BOWLING

Evening Star, Issue 23208, 6 March 1939, Page 11

BOWLING

CHAMPION OF CHAMPIONS MWLAND LOSES A LIFE The champion of champions competition of the Dunedin Centre was continued this morning on the Caledonian treen, three matches being played. Conitions were very pleasant, although there was a fresh north-east wind blowing. There was a good attendance of spectators. The results of the morning’s play were:— J-Veitch (Dunedin) 23, W. G. Love (Port Chalmers) 8. W. Purdy (St. Clair) 18, W. King (Anderson’s Bay) 9. •Veitoh 22, J. Dowland (St. Kilda) 12. Love held Veitch up till the fifth head,"when the score was 4-4, but thereafter Veitoh < exerted his superiority, and on the eighth was leading 11-4. Love collected singles on the ninth and tenth, but Veitch retaliated with a 2 on the eleventh, and a 3 on the twelfth. With the .score 16-6 Veitch _ seemed assured of a win and was playing confidently. The best. Love co.uld do was to : collecfc 3 two further singles. On the eighteenth Veitch drew 3, and with the score then 23-8 time was up. The game between King and Purdy was not sensational, and Purdy was on top throughout. Ho led 4-2 on the fifth, but on the tenth he had increased his lead 10-4. King was playing with a lack of assurance while Purdy was steadily confident, though he scored mainly in singles. On the nineteenth head tho game ended 18-9 in Purdy’s favour.

Considerable interest was displayed in the game between the two-lifer, Dowland, and Veitch. Dowland fought a hard struggle, but the luck was not with him. Veitch was in excellent form, and only on the fourteenth was his lead really challenged. The score against Dowland might well have been larger had he not been successful in t burning three heads when Veitch was* lying well. Veitch opened notably, collecting 3 on the first head, and this he 1 followed up by two 2’s. Dowland made his first score in the fourth head, when Veitch was leading 7-1. On the twelfth head Dowland was nine behind, but on the next a 3 helped him considerably, and when he collected another 2 on the fourteenth his chances of * w;n were much brighter, the score then reading 14-10 in Veitch’s favour. The next three heads, however, were Veitchs’, and a 2 to Dowland on the eighteenth did not aid his position very much, for the score now was 17-12. Veitch collected a 3 and a 2 on the ensuing heads, and one of Dowland’s lives was gone.