NEW ZEALAND BOWLERS

Evening Post, Volume CV, Issue 148, 23 June 1923, Page 8

NEW ZEALAND BOWLERS

TEST MATCHES IN SYDNEY.I

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SYDNEY, 13th Juno.

New South Wales beat New Zealand at bowls by narrow margins in the first and second Test matches in Sydney, New Zealand winning the third Test by five points. Previous to the Tests the New Zealanders had played three matches on suburban greens, in which the whole 32 were engaged in eight-rink contests against local clubs. The result of these matches was two wins to New South Wales at Randwick and Rockdale, while New Zealand scored a victory at Marrickville.

The first of the Tests was played on the Victorian Park green on Saturday afternoon, in' the presence of a large assemblage of bowlers and their friends. The New Zealand team, it was quite evident, liked short ends. They showed this by throwing the jack short of the full length of the green, and for a long time their bowls were in many cases short of the jack. This was due to the different nature of the turf upon which the visitors played compared with their home greens. But when the match was half-way through the New Zealand .representatives had got the pace of the green, and they were not. slow in., almost making good the losses they suffered in the first fifteen heads, at which, stage the scores were: N.S.W., 65; New Zealand, 49. The finish of the match found New South Wales leading by only threo points—9l to 88. •

The second Test was played at North Sydney on Monday, and again New South Wales won a ■ closely-contested mateh —this time by 91 to 89.

The third Test took place yesterday on the Mosman green, the New Zealanders winning by five points—lo4 to 99. New South Wales had already won the rubber by securing the two previous games, by margins of 3 and 2 respectively, so that yesterday's match, with New Zealand winning by 5, gives the remarkable aggregate of both teams securing the same number of points in the threa matches. !