BOWLING

Hawera Star, Volume XLVII, 7 January 1928, Page 3

BOWLING

NEW ZEALAND AGAIN DEFEATED. BY CABLE—PRESS ASSOCIATION--COPYRIGHT MELBOURNE', Jan. 6. In the inter-State bowling matches Victoria (108) defeated New Zealand (65). Hill’s rink won 23-18, Clark lost 13-32, Hobday iost 20-23 and Thomas lost 9.35. HAWERA CLUB COMPETITIONS. The following games were played yesterday:— Champion pairs: Wills and Robertson 28 v. Fodcn and R. Tait 17. Champion singles: Foy 21 v. Herbert 14; Buckrell 24 v. Tidswell 13; Champion 22 v. Herbert 17; Robb 19 v. Hobbs 15. Handicap singles—Goodchap 20 v. Champion 13; Watts 27 v. Stannard 13; J. Tait 21 v. Stannard 14.

SHIELD MATCH. HAWERA v. PARK. The following rinks will represent Hawera in a shield match at Hawera against Park on Wednesday next:— Herbert, Saunders, Wills, Linkhorn; Anderson, Shaw, Hodge, Hicks; Hobbs, Burgess, Robertson, Foy; Keys, Janson, Potter, M. Squire; T. Tait, Foden, Oliver, Robb; Champion, McDonald, R. Tait, Corkill. - BErWEUN BOROUGH QOUNOILS. The game of bowls is popular among the members of many locSl bodies, and ou Thursday a rink from New Plymouth Borough Council had a very enjoyable time when visiting Inglewood and playing a match with representatives of the latter council. New Plyouth won by 29 to 22, and the outcome of the visit is an invitation for a return match at New Plymouth and a proposed tourney among rail the local bodies of the province on 4 February 23. The locale will be fixed later. KAPONGA DEFEAT ELTHAM. Yesterday’s banner match at Kaponga between Kaponga and Eltham resulted in the narrow defeat of the visitors by three points. In • consequence of continued fine weather the green was very fast, and some excellent play was witnessed. With now two wins to their credit and coming on to their game as the season advances, the Kaponga. men are sanguine of running into a good position. Detailed scores of yesterday’s game are as follow (Kaponga players being mentioned first): Roberts, Bell, Payne, Henderson 26 v. Stunners, Gower, Bootten, McKav 23.

Kehely, Davison, Cran, James 25 v. Franks, Pennington, Harrison, Best 21.

Ryan, Law, Williams, Hawkins 24 v. Judd, Linn, Clemow, Gift-man 28. Totals.—Kaponga, 75; Eltham, 72.