BOHLS 98 Teams Qualify In National Fours Play

Press, Volume XCV, Issue 28179, 18 January 1957, Page 12

BOHLS 98 Teams Qualify In National Fours Play

(Mew Zeatana Press Association)

AUCKLAND, January 17. All the fuss and bother of the cold war of the New Zealand bowling championships in Auckland is now over. From tomorrow morning it will be a shooting war—-every team for itself in which 98 qualifiers in the fours championship will compete. Given good weather the survivors of the battles will meet in the grand final on Tuesday morning. It will also be every man for himself at the Carlton green tomorrow morning when three will meet to decide who shall have the honour of opposing L. J. Lobb, the Taranaki veteran, in the singles final.

Of the 448 teams which spent four bristlingly hot and increasingly exciting days in the qualifying play of the fours, eight were unbeaten, 32 were beaten once and 56 just managed to catch the selectors’ eye by being beaten no more than twice. Favourite sons of several communities came to realise that there would be no bands playing and flags flying for them when they returned home. Champion Falls The loudest clang of the day today was the last, and the man who manufactured it was J. Wilson, with an unconsidered team from Mission Bay. H. H. J. Robson, of Mangakino, the skip of the champion team of last year, had turned away in horror after putting down the bowl that was intended to give him three shots to tie on the 25th end.

It was in truth not a very good bowl but somehow, as sometimes happens, it collected a front bowl which sped at an angle of 45 degrees full into the ribs of one Wilson bowl, Mangakino lay 3. Robson was amazed—to be conservative.

W. H. Arndt, the Mission Bay No. 2, drew a shot on the extra end and though Mangakino, on the third try, drove this out. Robson himself was unable to utilise a good four feet of room to draw the shot.

Two Hamiltonians, E. P. Exelby. of Frankton Junction, and J. M. Morris, of Hamilton, are to meet in the quarter final of the singles championships at Carlton at 8.30

tomorrow morning and the winner will meet J. Pirret, of Tuakau, who was the Empire champion in 1950 but who has never had the luck to win a New Zealand championship. Morris has a greater reputation as a singles player, especially on the Waikato, than Exelby, but the latter has a particularly forceful drive and in the conditions at Carlton, where a thunderbolt is liable to be a man’s best friend, the shot may be of some importance.

Exelby himself caused a stir by not qualifying in the fours. He was in good ompany. Spearman Eliminated

C. L. A. Spearman, of Christchuch R.S.A., who in his time has been singles, pairs and fours champion and who still goes at the game as if he were a nervous young newcomer, failed to jump the sixth and last hurdle.

K. E. Ewing, who won the fours championship from the Stratford club two or three years ago and who is now at Balmoral, is no longer among the competitors. N. Donladson, too, joined the great majority in spite of the fact that at the half-way stage his team looked the likeliest of his formidable section to reach the qualifying stages. In the last game of all, wanting the one win. Donaldson encountered G. D. Bartlett, of Huntly, who had had only two wins in seven matches. Donaldson laboured in the rear 16-22. He got one, then he got a couple, then he got another one, but he could not manage more and on the last end it was Bartlett who scored to win by two or three points. The following are the qualifiers:—

Eight Wins J. A. Marshal] (Mount Maunganui), L. J. Marwood (Morrinsville) A. L. Albertson (Auckland), R Smith (DargaviHe). W. H. Hampton (Naenae), V. Smytheman (Papatoetoe). J. H. Mingins (Tauranga), R Andrew (Onehunga).

Seven Wins J. Pirret (Tuakau), F. Coley (Rocky Nook), M. G. Borich (Hamilton), F Firth (Mount Albert). Tomlinson (West End), T. T. Skoglund (Carlton), A. Freeman (Hamilton). A. A. Lennie (Ponsonby). A Connew* (Carlton), K. Batt (Shannon), V. C Potter (Tauranga), E D Barnes (Te Aroha), C. J. S. Lea (Carlton), A. F. Wills (Walton), W Callender (Edendale).

G. W. Stronach (Avondale), E. H Ravenwood (North-East Valley) Waite (Onehunga), W. L. Grace (Rawhiti), D. S. Low (Takapuna), R. E Wright (Mount Eden). S. Thomas (Ohakune), M. Pivac (Mission Bay). W. Loveridge (Rewa), R. Pegler (Carlton), F. Strickland (Balmoral), Shead (Huntly), W. Mincham (Grey Lynn), T. Duley (Whakatane). T. H Stringer (Hillsboro), J. Lobb (West End, New Plymouth), A. E. Harland Carlton).

Six Wins N. Orange (Balmoral), A. Kitchen (Devonport), A. L. Lowndes (Parnell), H. N. Hunt (Hataitai), M. C. Walbran (Mount Albert), R. Grinlinton (Pukekohe), R. G. McDowell (Remuera), N. Hawkins (Birkenhead), G. H. Woolley (Mission Bay), A. R. Miller (Papakura), R. Hawthorne (Balmoral), G. M. Crouch (Pukekawa), W. Tumilty (Port Ahuriri), H. J Thompson (Whitiora). J. Ray (Howick), S. Vella (Onehunga), H. M. Swlnerd (Tauranga South), J. M. Flett (Point Chevalier). L. Franks (Balmoral), G. H. Mills (Remuera).

H. Nuttall Murtagh (Paritutu), R Neilson (Poverty Bay), O. Paton (Helensville), E. P. Aldridge (Avon). L. H. Robinson (St. Hellers), A. T Jackson (Huntly), L. Waring (Taupiri), A. Neil (Seatoun), A. L Greenbury (Mount Albert), E. A Hagen (Auckland), S. Dominivich (Hamilton), J P. Hoyes (Avondale), H. Ashcroft (Whangarei), T. N Hankins (North Devonport), S. H. Ward (Te Aro), R. Pearce (Raglan), A. C. Kirkham (Carlton). R. E. Pilkington (Balmoral), H. H. Parrant (Onehunga), Scown (Eltham), B. Beaton (Ponsonby), M. R. Buchan (Tui Park), Marinovich (Oratia), G. A. Crowley (Tolaga Bay), J. D Warren (Hillsboro), J. M. Birse (Arapuni), H Burndred (Papatoetoe), A. W. Neal (Albertland), W H Burton (Heretaunga), R. Campbell (Mission Bay), M. McQuillan (Ruawai). A. Pearson (Cromwell), L. K Munro (Glen Eden), H. E. Powell (Kautia.)

A vocational training centre for crippled children is to be established in Auckland. The centre, housed in a multi-storey building to be built near the centre of the city, will be financed by the £150,000 Dadley Trust. The centre will have workshop and hostel facilities and will provide vocational training and employment for all crippled children “The Dadley Foundation will be the first centre of its kind in New Zealand,” said the secretary oi the trust, Mr A. *G. Cook. It was hoped to make the foundation a national institution caring tor crippled children from all parts of New Zealand.