BOWLING

Evening Post, Volume CXV, Issue 41, 18 February 1933, Page 6

BOWLING

By 'Number Two" THE PENNANTS

LYALL BAY'S GOOD SHOWING

IN A STRONG POSITION

SENIOR PENNANT. ' •- ■ Results at the end of the fifth round In the Senior Pennant competition are:— No. of P.C. of P.C.TI. Club. , Wins. .Wins. Wins. Lyall Bay 6 100 68.33 Hataltal 8% 85. 63.00 Karorl, 2 . 33.33 60.00 Wobum 2 50 57.50 Victoria ....;..... 4& .56.25 • 57.50 Island Bay ...... 3 50.00 56.66 Kelburn ; 5 62.50 '" 52.50 Hutt 5' 62.50 62.50 Eastbourne 2 50 ~ 52.50 Wellington - 6 ,60 52.00 Johnsonville . 0 50 Central 1%. .25 ... 43.33 Petone . 4 66.86 : 41:66 Thorndoh ........ 4 50 .-■• 41.25 Upper Hutt 0 40' Newtown 1 16.6G;- 35 | c. ato"Q n 1% 25 31.68 Khandallah ....... 0 25 JUNIOR PENNANT. SECTION A. : Hutt Tf Wobum ...„• ™T Thorndon 4 victoria ....;.., 1 Island Bay 2 Khandallah ,i..j X Hutt wins this section. ; '"" SECTION B. - :. Wins. ■ Wins, Petone 5 Seatoun. ........ 2' Central 4 -Wellington .. 1 Karorl 4 Kelburn .......< 1 lyall Bay. 3 Upper Hutt .- 0 There are two games to play in this section. Bain and gales have again, been' the order for the ,past ten days, or-set; and once more the veterans.have been unlucky -with the gala day fixture which! has had to be postponed: till, some day next week. The Pennant players.last Saturday were favoured with much sunshine and plenty of wind—not altogether the happiest of combinations. The Lyall Bay members after their disastrous experience in' the fourth, round of the Senior Pennant, when they only secured one. win out of-six, had evidently made a complete recovery last/Saturday- in the fifth round, when they scored the. possible, 100 per cent.; the junior team also won its game. The wind was certainly tricky; and the home green keen, but not-any-thing like what was. experienced- a. fortnight ago. Selector Bradley .had. his work cut out in a last minute' rush to replace four of the usual "pennant players, who were unable to play. Skip Naylor, who was one of a quartet, was replaced by lawrie, who, although he had decided to stand down "that .week, as he had not sufficiently recovered from his recent "accident, gamely came to the rescue, and-filled'the gap. All the teams had comfortable'- wins. Against "Wellington, Noad disposed of Fairway, 23 to 11; Brackenridge beat Duncan, 20 to 17; ; Hazlewood defeated Mayer, 25 to 13; and Eeid beat Warwick, 35 to 11. Against Upper -Hutt, Lawrie defeated Gufhrie, 27 to 18; and Baven beat Lightfpot, 23 to 14. Junior skip Brittain romped- home against Green, of Seatoun, 22 to 13. This match -leaves the juniors; with, three wins out of five, and with twomore matches to play they still have a chance of being in the final picture. Last Saturday was the second occasion, on which the Lyall Bay Club has secured 100 per cent, wins in the Senior Pennant 'competition, having previously accomplished it in the first round of the 1930-31 season, when it. not only won all pennant games, including' the junior, but also all friendlies. "',. The fact that it never does to give up hope in bowls, or in any other game for the matter of that, was shown^br what happened.in the Hodgson (New-town)-Casey (Thorndon) game.*-Oa?tha nineteenth- head Hodgson was 9 down, but on the twentieth he scored- the possible 8.. This put the Newtown: men into .great heart, but -Thorndon- still had their nose in front. On -the twenty-first' head, however, Newtowa got a 3, -and the game by two points. The Oldest Bowler? > Believed to be the oldest bowler in. the Dominion, Mr. T. Moody, who 13 in Ms 97th year, took Bart in the Elderly Bowlers' Day at Dunedin last Saturday. He is still hale and hearty. An active runner-up in the matter of age was Mr. N. McKay, who is in his 87th year. Champion of Champions Games., " The clubs are all busy now finding their champions. The centre singles championship will be played next "Wednesday, the pairs the week following, and the rinks the _weqk: after tKat. Th» draw, has already been published. Civil Service Tourney. ...-■. v ■_ Two members of the Lyall Bay Club were in the winning rink skipped by Potter, which won the Civil .Service tournament, namely,-W. J. Leahy (lead) and J. P. O'Gorman (No. 2).- Unfortunately, owing- to illness "in -his family,' O'Gorman, could: not play in the finals, nnd v his place was taken by P. H. Mason.' O'Gorman played' No. 2 for Lawrie, the rink which won/ihe Wellington Centre tourney last ChristDuthie Oup. : '] : ' ■■ The Duthie'Cup, the competition for which has been in existence .for twentyfive years, was presented by the late Mr. John Dutkie with the object of bringing together, annually, his associates in the Wanganui, Wellington, and Hutt Bowling Clubs. Those who came in contact with the donor of the trophy on tho playing field'are, as tinxe goe3 by, becoming fewer in number, and. in a fewyeaTs the donor's original intention cannot be carried out. ' The competition, however, 'will still continue to create interest in the clubs concerned, and the many friendships that have been cemented at .the annual gatherings will be added to and the traditions passed QR to . succeeding genrations. Hutt has -won - • the trophy on ten occasions, Wanganui on nine, and Wellington the remainder. Prior to the 1933 competition, Wellington had not won the cup for fifteen, years, and the club owes its present success to an outstanding by. Victor Dimock, the skip of one'of the" teauis. . Wellington required thTea points, in the aggregate to; win prior to Dimoek sending down tho final-bowl of the match. Wellington was lying one shot and Dimoek, after viewing the head, nominated his intention of forcing out the second shot by pushing another bowl on to it. The deed was accomplished by a perfect shot, which will be ever remembered by ■ r thoso who witnessed and applauded it. ■- Eij route to Wanganui the Welling* ton and Hutt teams broke their journey at Teilding to play tho usual match, with the Feilding Club, A thunderstorm the previous afternoon resulted in tho green being submerged, to a depth of 2in, but despite this the green, played exceedingly welL There was only one unpleasantness, and that was the presence of thousands of flies, and they could bite, too. Feilding won the match on the aggregate On the return journey one team called in on the Levin Club by invitation and played an official rink from that club, which won by a few points. Wanganui bowlers have been very unlucky this season, in that on each Saturday play has been marred by rain. The only fine Saturday the Wanganui Club has had was opening day. Oa the day before the Duthie.Ciip match Wanganui was visited by a tropical downpour which lasted for upwards of an hour, although outside the city there was no rafn. So Wellington bowlers cannot complain overmuch about the playinf conditions they have experienced of I late." . "