WINTER BOWLS

Auckland Star, Volume LXIX, Issue 228, 27 September 1938, Page 16

WINTER BOWLS

SEASON NEARLY OVER.

LAST WEEK'S TOURNEYS.

SOLDIERS AND BUSINESS MEN. (By TRUXDLER.) Another fine afternoon was enjoyed by bowlers on the various winter greens last Saturday, although those who stayed in the city would be surprised to find that on the southern and south-western greens the play was delayed by a light misty rain that developed at the starting hour. The days are now quite long enough for a delay of this nature to allow the full programme being carried out, and on the Balmoral green the returned soldiers completed the remaining two rounds and also all the postsection play except the final. This will be played on a day to suit the competitors, Smith's Manurewa rink and Bowler's rink from St. Helier's.

The business men also got through their annual match between Queen Street and Karangahape Road. The former won by nine rinks to seven, the seventeentli rink being tied, so there was no occasion to take into account the aggregate scores, 376 to 314. In each of the previous two years Karangahape Road won. but as there is no trophy a win has very little value. the main object of the gathering being to bring together the business people. This desire was fully realised, for every club on the isthmus was represented. and players were present from clubs as far apart as Waitemata and Otahuhu, and across from Henderson to St. Helier's.

Challenge Trophies Retained. The Edwin Stars match was somewhat disappointing, in that the challengers did not produce their usual form, and they let the holders make ten before thev had a figure on the board. For the rest of the afternoon they were struggling for shot, but could never make up the leeway: J. Macklow. >T. L. Norman, H. A. Robertson, F. Livingstone (Onehunga). holders. 25, v. C. E. Barnes, H. Brockett. I. Clarke, A. I. Clarke (Auckland), challengers, 13. Barnes and Bockett played well, particularly the former, probably quite equal to their respective opponents, but neither Clarke nor his father could make any impression on Livingstone and Robertson.

Thig game again illustrates the extraordinary inconsistency of bowls, for most i Ven , th . e P ,aver himself can tell beforehand whether he is going to play a decent game or go to pieces, as they eav. With one change this is the Auckland rink who six weeks ago won by 30 to 9 against the Dominion champion rink of 1935, with one change in the team, and last Saturday they met the rink defeated on that memorable occasion, with one change, and the result is shown above. The same thing happens in langer contests, and it is again causing comment in England, on account of the annual international games, a fiverink contest between the four British associations, each to play the other three. Tn the first round Scotland beat Wales m the next Wales beat England, and Kucha would say that much more then would Scotland beat England. However, England upset the argument by beating Scotland by three rink wins to two, or 116 points to' 06.

The next challengers for the Edwin J Stars will be: F. Carbines, R. J. Carbines, F. W. Oates, 6. 8. Glenkter (Ponsonby), and if there is still another game the I challenger will be G. E. Kent (Carlton).

Success At First Attempt The first time that a. Mangere rink has competed for the Denieon Pins resulted in a great win on Saturday, all the more significant through having a decidedly uphill contest against a Stanley rink who had just achieved four notable wins, although the defending skip had also won the trophies at his first attempt. It looked as if he was going to secure a fifth win, for he was 10 to I with four heads played. Mangere then struck the length, and scored 15 points in seven heads, winning five more heads after Stanley had scored two on the twelfth, and reaching 24 to 12 on the seventeenth. The visitors could then afford to play for safety, so long as the holders made no big scores, the game ending: L. Bishop, D. Penman, J. A. Granger, C. T. Wadsworth (Mangere), challengers. 24, v. F. Baker. W. G. Gale, R. 'McMaster, A. Hitchin (Stanley), holders 19. AH the Mangere team played well, according to the losing skip, who kindly telephoned a review of the contest, Bishop playing an outstanding game, while Wadsworth wiis very accurate with his runnine shots.

The new holders will defend their trophies on the Onehunga green next Saturday, the challenger being J. A. Robertson (Waitemata). Ten brought the holders good luck in the Diggers' Badges, although their 10 to 1, with six heads played, was comnletely altered by the visitors getting two fours, two twos and two singles. It was then neck and neck, the visitors being 17 to 16 at the adjournment, and 20 to 18 on the nineteenth, but they did not score again, although they only just missed on the twentieth, when there were seven bowls crowded round the jack. St. Helier's holding the shot: F. S. Dean. S. M'Mahon, J. Tvndnll. R. Dawson (St. Helier's), holders, 21, v. J. McCullough, W. Aylett, T. George. C. M. Culpin (Rawhiti), challengers, 20.

This will be the last game for the winter, as St. Helier's will open their summer season next Saturday. Usually this would not interfere, as they generally open unofficially and conduct a more formal ceremony later on, but this year the opening will be official.

One of the best games of the Reason took place for the Jordan Pins, neck and neck all the way, with fortunes changing throughout until the visiters started the last head one down. However, the best they could do was to get one point, and a tie leaves the trophies with the holders: W. B. Stephens. J. R. Harlock. E. J. Gatland. W. Gosling (Onehunga). holders, 18, v. R. McDonald. H. Hay, H. Barnett. •T.. S. Martin (Ellerslie). challengers, 18. The next challenger is S. W. Thompson (Hilfeboro).