BOWLS WITHOUT BIAS

Dominion, Volume 24, Issue 66, 11 December 1930, Page 15

BOWLS WITHOUT BIAS

Hutt Valley Banner Competition CLUB AND, PERSONAL NOTES

(By

“Armada.”)

For the first time this season the Saturday bowlers enjoyed perfect conditions for their games last week-end, and there was little excuse for poor displays. As a matter of fact, there was some good bowling. If there was anything a little bit “riling” it was to see another fellow drive and burst up a head built up with good drawing shots. This happened in soma of the Hutt Valley banner games, but those who like an occasional drive uphold it and say it takes a good man to drive accurately. The Victoria club has a member who loves to drive sometimes, and it has to be admitted that he is pretty deadly as a rul.e'. It is certainly an accomplishment to be able to drive out a shot bowl and score two or three as a result. * * * At the Hutt. Two of Lower Hutt’s leading skips went down in the banner games—Hodgins, who lost by five to Howett on Central.green, and Hendry, the veteran, who lost by nine on his own green to Jones, Woburn, who was in great form. Howett started off in fine style against Hodgins and was leading 7—o on four heads. Allen, his number 3, then cracked, up for two or three heads, and a couple of his running shots were so, narrow that they ran into the head of the next rink.. He came back to form later. Hodgins had to do some driving in selfdefence, doing so once when Central was lying four, and he-only succeeded in taking out one. o * « P. Devine, who is a well-known figure in the amateur billiards championship, is also an adept on the green at Petone, although I think he is better with the cue. He has a table of his own, by the way. • • • At Woburn, Dempsey was leading McArthur, Petone, 22—7, at the tea interval, and in the remaining heads only scored six to McArthur’s eight. Shearer won against Tamblyn after a “ding-dong go,” Jones driving with his last bowl and the last bowl of the game to knock out three opposing bowls, so scoring three for,his own rink. Warner, the Central veteran, was not playing on Saturday, being content to look on, but he hopes to be in the next veterans’ tourney. He is 72 not out. * » ♦ Foster beat Gowland at the Central green by 11 points. He was leading 7—l on five heads, including a four, and in the sixth head put on another four. •* * • Norris, Hutt, who beat Fisher, Central, . scored a six in his second head. This was the biggest score of the afternoon for one head in the banner, but Lawson, Hutt, scored five and three in succession in a friendly game. A. Gray, of Petone, is one of the veterans of the Veterans’ Day tourney, for he skipped the winning rink in the first tourney in 1924 at the Wellington green. He was a member of the Petone club when it secured its present property. He has been 52 years in New Zealand, of which 36 have been spent in Petone. He is a native of Glasgow, and left there in 1878. He is six years over the allotted span, qualified for the veterans’ tourney in the first year, has' played in every, one since, and hopes to do so again.

Barnes, Paul and Fisher, Petone, have signed on for tile trip to Martinborough on January 10. e « * All Hutt bowlers are hoping that Greig Upper Hutt, will soon be sufficiently restored to health to get back on the green again. It was a pity that a substitute could not be found to skip the Upper Hutt rink, rather than default. The Central skip said he would rather have played and lost than won by default. ♦ ,» ♦ Pawson, the Central skip, started badly against Walton, Lower Hutt, who, by the way, is secretary to the banner competition. On the 13th head Pawson was down 17—g, but came to light after this, and with a little luck would have won. V. Ridley, Hataitai, visited his son at the Central green a few days ago with friendly rink, and incidentally got a father of a hiding.” Uhe score was 32— sZ in favour of the junior. * On the whole, the honours of the second round of the banner tourney went to W oburn with four wins out of five. ±ney were last but one in the first round. Petone had six wins and four losses, Lower Hutt the same, Central five wins and four losses, while Upper Hutt sustained three losses. At the Lower Hutt club, Burgess and Muter have challenged Barton Ginger ana F. Campbell for the Mason Ferns, and the game will be played Tournaments. Entries for the centre tournament will close on Saturday, so those who have not yet made their entries should lose no time in doing so, or they will “lose their holi-

