BOWLING.

Hawera Star, Volume XLVII, 29 October 1928, Page 3

BOWLING.

FLAY ON SATURDAY. Bowlers took advantage of the excellent weather conditions 1 prevailing in H-awera on Saturday and; there were in consequence good; attendances on the green®. At the Hn.wwa green', i-n a: buttons' match, a; -rink skipped, iby Hick® /beat on’e skipped by Tkfewe.il by 20 itoi 16.

SHIELD MATCH FIXTURES. Following are the iutei*-c!ub bowling fixtures for the shield matches in the Central Division, the first contests to take place on Thursday:— November I—Stratford1 —Stratford v. Eltham, at Stratford; Ivap-onga v. Avon, at Knponga; Inglewood v. Tariki, at Tariki. November B—lnglewood v. Stratford, at Inglewood; Avon- and Tariki, at Avon; Eltham v. Ivapon-ga', at Eltham. November 15—Stratford- v. Kaponga, at Kaponga; Avoir v. Inglewood, at Inglewood; E-Ilham v. Tariki, at Tariki. November 29—Stratford v. Avon, at Avon; Eltham. v. Inglewood, at Elthaim; Tariki, v. Kaponga, at Tariki. _ _. December 6 —Stratford v. Tairiki, .at Stratford; Avon v. Eltham, at Eltham; Inglewood v. Kaponga, at Kaponga.

CONTINUOUS COMPETITIONS,

The Stratford Bowling Clul> is this season making a departure from the practice of holding numerous club competitions, and- apart , front the championship contests ini senior, B grade and colt sections, there will be only two continuous competitions. For the purpose of these competitions it is necessary to classify all playing

members and to allot them -permanent handicaps. In the handicap pairs competition the system of coupling senior and junior players has been abolished', and couples will be chosen by drawing names from a box. Dates of progress will be fixed, so that there will' bo no delay in reaching finality. The other continuous competition is new to Stratford;, and is called the percentage fours competition. All members have been classified as leads, seconds, thirds or skips, and the competition will apply to all full xink> games played on Thursdays and Saturdays, including banner and 1 interclub matches when, so decided by the committee.

The method is simple. No matter how the personnel of a four is made up, each man in ai rink will mark a win of a loss against* his own name on a) large chart in the pavilion. At the end of the season the four highest leads, -seconds, thirds and skips will be ballotted into terms and a , semi-final and final played to deter- _ mine the champion rink of the club. The method . off? (reckoning highest players in each classification will be on a percentage basis, so the number of games played by individual members will not affect his average number of wins. The committee has laid it down that- in order to qualify for the semi-finals a player must take part in 66 per cent, of the notified • games. , . . . * An. advantage of this competition is that if a number of players as- . semble on the green with no particular match in view, teams can be made up bv extracting, numbers ' from a box, , and the gante will count in the com--/;* petition.

SEASON OPENED AT AUROA

There was a good attendance of members and visitors for the opening ceremony for the season at the Auroa Bowling Club’s green on Saturday. Welcoming the company, Mr. \\ . J. Bradford (president) said that the members of the club were pleased to see so many visitors present, and- felt -sure there would be a good and sue- y casful season. He paid a tribute to ,k ; the retiring president (Mr. A. C. Johnstone) for hi® fine service, and thanked the Kaoonga Club for helping the Auroa Club by the j>o&tponement of a. fixture. The orthodox throwing of the iack to isigna-lise the opening of the season was performed by Mrs. Bradford. Speaking for the visitors. Messrs. A. V. Tait (Kaponga) and J. Hickey (Manilla) acknowledged the hospitality shown, bv the Auroa Club. Wy • ! Tiie following rinks took part infe friendly games : k Hickev. Robinson. Law, Duff. Tyack 23 v. Jelly,man, Robertson, Buxton,, - Kilpatrick 22. , Bicheno, Massey, Thurston. Johnstone 21 V. Guy, Davies, Smith, Hawkins 20. , Boss, Tait, Corey, Bradford 21 v. Stevens. Grecnliill, Tremain, Dawson 15.