BOWLING

Evening Star, Issue 20422, 1 March 1930, Page 20

BOWLING

CHAMPION OF CHAMPIONS Nineteen entries were received for the champion of champions competition, play for which commenced this morning on the Dunedin green before a good number of bowlers and interested spectators. The games in the competition are of twenty-one heads, with a time limit of one and a-halr hours.*

The winner of this competition will hold the Manuka Bowl trophy, which was presented recently to the Dunedin Centre by Mf Wyrley Birch in recognition of the kindness and hospitality extended by the people of Dunedin to himself and his theatrical company at the time of the wreck of the Manuka. The morning results were: —First Round.—

H. Gardiner (Dunedin) 20, D. Sloan (Green Island) 10. W, G, Love (Port Chalmers) 23, W. French (Leith) 13. J. H. Hardie (Mornington) 18, A. Tretheway (Caledonian) 17. W. Foster (Caversham) 16, T. MacGillivray (Roslyn) 15. J, D. Best (Otago) 20, W. Connor (West Harbour) 15. J. Armit (Kaikorai) 22, O. Ross (Fairfield) 12. J. Tonkin (N.E. Valley) 23, D. Oorraack (Kaituna) 14. P. M'Lennan (Taicri) 23, A. M'Donalcl (Balmacewen) 7. J. Dowland (St. Kilda) 20, J. Ussher (Anderson’s Bay) 12, J. Seddon (St. Clair) a bye. —Second Round.— Seddon 19, Love 14. Foster 24, Hardie 4. Best 19, Armit 10. Tonkin 24, M'Lennan 11. Sloan 19, Dowland 17. Tretheway 18, French IS. Jonnor 19, MacGillivrny 12. Jormack 19, Ross 4. Ussher 18, M'Donald 16. Gardiner a bye. Those eliminated after these two rounds were French, M'Donald, Ross, and MacGillivray. SOUTH OTAGO VISITORS. Thirty-two members of the South Otago Bowling Centre journeyed by bus to Dunedin this morning, arriving about 11.45, and were entertained at lunch in the Warwick room of the Savoy by tho Dunedin Centre. At 1 o’clock tho annual ei;_ -rink match between the two centres commenced on the Otago Green, and a good afternoon’s bowling was entered into wholeheartedly by the local and visiting players.