BOWLING TOURNAMENT.

Gisborne Times, Volume IX, Issue 801, 16 January 1903, Page 3

BOWLING TOURNAMENT.

By Telograph—Press Association. Palmerston North, last night. Tho bowling tournament was continued to-day in magnificent weather, and the only sensational feature was the defeat of Palmerston by the Upper Plains team, a Masterton combination considered quite out of tho running, and which was defeated later on in the day by Dannevirke by no less than 25 to 14. Soveral good games were played during the day, but there was nothing of a sensational character. Newmarket is loading with 9 wins 1 loss ; Palmerston and Napier having 8 wins and 2 losses ; Wellington, 8 and 3 ; Masterton, Hastings, and Victoria, 7 and 8; New Plymouth and Wanganui, 7 and 4. The results were :

Ninth Round. Upper Plains 15 v. Palmerston 12 Victoria 23 v. Stratford 20 New Plymouth 22 v. Haiti 18 Newmarket 23 v. Pahiatua 15 Thorndon 29 v. Newtown 18 Masterton 17 v. Napier 12 Wellington 27 v. Hawera 22 Ponsonby 23 v. Hastings 17 Feilding 28 v. Gisborne 15 Waverley 26 v. Petone 11 Whataupoko 17 v. Dannevirke 13 Wanganui 28 v. Auckland 11 Tonth Round. Dannevirke 18 v. Auckland 16 FeildiDg 23 v. Hastings 18 Wanganui 18 v. Upper Plains 18 Whataupoko 16 v. Ponsonby 15 Wellington 24 v. Masterton 21 New Plymouth 26 v. Pahiatua 14 Victoria 25 v. Kaiti 13 Stratford 23 v. Petone 16 Palmerston 37 v. Carterton 11 Waverley 38 v. Hawera 7 Newmarket 42 v. Patea 9 Newtown 21 v. Gisborne 14 Eleventh Round. Napier 29 v. Wellington 12 Thorndon 21 v. Gisborne 18 Petone 23 v. Haiti 16 Feilding 27 v. Whataupoko 23 Hastings 30 v. Newtown 18 New Plymouth 28 v. Patea 16 Ponsonby 27 v. Auckland 14 Victoria 26 v. Pahiatua 17 Wanganui 36 v- Carterton 9 Masterton 22 v, Waverley 16 Stratford 30 v. Hawera 19 Dannevirke 25 v. Upper Plains 14

Two more rounds will be played tomorrow morning, after which the finals will be played.

(Special to Times.) Palmerston, last night. At the bowling tournament to-day the fortunes of war were all against Gisborne, who were dofeatod by Feilding, Newtown, and Thorndon. All three matches were closely contested, and tho Thorndon game was lost on the last head. Kaiti shared the samo fate as the town club, and did not get a win to-day. Whataupoko defeated Dannevirke by half-a-dozen points, and just beat Ponsonby on tho post by a point. In the match against Feilding, Whataupoko practically had the game won, and then allowed their opponents to got in fourteen points in throe heads, a seven, a fivo, and a two. In tho ovont of Palmerston going down to Wanganui, Whataupoko havo a chanco for championship honors, that is assuming

that they do not loso auothor match. It is probablo that tho GisborneWhataupoko match will bo played tomorrow afternoon.