THE BOWLING CARNIVAL.

Evening Star, Issue 7443, 11 February 1888, Page 2

THE BOWLING CARNIVAL.

[By Our Special Reportf.r.J

CHRISTCHURCH, February 11

The bowling carnival came to a close yesterday. The single - handed tournament trophies were won by Mr 8. Manning (Christchurch Club), who took first place, and Mr J. C. Maddison (Christchurch Club). The medal match between the Canterbury and Caledonian Clubs was won by the former by 19 points. Responding to the toast of “Our Visitors,” Mr Dawson (Mayor of Dunedin) said the true aim of bowling was not so much the mere winning of matches, but promotion of social intercourse. Before the abolition of the Provinces there xvas a kind of jealousy between Otago and Canterbury, but now bowling was helping to do away with that. The Hon. J, T. Peacock, replying to the toast of “ The Chairman,” said lie was pleased to think that the time had arrived when they met the gentlemen from the far South in a friendly game of bowls. There was a time when they did not know each other—when they had old provincial jealousies, which, thank Cod, were done away with. Mr H. S. pish, M.H.R., proposed “The fowling A saoc ‘ a ti°h °f New Zealand.” The Bowling Association was as necessary to the successful carrying out of the game of bowls as those which had the control of orioket, football, eto. There was no doubt that bowling brought them together on a common level in the bonds of friendship. The winning or losing of a game should not be the mam aim of bowling, nor should good bowlers try to keep out less proficient players. He had therefore much pleasure in proposing “ The Bowling Association of New Zealand,” coupled with the names of Messrs H. Thomson, R. Struthers, and B. Hale. Messrs Thomson, Struthers, and Hale responded. The former urged that the games as now fixed were far too long, and he thought that the twenty-five heads should be reduced to eighteen or twenty-one. He also alluded to the conduct of the Association in not allowing the Canterbury and Caledonian Clubs to play on the Christchurch green, when it was convenient to both of them. No other clubs were prejudiced, and the seven representatives of the Association present in Christchurch much regretted receiving a telegram from the Association declining to recede from the position.