BOWLING. PENNANT MATCHES. NEWTOWN WINS THE BANNER.

Evening Post, Volume LXI, Issue 52, 4 March 1901, Page 2

BOWLING. PENNANT MATCHES. NEWTOWN WINS THE BANNER.

The fourth round of tho Pennant matches was played on Saturday. Newtown defeated Thorndon on the Wellington green by the narrow majority of one, and Wellington beat, Petono by 26 points oh the Victoria green. Newtown, having beaten all the other clubs, wins the banner. The scores in yesteiday's matches were : — - NEWTOWN V. THORNDON. Thorndon — Conlin> Heywood, Mowbrny, M'Kerrow (skip), 25 ; Newtown — Blyih} M'Cumiskey, Al'Lean, Brightwell (skip), 16. Nenwown — Alpe, D'Emdem, Nancarrow, Price (skip), 22 ; Thorndou — Reeves, Kilgour, Webb, Rdse (skip), 20. Newtown -*- Martin, Morris, Lambert, Bary (°kip), 16 ; Thorndon — Wright, Hogben, Ross, Sievwriffht (skip), 14. Newtown — Kebblewhite, Webb, Underwood, Prince (skip), 26; Thorndon— dould, Seaton, Longton, Flanagan (skip), 2'o. Totals— Newtown, 80; Thorndon, 79. WELLINGTON r. PETONE. Wellington— Evans, . M'|tellaf Wix, Bell, Ballinger (skip), 26; Petone — Manning, Thomson, Castle,. King (bkip), 11. Wellington-— Miller, H. Smith, Briinskill, Churchward (skip), 26; Petone — Udy, M'Lean, Reynolds, Motlies (skip), 15. Wellington— Willeston, E. J. Hill, Jones, Russell (skip), 22 ; Petone — Price, Home, Carter, Qilmour (skip), 18. Wellington — Berry, Cuff, Lawson, Sample (?kip), 22 ; Petone — Reid, Lawrie, Austin, Johnson (skip), 26. Totals— Wellington, 96; Petone, 70. THE EDWIN FEATHERS. A match for the Edwin Feathers between the holder' — members of the Wei lington Clvb — and a challenging team from the Victoria Club resulted as follows : — Wellington — Hamilton, Mentiplay, Lockie, M'Lean (skip), 28. Victoria — Hewitt, Snaddoh, Redstone, Brackenridge ('kip), 15. NEWTOWN CLUB. The juniors of the Victoria Btfwling Club *played against the juniors of the Newtown Cub on the Newtown green on Saturday. Two rinks won for the Victoria, and two for Newtown, although in the aggregate the home team won by 12 points. The scores were : — New I own — Angus, Bell, Higginbotlom, Ogilvie ( kip), 55 ; Crewes. Hollis, Lamb, Powell (-kip), 18; Meyrick, Salmon, Pollock, Worboys (.«k,p),* 21 ; Kinuiburgh, Shearer, CuKaghan, Roberts (skip), 19. Total, 93. Victoria — Harland, Norwood, Mayo, Hendry (skip), 16 ; Corry, Dickers'on j M'Gowan, Paterson (skip), 27; Stuart, France, Hendry, Flinders (skip), 18 ; Fowler, Kershaw, Kitto, Baggett {skip), 20. Total. 81.

The only other game handed in was — Rhodes, Ha worth, Astill, Butter (skip), 11 ; Falconer, Anderson, M'Eldowney, Tone (skip), 22. VICTORIA CLUB. The following cards were handed in at the Victoria green on Saturday : — Avery, Barton, Morrer, Anderson (skip), 24; Martin, Boyes, Willis, Mack (skip), 21. Chapman, D. T. Stuart, Scott, Schultz (skip), 25 ; Hamerton, Trevor, Mackay, Hueston (skip), 19. THORNDON CLUB. The following games were played at the Thorndon green on Saturday afternoon :—: — • Archibald, Blanchard, Turrell, Nathan (skip), 21 ; Freeman, Nelson, Douglas, Koch (skip), 19. Townshend, Andrews, Collins, Burns (skip), 17; Clark, King, Hume, Elliott (skip), 16. M'Manaway, Davis, Quick, Barry (skip),' 29 ; Brown, Gamble, Jameson, Gibbs' (skip), 16. Exley, Dean (skip), 21 ; Kane, Macintosh (skip 1 ), 15.

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