BOWLS

Dominion, Volume 20, Issue 101, 24 January 1927, Page 13

BOWLS

DOMINION TOURNEY H. C. CLARKE SINGLES CHAMPION A. BROCKEBUSH AND M. WALKER WIN PAIRS BY TELSGBAPH.—PRESS ASSOCIATION. Auckland, January 22. The Dominion bowling tournament was concluded at Carlton green to-day with the playing of the remaining games in the pairs and singles championships. Results:— PATHS CHAMPIONSHIP. Final.—A. Brockebusli and M. Walker (Auckland), 22, v. Bell senior and Bell junior (Hamilton), 12. SINGLES CHAMPIONSHIP. Semi-Finals.—Bell junior (Hamilton) 17,v. Smellie (Green Island, Dunedin), 16; 11. Clarke (Rocky Nook, Auckland) 17, v. Mclntyre (Hamilton), 7. Final. —Clarke 24, v. Bell 11. Walker, who won the singles championship in 1915. 1919. and 1923, added the honour of skipping the champion pairs, after good up-hill fighting in the early stages against Bell, who had his son as lead. Bell won the first two heads, getting three on each. _ nnd led seven to nothing after the third head. Walker opened his account with a single bn the fourth, adding another on the Ifth and sixth.. Walker turned the head twice on the seventh, nnd scored three, reducing Bell's lead to seven—six. A single to each followed. .Bell adding two on the tenth, when the board read. Hamilton 10, Auckland 7. Bell scored one on the eleventh, but Walker took the next three heads with one, two. and one. making the score eleven-all at the end of the fourteenth head. The next head was keenly contested. Brockebush pushed out Bell junior s shot bowl, and added a counter to lie two. However. Bell. sen., drew Um shot. Walker than disturbed the head to lie two. Bell touched one of Walkers woods near kitty, but on a measure Walker scored two. and took the lead for the first, time by 13 to 11. Thereafter, Walker was never headed. lie won two successive heads with three nnd one. Bell scored one on the eighte»nth, his first point since the eleventh head. When Bell was one on the nineteenth. Walker cut out the shot bowl to lie three, a position ho maintained to lead ?f) to 12. Splendid drawing was witnessed on the twentieth head. Auckland was one tip when the skips choimed ends Walker added another, mid the failure of Bell. sen., to drive out Walker’s bowls gave the Auckland pair the championship by 22 tn 12. The final of Iho singles between C Imho nnd Bell was disappointing. . 1 ho l.nttcr. who had figured prominently in all three events, had evidently felt, th" strain. ami lacked tho experience of Clarke. lie latter led S to 5 nt tho ninth hemL nnd added six more before Bell took (he. thirteenth with a siti-le. b’’’’" scored four at the sixteenth, nnd 1 ell three on the seventeenth. A two oil Meh of the two followin'- bonds Clarke nn nnrhnlUnyenhle lend, and 801 l retired, Clarke winnm" hr 24 to 11.