THE PAIRS

Evening Post, Volume CVII, Issue 19, 23 January 1924, Page 3

THE PAIRS

(IX TIUGBIPH.-PRISJ ASSOCIATION.)

CHRISTCHURCH, 22nd Jan. One of the pairs games was Splayed to-day, and resulted : Canterbury (Angus and Redpath) 18, Green Island (Smellie Brothers) 16. Smellie Brothers established a good lead in the earlier stages of the games, scoring 2's and a 4 in the first three heads. After the sixteenth head .the scores were 13-all; a 2 to Smellie -in the seventeenth was answered with a 2 to Redpath in the following head, the scores being again even, 15-all. A. single to SmeUie in the nineteenth head gave him the lead, but Redpath scored two in the second last head, and made his game safe with a single in the last head. , . . i

Summer* v. Carswell.'—Carswell did not play in' this." game on* Monday through an unfortunate misunderstanding, assuming that the games would be postponed on account of rain. He did .not arrive at St. .Albans green until well after the games had started; meanwhile his lead (W. B. Allan) and W. Allan, who had been playing second in Carswell's rink, started; playing as skip and lead respectively. When CarsweE arrived on the green the substitute pair had a good lead over Summers. He then came away, and later went to the Canterbury green, fully believing that his pair would win.?1 Towards the end of the game, however, the Canterbury pair commenced to catch up to their opponents, and at the end of the thirteenth head- the scores were : Carswell (Allan) 14, Summers 6. Summers won six of the remaining eight heads, Allan scoring two singles only. ■After the nineteenth head the scores were : Taieri 16,. Canterbury 11. With two heads to go, and requiring- five to tie and six to win, Summers put up a great performance by scoring a couple of 3's, and winning by one point. Milson v. Amtman.—This was another exceptionally close finish. Milson, the yAshburton skip, was five down at the end of the 16th head Four of the re, maining heads went to^Milson, with two singles, a 2 and a 3, an 3 one (twentieth) to Amtman, with a single. Milson re_quired two to tie and three to win when the last head was commenced. He made three, and put tiie result beyond doubt Harraway v.. Chegwin.—The scoring opened uneventfully, each, winning three heads with singles. Chegwin led 15-11 at the eighteenth head. Harraway got the first on the nineteenth head, and led 16-15, but Chegwin drew the line on the twentieth. The last head was followed with, interest. Harraway scored a single, and won.

There was nothing outstanding in the other pairs games.:;