BOWLING

Greymouth Evening Star, 11 February 1938, Page 5

BOWLING

TOURNAMENT NEARING CLOSE The fourth day’s play in the West Coast-Buller combined centres’ championship bowling tournament was favoured with perfect weather conditions. At the conclusion of the day’s play, the semi-finalists in the pairs competition had been found, a play-off being necessary in five sections, and two, in the sixth section, to find the section winners. Play was continued until p.m., on the Greymouth green, where a large gallery watched the concluding play in five of the sections. Page (Lyttelton), easily defeated White (Runanga), in the play-off in section A., and McCorkindale (Karoro), scored a comfortable win over Watson (Maitai) in Section 8., play-off. Brackenridge (Lyall *Bay), defeated Rvan (Barrington) narrowly in Section C, and Young (R.S.A.) scored a decisive win over Lowry (St. Albans) in a splendid match to finalise Section E. There was more fine bowling in Section F, where Cogswell (Greymouth) defeated Munn (Canterbury) 11-8, and was then narrowly beaten by his club-mate Mercer, in a closelycontested game, for Mercer to enter the semi-finals as winner of Section F. At Runanga, O’Neil (Runanga) and Taylor (Runanga) fought out the play-off in Section D, O’Neil winning comfortably. SECTION WINNERS Section A:—Page and White five wins; Section B: —iWatson and McCorkindale, five wins; Section C: Brackenridge and Ryan five wins; Section D: —Taylor and O’Neil six wins; Section E:—Lowry and Young, six wins; Section F: —Cogswell, Munn and Mercer, five wins. In the play-off for winners of Sections, the results were: — Section A: —Page 19, White 6. Section B: —McCorkindale 24. Watson 14.

Section C: —Brackenridge 7. Ryan

Section D:—O’Neil 12, Taylor 5. Section E: —Young 21, Lowry 12. Section F: —Cogswell 11, Munn 8; Mercer 9, Cogswell 8. Matches played after the “Star” went to press yesterday afternoon, resulted: — SECTION A Round 6:—White 18. Denton 15; Grover 20, Hennessy 14: Stringer 19. Buist 17: Rothewell 24, Angus 12; Page 20, Levy 18. SECTION B Round 6:—Currie 18, Meldrum 14; Watson 24. Kilgour 15; Coombes 26, Smith 15; McCorkindale 20, Unwin 19; Harrison 21, Broughton 18. SECTION C Round s:—Archer 20, Armstrong 14; Stevenson 20, Ryan 19; Hanshy 24, Morrison 14; Brackenridge 20. Patterson 13; Ferguson 20, Mahar 18. Round 6:—Armstrong 9, Mahar 8; Archer 27, Morrison 6; Ferguson 20. Patterson 19; Ryan 18, Hanshy 16; Brackenridge 19, Stevenson 17. SECTION D Round s:—-Taylor 21, Benjamin 12; Wilson 19. Head 15; O’Neil 18. Thomson 16; Sansom 20, Smith 16; Hadcroft 18, Ives 17. Round 6: —Head 21, Smith 20; laylor 21, Thomson 17: Benjamin 17. Wilson 17; Ives 19, Sansom 18; O’Neil 21, Hadcroft 17. SECTION E Round 6:—Burt 20, Southward 14; Lowrv 23. Sara 15: Tate 21. Satterthwaite 15; Young 23. Souter 16; Brown 20 Syme 18. SECTION F Round 6: —Mercer 18, Moss 10_; Munn 19, Cogswell 9; Huddleston I'7, Pollock 14; Warburton 18, Ryan 16; Oiliver 23, Tregurtha 19. TO-DAY’S PLAY. Rain caused a postponement of the start in the post-section play in the rinks and pairs championship, this morning, but the first round was commenced at 11 a.m.. At the end of those matches play was further postponedHeavy rain again early this afternoon made a resumption highly improbable. A great portion of this morning’s matches were played in heavy rain. Results: — RINKS.

J. Armstrong junr. (Runanga) 17, defeated D. Stevenson (Hokitika), 14. J-T. Ryan (Barrington) 25, defeated W. H. Warburton (Runanga) 22. W. Southward (Greymouth) 27, defeated W. Brown (United) 9. A. Young (R.S.A.) 19, defeated U. Mercer (Greymouth) 18. PAIRS.

D. Page (Lyttelton) 17. defeated H McCorkindale (Karoro) 15.