day games. Entries for the Hutt Valley tournament, commencing January 1, will close on Monday. The Upper Hutt club is to hold a oneday tourney on December 16 at which five games of nine heads will be played. Two ' prizes are offered, and ■ the finals will bo arranged on a date to suit the finalists. Hutt Valley and city clubs are asked to support the tourney and help to keep the club “on the map.” * » * The annual full rinks tournament to be held at Wanganui will commence on Boxing Day, at 9 a.m., and entries will close with the secretary to-morrow. Rennie Thistles. » » • / Eastbourne Notes. / City members were in strong attendance at the Eastbourne green at the end of the week. One rink, skipped by Goodwin, played a Khandallah rink, and at the end of 12 heads the city members were leading 22—4. Bradshaw, Khandallah, improved after this and the final score was 32—13. » * ♦ There is a fair margin of green sward on either side of the main road passing the Eastbourne bowling green, and members and visitors have been in the habit of parking their cars there. The borough council, however, passed a by-law prohibiting parking in the area, but — possibly in ignorance—members and visitors continued to park near the gates, Now the club has been reproved by the council, for a letter has been received as follows: —“I have been directed by my council to write to you in connection with the parking of cars near the club’s property, Main Road. This locality is a prohibited area for the parking of cars, and in spite of same members of your club and visitors continue to park their cars there. _ I should be glad if you will kindly bring this matter before your Committee and endeavour to arrange for all members to in future observe the council’s by-laws.’’ It has been done. * * On any fine day it is a pretty sight on the Eastbourne green to see the birds which make their home in the busy nearby hopping about in search of worms, thus helping the greenkeeper to keep down wormeasts. A day or two ago, when six of the eight rinks were occupied, there were blackbirds and thrushes on the turf, and though bowls were constantly rolling down, the birds simply jumped to one side when they saw them coming, not the least disturbed by them. They evidently know the bowlers are bird lovers. » * ♦ Odds and Ends. A well-known bowler, Andrew Fletcher by name, was present at a sale of roses the other day for a Christmas cheer fund for poor people. He gave a ScOicn bid for the bunch, but paid up like a bowler, generously. * Harding, Hepworth, Weston and Johnson are the new junior pennant rink at the Petone club, and are so tickled with their chances that they have issued a challenge to last year’s juniors, Weston, Weir, Fisher and Gough. And I don t know which to back. « # * Nanearrow, Thorndon, was in great form for the Roses rinks games on Saturday. First he cleaned up last year s winners skipped by Upham, and in the second game made Goodwin acknowledge defeat. Some going that! * * ♦ Holder, Thorndon, who had not lost a game in the Roses until Saturday, sus‘tained his first loss, being defeated by “Mona” Thompson’s rink. * * ♦ . Mr. Harrison, of Pretoria Railway Bowling Club, South Africa, was a- visitor to the Wellington green on Friday, and had a pleasant game. He was much interested in the bowl-testing apparatus. ♦ ♦ ♦ which was being used by the centre’s, official tester, J. Fairway. . Mr. Harrison, who is accompanied by his wife, is going on to Rotorua and Auckland. » ♦ ♦ Professor Maxwell Walker, Auckland is practising singles assiduously just now in readiness for the Dominion tourney lie is the only bowler who has won the Dominion singles, three times, yet he has never skipped the winning rink. » » • J. Redmond, of the Wellington club who has been on the other side of the Tasman for nearly two years, recently returned to Wellington and was cordially

