Bowling Final.

Auckland Star, Volume LXV, Issue 1, 2 January 1934, Page 8

Bowling Final.

CARTER VICTORIOUS. Carlton Rink Defeats Mount Eden in Centre Championship. Played in fine weather at Carlton green this morning, the ninth round of the Auckland Bowling Centre's rinks championship resulted:— H. D. Grocott, J. P. Mason> H. C. Clarke, G. H. Carter 30, v. E. C. Delamore, A. E. Innes, W. E. Vivian, D. C. Eraser 17. This final was a splendid game, much better than the score indicates, but the Carlton rink scored 14 points before Mount Eden started, and maintained a substantial lead. Their only real failure was on the fourteenth head, where Delamore and Innes were on the jack, with Clarke close, up for third shot. Eraser pushed out the opposing bowl, and Carter ran through the head, unfortunately displacing a bowl of his own side for o down, to which Fraser added a sixth. This made both sides very careful, neither scoring more than two in any subsequent head. Vivian tried to pull the game out of the fire in the nineteenth head, and drove the jack into the ditch, but Carlton still scored two. The last head snw beautiful driving, but. Mount Eden could get only on}i out of it. and the twenty-first head was not played. At the conclusion of the game the trophies were presented by the president of the centre. Mr. Raymond Sheath. The winning rink also takes for its club the Hardley Memorial Cun for the ensuing twelve months. Instituted in 1931, on the death of Mr, J. W. Hardley. the winning rink that year comprised:/ J. C. Duncan, H. B. Jenkin. R. Higgott. C. H. de Launay (Cnrlton), and last yenr it was also won bv a Carlton rink: T. Sampson. J. A. Bird, J. Torrance, % W. A. Lancaster.