PAIRS FINAL

Evening Post, Volume CXIII, Issue 19, 24 January 1927, Page 10

PAIRS FINAL

WALKER AND BRACKEBUSH WIN . ".

|By Telegraph.—Press Association.)'

AUCKLAND, 22nd January.

Tho Dominion bowling tournament was concluded at Carlton -green to-day. The final of the pairs resulted:—A. Brackebush and M. Walker (Auckland), 22; Bell senior and Bell junior (Hamilton), 12.

Walker, who won the singles championship in 1915, 1919, and 1923, added the honour of skipping the champion pairs, after good up-hill fighting in the early stages against Bell, who had his son as lead. Bell won the first two heads, getting three on each, and led seven to nothing after the third head. Walker opened his account with a single on the fourth, adding another on the fifth and sixth. Walker turned the head twice on the seventh, and scored three, reducing Bell's lead to seven-sis. A single to each followed, Bell adding two on the tenth, when the board read: Hamilton 10, Auckland 7. Bell scored one on thc^ eleventh, but Walker took th« next three heads with one, two, and one, making the score eleven-all at the end of the fourteenth head. The next head was keenly contested. Braekebush pushed out Bell junior's shot bowl, and added a counter to lie two. However, Bell senr. drew the shot. Walker then disturbed the head to lie two. Bell" touched one of Walker's woods near kitty, but on a measure Walker scored two, and took the lead for the first time by 13 to .11. Thereafter, Walker was , never headed. He won two successive heads with three and one. Bell scored one on the eighteenth, his .first poinf since the eleventh head. When Bell was one on tho nineteenth, Walker cut out the shot bowl to lie three, a position he maintained to lead 20 to 12. Splendid drawing was witnessed on the twentieth head. Auckland was one up when the skips changed ends. Walker added another, and the failure of Bell, senr., to drive out_ Walker's bowls gave the Auckland pair the championship by 22 to 12. The.final of the singles between Clarke (Rocky Nook) and Bell (Hamilton) was disappointing. The latter, who had figured prominently in all three events, had evidently felt the strain, and lacked the experience of Clarke. TEe latter led 8 to 5 at the ninth head, and added six more before Bell took the thirteenth with a single. Clarke scored four at the sixteenth, and Bell three on the seventeenth. A two on each of the two following heads gave Clarke an unchallengeable lead, and Bell retired, Clarke winning by. 24 to 11. "' • .