welcomed by his many friends. His brother George, of the Victoria club, came back some weeks ago and will be in . Auckland for some time yet, as he intends to stay there at least until the Dominion tournament is over. The two brothers have done much good for the ancient game between them, and there was hardly a tournament or carnival of any importance which one or the other did not attend. They were good ambassadors for New Zealand, and were ever ready to encourage Australian bowlers to visit this Dominion during the bowling season. G. Redmond will, however, spend a fortnight in Wellington before Christmas. * * * George McGill, of the Victoria Bowling Club, and also a member of the Woburn club, has returned from Sydney, having spent the last few weeks over there with his wife, who is prominent in croquet circles. By the way, their daughter, Mrs. Walker, of Lower Hutt, did very well in the golf matches three or four weeks ago, and has also met with a good deal of success in croquet. G. Snadden, Victoria, is entering a rink for the Dominion tournament in Auckland. The rink will be Cole, Hain, Pole, Snadden. <■ * « Had I had my camera with me a few days ago a photograph of a bowler bowling bowls in a bow’ler would have been reproduced in this column to-day. It happened on Victoria green. . What does a certain well-known architect know about it? t • C. Trumble, a country member, of the Victoria Club, w T as in town early in the week, and enjoyed a roll up. He was m Canada ■ when the Empire Games were on, and on one occasion played. .ma scratch New Zealand ’ team in a friendly game. He does not wish this to be taken as a challenge to. other bowlers, lie is very modest about it, To the Civil Servants who are members of the Hataitai Club may be added W. R. Robertson, Assistant Under-Secre-tary for Lands, and W. L. Fletcher, Assistant Registrar of Land Transfers. Kean is not only a good bowler, but agood snooker player. In the. semi-final of the C.T.C. snooker championship he beat R. Telford, black to win, over two games, but in the final lost, black to win also, against Bryan. It was good going.

Is it true that a well-known Hataitai skip in the meat trade promised his rink a leg of lamb if it won the pennant game? His players were wearing a sprig of mint in anticipation, and they did win! * * D. P. Leggatt, the old secretary, is now playing for St. Albans, Christchurch. “Oh, how we miss him,” chorused some of his old comrades on Saturday. There has not been a kitty broken since he left the club. He did break one once. On Saturday F. Meadowcroft, Kelburn, visited Victoria with a rink to challenge the holders of the Edwin Feathers, F. W. Vosseler being the skip of the Victoria team holding them. It was a hard game, but the holders succeeded in retaining the Feathers by five points. This is the fifth challenge they have met and withstood. The next will be from Upper Hutt. * » » Two Woburn rinks visited Victoria Club on Monday in the mid-week pennant comSetltlon, games resulting as follow:— lempsey (Woburn) 20. King (Victoria) 13; Jones (Woburn) 15, Tucker (Victoria) 20. Victoria won on the aggregate by five points. * Senior Pennant Table.

Teams for Saturday The following teams have been selected for the senior and junior pennant b°wjs games on Saturday, and other competitions to-day:— ' Central. , . Senior Pennant, against Hataitai.--Home: T. Green, McVicar, Ridley, I awson“ A. May, Uren, Raeburn, Nicholson. Away: Camin, Harris. Allan, Howat, Moore, Wadsworth, Bell, J. May. Senior Pennant, against Lower Hnu.Home: D underdale. Gower, Parker. Senior; Smith. Watklnson, Radcliffe, Barns; ley. Away: Devine. Frame, Childs, Stone, Burke, J. Green, Gallagher, Foster. Junior Penant, against Petone.—Home. Wilkinson, Rush, Wainscott. Ronan; Friendly, against, A Y obu U?'T H ??l e (colts): Johnstone, J. Bentley, Hale. McDonald; Rose, Greenwood, Kerr, Dixon. Away: Robertson, Wilson, Delhi, Campbell; Andrews, Hall, Vercoe, Toomer. Lower Hutt. , Senior Pennant, against Central. Home: Muter, Capes, Ginger, Burgess; McArthur, Whitcher. J. Parker. J. Campbell. Away: McGurk, L. T. Watkins, Roper, Hendry; Murphy, Wood, > orris, V, alton. Senior Pennant, against Lyall Bayy — Home: Carrick, King, Claringbold, Scrivener. Away: Bradley, Edwards. Brooks, Senior Pennant, against Island Bay. Home: Stoneliouse, Grant, Kennington, Kelr; Sinclair, Bock, Slinn. Fraser. Away: H. Parker, Odlin, Shearer, Lopdell; Millar, G. Smith, Burke, Davidson. Eastbourne. Senior Pennant, against Wellington.— Away: Battersby, Meo. Paton, Johns. Senior Pennant, against Taornu 'n.— Home: Cook, H. Card, Duff, Mayer. Away: Perry, Rush, Nlmmo, Allen. Home: Andrews, Loe. Bryden, Rendle. Junior Pennant, against Woburn. — Away: Hearn, Douglas, Jenkins, L. Golding. Hataitai. Senior Pennant, against Central. — Away; McKay, Carswell, Snow, Hunter; Josephson, Strangemure. Young. Cheeseman. Home: Murrell, Thirkell, McCune,

