BOWLS.

Dominion, Volume 1, Issue 169, 10 April 1908, Page 7

BOWLS.

i NEW ZEAL ANDERS : . 9EFEXTED. -■'' I By TELEGRAPH—PRESS ASSOCIATION— COFYRIGHIt! (Roc. April 9,-9.35 p.m.) Melbourne, April 9. The third 'match'jtayedibjrtho Now Zealand bowlers , took pln.cc on the Carlton green, and lcsulted:; Victoria, ,121, Now Zealand, 95. The green; was in-ipcrfect '"'drier, there was a; fair attendance,' ahd 'glbribus weather, prevailed: The New Zealaudors wero heartily welcomed.' Smith; Martinj'.Coltman,'-Goldstein, 1 , 18'; Oliver, Trickett, Wright, Waxniaii/ This! was an oven 'game until , the sixiiliieiid,; where the New Zealanders were; leading by tw®.- ! Ajfc the next five ends the Victorians failed to score, ' giving the visitors a lead of "four. WsiXman gained. Several singles, followed by (i brace, and four.., At the twentieth end the New Zealanders were leading by three. ■Victoria scored at the ren\tiining end.;.'?'. Smith,' Broad, Waddell, Bishop. 18; Jamieson, Wood, Colliljs, Stephensj, 23. At the first seven ends tHo visitors scored only iw'o (mado ,at the opening cftd), Victoria getting nine. At tho next ten s 'erifls Vivt/j'ria scored ,6, .'fivo. ends', yielding nothing.' At the tenth' end Victoria led by.4. At the/tWentieth eiid the game was evened Up by steady: scoring, the visitors'leading. by ,_twq.. VictoriaVgot 4, •at. the twenty-£rsi. encl; fdllowed 'by aJpair and a single.. The visitors scored-3'at I 'the twentw-fourth ; end, but failed at ,tho last end. .' Wallace,, Gee;.. Findl'aj, "Hain,"121'; Morrison, \V. Woods, Gravell,'Smith, 24. At the fifth end Smith" got.'seven in, making-a total of nine, against 'tho New Zealanders' three. At the following ends Haiii increased, . thoscoro to' 16, wliilt) Smith 'totalled l ten. ; The remainder of thoVgamo was. even, , and the play of both' cajStjiihs was' well supported. Hain scere<l -at'-thirteen ends,- and: lost his 'three'points' in ( tl\o last, six ends: j,; Chegwin, Golsiebber, : Allnut, Johnston, 18; Strioff, Shaw, i'H'annah, Lecouiilard, 17. The game was remarkable-for-low scoring,: neither sido; getting ' moro than two at any end. Play was even' throughout. At tho tenth end. they tied. with. six. At, the fifteenth end the New ; Zealanders wero leading by one, but overhauled their opponents,• who lost fivo ends. . i'' , Bunting, Manning, Bastings, Bentley, 22; Warner, :■ Jackson, jGi'ut,', Harrison; 36. The 1 Now'Zealanders scored at the first two ends, and failed at tho following six, - whilo tho ; local men scored freely, their score including two fives. At, the. eighth end Victoria had. scored 18, Now .Zealand two. At tho ninth end Bentley scored five." At tlio twelfth end Victoria led" by 12, and then 'failed at several ends, while tho New Zealanders ear-: ried their, score to 18. - Thenceforth the New Zealanders ''scored, at only ono end., making throo, whilo their opponents missed only one end, scoring ono five. TlibV totals were: At tho fifth ■ end. New Zoalalid 13, Victoria 30: at tho tenth er.d. Now Zoaland 33, Victoria 53; at tho fifteenth end, Now Zealand 68, Victoria-67;'at the twentieth end, New Zealand 79, Victoria 94. Tho teams wero entertained to-night at dinner by tho president of the Victorian Association, Mr. Charles Wood.. . : Mr. Thomas (of Ashburton), who died at tho hospital of diabotes; will bo buried tomorrow at Ballarat. Tho teams played with mourning bands on. The New- Zealanders and tho Victorians are sending wreaths to the funeral.