BOWLING REVIEW

Hawera Star, Volume LII, 25 January 1933, Page 8

BOWLING REVIEW

SOUTH TARANAKI CLUBS PULL BINK TOURNEY DOMINION PAIRS CHAMPIONSHIP TO HAWES A. Now that the winning teams in the Wednesday and Saturday.Dirisions of the South Taranaki sjhield bowling competition have been iound, arrangements will be made to play the filial. The Wednesday division has been won by' the Park Club with six wins and the Saturday division by the Hawera Club’s No. 2.team with live wins. The Park Saturday team still has one match (previously abandoned) to complete against Hawera No. 1 but the present position of flip leading teams cannot be affected. »■**■**

The 28th annual full-link open tournament conducted by the Taranaki Centre is in progress at New Plymouth the Hawera clubs being represented by two rinks each —Hobbs, Champion, Herbert and Corkill (s) and Pudge, Spratt, Bardsley and Townsley (s) lor liiiwera und Quin, Goodwin, pillars and Mason (s) and W. Thomas, Brett, J. Thomas and Smith, (s) for Park. *****

Owing to the recent Dominion tournament at Wellington and the. present Taranaki Centre tournament at New Plymouth, very little progress has been made with the championship singles competition of either the Hawera or the Park Clubs. A. reminder is given that the respective clubs champions must be found before February 28.

The chief topic of discussion in bowling circles this week lias been tlic success of H. S. Malin and M. J. Squire (Hawera) in the championship pairs at the Dominion tournament. They scored a decidedly popular victory in the final against W. Bremner and O. Hardley (West Find, Auckland), who won tl?e championship at Christchurch •last year. At the conclusion of the game Hardley complimented the Hawera pair on. their line game and said that neither he nor his lead regretted losing under such circumstances. “We were out-howled and out-genera lied,” he said. It- is worthy of note that Breinner skipped the winning link in the Dominion championship at Christchurch iu 1924 and at Wellington in 1929.

Delightful bowls.were played by the Hawera pair throughout the preliminary matches and in the first two games of post-sectional play had two comparatively easy wins against J. 11. -Marks (Christchurch) and R. S. Higginbotham (Mount Albert, Auckland). In the semi-final against Gordon (Seaton li) the full 21 heads were played. All were full of interest and ’the game was followed closely by a large gallery of spectators. Squire quickly found the strength of the green and at the third head led 6—o, increasing the margin to 19—6 at the 13tli when Gordon came on to liis game. During the next live heads the latter added nine points, so that at the 18th the scores were: Squire 19, Gordon 1-5. The Hawera skip scored one on the . 19th and thereafter concentrated on the restriction of his opponents’ gains to one oil each'of the last two heads, winning bv 20—17.

The following record, of the final game was kept by a Hawera visitor at the tournament and generously supplied for the information of bowlers reading this column:

First head: Bremner’s first bowl was an inch to the rear of kitty; Maslin, with liis second bowl, 'Jay a handy second and with his last displaced Bremner’s bowl to lie two up. Squire drew third shot and Hardley, with his last bowl, had a running shot but missed. Scores: 3—4 to Squire. Second head: Maslin lay 18 inches or so behind kitty and Bremner drew inside. Squire rested but Hardley drew on kitty for two. Scores : 3—2. Third bead: Short, similar to the proceeding head. • Squire was three down when the skips changed ends but drew two lovely shots for two up. Scores: Squire 5—2. Fourth head: Medium length. Bremner drew a foot behind jack and his second was a trailer. Squire drove but was still one down. Scores: 5

