BOWING.

Press, Volume LIV, Issue 16113, 18 January 1918, Page 9

BOWING.

DOMINION TOURNAMENT, championship RINKS. (press association telegram.) PUNEDIN, January 17. The Rink competition o-dav nearly to the femi-Snil stage. of sudden death was not adopted, ft the first ection, Smith (Otago) -ffon all three eames. thus qualifying for the final In the second section, Walker (Ponsonby) j cLv; O rfi-pen Island) tied wiLh on© loss :ri.andln^o C ?h!rd^tion^tU(Ota^ h*'three wins, and Casey (Ponaonby) and Grav (Kelburn) two wins each. Casey, having a by?, must meet Gray tomorrow and the tinner will have to meet Watts to decade tlve winner of the section. Tho result of today's play are as tender: — FIRST SECTION'. First Round. Noble (Newtown) 26 v.. Fastier (Cavcraham) Smith (Otagu) 19 v. Johnsm (Dnnedin) 11. Second Round. Johnson 24 v. Fastier 16. Smith 20 v. Noble 8. Third Round. Smith 19 v. Fastier 18. Johnson 21 v. >"obk 13. Smith won the section. SECOND SECTION. First Round. ' Bailer (Hataitai) 2*2 v. Walker '(Ponsonby) .8. _ . Smellie (Green Island) 20 v. Fraser (Unitvii 13. Second Round. Fraser 23 v. Bailey 10. Walker 29 v. Smellie 20. Third Round. Walker 25 v. Fraser 19. Smellie 19 v. Bailey 17. Smellie and Walker tied. THIRD SECTION. First Round. W-rlie fie Hiwi) 16 r. Casey (Ponsonby) 11. Watts (Otaßo) 20 v. Gray (KelDum) 14. Colville a bye. Soeond Bound. Casey 22 v. Colville 17. Watte 21 v. Wylie 13. Gray a bye. Third Round. Casey 21 ▼. Watts 19. Gray 16 v. Colvilll. Wylio a bye. Fourth Round. Watts U v. Colvilh 10. Gray 13 v. Wylio 11. Casey a bye. To-morrow iho Pairs competition will ba jontinued, as players are released from the Kinks. NOTES ON THE GAIIES. (special to "the pkkss.") DUXEDIX, January 17. The rinks remaining in the tournament •esuraed play to-day on the Dunedin green. Itain fell heavily during the night, but when the time came for play to 6tart it was beautiful and fine, with little or no wind. Towards five o'clock, as the last games started, heavy ram began to fall, and continued for >ome time. Nearly all the surviving rinks He composed of well-known players, who nayc made names for themselves before in Dominion tournaments, and if the weather aould only keep clear, some very fine games *ould be seen. V Walker's rink, which has played Eplcndidly Shroughout the tournament, met vrith their first defeat this morning, being beaten by Bailey (FTataitai). Sinco then they have won their other two .games, tho last against Fraser (United). In the first round this morning, Fraser met Smellie (Green Island), and at the start it seemed as ii the Christchurch man would haro an easy win. On'tho seventh head they were eleven to their opponents' three. On tho thirteenth head the score read, Fraser 15, Smellie 10, but the latter then scored one, two. three, and two, which brought him to 18. Then it was 18 all, and then 19 nil. The next head was burned, and Smellie scored on the last head, and won the game by the narrowest of margins. In tho next round Fraser met Bailey (Hataitai), and this game was won cosily by Fra3cr, by a largo margin. In their third game against Maxwell Walker, they were not so successful, but it must be said they played magnificently throughout, although tho score was all agsinst them. Woolf, particularly, played Ti?::u(iful bowls, and Brown, as lead, guyo a good account of himself. By losing this jrnme, they are now out of the ritj?sß. Colville (Fdsev-nrc) had a bye this morninT. but in IV record rrund met Gray, of IvVilujrn. Tl'pv pinyc-i throughout, and four- hoaris to fro -yrre '-five points-to the -cod. When tho h»ad came to bo p!:irccl v,-er« t-*o up and laying the v.ilh Gray bavins; a bowl to go. The Kelburn s>ip dmvo r'fn jack into the ditch and lay three, thus vinnig rather a sensational ffainc. Edgcwa-.e then rlayed against P:ir?ons (Ton'on'.v'l. and w-re"uad!y -beaten, ET"I in tho third round Watts (Otago) acCOUT«tc<? l 0T* til OTP. All the Christchurch rinks are now out of t'r.c tnal but there .-.re peroral pairs left to plav in tho sections! t!es, which will bo commenced to-inorrow, as they arc released from tho rink game,?. # The Wms now left in the rinks nre: — Casey (Ponronbv), Walker (Ponsonby). Watts fC-iaso-i. Gray and Smith (Otago). Pl»y will flow 'he on the sudden death principle. and Iho final games of both pairs and rHM take pines on Saturday. W. MscDougall. the well-known Christchurch hovrler, r°tv*rn<?d homo to-day, owing to tho ilJnses oi his wife.