INVITATION PAIRS.
"A" SECTION. FIRST ROUND. Devonport. (Broughton), 28, beat Mt. Eden (Walker), 24. Whangarei (Bray), «3, beat Mt. Eden (Surman), 13. Onehunga (George), 23, played a drawn game with Mt. Eden (Little)", 23. Mt. Albert (Coyle), 24, beat Ponsonby (Burrows), 23. Auckland (Black), 29, heat Whangarei (Horn), 14. The closest game in this round resulted between the teams skipped by George and Burrows. At the tenth head the score stood—Onehunga, 11; Mt. Eden, 13, In the following head, George put |on a brace, making the figures 13 all. Then Little responded with three, two, and one in succession, giving him a lead of six. But the Onehunga men then came along with a single and a brace and a single, making it 19—17 against them on the seventeenth head. At the nineteenth head the score stood 21 all, and Little got a lead of two, to which George replied -with a similar lay, bringing the figures at the final to 23 all. Another keen game was that between Ponsonby and Mt. Albert. At the eleventh head the score was 13 all, and at the sixteenth head IS all. Then Burrows came away with a single, succeeded by a single for his opponents, to which lip replied by putting on two pairs, the score after the twentieth head standing Ponsonby 23, Mt. Albert 19. On the final ■ head, however, Coyle notched five, and pulled off the game. . SECOND ROUND. JMt. Eden (Little), 21, beat Poneonby (Burrows), 17. i Mt. Eden (Surman), 28, beat Mt. Eden (Walker), 17. Devonport (Broughton), 25, beat Whangarei (Horn), 14. Onehunga (George), 19, beat Whangarei (Bray), 18. Auckland (Black), 32, beat Mt. 'Albert (Coyle), 19. A close finish was seen in the Onehunga - Whangarei game, the figures at the fifteenth bead showing George 18, Bray 10. The country men then stirred themselves, increasing their score in the next three heads to 15. Onehunga notched a single on the nineteenth head, and Bray followed up with a couple and a single, the game ending with one point in favour of Onehunga.
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Auckland Star, Volume XL, Issue 17, 20 January 1909, Page 3
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344INVITATION PAIRS. Auckland Star, Volume XL, Issue 17, 20 January 1909, Page 3
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