BOWLING.

Ashburton Guardian, Volume 56, Issue 72, 7 January 1936, Page 2

BOWLING.

NEW ZEALAND TOURNAMENT. FIRST DAY OF THE SINGLES. CHRISTCHURCH, January 6. The New Zealand Bowling Association's twenty-ninth annual tournament was started to-day. The competitors include many of the best known and most successful bowlers in New Zealand, and no fewer than 26 former title-holders are playing. A. J. Engrebetsen (Napier Club), winner of the singles championship last year, is not defending his title, and H. G. Loveridge and R ; N. Pilkington, of Hamilton, who won the pairs championship last year, were also unable to attend. The Grey Lynn rink, with H. Whittle as skip, which won the rinks championship last year, is again competing. A party of New South Wales bowlers and C. P. and K. I. Cross, of the Isle of Wight, are also entrants in the pairs and rinks. At the end of the day's play the following players remain in:— With two lives: F. D. Whibley (Greymouth), H. P. Dobbs (Christchurch), I. Grant (Dunedin), A. Dickinson (Avon, Stratford), C. Shaw (Canterbury), H. 0. Alloo (Owaka), A. P. King (Elmwood), R. E. McNish (Canterbury), F. Livingstone (Onehunga), J. S. Bain (Blenheim), C. H. Manning (Timaru), D. C. Burns (Edgeware), Mclnnes (Temuka), C. Spearman (Sydenham), H. Ryan (United), 0. E. Hard-

ley (West End, Auckland), and J. S. Martin (Sumner). With one life: A. F. Edwards (St. Kilda), H. Dickson (Wellington), J. J. Kennerley (Spreydon), J. Kerr (Onehunga), J. A. Veitch (West Harbour), J. Ainger (Christchurch), S. J. Bendall (Napier), G. Foster (Phoenix), J. W. Hayward (St. Albans), M. Walker (Auckland), J. Turpin .(Canterbury), J. C. Brown (Beckenham), D. C. Cameron (St. Kilda), A. G. Mumby (Upper Hutt), S. Hutchison (Logan Park), D. McCormack (Linwood), S. Beer .'(Napier), H. A. Robertson (Onehunga), A. V. Keast (North End, Invercargill), W. H. Hampton (Sumner), F. Lambeth (Balmacewan), W. Bremner (West End, Auckland), W. Easton (Dunedin), S>. H. Maddren (Cashmere), H. Lister (KiaToa), M. Pattrick (New Brighton), J>. E. Nicoll (Cromwell), F. Cook (Avon, Stratford), W. Broughtcn (United), J. J. Hinchliff (Caledonian), J. W. Thomas (Roslyn), G. G. O'Neill (Blenheim), H. J. Williams (Sumner), K. I. Cross (Isle of Wight), W. Anderson (Dunedin), T. R. Hindle (Balmacewan), C. Elsom (Canterbury), L. Arnott (Palmerston North), A. French (West Harbour), J. Stephenson (Nelson), C. Maddren (Christchurch), R. E. Austin (Cromwell).

THE ALLENTON CLUB

TEAMS TO PLAY CHRISTCHURCH. The following rinks will represent the Allenton Bowling Club in a match against the Christchurch Club at Allenton on Thursday evening:— H. Stevens. A. Drayton, T. Welsh, J. Templeton ;* A. Walker, I. Stevenson, J. Shaw, J. Stevenson; J. Wilkie, J. Gowans, R. Barr, W. Acton; R. McInnes, J. Gibson, D. Horsburgh, R. Mathieson; H. Lane, H. Freeman, H. Silverwood, P. Boothroyd. TEAM FOR SUB-CENTRE MATCH. The Allenton teams for the Subcentre match at the Allenton green on Saturday are: — D. Horsburgh, H. Silverwood, J. Stevenson, W. Acton; J. Gowans, P. Boothroyd, R. Mathieson, J. Templeton.