WINTER BOWLING.

Auckland Star, Volume LXVII, Issue 183, 4 August 1936, Page 15

WINTER BOWLING.

MORE TOURNEYS IN VIEW. WELL-MATCHED RINKS. SOLDIERS ON THE GREEN. N (By TRUNDLER.) Lucky Auckland! After a week of storms of more or less severity, Saturday introduced a welcome spell of glorious sunshine, so the afternoon was thoroughly enjoyed, while most of the Dominion was still worried with cold winds, rain and snow. Strange to say, the winter greens were hardly as well patronised as usual, even though the only attraction to take any large numbers from their own greens was the opening afternoon of the twoSaturday tournament at Balmoral. This I will be continued next Saturday, and probably completed except the final, which 'will be le.ft for the following week, when two or three other finals will also be played. Oil the latter clay, August 15, two other clubs, Auckland and Ilillsboro', will commence two-Saturday tournaments, and Hallyburton Johnstone will start a similar tourney on August 22. The Hallyburton Johnstone Club found the finalists in theifr King's Birthday tournament free on Saturday, so they played it off at last, with the following result: D. Tomlinson, Peters, ,R. Tomlinson, F. Tomlinson 17. v. J. .Bull, W. Hutchison, G. Bromley, F. Dyson 14. It was a very fine game, in spite of a distinct reversal in the scoring, the pronoynced features being Tomlinson's success in frequently driving out a bowl to score several shots, countered by Dyson's success" in drawing to save when he was well down. With*l4 heads played, Dyson was .13 to 10, but 13 had the very common psychological effect and his side scored only one more, on the twentieth. The Challenge Matches. Rawhiti made a great attempt to capture the Edwin Stars from Grey Lynn, doubtless encouraged by their success at about this time last year, when they took the trophies from Remnera and held them for a month. However, the game ended in a tie. which is just as good as a win for the holders in a challenge match: W. McMurchy, T. G. Shaw, E. E. Buckley, H. Whittle (Grey Lynn), holders, 17, v. A Pederson, A. Macpherson, W. Chiplin, C. M. Culpin (Rawhiti), challengers, 17. There was only one the difference when they adjourned for a cup of tea, but when 19 heads had been played Rawhiti were actually leading at 17 to 12. However, this is not the first time that Whittle has successfully lifted five, for that is how he got his name into the list of Dominion champion skips, and a three and a two. with t.he jack where Culpin could not get at it, settled the custody of the lat<* Captain Edwin's trophies for another week. The next challengers are H. McCowan, P. W. Wilson, E. T. Richmond, T. R. George (Epsom), followed by A. li. Brookes (Stanley) and J. A. Robertson (Waitemata). . . The singles champion of the Dominion i did not hold the Denison Pins very long, although the game on Saturday started off decidedly in his favour, the largest differences being 5 to 3, 10 to 6, 12 to 8, 14 to 9, 15 to 10. However, the visitors came to light after a cup of tea. reciprocating the president's warm welcome at the adjournment, and the latter scored only one more point: W. E. Oughton, J. C. Yeo, A. Farley, W. H. Keatley (Rockv Nook), challengers, 25, v. J. Macklow, H. E. Welliam, E. B. Wright, F. Livingstone (Onehunga), holders, 16. A feature of ' the game after the first few heads was the remarkable accuracy of the Rocky Nook front division, both Wright and Livingstone usually finding the head i against them, sometimes very badly. Starting the twentieth head 8 "own, Livingstone went to the mat with the positiou so bad that he sent the white into the next rink, but on the replay Rocky Nook had one bowl that could not be ■ shifted; so the remaining head was not Rocky Nook winter green is in hospital, recuperating for the summer play, the new holders will defend theftr trophies on the Onehunga green and will meet i ,T. Dick (Ponsonby). followed by A. O. Bush. (Balmoral) and B. Harding (Transport). Takapuna Surprises Auckland. The Auckland winners of the Diggers' Badges of the previous week must have received a shock on Saturday when they found that the . visiting . rink from lakapuna included the club champions ot the last three years, playing in that order, ioi the only time that a soldiers rink lias included three champions was when the same three played last year. However, they suffered the same fate as on the eariier occasion, although they tied at 10 all when they adjourned for tea, the Auckland skip being supported by the consistent play of his front division: W. Robertson. L. Pitkethley, S. Purdy, W. Ure (Auckanl), holders. 23, v. H. S. Loiimer, E. Price, T. W. Christey, H Collins (.Takapuna), challengers, 13. The next challengers are R. Sutherland (Avondale), H. R. Goldsmith (Balmoral) and A. Moon (To Papapa). . The Jordan Pins gave a good game, quite as interesting as the final score indicated: W. Stone, H. Johnson S. Moore, T. Pilkington (Te Papapa), cliallenders 22 v. H. E. Goldsboro, R. ler° H L. Watkin, 11. P. Norris (St. I Helier's). holders. 21. They were S all on I the eleventh head, but the holders reached 12 and stayed there from the fourteenth to the nineteenth head, while Te Papapa

reached 22. On the twentieth St. Helier's scored 6 and were lying 5 for a win on the last head, when Pilkington drove out one for a tie and pushed out another for a win, although lie very nearly pushed in an opposing wood, to give it away. To score nine for a win on the last two heads is a most unusual feat, and the winners were warmly congratulated by the losing team. Obituary. Those who have watched the actual running of the smaller clubs will regret to learn of the death of Mr, Sam Scarborough, one of the foundation members of the Hillsboro' Club, ten years ago. Quite apart from serving two terms as president and also acting as delegate to the centre, he was a real pillar of strength in support of the club's first president, Mr. Raymond Sheath, giving the club the same active assistance as lie gave to the district as a whole during his long term as a member of the Mount Roskill Road Board and chairman of that body. He never spared himself in either capacity, and his name will be held in honoured remembrance by all the older residents in the district.