THE SINGLES

Evening Post, Volume CXXIX, Issue 15, 18 January 1940, Page 11

THE SINGLES

DEARE—ROLLS. . G. A. : Deare (Cariton) 22, H. Rolls (Featherston) 6 V . : . • -..: ; ;': '■'-■ This w;as a one-sided game, theyAaicklarid man maintaining the steady form he had shown against J. R. Smith yesterday and outdrawing the Featherston crack. Rolls could not strike the green as he had done in his previous games', and in this match he scored on only four ends. By the tenth end :Deare had registered two 3's, three 2's, ■arid. four singles, and was .16-2 on the -board,; Rolls took a brace .of singles'on; the next two ends* but Deare, with sistent drawing, had his opponent'always in. hand, and he put on four more singles and a 2 in-the late stages- of the game, Rolls getting a 2 on the sixteenth end, but too late to do him any good. At the eighteenth end, when "the game ended, Deare was unbeatable and led 22-6. ..:•;._;; ;■ . . SQIIIRE—SPEARMAN;r;:; ]-;;'' V£ . -M;:;J... Squire ~(Hawera) 2d, C, : SpeaK man (Sydenham) 11^. ■• ~.->..■ '■ '■'■* s-c ■- Squire played, too steadily for Spearman, and although he. conceded a 2 on the second end, he took his subsequent scores in lumps, recording 3's on the third and ; ninth ends, a 4 on.'the seventh, and 2's on the fifth, eighth, and eleventh ends. Spearman notched singles on. the sixth and. tenth, and by the twelfth end .Squire led 19-4. In the second half of the Speaifinan fought gallantly to overtake the Tara-; naki man's lead,, and captured ,a- 2 on the thirteenth and a 3 on the fourteenth. On the .fifteenth Spearman lay 3 and Squire drew second shot. Spearman tried to rest it out and gave the shot away. Spearman took asingle on the sixteenth and, on a close measure secured, another on the. seven-"' teenth.. Squire finished, it on the eighteenth. He lay one down on the head and with his last bowl he played a yard on to rest out the shot. He struck: Ms own bowl and followed it through with the jack to lie a lovely 3. Spearman's last chance had gone, and he failed to rest out Squire's two shots on the nineteenth end, when the game' ended 25-11. ■■'■:■:.-.:■ SQUIRE—DEARE. Squire 20, Deare 11. ........;... Squire led off with a 4 before Dears settled down; The ""Carlton. man took a single on the second-end, but Squire; striking form straight away, put on another, on. the third and a single on the next, adding a single,on the subsequent end, to be 8-1 on the board. Deare was settling down and both men played splendid bowls. On the sixth Deare, when lying a couple down on the head, played a brilliant yard on with his last bowl and dragged the white for 2: . . The. eighth built up. badly against Squire and he. killed it with a fast one. In the. replay the Hawera man lay two beauties, arid Deare, with a running shot, took the jack into the ditch. Squire's toucher went with it,' however, and gave him the point. Squire 10-3., Deare, playing with that quiet consistency which has brought him championship honours in the past, began to outdraw Squire to 7-10 on the board. On the eleventh end Deare drew a beauty, but Squire sneaked inside it and tucked the jack away, while he held a back bowl waiting in case the jack should go. Deare failed to move the shot bowl. Squire 11-7. y ," In a scattered head on the twelfth Squire; drew a toucher which Deare removed with a drive, to, lie one ii) the measure. Squire 11-8. Squire burned the" tiiirteenth end, and- iri the replay he took a single with a nice draw, Deare carding a brace on the fourteenth with two nice draw shots, thus bringing him within 2■• of Ms opponent. 10-12. : : The Taranaki man brought his drive into play again on the fifteenth^ and "burned the" head when Deare lay 2 on the jack. Replaying the end, Squire placed three-shots around the white. Deare just failing with his last to catch a trail for a couple. Squire 15-10. ' A further 2 on the sixteenth put Squire 7 up on the board, but' Deare took a beautiful single with a sitter on the seventeenth,, reducing the margin to 17-11. v Squire addejd a brace on a scattered eighteenth end, and on the nineteerijth he planted a splendid toucher-on1 the jack, which Deare failed to shift:with a drive. This placed1 Squire in the unassailable position of 20-11, and the I last two ends were not played.