BOWLING COUNCIL

Evening Post, Volume LXXXVIII, Issue 71, 21 September 1914, Page 4

BOWLING COUNCIL

» TOURNAMENT ARRANGEMENTS. (BY TELEQKiPH.— PUBSS ASSOCIATION.) ADCKLANP, 20th September. At a further meeting of the Council of the Dominion Bowling Association it was decided in regard to the selection of the proposed team for Austrah'a that Messrs. .7. A. Kilgour (Auckland), T. Bush (Wellington), M* Barnett (Christchurch), and Q. J. Payne (Dunedin) be the Selection Committee. In regard to the annual tournament, it was .decided that play commence on Uth_ January, and that the programme consist of rinks, pairs, and singles matches. The following conditions will be observed : — That a rinks match be played on the sectional system, the winners and ties in the sections to qualify for inter-sectional play. That intersectional play be on the "sudden death" principle. That the pairs match start on Friday morning, the Christcliurch Bystem to be adopted. That the singles championship match commence on Monday. 18tlt January, the Dunedin system | to be adopted, with the exception that losers shall not play losers in the fourth round. It was resolved that, a hearty invitation be sonb to all Australian States to send teams to compete at the annual tournament next January, and if possible to tour the Dominion. On the proposal of Colonel Collins, the secretary was instructed to write to the Australian Bowling Council suggesting a. conference between representatives of associations, to be held some time during the Australasian bowling carnival, to consider uniformity of the laws of the game, and other matters of interefat to bowlers.