BOWLS

Dominion, Volume 18, Issue 98, 21 January 1924, Page 10

BOWLS

the championship tourney SATURDAY’S PLAY FULL OF SURPRISES By Telegraph.— Press Association. Christchurch, January 20. The Dominion bowling tournament was continued yesterday in fine weather. 'Hie day was . full of surprises, the most notable being the double defeats of Carswell (the veteran Taieri player) and Dobbs (St.. Albans). The latter had come through the section play without a defeat, but in his first game yesterday he went down to Wylie by the wide margin of 31 to 3. Two games in the pairs competition were also played. Following are. results of Saturday’s games in the rinks and pairs post-sectional competitions. RINKS. St, Albans Green. —Second round: Wylie (Newtown) 31 v. Dobbs (St. Albans) 3; Smart (.New Plymouth) 26 v McCullough (United) 19; Gray (Kelburn) 29 v. Rennie (Christchurch) 16; Benefield (St. Johns) 20 v. Thomson (Carlton) 18; Bremner (West End, Auckland) 23 v. Carswell (TaiorJT z 22; Marffs (United) 19 v. Foster (Caledonian) 18; Dee (Maitai)'22 v. Smeaton /St. Kilda) 16: Stephens (Kelburn) a bye.. Third round: Bremnor 19 v. Wylie 14; Smart 24 v. Dee 17; Gray ' 22 v. Murks ; Stephens 25 v. Benefield 17; Foster 21 v. Dobbs 20; CareweH '22 v. Thomson 18; Smeaton 20 v. Rennie 18; McCullough » bye. Fourth round; Smart 24 v. Stephens I4TT7r. Afarks 22 x v. Dee 19; Benefield 22 v. Foster IT; Wyl'c 23 v. Carswell 18; McCullough 24 v. Smeaton 16; Bremner 23 v. Gray 19. Linwood Green. —Second round: Fielding (Hataitai) 32 v. Redpath /Canterbury) 16; J'lfford (Edgeware) 27 v. Hadlee (Kai Toa, Timaru) 12; Glendining (Wellington) 19 v. Spiller (Sydenliam) 14;, West lEdgewafie) 26 v. Wylie (Kaiapli) 20; Chambers (Sydenham) 26 v. Spiller (Wellington) 15; Smith (Fitzroy) 29 v. Raphael (Sumner) 13: Davies (Edgeware) 23 v. Bust (Timaru) 18. Third round: Smith 18 v. Efford 16; Davies 22 v. Glendining 13; Fielding 25 v. Chambers 16; West a bye. Fourth round: Fielding 19 v. West 14; Smith 23 v. P. L. Davies 18. PAIRS COMPETITION. Canterbury Green.—Second round : Lowry (Carlton) 20 v. Raphael (Sumner) 14; Chegwin (Beckenham) 22 v. Spiller (Wellington) 21. NOTES ON THE PLAY By Telegraph—Press Association Christchurch, January 20. Intense interest was manifested by a large number of spectators in the meeting in the first round of the rink play between Bremner and Carswell. Both skips stand out as among the best in the Dominion, and it was apparent from the outset that they were equally determined to win. B/emner, with four on the ninth, gained, a lead of one point. Carswell evened the scores on the tenth head and got into the lead again with two on the eleventh, but Bremner came to light on the twelfth with another four. Not to be outdone, Carswell replied with five and a single, giving him a four-point lead. The fifteenth, sixteenth., seventeenth, and eighteenth heads went to Bremner, who got well into the lead with a three and a single, a three, a two, making the scores: Bremner 23, Carswell 18. With five against him and three heads to go Carswell made a determined effort to win, but failed to do so. Gray v. Rennie.—Rennie scored on only eight heads. After the nineteenth tlje scores were: Gray 29, Rennie 8. The last two heads gave Rennie fours, but they came too late to be of any use to him. W. Wylie v. H. P. Dobbs.—Although playing on his club green, Dobbs, who had got through the section play without a loss, was completely outclassed in his first game in, the post-sectional play. Wylie got a four on the first . head, and Dobbs replied with a single in the next. However, Wylie had complete control of the gamo in the remaining heads, Dobbs scoring two more singles only. After the seventeenth head Dobbs retired, Wylie having put on 20 points in the preceding eight heads. Dr. Marks v. Foster. —This was a meeting of top-notchers, and the scoring was remarkably even throughout. After the nineteenth head the scores were, Foster 18, Marks 15. Marks scored a single on the twentieth head. Tlie twenty-first produced an unfortunate incident. When the skips each had a bowl to play, Foster lay one. Marks drove, clearing out several bowls and lay two. Foster’s third player, overlooking the fact that his skip still had a.bowl to play, shifted some of the bowls, so that Foster was unable to play his second bowl. In the extra head following the tie, Marks got 'a, single. Benefield v. Thomson. —Tlie third round scoring was fairly even up to the twelfth head. After the fourteenth head, the scores read, Thomson 15, Benefield 9. Bonefield was one down when the last head was commenced. However, he got three out of it, and finished two up.

