N.Z. BOWLS TOURNEY

Evening Star, Issue 21931, 18 January 1935, Page 3

N.Z. BOWLS TOURNEY

RINKS AND PAIRS CONTINUED CARLTON'S ILL-LUCK IN DRAW [Per United Press Association.) AUCKLAND, January 17. The dominion bowling tournament was continued to-day, when further games in the post-section rounds of the full rinks championship and intersection rounds of the pairs championship were played. The day was extremely hot, and the contestants, having completed a full week’s play in the rinks championship, showed signs of tiredness. The pace of the greens vva> fast. T. Buxton, Dr P. Moir, H. C. Clarke, and S. Jenkin, of the Carlton Club, remain undefeated in the rinks championship, gaining the distinction of being the only team to survive fourteen successive rounds. Jenkin has also a record of playing in twenty-tour successive games in the dominion without a defeat. Play will be resumed in the rinks, pairs, and singles championships to-morrow.

The following two teams retain their two lives in the rinks competition;— Buxton, Moir, Clarke, and Jenkin (Carlton) ; Mineham, Donaldson, Liverridge, and Whittle (Grey Lynn). The one-lifers are as follows;—Paget, Blood. Wilson, and Mingins (Epsom) ; Stephens, Macklow, Livingstone, and Robertson (Onehunga). The following survive in the pairs competition, in which further post-sec-tion games were played to-day:—Bull and Murray (Hawera), Harris and Harris (St. John’s), Wakefield and Beer (Napier), Logan and M'Carthy (Port Ahuriri), Loveridge and Pilkington (Hamilton), Casey and Lobb (West End, New Plymouth), Wellings and M’Whannell (Hataitai). . Owing to the players being required for the rinks and pairs to-day no further play was held in the singles competition.* Eleven players still remain in. Those with two lives are ; —Boirrke (Hawera), Kngebretsen (Napier), Russell (St. Heliers). The one-lifers ai£Routley (Kelburn), Somervell (Ponsonby), Coburn (Ponsonby), Keatley (Rocky Nook), Luscombe (West End, New Plymouth), Livingstone (Onehunga), Wellings (Hataitai), Richards (Devonport;. It was exceedingly unfortunate tor the Carlton Club that the .automatic draw for the games brought two teams of that dub —Lancaster and Grahamtogether. More unlucky still was the fact that the winner of the Lancaster and Graham tussle was drawn to play Jenkin, also of Carlton. Moreover, while the first-mentioned game was played Roberts’s team was defeated, thus four Carlton teams which have performed so admirably were reduced to one in the first two rounds to-day. The game Lancaster versus Graham (dubmates) was marked by steady play and excellent bowling. The character of the play indicated that there was little to pick between the strength or the respective teams, one of whom had to be eliminated from the further rounds of the championship, fhe play m the other game between Roberts (Carlton) and Brackenndge (Lyall Bay) contrasted with the first-men-tioned tussle, in that it was very onesided. Roberts was outclassed in form on the game and shook hands with Brackenndge at the close of the nineteenth head, the score being 23 to 11. The Stone (St. John’s) versus Bremner (West End, Auckland) game was a one-sided tussle, and ended 2o to 12 in favour of the visitors. Stone was a powerful factor in the game. It was unfortunate again that two teams from Waikato—Gee He Awani utu) and Pilkington (Hamilton) —were drawn to play against each other when each had only one Ine. However, tho circumstance can bo accounted for only by the luck of the automatic draw, which has proved the only satisfactory manner. Pilkington snatched victory from his i non as by drawing the absolute shot on the white with his last bowl, thus taking the game out of the fire. . The game between Thomas (nairerc) end T. Walker (Mount Abcrt) had some interesting features and also much sound bowling. The score read Bto 8 on the ninth head, but Mount Albert ran up a total of 20 to 15 by the twentieth head. Wairere came again and piled on 6 counters on the concluding head. Walker, however,,, was not to be denied, and he drew third shot with his last bowl and ran out a winner by 3 points. The Wairere team had provided sound play of a high order throughout the section and post-section rounds. , „ , Logan and M'Carthy, of the Port Ahuriri Club, Napier, put up a great stand against Higginson and Hosking, of Grey Lynn, in the pairs championship. The Napier pair put 9 to ml on the board before their opponents opened their score, and ran out easy winners by 22 to 11. The Mingins (Epsom) versus btonc (Wanganui) game showed a complete collapse of the Wanganui rink. At no stage of the game did the visitors look like winners, the total score being 28 to 7. The third round played to-day saw the elimination from the competition of the strong Napier rink headed by Engebretsen in the game against Jenkin, of Carlton. The team has made a great impression with the bowlers of Auckland. There was a marked tendency to build slack heuds_ by lack of placing position nhots. Nevertheless, the brilliance of Engebretsen m pulling his team out of tight corners was one of the thrills of all the games played by the Napier rink. Probably it was the remarkable accuracy of this skip that prompted the opportunity of taking frequent chances to the advantage of Carlton, it was soon evident that the front rank of the Carlton team was much stronger than the Napier three. Requiring 5 to tie on the last head, the Napier skip was faced with a. complete Jack of position on the head, and had to admit defeat. RINKS CHAMPIONSHIP. FOURTH ROUND. —Two-lifers.— Robertson (Onehunga) IS, F, A. Hosking (Pukekohe) 16. Whittle (Grey Lynn) 16, M’Whanuell (Hataitai) 15. S. Jenkin (Carlton), a bye. —One-lifers.— Lancaster (Carlton) 17, Graham (Carlton) 15. Brackenridgo (Lyall Bay) 23, Roberts (Carlton) 11. Englebretsen (Napier) 21, Blighting (Hataitai) 16. Stone (St. John’s, Wanganui) 25, Bremner (West End, Auckland) 15. Mingins (Epsom) beat Arnold (Palmerston North) 15. Pilkington (Hamilton) 20', Gee (Te Awamutu) 16. Theo Walker (Mount Albert) 20, Thomas (Wairere, Napier) 17, The following were eliminated in this round Graham, Bvighting, Bremner, ArJiott, (jiee, Thomas,. Roberts.

