FRIENDLY BOWL

Dominion, Volume 32, Issue 113, 6 February 1939, Page 5

FRIENDLY BOWL

Christchurch Players Visit Wellington 'Sixteen members of the Christchurch bowling club visited Wellington on Saturday to play the match for the Barnett Friendly Bowl, with the Wellington Bowling Club. The friendly match has been .played annually for about thirty years between the oldest club in each city, the clubs visiting each otjher alternately, and the visitors always taking the trophy home with them, win or lose. . In the morning- the Christchurch players were taken for a drive by members of the "Wellington. club to .Mount Victoria, the Massey Memorial, the exhibition buildings, and other places of interest in the eastern suburbs. Hosts and guests had luncheon in the club's pavilion, and the toasts of the Christchurch club, the donor of the trophy, and the Wellington club, were drunk. Before the toasts the .president of the Wellington club, Mr. J. 11. O’Donnell, referred to the sudden death last week of Mr. C. Piper, a prominent member of the Christchurch club, with many friends in Wellington, who had visited Wellington several times for the Friendly Bowl match, and whose name had been included among those to come to Wellington this time. After luncheon five games were played, an extra rink .being made ? up of cxChristchureh players and a- visitor from South Africa. Afternoon tea was served in the billiard room, specially decorated, and at the conclusion of play Mr. O’Donnell presented the trophy to the president of the Christchurch club, Mr. W. Macdougall. x

JERUSALEM CUP

Khandallah Retains Trophy The third day’s play between the Khandallah and Johnsonville Bowling Clubs for the Jerusalem Cup was held on Saturday at Khandallah. Each club won two games on .Saturday and the match was drawn, so that, out of the three matches for the season, two have been drawn and Khandallah has won one. Khandallah thus retains the cup. Saturday* games resulted as follows: the Khandallah skip being mentioned first in each instance:-—Ross 16, Embury 21; Butt 18, Angell 16; King 25, Mills 17; Lynneberg 10, Jacobs 34.