Smeaton v. Rennie. —This was a particularly hard-fought game, and ended with an unfortunate incident. Throughout the game the scoring was fajrlv level, and at the end of the twentieth head the scores were. Smeaton 19. Rennie 18. In the last head one of Rennie’s bowls was pushed into the ditch, and lay a few inches outside the boundary. Smeaton drove the jack, which r’eached the ditch, touched a bowl lying in the next rink, and bounced back in-

to the confines of Smeaton’s rink, giving him a single. Bremner v. W. Wylie.—After Bremner had opened with a single, Wylie got going, and succeeded m keeping in the leiad until the fifteenth head. , Bremner then got the upper hand and finished in a strong position Foster v. H. P. Dobbs.—Dobbs, hero of'the section play, lost his second life a.t the hands’of the Caledonian skip, uliere was tall scoring in the early stages of the game, the scores after, tlie ninth head reading: Dobbs 14, Foster 13. . . Oarswell v. Thomson. —The Taieri skip, who had suffered defeat in the second round, encountered another tough proposition when be met the well-known Carlton skip. At the seventeenth head Thomson got four, which gave him a lead of one. Thomson got a single on the next, but Carswell won the last three heads, finishing with a margin of four. Wylie v. Carswell. —In the fourth round Carswell met his Waterloo at the haiyls of the well-known Newtown s,kip, who had the two Brackenridges in his rink. His defeat by such an overwhelming majority wag the sensation of .the tournament, and at the end of the game he was one of the first to congratulate the winner on the great game ho had played. After opening with a single on the first head Carswell did not score again until the seventh. Then he had another long lapsa until the fourteenth, v.'hen he scored six singles in succession fringing his total to eight. Meanwhile tlylie nad piled up an unassailablo score. The second head gave him six and ho mad-o good use of this advantage. At various stages of the game the scores were;—Sixth head, Wylie 14, Carswell 1; thirtenth head, Wylie 22, 'Carswell 2; twentieth head, 23, Carsivell 8. Chegwin v. Spiller.—Tins was ait exceedingly close game, in which Cliegwm’s steadiness won him the victory. Chegwin scored singles on each of th« first four heads, and on the fifth Spiller replied with a four. Chegwin scored two more singles on the fifth and sixth, and Spiller replied with two civos on tlie eighth and ninth. On the twelfth head Chegwin had compiled 11 and Spiller 12. Chegwin, liowever, forged ahead on the next five, making his total 18, but Spiller with a six on the eighteenth equalised, and he scored a- two and a single on two subsequent heads, thus gaining him a lead of three. Chegwin managed to place hie four on the last head, thus gaining the' game by a point.. '• EDWIN FEATHERS. The Edwin Feathers were advanced a. stage on the Central Bowling Club’s green on Saturday, the challengers being Karori. The rinks and results were as fqilow:—Karori—Gates, Burn, Crawford, and Cooper (s.), 13; Central— Scddon, Allan, Barnsley, and Howat (s.), 20. The next challengers are Lyall Bay. NEWTOWN AND PETONE. The following are the results of a friendly game played on the Newtown green on Saturday against Petone (Newtown mentioned first: —G. Brown, Johnson, Phillips, Porter (s.), 14; Matthews, Allen, T. McArthur (s.), 18. T. Hodgson,* A. Hodgson, Chegwidden, Leahy (s.), 17; .Elvine, Jowctt,- Silbeiry, Wearne (s.), 13. Culley, Salmon, Middlebrook, Cavanagh (s.), 21; Bush, Fincanis, Tregear, Nicholson (».), 23. A. C. Smith, W. Sloan, Urquhart, Levestam (s.), 31; Hawkins,. Hams, Thompson, Burns (s.), Benge, Marshall, Swenton, Priddle (s.), 29; Finch, Pere, Johnston, Seager (s.), 13. Totals: Newtown, 112; Petone, 79.