BOWLING NOTES

Evening Star, Issue 21037, 26 February 1932, Page 4

BOWLING NOTES

[By Measurer.'

FIXTURES. —To-morrow. — Dunedin Centre v. South Otago Centre, on Dunedin green. Final of Four-nnk Championship, on Kaikorai green. March 3.—Christchurch Centre v. Dunedin Centre, Dunedin green. March 9.—Champion of champions (ladies), Caledonian Green. March 12 and, 14.—Champion of champions, Dunedin green. March 19 and April 2.—Adess Shield, Kaituna green. Easter.—Dunedin Centre tournament (entries close March 17). Easter. —Oamaru tournament (entries close March 12). HARR AW AY SHIELD. The twelfth annual match between Otago and Southland howlers for the Harraway Shield was played on the Southland Club’s green on Wednesday afternoon, and after a pleasant game with an exciting finish the southern players retained possession of the trophy by the narrow margin of one point. The green was heavy after the morning’s rain, hut it dried quickly 'and played remarkably well. It took the Dunedin players a while to settle down, for at the fifth head the scores were: Southland 47, Otago 26. By the tenth head this lead had been reduced, the board then reading 78-71. The fifteenth head brought them closer still (112-111), and at the twentieth head Otago Jed, 149-144. A neck-and-neck struggle then ensued, and the issue was in doubt right up to the last bowl. Mr E. Harraway, the donor of the shield, was in the Dunedin team. This is the narrowest victory yet recofded in the contest. In 1928 Otago won by two points, and in 1924 the game'ended in a tie. The following table shows the holder of the shield from the first game :

By beating Roslyn on the Caledonian green on Tuesday evening Dunedin won section A in the four-nnk championship, and the play-off between Caledonian (winner of section B) and Dunedin (last year’s winner) will take place on the Kaikorai green to-morrow afternoon. •

' Another important game set down for to-morrow is the match on the Dunedin green between teams from the local and South Otago Centres.

The executive of the Dunedin Centre has made new arrangements for the Adcss Shield competition, consequent on the. advice that Anniversary Day is to be observed on Easter Tuesday.. As originally fixed, two games will be played on the afternoon of Saturday, March 19, and the new arrangement is that the final tjiree rounds will be got off on Saturday, April 2, one game in the morning and two in the afternoon. The Kaituna green will be used.

The Port Chalmers Club has now finalised its singles and pairs. W. Glanvillo and W. Morgan had a very close game in the singles final, Glanville winning by one point. He played consistently throughout the competition, and finished without a loss. In .the pairs J. Page and K. Fountain are the winners alter some hard-fought games. The semi-final was exciting at the finish. Wanting one to win, with his opponent lying three, Fountain with a splendid raking shot carried the kitty into the ditch and rested beside it. The Gray Ferns—-donated by Mr J/ H.- Gray, who is at present in Port on a holiday—are also causing keen comSetition. Braithwaite’s rink (M‘Cowatt, liddleton, Timlin) had withstood a few challenges, but were beateii last week. However, on Tuesday they had their revenge, beating Peters, Bell, MacDonald, and Lang by two, after a close anti keen game. Another competition is now in full swing—singles for the Peters vase—for , which there are big entries.

The first match for the Casey Cup, Siven for challenge competition between re Logan Park and MiddlemarcJi Clubs, was played on the Park green on Wednesday. The weather conditions were not of the best, and only twelve heads could be played, but the visitors showed a marked superiority, winning by 13 points. Mr Geo. Porteous, president of Middlemarch Club, and lately of Caversham Club, thanked Mr Casey for his generous gift and the Logan Park Club for its hospitality.

Owing to the broken weather extending the life of the ladies’ tournament, the eight-rink match between Otago and Southland Jadies, originally fixed to be played at Invercargill on Monday, has been postponed. The finals of the 0.L.8.A. singles, pairs, and rinks will be played on the St. Hilda green on Tuesday.

A rink from,the Otago Chess Club (Balk, Marlow, Hamel, A. Ellis) met a rink from the Haikorsu Club (Stoddart, A. Morrison, Spiers, Findlay) last evening in friendly rivalry, and won 10-10.

Some Apt Definitions. —Bowl: Bit Of Wood Lopsided. Jack: Just A China Kitty. Bins: Bit Inserted At Side. In a recent lecture before members of the British Medical Association the lecturer said men should never cease to be mentally and physically employed. “Men retiring or relinquishing their usual occupations should mix and play games. Perhaps,” he said, “ they cannot play golf or tennis, because it is too strenuous; but there is one game they con play, and in my experience bowls has saved many a man from suicide.” An eminent Sydney doctor, who had advised a friend on rome aspects of harmful delivery, remarked that what the London lecturer said was perfectly true. Some interesting opinions have recently appeared in the ‘ Dominion ’ in regard to the relative merits of composition and wooden bowls. One writer took to task tjwo delegates to the Wellington Centre who were reported to have said that “Compo. bowls run very straight on a heavy green,” and that “These bowls are'undoubtedly spoiling the game, and they are all over the place.” Such observations (trenchantly states the critic of the foregoing remarks) onjy show how “wooden” these wooden Bowlers are, and I suppose some of them—happily the number is rapidly dwindling—will cling to their prejudice against the more accurate, perfectly made, and more serviceable compo. bowls until their clumsy old “woods” are relegated to the museum alongside the stone bowls which Mr Redmond assures us were used by the Majlis.

Year. Winner. Score. 1921 ... Southland ... 190—184 1922 ... Otago 191—184 1923 ... Otago 198-165 1924 ... Tie 183-183 1925 ... Southland ... 195—189 1926 ... Otago 196—160 1927 ... Otago 237—151 1928 ... Otago ... ... 182-180 1929 ... Otago 193—181 1930 ... Southland ... 194—157 1931 ... . Southland ... 206-153 1932 ... Southland ... 181-180