BOWLING COUNCIL

Evening Star, Issue 25522, 28 June 1945, Page 6

BOWLING COUNCIL

ALTERATION IN RULES COMPOSITION OF TOURNEY TEAMS (P.A.) CHRISTCHURCH, June 27. An alteration to rule 17 governing the composition of teams in association tournaments was made to-day at the annual meeting of the New Zealand Bowling Council. This provides that any club wishing to play an outside member must make application to the secretary 14 clays prior to the closing of nominations. The application must be accompanied by a certificate from the secretary of the nominating club to the effect that the reasons given are bona fide. The executive's decision in all such cases will be final. No member of a club within the tournamentplaying centre shall be eligible as the fourth player in any team'nominated by a club outside the centre in which the tournament is being played, except in the ease of a special emergency, in which case the executive may provide a substitute.

Mr- A. Dickson (president) was in the chair.

Mr W. J. Truscott (Auckland), in support of the motion, said that instances had occurred in Auckland where one member had contested the championships of two clubs. Dr R. E. Austin (Central Otago) opposed the remit. He knew, he said, that there had been cases of the " stacking of rinks," but the removal of one evil might result in its replacement by a greater one: It would come hard on the smaller clubs, some of which could not send a full team to a championship meeting. An amendment to rule 6 regarding conditions governing play provides that all players must wear heelless footwear and that a head covering, if worn, must be a white or cream hat or cap.

A remit from the Gisborne-East Coast Centre advocated proportionate representation from all centres affiliated with the New Zealand Bowling Association and that the strength of the representation should be governed by the number of members in each centre, one with a membership of 050 members to have one representative and! one with 2,000 members to have four representatives.

Mr W. Casey (Wellington) moved an amendment suggesting that the number on the council should be 19, instead of 14 as at present, and that each island should have nine representatives. Eventually, a re-arrangement of the districts was agreed to by Mr Casey, and in the proportion of 10 for the North Island and nine for the South Island the. next council will be represented as follows: North Island—Auckland and Wellington, two members each; Waikato-Thames, Taranaki, Bay of Plenty-Bast Coast-Gisborne, Hawke's Bay-Wairarapa, Wanganui-Manawatu md North Auckland, one each. South Island —Christchurch and Dunedin, two •ach; Southland, Central Otago-South Otago, South Canterbury, West CoastISuller and Nelson-Marlborough, one each.

A proposal to start play in the New 2ealand championships with fours ins'leacl of singles was rejected, and it was decided to adhere to the present princj>le of playing singles, pairs and ftps in that order. A motion by Mr \\. J. Truscott (Auckland) that sectini play in the fours should be three games of 21 ends a day was defeated, aid it was decided to play two games of. 25 ends. It was decided to adhere to the two-life system for the singles, to play the pairs also on the two-life sj-jtem, and to play three-bowl pairs. The next New Zealand championships wi) be held in Christchurch in January.