BOWLING TOURNEY.

Auckland Star, Volume LVII, Issue 10, 13 January 1926, Page 11

BOWLING TOURNEY.

FOUR LEFT IN.

NO AUCKLANDERS REMAIN. GREENS IN FAST ORDER. (By Telegraph.—Press Association.) DUNEDIN, Tuesday. The Dominion bowling tourney singles competition continued to-day. Four players remain in, namely, FosteY, Caledonian, two lives, and Tretheway, Caledonian, Carswell. Taieri, and Edwards, Temuka, one life each. The following are the results of the day's play: —

At.Caversham Foster (Caledonian) had * very easy win over Maher (West End, Auckland), the latter retiring when the scores were 21 to 10. Wade, the English singles champion, made rather a poor showing against' Ellis, of Timaru, being five down on the 20th head. In the eighth round he was eliminated by Anderson, of Caledonian, who won by 27 to 7- Of 17 heads played Wade won three. Foster won his games and Anderson and Wright (St. Helier's) went into the ninth round with oiJe loss. Malcolm and Mair, of England, who had gone through the first day without a loss, were eliminated at the Caledonian green, where Tretheway (Caledonian), Weir (Otago) and Mclntyre (Hamilton) survived. M. Walker (Ponsonby) was one down to. Tillie (Caledonian) in-.£he ma,t;ck played at North East Valley;. It was'a: brilliant game of drawing. Walker, was' eliminated, and Tillie dropped- out wheti he met Edwards (Temuka)., Edwards won after a game devoid of brilKknce but very steady. Another • ex-champion, E. Hafraway (Dunediri) dropped out at Kaituna. In the ninth round Foster proved too good for Jielntyre- 'Carswell (Taieri) was accurate in drawing against Fastier (St. Clair), and from the seventh head forced ahead and won easily. Anderson failed to. reproduce his earlier form against Hayman, being five down- It was a game of excellent drawing, Hayman being at his best. Although improving last in the final stages, Wright failed to make up an early deficiency of six points, i The game between Weir (Otago) anJ Bentlay (Dunedin) was even until the concluding headc, when Weir increased ius. leva tp six points. Although the rffm"- , DOt brillian t '■ Edwards .(•lemiwe, Reserved his win over Falconer tPSwSgo) through his dogged chase. In tt 6 tenth round the match between Foster and Weir was a good exposition affh i e - r won ea sily, "Weir retiring at the l,th head, with the scores 23—9 Tretheway had matters nearly all his ?£?JI* T nst Hayman, who was feelZV j eSeCts ° f his earlier strenuous games. In a match in' which the early - W S^ ere P and the final end « brtf. •bant, Carswel beat Mclntyre. The Ham--H> iSS; y ? i d mt Catch Car until 'the 19th head, and was one up at the commencement of the final held. With one bowl to play Carswell had evened the scores and scored a second by a. wonderfully judged draw, winning by one

Vins. Losses. Foster (Caledonian) .. Carswell (Taieri> .... Edwards (Temuka) .. Tretheway (Caledonian) Hayman (Edgeware) . . Mclntyre (Hamilton) Weir (Otago) Falconer (Otago) .... Fastier (St- Clair) .. Wright (St. Helier's).. Anderson (Caledonian) Bentley (Dunodin) .. Tilley (Caledonian) .. Abbott (Dunedin) ... Docherty (Kelburn) .. Hutchison (Dunedin).. Maher (West End) ... Ellis (Timaru) Clarke (Auckland) .. Bremner (Auckland). .' Walker (Auckland) .. Harraway (Dunedin) Vance (Mornington) .. Vietch (West Harbour) Macey (Dunedin) .... McGorlick (Bluff) J. D. Smith (Dunedin) Wade (England) Buchan (Balmacewan) Malcolm (Greenoch) .. Mair (Glasgow) Reid (Kaikorai) Efford (Edgeware) .. Leith (Dunedin) Edwards (St. Kilda).. Grey (Kelburn) Morgan (Sydenham).. Preece (Gore) Bardsley (Dunedin) .. Finlay (Mt. Eden) .. Chambers (Sumner) .. Stewart (Southland).. Payne (Kaikorai) ... Webber (Rotorua) ... Hinton (St. Kilda) ., Page (Lyttelton) ■5 5 4 4 3 3 3 '3 3 o 2 2 2 2 2 2 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 ] 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 bye 'l o 2 1 1 2 2 o 1 1 1 1 •7 o o 2 1 1 1 1 1 1 o o 2 2 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 - 1 1 1 1 1