BOWLING.

Ashburton Guardian, Volume 56, Issue 76, 11 January 1936, Page 2

BOWLING.

NEW ZEALAND TOURNAMENT. THE RINKS CHAMPIONSHIP. CHRISTCHURCH, This Day. The rounds in the rink championship of the New Zealand bowling tournament today provided, as first rounds of rinks play usually do, more than a few surprises, rinks 'which have achieved striking success in former championship tournaments going down in some cases to rinks from comparatively unknown dubs. .... ~ , The biggest surprise m the first round was the defeat of the Auckland rink skipped by the redoubtable Maxwell Walker by the Gore Club's rmk skipped by~~W. Scobie. This game, played on the Elmwood green, attracted a big gallery, and these who came to watch were not disappointed. As might have been expected, the scoring was high, but the final result, Scobie 29, Walker 26, came as a surprise. The success of the Gore Club against such strong opposition was very popular with southern bowlers. The biggest win of the morning was recorded by tlie Spreydon rink which was skipped by J. J. Kennerley, who had other successes in the pairs and singles. It beat the Caledonian rink skipped by W. T. Henaghan by 41 to 15. W. Bremner, the well-known Auckland player, is again skip of a rink which includes C. E. Hardley, who has already met with much success at the tournament. Bremner took his rink to an easy victorv in the first round. The New South Wales rinks fared badly in the first round. Five were entered for competition,, and the only one to score a win was that skipped by J. Purves, which met an Imperial l(Christchurch) rink skipped by R. S. Draper by 23-22. The others, although they made a good showing, were defeated. The Linwood rink skipped by H. Wilson, which had won the rinks championship in 1934, suffered defeat at the hands of a. Featherston rmk skipped by H. Rolls. Another extraordinary score, the biggest yet for the tournament, was put up in the second round at St. Albans, when the Thorndon rink skipped by M. J. Casey beat a Christchurch Club rink, W. Brown skip, 44-14 in 24 heads. The last head was not played, for it was more than obvious that it could not affect the result. In the second round the Ashburton rink (H. Colquhoun, S, Madden, W. R. Featherston, W. H. Higgins, skip) was defeated by an Invercargill rmk skipped by R, R. Hunter, 32-20.