BOWLING CHAMPIONS

Evening Star, Issue 21622, 18 January 1934, Page 13

BOWLING CHAMPIONS

POST-SECTION IN RINKS YESTERDAY AFTERNOON'S PLAY Yesterday afternoon’s post-section play in the links’ competition of the championship tournament of the New Zealand Bowling Association saw the number of players left in reduced to three rinks with lives and thirteen with one. In the afternoon a tricky southwest wind "made accurate play difficult. The second and third rounds of post-section play were completed. Results : DUNEDIN GREEN SECOND ROUND. TWO-LIFERS. Deare (Dunedin) 19, MacGillivray (Roslyn) 18. Healey (Waimate) 20, Muston (Carlton, Auckland) 17. Veitch (West Harbour), a bye. ONE-LIFERS. Lambeth (Balmacewen) 25, Armstrong (Leith) 14. Bandy (Papanui) 24, Martin (Sumner) 14 Martin and Armstrong were eliminated. Muston was transferred to Kaituna. THIRD ROUND. TWO-LIEFRS. Veitch 21, Deare 19. Lambeth (one life) 17, Healey 16. ONE-LIFERS. Bandy 25, MacGillivray 12. MacGillivray was eliminated. CALEDONIAN GREEN SECOND ROUND. TWO-LIFERS. Shaw (Te Rangi) 21, Whibley (Greymouth) 15. H. AVilson (Linwood) 22, Devereux (Kaikorai) 12. AValker (Auckland) 20, GrenfeW (Phoenix) 16. ONE-LIFERS. Edwards (Temuka) 28, Barnett (Roslyn) 15. Thomson (Phoenix) 21, Irvine (Edendale) IS. \ Anderson (Timaru) 20, Stevenson (Invercargill) 19. The following were eliminated :—Barnett, Irvine, and Stevenson. . Grenfell was transferred to Kaituna. THIRD ROUND. TWO-LIFERS. AVilson 20, Shaw 19. Edwards (one-lifer) 19, AA r alker 18. ONE-LTFERS. Thomson 20, Anderson 19. AA r bibley 25, Devereux 9. Anderson and Devereux were eliminated. KAITUNA GREEN SECOND ROUND. . TAVO-LIFERS. Harraway (Dunedin) 22, Dee (Nelson) 13. AATlkinson (Cromwell) 20, Shepherd (Kaituna) 16. ONE-LIFERS. Ciaridge (Caledonian) 23, Currie (West End, Timaru) 12. Gilbert (Karori) 23, Adess (St. Kilda) 11. . Currie and Adess were eliminated. THIRD ROUND, TAVO-LIFERS. Harraway 23, AVilkinson 12. ONE-LIFERS. Gilbert 23, Ciaridge 15. Dee 23, Shepherd 10. Muston T 9, Grenfell 10. The following were eliminated:— Ciaridge, Shepherd, and' Grenfell. NOTES ON AFTERNOON PLAY. DUNEDIN GREEN. In the second round of post-section play the interest of a large crowd of spectators was largely centred on the game between Deare’s solid Dunedin rink and the Roslyn combination, skipped f by MacGillivray. An exceptionally interesting game resulted, the issue being in doubt until the finish. MacGillivray led by C-3 on the sixth head, but Deare retaliated with a 3 on the next, the score being levelled. After eleven ends had been played Deare led 10-9, but MacGillivray responded with a 4. Another 4 to Deare made him 1 up, but on the seventeenth the score was 16 all. MacGillivray again took the lead with a brace, Deare Replying with two singles to equalise the scores on the twentieth head. On the last head Deare played excellently to draw the shot when the kitty had been run into the ditch, and won an exciting game by 19 to 18, Muston (Carlton) and Healey (AA raimate) provided a good game, the former leading 7-6 on the eighth head. Healey held the mat for several heads and led by 19 points to 7. Muston rallied, and, after taking singles from the next three ends, lost the nineteenth. On the twentieth, however, he a 6, and required 4 on the last to tie. He won the head with a 1, hut finished the game 3 down. Armstrong (Leith) led off with a a single and a brace in his match with Lambeth (Balmacewen) hut Lambeth retaliated and led 5-3 on the fifth. Lambeth obtained another 3, but on the seventh the score was 8-5 in Lambeth’s favour, A brace to Lambeth made the score 10-5 on the eighth, and on the ninth Leith were lying 2 when Lambeth drove and cleared the boats out to lie 1. Armstrong drove, but went wide, and Lambeth, taking a single, the score was 11-5 on the ninth. Armstrong's men put np a good fight, but Lambeth’s rink was playing well together and ran out comfortable winners by 25 to 14. Bandy (Papanui) eliminated Martin (Sumner) by 24 to 14. In the third round. Veitch_ (West Harbour), who is still left in the singles, pairs, and rinks, met Deare (Dunedin), the iscores being level, 9 all, on the lenth head! Deare then scored a brace, and was lying three shots on the twelfth head when Veitch trailed the kitty with a great shot, and scored a 4. Deare equalised again with a brace,.-hut Veitch followed with two singles. Dunedin scored 2 on the sixteenth head, levelling the. scores, but on the next Veitch again drove to get three shots. Oil the next two heads each scored a single, but A 7 eitch added a pair, and led, 21 to 1(5. on the twentieth head, Deare took 3 on the last, and thus lost, 21-19, Lambeth (Balmacewen), a one-lifer, had an exciting tussle with Healey’s Waimate rink (two lives). \A 7 ith seven

