CLOSE MATCHES

Auckland Star, Volume LXXV, Issue 216, 12 September 1944, Page 7

CLOSE MATCHES

inter-club bowls challenges (By TRUNDLER) chSieVe |un| K*u C H the last end commenced Be® ll ®™ lying 14 holding the back bowl, and White a>ms the "hot when the skips went to the mat. Purdy missed his drive, and Fisher put in hloci* which wrecked Purdy s last bo.vl. next challengers are T. Mason J°^'°" po t r e aAi H. Bralthwaite (Epsom) and a Mangere team. The Denison Pins game .was Just the opposite, the Mount Albert team again ruling r l ®™S Mder^^eoTe^V^ WEdker, S «■ v. w. Bowden. J. McCullough. C. r f sei V lber ; Grace (Rawhiti), challengers. 12. Mo " n *' now meets T. A. McClymont s Ponsonby rink; the next to challenge being Mount Eden and R< Aftcr capturing the Edwin Stars the previous week with a score of 29-11. Mangere was welt I trounced by Mount Eden the score Wre 1« at the tea adjournment. They shook hands at the 18th end with the score: C. J. Moon, C. C. Forgic, S. E. C happell, H. H. P ar ™ nt (Mount Eden), challengers, 24 v. C. Buchan, L W. Bishop. R. Branch. C. 1. Wadsworth 6. The n**xt on the list are H. P. Collins (Takapuna), F. Firth (Mount Albert) and A. Hitchen Six successive wins have been enjoyed by the Hillsboro -team, which won the Jordan Pins in the second pome played this winter. The last three have been by comfortable margins, Saturday's score being: A. Aitken. G. Vasey. A. Fisher. S. W. Thompson 23, v. T. M. Ferguson J. F. Crow. W. Gardiner, J. Gardiner (Otahuhu). challengers, 12. The next to play arc C. O. West (Onehunga) and a St. Heller's team, under the charge of E. Leach. It is a common saying that anything can happen in bowls, but it is not often that there is such Si reversal as in the game for the Hadwin PJ ns. Many of the members at Carlton saw what looked like a runaway, the Rocky Nook holders being 20 to 4 at the tea adjournment, and 23 to G at the 16th. The scene was changed on the 17 th when the Mt. Eden challengers scored 8. and on the next they were lying 3 when the skips changed over. Wells drew a fourth, and pushed out another for 6, and then scored three singles to tie. Actually, they were lying two on the 2tst, but Young saved one of them, the score being: J. Taylor, E. White, A. H. Roylance, M. Young (Rocky Nook) 23, v. T. W. Sawyers. R Black, W. Williams, N. Wells (Mt. Eden), challengers, 23. The tie means that Rocky Nook will now meet a challenge from Remuera. and the next clubs on the list aro Auckland and C£ Aiickl"and is shortly to lose, in transfer to Wanganui, a popular and useful bowler in Sergeant W. Tumulty, who was recently elected president of the Edendale Bowling Club. Apparently there will be only three more Saturdays for winter play, as a large proportion of the clubs usually open their summer season on the first Saturday in October. Next Saturday there will be the reunion of Grammar Old Boys at Carlton, accompanied by a rink of Sacred Heart Old Boys, and also a rink of Old Boys from the defunct Prince Albert College. It is understood that the. latter will comprise J. Pascoe, H. Z. Watkin. H. C. Clarke and H. A. Robertson. A week later there will be the Otago and Southland match against Carlton, commencing at 1.30. and the over-subscribed tournament at Mt. Eden, for which 32 rinks have been accepted.