FIFTH ROUND. Whittle 19, Robertson 18. Jcnkin 29, Lancaster 19. Englebretsen 17, Brackenndge Mingins 26, Stone 17. T. Walker 24, Pilkington 12. M'Whannell 19, Hosting 18. The following were eliminated in the fifth round:—Lancaster, Brackenndge, Stone, Pilkington, and Hosting. SIXTH ROUND. Jenkin 17, Englebretsen 13. Mingins 26, T. Walker 11. Robertson 22, M'Whannell 8. Whittle, a bye. The following were eliminated m the sixth roundEnglebretsen, !• Walker, and M'Whannell. PAIRS COMPETITION. POST-SECTION PLAY. —Third Round.— Logan and M'Cartby (Port Ahuriri) 22, Higginson and Hosking (Urey Lynn) 10. on Harris and Harris (St. John s) -t, Oughton and Loram (Rocky Nook) U. NOTES ON THE PLAY JEM'S UNBEATEN RECORD AUCKLAND’S STRONG'RIHKS POSITION 1 Special to the ' Star/ 1

AUCKLAND, January 17. The weather was hot, and the gi ceils were running perfectly, resulting m bowling of a high standard. Engebretseu, the Napier representative, was playing a sterling game today. His defeat of Brighting’s rink was a tine bit of work, and he led from the jump, giving Hataitai no quarter, in the second game, that against Brackenridge (Lyali Bay), he was down on the board up to the thirteenth head, when the Wellington men were 12-10 up; and from then on he forged ahead in pairs and singles to eliminate the ex-singles holder by 17-12. It was not that Brackenridge and his men were not playing well—they were; but Engebrctsen’s drawdng was irresistible, and time and again be retrieved the situation. In the meantime Jenkin (Carlton), had received a bye in the fourth round, and had downed a club mate in Lancaster, having to get 7 to tie on the last two ends, and actually getting two 4’s to win—a great effort which was warmly acknowledged by the big audience, which was reckoned to be anything in the vicinity of 750-800. The match the crowd had been looking for eventuated, Jenkin being drawn to play Engebretsen. Two 3’s, two pairs, and two singles, and the Aucklander was ten to Napier’s 5 on the eighth end; and then a battle royal ensued, no less than six heads being burned, each skip being aggressive. H. C. Cldrke was the body man- of Carlton’s rink, and they gradually got away, though Napier men squared on the fourteenth—l 3 all, Engebretsen finally losing by a few points after the bell had gone, the game ending at 7.30 p.m. Jenkin has a good record, and m 1930, at Dunedin, lie lost the first game in the pairs, but went on to win. Returning to Auckland, he won the centre pairs, and then had a go at the dominion pairs in 1931 at Auckland, am finishing runner-up to Lovenage and Pilkington, who got the title that year, Jenkin. with a bye, has fourteen games and no defeat. He now meets Whittle (Grey Lynn) who had a bye today. . : . M'Whannell is known as a dour fighter, and he to-day proved it. He was playing Whittle in his fourth postsection game, with two lives, and ujtev a bad start was down 8-14 on loth. He then commenced his run, and gradually closed the gap; and on the 20th the score was levelled. A good head was laid for Hataitai, and they lay four, and no target, Whittle wicking in off a wing bowl and wobbling in for shot. M'Wnannell then met Hosking (Pukekohe), both now one-lifers. Again their opponents got away in the early stages, and coming with a late run the Wellington man, assisted by Wellings’s good play, drew level, and the last end commenced 17 all. The P.ukekohe men were lying two. Wellings drove and kitty came to the edge of the ditch, Hosking lying two a foot away. M'Whannell drew a toucher right on the lip of the ditch, a great shot, and it stayed there for the -winner to receive a well-merited round of applause. . Against Robertson (Onehunga), who had to leave his rink owing to business matters for this game, Livingstone skipped, and Vella substituted. M'Whannell was well and truly trounced, and lie had to concede his opponent a big start after halfway, the Onehunga men collecting four fours, Both M'Whannell and T. Walker have done well to reach the last seven, and Auckland has Jenkin (two lives). Whittle (Grey Lynn), Mingins (Epsom), and Robertson (Onehunga), to battle for rinks honours.

Engebretsen plays his singles in the morning. He meets Russell (St. Hellers). and both are two-lifers.

Left-handed bowlers are not rare by any means, but in the rinks decided this afternoon, of the six skips on the green there were two left-hand-ers—S. Jenkin and T. Walker.