HATAITAI WIN RINKS CHAMPIONSHIP.

Evening Post, Volume CIII, Issue 54, 6 March 1922, Page 8

HATAITAI WIN RINKS CHAMPIONSHIP.

.' The final of the Wellington Bowling Centre rinks championship was decided on the Wellington Club's green to-day, and resulted in a runaway victory for the Hataitai rink, led by Ardell, which defeated Laws, of Victoria, by 30 points to 8. . The semi-final, which hac^ to be postponed from Friday owing to the Vet weather, was resumed between Hataitai and Lyall Bay and Wellington and Victoria. Following were the teams: — Hataitai: Kean, Mosto'n, Halliday, Ardell (s); Lyall Bay: Sherwood, Kirk, M'Lean, Brighting (s). Wellington: Osborne, Grenfell, W. J. Thompson, Porteous (a); Victoria: Jollev, Luke, Fosaette, Laws (s). In the Hataitai-Lyall Bay came six heads had to be decided, and in the WellingtonVictoria grame eleven heads. Ardell's defeated Brighting's rink by 15 points to 13, Porteous (Wellington) ■-■ succumbing to Laws by 18 to ,14. ' When playing against Wellington in the semi-fijial, Victoria put up a very fiuo exhibition, but in the final with Hataitai *they reversed their former good showing very completely. 1 Hataitai scored 1 in the first head, to which Victoria replied with s single in the second. From then on to the ninth head, when they notched one, Victoria did not score, but their opponents had carried tKeir total to 16. In the succeeding t«n heads Victoria scored only 6 points and Hataitai 14. In the 19th head, Victoria decided to withdraw, the score then standing: Hataitai, 30; Victoria, 8.