CLARKE AND TYRRELL

Evening Post, Volume CXXV, Issue 19, 24 January 1938, Page 7

CLARKE AND TYRRELL

WELI>DESERVED WIN

BOWLING TOURNEY ENDED

(By Telegraph—Press Association.) i DT/NEDIN, January 23. *The ' Dominion bowling•■ championships were brought to a,conclusion on Saturday, when the pairs ; contest was decided. The weather! was dull but fine, and the Caledonian green played'particularly well,= rain: the night before having robbed1 it of much iof its fire. Th^: c&mpibriship^as won ( by. R. B. Clarke,''ahd; O,; ; E.' Tyrrell ,'CRpslyn),: who,., .played good bowls 'to: disposefof> H.,Wilson'/ah'd>i Jj Srieddo'n -(Linwdbd),: 19 "to "18,- in ;the quarter finals,.;Pl,Deiargey..ajidjP.'. Muna • (Canterbury),: 17' to 16, in the semi- : finals,.; and.. JV iR. ■' Smith': arid ; ?H-■ B. Oakey (Elmwood), by the wide margin of 28 to 9-.oh the nineteenth green, in the final. . -•' '. - Terrell .played; magnificent saving shots during.the day,.and demonstrated his fighting qualities' on several:, occasions when he ,was faced-.with,-a qonsiaerable;.deficit;. ■ The. game 'v/ith' Wilsori• in" the'quarter-firial was .'exceed;ingly close, the pairs being -17-all at ithewnkieteenth,. liead,,; t b.ut ..\Tyrjreli secure'd'a brace at'the twentieth,against 'Wilsonfs,single in.^he ifinal.head, and ;wdn by one'point; ' ■" ' :' '";>VIn theearlierjpart;. l ofi;ther>semi-final with Murin, 'the game wen,t' :■ [ against ; Tyrrell, who''was" th're'eto' his'opponlenis' 12 at the tenth head.: _Thereafter, however, Tyrrell was given better openings by his lead, accumulated points rapidly, and at the nineteenth head was on even! terms.with-Munn, the scores standing at 15-all. ..A? single to Munn "on- the ,twentieth ■ 4nd .two to Tyrrell'.-on .the. ftnal.vh'ead' gave the latter the decision. ' v 1;-.; The final1 was .unexpectedly;-,, onesided, Oakey,and. being', unabla to counter'the accurate play 'of Tyrrell and Clarke. At the ,erid of. the eighteenth' head Tyrrell, was. Reading by 22 to .9,' and in a spectacular final head, in which, aftera's'ufccession of drives by <the Elmwood : pair,? the pnly bowls left, on the green-belonged to the Roslyri, players, ;Tyrrell: won the game by 28*,to'9j'' ' '■: :.'.' ■';'.',;;;'. -■ The play-oiff-for third place; between H. Belcher arid 'E^.Lo.ngSyorth'' v (St. Kilda) and Delafgey '■ and Munn >! resulted in a win for the latter by; 17 to, 15. - v Results:— / ' , ■■. '' s ■: PAIRS CHAIVEPIONSHIP. ;.; R, B. Clarke and C E?Tyrrell^ (Roslyhl 19, H. Wilson, and J.^Sneddon (Linwood) 19; P. . Delargey ~. and P. Munn (Canterbury) ■-19," A. G. Honeyman and A. J. Walker (Otago), 16. Semi-final.—Tyrrell 17, Munh 16. Final.—Tyrrell 28, J. R. Smith an/ H. B. Oakey (Elmwood) 9. y ■• ■,