BOWLS.

Dominion, Volume 1, Issue 94, 14 January 1908, Page 3

BOWLS.

THE TOURNAMENT AT AUCKLAND.-

CONCLUDING MATCHES ' (Bf 'TELBGBArH—SrECIAL ■ CORKESrONDEM.) ' . . . Auchland, January 13. . ' Tho annual tournament of- the ■ North JMand '• ilowling' Association; which- has,, oxtended over .six- days,- was.concluded to-day ii) fiao weather, > wlionf tho Citizons' . Match was -'decided.' Two connty clilbs, contestod for the' firstjpriie, and two Wellington clubs the, ' third lprize, - ythp'' : ;lokr/'; - of; the ' former .attendance',*blithe Auclcland'.greeri, l tne -sup-, porters ' of ''the/'respe'ctiyeycliibs; beitig ■' much throughput; tlie play. .Thfj prizo -; ii^-'approjKstel^iiairied - ,''for.a f'eiv citi-ij zeiis i presented' - the'. trophies - for r.the- competition .- "The 1 first• 'prize: is" tho: jifesidcnt's ,'foiir gold medals and- four. trbphies, valued nt three'guineas', the ( second' prize' the president's Hour: gold medals and ifour trophies, valued''at-one', aiid 'a half 'guineas each, - arid the - third pi;ize is'foiir trophies'valued'at'two guineas each. The total trophies amount'to 26 guineas. • ' ■: - ■' v ,-, ,' . Thero was keenycompetition throughout. Six^y:teams-competed. .Tho.'final-'resulted-'in-a spmewhiit 'easy .victcry fpr. Palmerston, over Greerimeadows '.(Napier) by ; thp\.subsfiautial majority\of'26. ppints,'',the' scores', beingJPaU mersttoii, 36,- Greenmeadows 10.y The 'winning team comprised .Mowlem,. Scott; Young, i and Nash' (skip). .'Crowley;iskipjjereci. the Greenmeadpws team,', arid with nim ,'w'ere Triston, Currie, aiid 'Rickctts. Palnierstqn were' the first-to,score,'sccu'ring'one':on:the first head. At-.the""siith' head Palmerston -had established* a: lead," eight' -being recorded*.'to' them against their opponents' three; Frorii that time'.on. the issue was \never in doubt, Palmerstpn piling up the .'score,- at' every head, whilst then - opponents, failed, to add to their record until the thirteenth head, when the score was 26—5. At the ipth head Palhierston scored .a;'trio;-and the score stood at 31—D._ At the next head Palmerston added another finishing up: Palmerston .36,, Greenmeadows increased' .their, by one, : the game finishing: up,. Palmerston 36, : . Greenmeadows 10..: Palmersten wins' the first -prize and Greenmeadows'. the second. • ■ '- ''

A ;'very";,fine gafrie "was witnessed 'between' the. Thorndon and ; WelHpgtoii clubs. The result was in''doubt until tno-last head was completed, and: then Thorndon-was declared' victorious by [the narrow tnargin of one point,' amid niuch • applause.. ' The Thorndon rink : was Dimock,- Wiggins, juri; Leighton, and .'Brightwell (skip).' The . Wellington team''was. liill, Brunskill, ■ Veale, and Bell (skip).-. Thorndon; made an auspicious start, scoring a.five, one,, and four, when Wellington responded-with a -brace, and some'zig~ Bag'playing then ensued, each . rink scoring in-turn, until, at the twelfth'hoad, Thorndon _was', 17 and Wellington 13, the latter making' good amends with a fire. Each then scored a counle of braces, and, Wellington, amid much oxcitemerit, scored a four; and a single on the- eighteenth and nineteenth- . heads.; ' Thorndon, on the twentieth head, by some fine play scored- a brace, displacing soriio of Wellington's bowls With-three; to score a win . Wellington made great efforts,' but ,tbey-could not scale the difference," find Bell sent down his last bowl giving his team 'two.' Thorndon thus won by 25 to 24. . , • . . Shortly after .noon a • group of bowlers assembled in the club's pavilion and toasted the health of the'local officers, who were praised for .'the conduct-of the tournament throughout. Several of. the visitors referred in-high .term's -to the hospitable"manner in wmch the Aucklanders had treated them -