FORMER CHAMPIONS BEATEN

Dominion, Volume 32, Issue 92, 12 January 1939, Page 11

FORMER CHAMPIONS BEATEN

Long And Tiring Day’s

Bowling

WELLINGTON PAIR BEATS ENGLISHMEN

By Telegraph—Press Association

AUCKLAND, January .1.1

As was expected, the game between Maslin and Squire-(Hawera), winners of the event in 1933, and the Grey Lynn pair Mc.Alurcliy and Buckley, in the ■pairs event at the New Zealand bowis championship, was tr great duel, the Grey Lynn team winning by two points. A double winner, 11. N. Pilkington (Hamilton), 1931 and 1935, was early out of the running, his first two games resulting in losses. Harrison (Australia) was another one who failed to come up to expectations, two early losses robbing him of section honours. The English pair, Ciosb senior and junior, with the former skipping, bad early successes on the Eden green, but went down m the final game to Munro and Watts (Victoria, Wellington), but qualified with three wins. The Auckland champion pair, .Maud and Martin (Ellerslie), upheld their reputation well on the Ponsonby green and paved the way for a section victory by three wins in the first three rounds. 'The veteran player Watson, of St. Heliers, who is 78 years old, put up a good performance in section 1. He shared the honours by tieing with A . Little (Carlton) with three wins each. Flaying on the headquarters green, Dyett (Karori) went through his section without loss. His final victim was Engebretsen (Wanganui), IJ3o singles winner. ... Hay-Mackenzie (Kelburn) upset w . Leather’s calculations in the final round. The Devonport team had three wins on end but failure in the last game brought in bis conqueror as well as Rush (Wanganui East). , , , . Bv beating Buckley in the last round of the'day Barber (Balmoral) brought Squire back into play, as well as qualifying himself with three wins. A good performance was registered by the Te Awamutu pair, Henderson and Burchell, who were unbeaten in section A. The Te Awamutu lead is a noted singles exponent. ~ . Father and son combinations were in evidence today. Besides the Cross family team, two Clarkes of Auckland qualified, the latter with an unbeaten record on (Carlton), with the British i Empire champion, lead, W. AVhittaker, assisting him, went through his section without loss. The hardest game the pair had was in the opening round against a Tauranga team, which included L. lamblyn. 1926 winning skip in the pairs event. ” . ~ Murphy (Taihape) went down m the last round to Hall (Rangiriri), and bis defeat was responsible for four teams qualifying in the section In the last round at Ellerslie the le Awamutu skip, Gee, who is a fast driver, drove and sent the jack against a bowl, the jack breaking into a thousand pieces. The head was dead under , the rules. A feature of the day’s play was the surprises which occurred in the final rounds when several players with three wins underwent defeat. 'They did not lose their positions themselves, but, by suffering one Joss, they allowed others to share section honours.

It was an extremely long and tiring day’s play, and (he final round was not completed* till after 7 o’clock. .Post-sec-tion play will be begun tomorrow morning.