J. A. Martin; Gully, Cathie, Wells, Coinetti. . , ~ Senior Pennant, against Lyall Bay. Away: Lambourne, Moston, Woolley, Ardell. Home: Witcoinbe, Bennett, Roberts, Brighting. Senior Pennant, against Island Bay. . Away: Dayman. Taylor, Kean, Halliday, Fullerton, Southwick, Watts, Wellings. Home: Wrigley, Stonebanks Kershaw, Shore; Jourdain, Ansley, Shepherd. FieldFrlendly, against Lyall Bay. Away: Robertson, Allan, Bland, Hard. Home. Anderson, Ridley, Rae, Penny. Victoria. Senior Pennant, against Thorndon. Home: Ross, Yardley, Campbell. Bailey , Marks, Captain Hall, Luke, Norwood. Awav: A. Wallis, Coombs, Gnfhn, Ham, Ward. Emerson, Broberg, Keith. Senior Pennant, against Wellington.— Home: Dr. Palmer, Collett, J. W. I'ossette, Bolton; Roberts, Cole, Chisholm, Snaddon, ,T. B. Martin. J. W. Martin, Robinson, King. Away: Phelan. Simmons. Thornley, Tucker; O'Connor, Ingram, Jamieson, Jackson; Jory, Forsyth, Duthie, Pole. Thorndon. Senior Pennant. against Victoria.— Home: Cullen, Briggs, Casey P. W. Smith, Clark. Buck, Mcßae, Baker Away, Macklin, Allen, Hutton, Lambert. W1 O gins. MacGoun, Shallcrass, Thomson. Senior Pennants, against Home: Dixon, Porteous, J. S. Maclaunn, Marris. Away: Horwood, Campbell. GibSO Sento°r Tennant. against Khandallah.— Home: Batten, Currie, Holder,, H. 1. Perry. Away: Smith, J. O. I< airbairn, Hyams, Munro. mat Senior Pennant, against Upper Hutt. Home: Watt, Johnson, Wilson, Rodger, Away: Nancarrow, Simpson, Nelson. GoodWlll ’ Wellington. ' Senior Pennant against Victoria. Away :Donovan, McKenzie,, W. J. Thomp son Porteous; Jeffrey. Liddle, ODonnell, Hodd; Roberts. Innis-Jones, McArthur. Home: Laurie, Barton, Waters, E. J. Hill; Cooper. G. S. Hill, J. Roberts, Dimock; Dalrymple, Ledger, Potter, J. B. K< Senlor Pennant, against . East c oU r’vipT Awav • W. H. Bennett, Hunter, S. Gyles, Burgess Home: Wright, Robson. ParkTSo? Pennant, against Khandallah.worthl wAod, Gold'"upper Hutt.-Away: Hildreth. Wylie, A. Marshall, Longmore. Home. Wells, Pizer, Wicks, Fowler. ■ Junior Pennant, against {SS1 or Tacobs Home: Kennedy, Beveridge, Ward, Jacobs.

The following are the results of the second round of the senior pennant. The first round was postponed:— \ Club. Games Wins Per cent. Lyall Bay 0 g, Woburn -. 4 3 75 Votnnn ....« 6 4 66.04 Johnsonville Island Bay ••• 4 2i 02.5 10 0 00 "Victoria •••« 10 5J 55 "Rftstbojiroo 4 50 TCnrori ..... 10 o 50 10 5 50 Plimmerton Thorn don •• 1 50 io 5 50 Khandallah Wellington 6 21 51.66 12 .. S 3 41.00 37.5 12 4 3*5.33 4 1 25 TTiitt 10 2 20 Seatoun .... ... 0 1 10.00