BOWLS

Dominion, Volume 8, Issue 2409, 15 March 1915, Page 3

BOWLS

WELLINGTON AND PETONE

TIE FOR THE PENNANT

Before a bowl was played on Saturday the pennant contest stood at an interesting stage.\ The Wellington Club, which had gone through without a loss, had to meet Petonc with one loss. This meant that if Wellington won the pennant was won, but if Wellington lost that club would again have to meet Petone. It will therefore be learned with interest that after some extraordinary results it was found on counting the totals that Petone had scraped a win by one point, and the pennant was still fluttering uncertain between the two clubs. The extraordinary feature of the day's play lay in the fact that whilst the Wellington rinks on their own green secured the big margin of 19 points to the good, Petone, on its green, managed to get home by a 20-point margin. Thus each club on its own green was led to expect victory, and was amazed to hear of the wide margins established at each end. The scores were as follow:— At Wellington Green.—Wellington— Grenfejl, W.yatt, Brown, Churchward (s.), 15; Petone—Elvine, Curtis, Fraser, Stephens (s.), 17. Wellington— Wylie, Duncan, Frost, Ballantyne (s.), 23; Petone—Gilmore, Mudge, M'Arthur, Melhuish (s.), 11. Wellington—Neilsen, Veitch, Bary, Webb (s.), 22; Potone—Allen, M'Ewen, D. M'Arthur, Fowler (s.), 13. At Petonc.—Wellington—Blundell, \\ addell, SEill, Porteous (s.), 11 j Petone—Cowie, Firth, Jones, Coles (s.), Wellington.—lnnes, Osborne, Gooder, Magnus (s.), 17; Petone—Wilmshurst, Hendry, Wylie, Wearne (s.), 19. Wellington—Muir, Potter, Thompson, Horner (s.), 19; Petone—Findlay, Donoghue, Rennie, Beynon (s.), 24. Totals—Petone, 108 j Wellington, 107. The deciding match between the two clubs will probably be played on Saturday next.

KELBUIIN V. TE HIWI.

The pennant game between the above clubs took place on the Te Hiwi green on Saturday, with the following result: —Ie Hiwi—Baskeville, Shallcrass, Benzie, E. J. Hill s,, 25; Kelburu —Manley, M'Coll, Routley, Dall (s.), 14. Te Hiwi—Wiggins, Ingram, Cohen, Wilson (s.), 20; Kelburn—Dohorty, Meadowcroft, _ Johnston, Gray (s.), 20. Totals—Te Hiwi, 4; Kelburn, 34. A tie in the pennants section was played off between Thorndon and Kal'ori, which resulted in a win for Thorndon as under:— I Thorndon—Ophain, Ramsay, Brandon, Parata (s.), 29; Karori—Gregg, Finlaysou, M'Pennall, Crawford (s.), 16. Thorndon—Johnson, Thomson,- Wilson. Conlin (s.), 21; Karori —Malin, Lewer, Burns, Cooper (s.), 22. Totals 50; -Karori, 38. JOHNSONVILLK V. SEATOUN. Riuks from the Johnsonville and Seatoun Clubs played a friendly, game ■with the following result:— Seatoun—Heath, M'Farlane, M'Gilli Green (s.), 24; Johnsonville—Boiild, Harrap, Styles, Orr (s.), 17. Seatoun—Lauchlan, Richards, Paul, M'Girr (s.), 20; Johnsonville—Carman, Whaekrow, Smyth, Bethime (s.), 14. Seatoun—M'Farlane, Webb, Beeston, Hill (s.), 14; Johnsonville—Bod, Robinson, Petre, Thompson (s.), 25. Seatoun—Fuller, Alexander, • Wright, Bradley (s.), 9; Johnsonville—O'Neill, Mills, Ferguson, Cook (s.), 32. Totals; Johnsonville, 88; Seatoun, 67. The following have been selected to represent Seatoun to play for the Stansill Shield on 1 Saturday next:—Wright, Alexander, Claxton, Lauchlan (b.) ; M'Gill, Beeston, Wyatt, Green (s.).

PRESIDENT'S CUP.

At Petone green, the following was the result of the President's Cup competition :— Petone—Cowie, Firth, Jones, Coles (s.), 24; Wellington—Blundell, Waddell, Still, Porteous (s.), 11. ■ Petone—Findlay, Doneghue, Rennie, Beynon (s.), 24; Wellington—Muir, Potter, Thompson, Horner (s.),' 19. Petone—Wilmshurst, Henry, Wylie, Wearne (s.), 19; Wellington—lnnes, Osborne, Gooder, Magnus (b.), 17. • Totals—Petone, 67; Wellington, 47. HUTT AND NEWTOWN. At the Lower Hutt green three rinks from Newtown tried conclusions with tho local club, the results being •Newtown—Luke, . Russ'el, Powell, Laughton (s.), 23; Hutt—Hogarth, Webley, Shearer, Trevethick (s.), 14. Newtown—Davis, Gronside, Ransom, Brakenridge (s.), 19; Hutt-Norriß, Rishworth, Jones, Holiard (s.), 14. Newtown—Ghitty, Davis, Spiers, Duff (s.), 18; Hutt—Knight, T. G, Dawson, Barlow, Macaskill (s.), 18. Totals—Newtown, 60; Hutt, 46.

EDWIN FEATHERS.

The following was the result of the match for the Edwin Feathers, 'played on Victoria green :—Victoria'(holders): Hunt, Redstone, Hemingway, Norwood (s.), 23; Hutt (challengers): Johnston, Allport, Reich, Kitt-o (s.), 9.

BUILDERS V.'EMPLOYERS.

The annual , match between Master Builders and Other Employer's, which has been postponed owing to the wet weather, will bo played on the Wellington Bowling Club's green on Tuesday afternoon at' 2 o'clock. The following will represent the respective sides :— Builders.—AV. I. Clark, W. H. Edwards, W. Nimmo, A. Campbell 5.),.1. Clark, A. Wilson, G. Godber, J. Fos6ette (s.); W. H. Bennett; — Gillies, W. Mack, W. L. Thompson (a.); T. Jones, H. Ballinger, A. Ramsay, G. Remington (s.); P. C. Watt, J. Matthews, R. Ramsay, A. Pollock (s.); W: Parton, J, Martin, H. A. Smith, G. Snaddon (s.);"W. Chote, D. Burke, H. Ranson, J. Ashton (s.); D. M'Larcn, C. M. Martin, A. Johnstone, P. Wilson (s.). Employers.—P. Crease, W. M'Lay, J. Pettigrew, W. J. Thompson (s.); S. Campbell, H. F. Allen, V. Dimockj T. Bullinger (s.); F. Meadowcroft, F. Evans, J. Gruar,' J. Mitchell (s.); W. Simm, D. Skinner, W. Wiggins, C. Magnus (s.); J. Godber, J. Cheeseman, W. Pryor, W. Wylie. (s.); A. Gyles, — Wright, W. Osborne, J. Gooder (s.); G. Dixon, T. Bush, S. S. Williams, A. Veitch (s.); E. Norton, W. Penney, F. Townsond, C. B. Norwood (b.).