ONLY THREE UNBEATEN RINKS.

Auckland Star, Volume LXXI, Issue 14, 17 January 1940, Page 14

ONLY THREE UNBEATEN RINKS.

SECTION PLAY ENDS. BREMNER WINS SEVEN GAMES SPEARMAX'S FIXE RECORD. (By Telegraph.—Prdss Association.) WELLINGTON', Tuesday. Forty -tltree teams qualified for post section play ill the rinks cliainjvion.ship oT tli« Dominion ( eiitennial bowling totirnanieut. tlie final section rounds biHug played to-day under ideal conditions. Tlie jrroens were, holding .slijrlitly in tlie morning, lmt alter lM'ing rolled out, wer« perfect for the afternoon play. Three rinks. Silhery (Petone). Hadwin (Tlutt) ami Miinii fCiniterlmry), went through all rouinls witliout suffering n defeat. Tlie only previous Doniinioti rinks champion lioldeis reinaininj; in the comIK'titiiili are Hremuer (West End, Auckland), with seven wins, and Naylor (Hataitai). with six wins, although Munn was aKriiiciateil wilh Hawortli (C'anterliury) in New Zealand rinks victory here three years and with the victorious rink of 11. W'ilsiiii (Linwoodj at Dmiedin in IO.tS. Spe.unian fSydenhanO. although he lost two rounds in the rinks, has achieved an ititerestin>r performance in this year's tournament, lieinji ainonj; the qualifiers in the rinks, pairs and singles events. Spearman, a /(inner singles champion, has lost only three panics out of 24 in the present tournament. In the final of the round rinks to-day he was defeated by Smith (Tekaro), 10—21.

Livingstone (< Miehunga). an-otlier former Dominion .tinging champion, went well In t!•<• rinks event with six wins. Skips of previous title-winning rinks who have been eliminated this year are. Portions (Wellington), Pilklngton (Hamilton), Ben.-field (St. John's), De-are (fnrlton), WUsoq (Lin wood) and Hawortli (Canterbury). A notable defeat to-day was that of Reid (Lyall Hay), who lost his last chance of qualifying by going down to Russell (St. Heller's I. 14) —2Ki. Iteid, however, is still among the eight teams remaining in the jrairs. Gray (K>M>urn). who qualified with «ix wins, was runner-up to Haworth for the title in 1037. One interesting match this afternoon which attracted a large gallery at the Thorndon green was that between Rendle (Cpper Hutt) and Nnylor (Hntaltnl). in which Rendlo won by a. margin of eight points. Both were well-known performers, Rpndle'fl latent triumph being the Baeter rinks of 1938. A feature of this tourney has been the failure of Edwards (Temuka) to qualify in any competitions. The 43 to Qualify. Tho folio-wing qualified for post-ePetion play :— iSecMon.A,. —MasHn, seven wins; Naylor, six wins. Section B.—Frnifth, Smith, Gray, each six wins. Section C.—Sllbory, eight wins. Section D.—Dickinson. Williams, each seven wins: Wieks. six wins. Section E. — Hazelwood. Reven wins; Mitchell. Thomson, six wins. Section F. —Hadwin, eight wins; Bull, six wins. Section G. soven wins; Ritchie, Bell, six wins. Section H. — Ma«on, seven wins; Robinson, nix wins. Section I.—Pavitt, Marks, Russell, six wins. Section J. —Manning, Cullen, Buchan, six wins. Section K. — Rameay, Bremner, sevon wins: Bond, six wins. ■Section L.—Spearman, Bain, Livingstone, .six wins. 'Section \f.—Kirkwood, seven wins; Beeley, Botilton, six wins. .Section N.—Firth, six wine. Section O.—Lobb, seven wins; McCarthy, MeWhannell, Smith, six wins. Section P.—Mann, eight wins; Greville, elx wins. Section Q. —Lawrie, seven wins; Christoffel, six wine.