Fiftli head: Maslin drew a toucher. Squire drew another and Hardley missed his drive. Scores: Squire, 7—3. Sixth head: Almost full length. When four down Hardley burnt the head and on replay both Bremner and Hardley got in a shot to improve their tally. Scores: Squire, 7—5. Seventh head. —Bremner drew two on kitty and Maslin rested a shot bowl for one. He then drew another, cutting out Bremner \s bowl and lying three up. Hardley drove, and cut one out. ,Scores : Squire t)—s. Eighth head.—After a closely group cd head had been disturbed by Hardley, Squire drew on lsitty_and lay one up. Scores: Squire, 10—3. .Ninth, head.—Maslin; was short and narrow, while Brenuier’s shot was two feet off the jack. Squire. was narrow and Hardley had a good for a possible five but was short. • Scores: Squire, 10 —6. Tenth head.—Bremner threw up a full-length head and drew all three bowls on kitty, Maslin placing two further back. Hardley drew a fourtn and then Squire drove and took (jut one of Maslin’s back bowls. Hardley drew a fifth and Squire just nnssed his second drive. Hardley drew, a sixth and Squire had his third, drive, lustead of knocking lei tt back to his own bowl, however, it ran across to jack high and left him four down. A drive appeared to be the right tactics to adopt for it was almost impossible for him to miss the head. Scores: AIL square, 10-all. Eleventh head. —Maslin drew toucher on kittv but as the position was dangerous he took the risk and was rewarded with another shot. Scores: Squire, 12—10. Twelfth head. —Maslin drew a toucticr but the bowler ran on a toot, still remaining the shot. Squire took the second shot and Hardley missed tor a trail. Scores: Squire, 13 —10. Thirteenth head.—Bremner drew two and Squire, with a wonderful, bowi, took second shot and actually faced the shot bowl when it rolled over lot one down. Scores: Squire, 13 —11. . Fourteenth head.—Maslin and Squire drew one each. Scores: Squire, 15 —11. .Fifteenth head.—Maslin drew a toucher hut Bremner played a wonderful draw to rest right on the jack. Maslin played a “faec-him-through. Squire then faced -Breniner’is howl through and lay two up. Hardley drew to save the situation, but was a Little narrow. Scores: Squire, 17 —11. Sixteenth head.—Medium length. The Flaw-era pair lav shot when, ITardinv burnt the head. The next was • radically full length and Bremner lay a toucher just inside' Muslims three bowls. Squire went for a trial or to

face the shot, bowl through for three. Although he brushed kitty he fan. straight through, Hardley drawing the second while' endeavouring to find into tho cli tcH for vct>. Scores: Souiie, Seventeenth head.—Medium length. Muslin had the shot, but Bremner trailed for two. Squire actually rested tiie shot when his timber turned over and lay one down. Scores: Squire, Eighteenth head. —A long head. Masfin lay shot a, foot in front of kitty. When the skips changed ends Hardley drew two bowls- on kitty. Squire droveand dislodged both to lay one u-j>. Scores: Squire, 18—14Nineteenth head. —When the leads had finished the head was one in favour of Hardley. Squire’s bowl, when it left his hand, seemed far too wide but to 'the astonishment of everyone it drew in for shot. Hardley endeavoured to rest the shot but ran right through. Scores : Squire, 19 —14." Twenty-fh’st head.—At this stage the spectators were more excited than the players. Bremner threw up the shot. Both leads played very cautiously, Bremnei, although wide, placing his three inside Maslin’s set. Squire drew •the second shot. Hardley drove and lay two up, each skip having a bowl to play. Squire had a bowl at the rear on each wing. One’s were of little use to Hardley but he found a track through Maslin’s front timber and burnt the head. On a replay Maslin put two on the jack and Hardley resorted to drives, cutting out his own wood and leaving only one of his own bowls on the green. Squire drew third shot but Hardley cut out two and las’ one down. Final scores: Squire 20, Hardley lb. * . Thus was won the first Dominion championship to come to TaranakiThe Hawera pair played really wonderful bowls, Maslin being very steady except at the 10th and 20th heads. Squire drew in an amazing manner. On one head in particular of his bowls actually turned back towards the player from .six inches behind kitty to stop right on her—a veritable “boomerang shot” as one Australian bowler standing near remarked. * * * * *

In the full rinks competition at the Dominion tournament Bull, Maslin, Adamson and Squire had four wins and four losses and Winks, Clarke, Bourke and Foy three wins ancl five losses. In the pairs Clarke and Foy had three wins and two losses.

The Wellington greens were lound to be much faster than those in 'laranaki and the standard of play throughoil t the tournament of the highest.

In the Park Club’s handicap singles competition I?.. Woolford bus seven wins in Section A and Jellymau five wins in Section 41. In the championship singles competition Colmau and Thomas so far have three wins each. =■' * * * *

The closing date of entries in the Bremford silver bowl competition lias been extended to the end of January, ail the Park Club members - being reminded that this is a sealed handicap competition. Play will commence early next month. *** * * .

Dry weather has (had its efiect on the Waverley green, but careful attention has kept the turf in good playing condition. • * * * * »

The rules say that everybody must plav in the club colours, but an umpire on the Eastbourne green the other dav was, to say the least of it, a trifle stern. It was'terribly hot, and a- competitor bad left off liis hat, coat, collar and tie. “Yon cannot play l like that, said the umpire, “you must put on your tie.” * * * * *

The perfect skipper must be a combination of Mussolini, Michael Angelo, Charlie Chaplin, The Good Samaritan, ancl Simon Degree all rolled into one. He must be able to inspire his men; must bo the par excellence of versatility. must be able to keep his team in. a continual roar of laughter when things are looking glum, and willing to assist the succour the faint-hearted.