SOLDIERS WIN AGAIN

Auckland Star, Volume LXXII, Issue 171, 22 July 1941, Page 10

SOLDIERS WIN AGAIN

WHEN GREY LYNN DEFEND THE | BADGES I I By TKI'NDLKIi.I Am.tlici victoi.v for the (Iroy Lynn' |{etin lied Soldieis to retain tlu- Diggers M.iil'-'ik u-.is the striking feat mo oi the • inter-club chalh-nye matches on Saturday. tliK making their eighth win in succession. ! While .ill wove pl.iyimi at the top of their form. w.is p.n t iculai ly accmati*.; He often left Caddy nothing to do except, to protect the foundation already made. On the one oi.imoii when the skips went; to the mat with the visitors lying foin , j C.iddy diove out three of them, and then, trailed the j ick lor two. in a position that; was impossible for Maud to recover. Ihe local team led 12-8 at the tea adjourte j ment. then steadily went ahead, the final; score being: .T. Armstrong, li. Shine. K.i Teague. K. ('. Caddy iGtey Lynn), holdeis. . 28. v. A. ( hallinor. B. Wood. 11. Percy, •!. ! Maud i St. Helier'sl. challengers, 14. The next challengers on the list are 1!. Cross I Onehunga I. -J. P. Lane (Mount | Albert) and C. M. Culpin (Hawhiti).

Led Until Final Bout Another rink from St. Heller's had a different experience in the some neighbourhood, leading an the way against the West End holders of the j Edwin Stars', until the very last bowl was played. At one stage the score was 14—7. but the holders reduced the deficit to three, with two ends to play. The twentieth built up in favour of the visitors. • but Needham drove the jack in*o the ditch, ani then drew a second shot. The last end was Just the opposite. West End holding everything until Eshelby drove and saved six. There was then every chance for a win with a trail, and Eshelby . picked up the jack, but it went the wrong way. ! and left his opponents two. to be ahead lor the first time, and win by one point: F. J. Newell. A. E. Overington, A. H. Stichbury. F. Needham (West End), holders. 21. v. A. Wymer. B. Drury, C. E. Brooke, P. Eshelby (St. Heller's), challengers. 20. On the first fine Saturday E. E. Buckley will j take a Grey Lynn rink to West End. to be fol- \ lowed by J. C. Taplin (Transport) and D. C. Fraser i (Carlton). It was unfortunate that Transport, like St. Helier's, had to find two teams on the same day. ' but one of them won. Otherwise the whole four • sets of trophies would have been retained by the holders, a success which has not been achieved for j the past three years. The winners were H. Neal, ! L. Ure, W. Horscroft, J. C. Taolin, who cap!ured the Denlson Pins from R. J. Carbines. C. M. Piper. J. J. McKinstry. G. S. Glenister (Ponsonby), with a score of 19 to 10. The play was closer than the figures would suggest. as the highest score on any end was two. It seemed likely that this rate of scoring would be broken on the eighteenth end. when Ponsonby was lying three and the board showed 14 to 10 for the visitors. Taplin. however, saved with his list bowl and won the remaining three ends, returning with high praise for the condition of the Pon- ' sonby green. i The new holders will defend their trophies at ! Onehunga next Saturday, and may expect a team made up by C. J. Moon (Mount Eden), followed by V. Dyson (Hallyburton Johnstone) and J. H. Colthurst (West End). , Doel Always on the Jack ! The other Transport link had no hope In their j attempt to win the Jordan Pins, the Onehunga I holders playing a phenomenal game, incidentally j confirming the high opinion formed regarding Doel j formerly of Whangarei. during his play in the I Easter tournament. He was on the jack all the j time, and as all the others were also playing well ' there were few openings for Transport to recover, i so the score accurately indicates the run of the j play: C. A. Doel. K. E. Bell. L. G. Grace. R. Lalng (Onehunga), holders. 29. v. A. Early, j. ' Crawford. R. Muldoon, E. G. Jeffrey (Transport) I challengers, 9. ...The next to challenge are G. BCvin (Ellerslie), ' W. Bond (Te Papapa) and J. Brand (Hillsboro). The two-Saturday tournament at Hillsboro was continued In splendid conditions, so there was no difficulty in playing the remaining rounds, and also the section ties. This leaves the final to be played between F. Firth (Glen Eden) and W A Hill (Balmoral).