heads played Healey led, 9-4. Lambeth came to light and took the next four heads, but Healey then secured a lead which he maintained until the twentieth end, when he led, 16-15. Lambeth drew the shot when the kitty had been run into the ditch by his third, and the scores were level on the last head. On the extra head Lambeth scored a single to win The game. Bandy (Papanui) established an early lead against MacGillivray (Roslyu) and won by the substantial margin of 25 to 12. KAITUNA GREEN. In the second round at the Kaituna green E. Harraway (Dunedin) maintained his morning’s form by comfortably defeating Dee, the Nelson player, 22-13. He was leading 19-13 on the nineteenth head, and a good 6 put the issue beyond doubt. AVilkinson’s win in his match against Shepherd was due to his strong play in the early stages of the game, and the Kaituna player never recovered, the final score being 20-16 in the Cromwell skip’s favour. In the one-lifers’ section Gilbert met Adess, and for the first twelve heads the scores were 10 all, hut by means of good drawing shots Gilbert drew ahead to emerge the winner by 23-11. The Caledonian skip, Ciaridge, was in great form in his match against Currie (Timaru), and after six heads had been played his rink led by 11-2; but. staging a recovery, Currie took the next six heads, and led 12-11. The next eight beads were all won by Ciaridge, who ran out the winner by 23-12. In the third round Harraway and Wilkinson, the two-lifers, were very evenly matched up to the thirteenth head, when the scores were 10 all, but showing better combination Harraway’s rink then drew ahead, scoring 3,2, 3,4, and finally won'by the substantial margin of 23 points to 12. Dee proved too strong for Shepherd, and led 13-2 after the first nine heads, and although Shepherd showed an improvement Dee prevailed, the final score being 23-10. Muston (Carlton), who had been transferred from the Dunedin green, had an easy win in his game against Grenfell (Phoenix), who was shifted from the Caledonian green, the game ending in favour of the Carlton player by 19-10. CALEDONIAN GREEN. AValker (Auckland) and Anderson (Timaru), each of whom lost only one game in the section play, met in the first round on this green, AValker gaining a comfortable win by 18 points to 12. In AValkers next game with Grenfell the scores were 15 all with seventeen heads played. AA r alker was the stronger at the finish, and won by 20 points to 16. Shaw and Wilson (Linwood) both secured wins in this round by comfortable margins. Edwards (Temuka) scored well in the early stages of bis game with Barnett in this round, and after thirteen heads had been played led by 19 points to 17: On the sixteenth and seventeenth heads he scored fours, which enabled him to win by the substantial margin of 28 points to 15. Anderson bad a very close game with Stevenson, whom be beat by 20 points to 19. In the third round AATIson and Shaw, both two-lifers, also had a close game. The scores were 13 all on the thirteenth head and 17 all on the eighteenth. Shaw went; into the lead with a single, hut Wilson replied with a 3. Shaw could only secure a single on the last, and was defeated by 20 points to 19. AValker, a two-lifer, met Edwards, a one-lifer, with whom he had a very interesting struggle. Edwards held the upper ha*hd in the early stages of the game, and by gaining a 5 on. the sixth head led by 10 points to 2. By the time the thirteenth head had been reached, however, AA r alker had drawn level, the scores being 12 all. Edwards went into the lead with a single, but AValker scored 2 on each of the next two heads. AA T ith a 2 and a single Edwards was level with him again on tlie eighteenth head, and then collected a 3. Walker could not score more than singles on the final two heads, and lost by 19 points to 18. A feature of the game was the fine play of Keys, AA Talker’s third, who was remarkably consistent throughout. Thomson eliminated Anderson by defeating him by a single point. Whibley monopolised the scoring in the early stages of the game with Devereux, and twice scored 5. With twelve heads played he led by 20 points to 4. the game ending on the nineteenth head with- the score 25-9 in Whibley’s favour. PRESIDENT'S DAY BOWLERS ENTERTAINED Some 700 visiting and local bowlers and their lady friends were entertained on the Dunedin bowling green yesterday afternoon by the president of the New Zealand Bowling Association (Mr H. Rowley) and Mrs Rowley. The afternoon was beautifully fine, and the bowlers in their multi-coloured, blazers and the ladies in their light frocks presented .% vivid picture, while the pavilion was garlanded with colourful flowers and tasteful decorations which had been arranged by the local ladies. The visitors were welcomed by Mr Rowley in front of the pavilion, and he expressed pleasure that they ’had been favoured by good weather for President’s Day. He desired to express his thanks to all the clubs for the use of their greens, and said that conditions had been very hard on the greens during the wet weather, and the clubs and greenkeepers had been very • good in getting the greens ready under bad conditions. He specially thanked the greenkeepers who had turned out early each morning to get the greens ready. Thanks were due to the umpires, who had given their valuable time and had assisted the executive by forwarding the results promptly. He thanked the markers who came forward during the singles competition, and the Press for the valuable assistance it had given. Mi’ Rowley expressed the appreciation of all the bowlers to the ladies on the various greens for the wonderful work they had done in attending to the players. He particularly desired to thank the Dunedin ladies, .who hall been busy all day—and had been preparing for a considerable time —to make the function a success. He thanked all who had assisted in connection with the running of the tournament, and voiced the appreciation of all to Mr Hanning, their secretary, who had been of groat assistance to himself and to the executive. He appreciated the help of the executive members, and also that of the Tournament Committee, and the various sub-committees. In conclusion, Mr Rowley thanked the Ladies’ Committee, which .had been responsible for the entertainment of their visitors and of the Australians. They were glad to have had a visit from the Australians, and all were appreciative of their good fellowship. (Applause. ) Cheers were then given for Mr and Mrs Rowley, after which afternoon tea was provided for the big gathering, the arrangements that were made in this direction leaving nothing to be desired.