BOWLING

Evening Post, Volume LXXXVII, Issue 55, 6 March 1914, Page 2

BOWLING

TEAMS FOR SATURDAY. The' final for the Pennant contest will be played on tho Wellington green, between Newtown and Petone. The teams selected are : — Newtown : Warwick. Scott, A. J. Pollock, Wylie (skip) ; Leahy, Underwood, Dun', Price (skip); Bailey, Richards, J. Sexton, Laughton. (skip); R. M. Brackenridge, Higgmbot* torn, Powell, Prince (skip), Petone s Rennie, J. M 1 Arthur, Coles, Beynon (skip) ; M'Ewen, Gilmour, Fowler, Mcl« huish (skip); Cowie, Firth, Hay, Stephen (skip); P. % M'Aithur, Catee, Wcame* Wylie (skip)i Newtown Club: Friendly Match v. Kelbume.— Home : W. C. Read, Chegwidden, Fiyger, Bland (skip); Panklmrfet, Gallic, Ranson. M'Lean (skin); Ilaycroft, Law, Webb, Swiney (skip), way: Ficldhouse, Middlebrook, Crewes, Noble (skip). 1 Parton. Salmon, Meyrick, Armstrong (skip). Hatnirai Club v, Lyall Bay (Stansell Shield) :— • Halliday, Stonebanks, Hendiy Penney (skip). Kolburne Club : Friendly Match Newtown: —Home. "Baldwin, Widdop, Mac Arthur, Marquis (ski))) ; E. C Gannaway, Professor Kirk, Harton, Rontley Obkip); Hutchison, 11. Gannaway, F Johnson, M'Robio (skip). Away •■ Mauley, Scott, Gray, Hornet' (skip) ; F. Meadowcrofb, Dodo's, Dr. Begg, Williamson (skip); Batten, Drury, M'Coll, Knowles, (skip)' Some interesting things were said a'v a gathering of bowlers in Sydney a night/ Or two ago, when Mr. John Spence, president of tho New South Wales Bowling Association, entertained the Australian bowlers who have just re« turned from their New Zealand toiU 1 (writes our Sydney correspondent). Mr. H. C. Evans remarked that he did not think there was a country in tho world where bowlers were more whole-hearted than in New Zealand. Mr. Sam Clark, of Lismore (who captained the team), said the team had put up "some achievement," all things considered, in a country where every man and almost every boy Was a bowler: and Mr. Hicks, who also comes from Lismore, referred to the fact that Auckland had only beaten the Australians by 5 points, although tho Auckland team had been chosen from 5000 players. All of the members of the team spoke in terms of tho highest praise of the manner of their treatment in the Dominion, beginning at Auckland and extending >as far as Dunedin. One may be excused for imagining, after hearing the opinions expressed at this little dinner, that bowlers are the principal product of "God's Own Country," and that there are some points about the game that " God's Demesne, Australia," has yet to learn. As one of the speakers remarked, the Maoriland boys are " bortf with a natural bias."