two losses; Grey Lynn and Rotorua, six wins, four loAses; Otahuhu, Hamilton and Poverty Bay, five wins, five losses; Carlton (Brownlee) and Thorndon, four wins, six losses; Carlton (Taylor) and Auckland Transport, two wins, eight losses.

SECTION D Tenth Round.—West End (Eshelby, Wynyard, Duncan, Higginbotham), 24, v. Grey Lynn (Shaw, Dougan, Donaldson, Buckley), 10; Carlton (Northwood, Katterfeldt, Brook, Hodd), 23, v. Onehunga (Wilson, Grace, —, Gatland), 20; Auckland Transport (Taylor, Hagen, Ure, Taplin), 23, v. Devonport (Blackie, Lockley, Wrigley, Lundon), 15; Hamilton (Hraman, Coutts, Gall, Bell), 17, v. Hataltai (Kcau, Cox, Josephson Bennett), 10; Carlton (Tomlins, Jenkins, Higgott, de Launay), '2'2, v. Rawhiti (Penn, Ryalls, Mason, Aylett), 1". Eleventh Round. —Devonport, 20. v. Rawhiti, 8; Auckland Transport 21, v. Gisborne, 10; Hamilton, 24. v. West End, 18; Grey Lynn, 21, v. Onennnga, 15; Carlton (de' Launay), 10, v. Hataltai, 13. Summary.—Carlton (de Launay). nine wins, one loss; Carlton (Hodd), seven wins, three losses; Grey Lynn, Hamilton and Auckland Transport, six wins, four losses; West End, five wins, five losses; Devonport and Hataitai, four wins, six losses; Gisborne and Rawhiti, three wins, seven losses; Onehunga, two wins, eight losses.

SECTION E Tenth Round—Carlton . (Blair, Montgomery, Lett, Gordon), 21, v. Grey Lynn i M inch in, McMurchy, Liversidge, Whittle), 15; Otahuhu (Williams, Richards. Rule, Auld), 17, v. Devonport (Buchanan, Bruce, Lowe, Melville), 10; Mount Albert (Lonsdale, Bromlej\ Paterson, Townley), 25, v. Thorndon (Kain, Horwood, Perry, Naylor), 21; Rotorua (Collins French, Budd, Pakes), 21, v. Whitiora (Morris, Frost, Woodall, Choat), 17; Gisborne (Stephenson. Crowley, Thornton, Crowley), 22, v. Elthain (Bluett, Bower, Brown, Casey), 10. Eleventh Round. —Rotorua, 20, v. Otahuhu, 13; Gisborne, 21, v. Grey Lynn, 0; Thorndon 21, v. Whitiora, 15; Rocky Nook, 20, v. Mount Albert, 17; Devonport, 18, v. Elthani, 15. . . Summary.—Rotorua, nino wins, one loss; Gisborne and Grey Lynn, soven wins, three losses; Otahuhu, six wins, four losses; Devonport, Thorndon and Whitiora, five wins, five losses; Carlton and Rocky Nook, three wins, seven losses; Grey Lynn, two wins, eight losses. POST-SECTION GAMES

First Round. —Mount. Eden (Ptirdy), 25, v. Ponsonby (Letham), 7; Auckland (Walker), 25, v. Matamata (Stewart), 17; HallyburtonJohnstono (Sharp), 10, v. Carlton (de Launay), 17.

TOURNEY AT AVONDALE The section winners in tlho Avondale Bowling Club's recent pairs tourney, wore as follows :—Section A: Betts, Mathieson. Section B: Marriner, Harrison. Tho final will be played at a later date.

OPOTIKI PENNANT GAMES [by TELEGRAPH —OWN correspondent] OPOTIKI, Thursday

Tho first threo games In a pennant match between tho Opotlki and Opotiki Citizens' Bowling Clubs were played yesterday. The results are as follows, Opotiki names first: — Connor, Oswald, Smith, Dawson, 8, v. Henderson, Craig, J. O'Sullivan, C. Tabb, 27; Debreeeny, Nosworthy, Bridgcr, Stophenson, 12, v. 15. O'Sullivan, Chntfleld, Jephson, Jamieson, 22; Webb, Clark. Hawkins, Short, 24, v. Burnett, Stevenson, Stevens, Day, 18, The aggregate scores were: Citizens' Club, 07; Opotiki Club, 44.