CHAMPIONSHIP PLAY

Auckland Star, Volume LXXV, Issue 63, 15 March 1944, Page 7

CHAMPIONSHIP PLAY

CLUB BOWLING ANOTHER WIN FOR HARLAND (By TRUNDLER) Successful skip in the recent Rotorua rinks tournament, A. E. Harland, continued his winning way in the singles championship of Remuera, the final of which he won by defeating R. Stirling by IS to 13. The game was much closer than the score would suggest, for almost to the last bowl it was anybody's win.

This win puts Harland into the very select list of those who have won the championship of two clubs, for he had won the Mount Eden title in three successive seasons, 10-10 to 1942. The Rotorua win had already been of some significance, for Remuera is one of the four largest clubs in New Zealand, the others being Carlton, Wellington and Auckland, and yet the club members had only won at Hotorua twice since that tournament was instituted in 1003. That was in 1000, the skip being the late D. M. Dingwall, who had just won the club championship twice, and in 1930, when the skip was the late A. R. Graham, who had similarly just won the club title twice.

AUCKLAND.—The first round after combining the two sections has now been completed. The bye went to C. G. Maher, while the only other two-lifer, W. Bremmer, beat J. R. McPhail, F. O. Bold beat D. H. Hedley. E. Halford beat H. Bockett. J. W. Barber beat W. Robertson, and G. Oake beat L. Pitkethley. In the next round Bold beat Halford, and Darber beat Oake, but the Lwo- . lifers still have to meet. AVONDALE. —The only two-lifer is the nresent champion, H. Tomlinson, who won the title last year for the • second time, and has since been elected president. fie gets the bye, while the eight one-lifers meet each other. BALMORAL. —In the sixth round the bye went to the only two-lifer, W. C. Franks, while T. Stacey beat V. N. Meredith. W. A. Hill beat J. H. Gribble, C. E. Clews beat L. S. Francis, and F. W. Stamp beat L. G. Grace. Stacey then got the bye, while Franks beat Hill, and Clews beat Stamp. Clews now gets the bye, while Franks meets Stacey. This may introduce an interesting position, which has been debated a dozen times, for if Stacey wins there will be three survivors, all one-lifers, and all of whom havo had a bye. The problem will be to allocate tho most important bye in the whole competition, for it automatically puts him into the final, and sure of a prize. So it depends on correct charting. At the top will be Stacey, then tho losing two-lifer, Franks, then the man who has just had a bye. Clews, and Condition 25 (f) allocates this to Stacey. ELLEKSLXE.—The new champion is R. Goodwin, who beat A. Guy in the semi-final, and R. Hammond in the final. ST. llELlEß'S.—Following tho round mentioned last week, the bye went to A. Davics, while the only two-lifer, J. W. Tyndall, beat K. L. Brookfield, and L. Russell beat L. J. Keys. Russell then Rot a bye, whilo Tyndall beat Davies, and beat Russell in the final. DEVONPORT.—The only surviving two-lifer is the present title-holder, A. G. Munro, who startled the spectators at Carlton last year when they saw a new arrival defeat such seasoned players as F. Ncedham, F. Dyson, W. C. Franks (alter a tie) and V/. Grace, losing to H. Whittle and J. R. Walker. However, he is not yet out of the wood, for there are three one-lifers, J. W. Lowe, the 1933 champion, T. Mason, an experienced R.S.A. performer, and H. J. Richards, three times champion and now president. The Devonport pairs will be finished soon, the two-lifers, F. J. Layzcll and F. Rees George, having only to meet T. Mason and R. Worthington. i BTANLEY.-In the semi-flnals R. McMaster Martin, and A. Hitchen beat F. M. Cox, McMaster then beating Hitchen in the final, as £? ,d 011 two Previous occasions. This is McMaster s eleventh championship, and Hitchen has won three times, beating McMaster in the final of 1942. These two have monopolised the championship for the last eleven years, except two years when W. G. Gale won. McMaster has won the champion of champions twice, beating w - A. Lancaster (Carlton) in the final of 1934, and J. R. Walker (Mt. Albert) last year, while in 1939 WaS runner " u P t0 A - Connew (Mt. Albert) Rr ft mn»ri El ?i E *"~ P ! aylnff 011 the same system as at Remuera, there happened what is always possible, c A m n jfyV vin »hie; on both sides. On one ino\ t ! sw ? uho was first-year chamsirii i!p h?o?' a d Hunt, and on the other pion. and 'lhere bCC ° mCS Cham ' l)leJS Ü by T: U |nw7o™ G beaUnK U C. Tartor^Vthe SSS? to r °s! E. H chSppeil now has to meet Wilson, a two-lifer, in the Anal! tlnn^rt ST o= li H,! > 'T? ,he £?" r sectlon winners continued as two-lifers, G. F. Frieberc iv-itinc t Twomey last season's first-year champion " whi?e C Headland beat W. Wills. The n«nv nrst-veir champion is w. D. de Bazln. Twomey has aS ui'n mor.ll J " mor singles as a two-lifer, and t i-r r},, ' stone - For the Dignan Pairs W ir Jhomass and G. F. Frieberc meet r Headland and S. Scarborough, while the bye goes to c. Raynes and F. Needham.