BOWLING CHAMPIONS

Hawera Star, Volume LIII, 12 March 1934, Page 2

BOWLING CHAMPIONS

TARANAKI FULL RINK TITLE WEST END BEATS PARK. FINAL PLAYED 1 AT STRATFORD In the ' final of the Taranaki provincial bowling championship played at the Avon green in Stafford on Saturday West End (New Plymouth) defeated Park (Hawera) by 139 points to 122. Fine weather prevailed and there was a large gathering of spectators. The green was in excellent condition, although slightly heavy following oyer-night rain. Even, so, the playing surface did not retard the bowls for on a particular head four of 16 bowls played went into the ditch. On the day the better team won, the margin of 17 points in its favour being m addition to the fact that four of the six West End rinks won their matches. The West End forged ahead from the fifth head, -increasing their lead at the 10th and at the loth heads when they had a margin of 13 points. On the next five heads Park managed to reduce the deficiency by eight points to be five -points down. In the last five beads West End took 12 to win by the margin stated —17. The following barometer indicates the progress of

West End thus gained the shield for the sixth time, having annexed it previously in 1924, 1926, 1928, 1929 and 1932. ■ , , Summarised, the results were as follow, the West End skips being mentioned first: — Boulton 25 v. Smith 18. Billing 24 v. Chadwick 19. Douglass 15 v. Goodwin 31. Honey field 16 v. Mason 23. Lobb 33 v. Cphnan 15. Bead 26 v. .Quin 16. , Results of individual matches were as follow: .. r , Rink No. I.—Juiy. Charters, Marsh, Boulton (West End; 25 beat oolfoi d Brett, Thomas, Smith (Park) IS. A feature of this game was the splendid exhibition of leaduig by Jury and Woolford respectively. Small scoring on each side saw the game 9-all at the 11th head. Consistent bowling b v Boulton’s rink established hnn m the lead 20-12 on the 19th head. Smith managed to score four out of one nead and one out of another and Boultmi scored a two and a one to lead _3 i / on the 23rd bead. He took two out of the 24th and conceded one to Smith on the last. rn . Rink No. 2.—Preston, May, Thurston;' Billing (West End) 24 beat Franklin Raynor, Bremforfl, Ghadw icU (Park) 19. Chadwick opened with a single, but did not keep on and Billina obtained four twos against Chadwick’s two ones, so tljat the score at the eighth head was B—3. Billing took four on the next three heads to: lead 12 3. but Chadwick and hi.s rink by this time had found the strength of the green to score two threes, a two and a one to be 12+n1.l on the 14th head. Level .jigging then took place to the 21st, when Billing had a margin of one, 17—16. By good play on his own part he scored a three and two twos to be 24 —16 with the last head to play. Chadwick was nvanoeuvling, his head for a u pot ,J but: could only count three, leaving him five down on the board. , Rink No. 3 Daiffin, Sheehy, Turnbull, Douglass (West Kind) 15 lost to Parkinson. Sutler, Thurston, Goodwin (Park) 31. All the Park players, m this fink played excellent howls, Parkinson being outstanding. Douglass’ team did not shape too. well and it was only by magnificent play himself that the score against him was not larger. Goodwin’s rink settled down from the start and led B—o8 —0 on the third head. Douglass opened with one on the fourth, but did not score again until the eighth head, when he obtained four, followed by two on the 9th and the board read 16 —7 in favour of Goodwin. At the. 20th head Goodwin still led 24 —14 and he scored a three, a two and two ones to Douglass’ one and emerged the second biggest winner of the day. Rink No. 4.—Hannan, Tomlins, Christoff el. Honeyfield (West End) 16 lost to Nielson. Ure, Villars, Mason (Park) 23. Mason’s was the only other Park rink to win and it was hard work, by which they obtained their honours. Neilson and Ure, who had difficulty in finding the strength of the green before afternoon tea. came on nicely in the second half. Mason opened with a single, but Honeyfield more than equalised with a four and at the 9tli head was in tljo lead 9 —5. A three to Mason on the next head reduced the deficiencies to one. On the 13th head Mason was in the lead 11 —10 and by consistent scoring, led 21 —13 at the 20th. On the next three heads .singles went to Honeyfield, but Mason took one on the 24th. On the last- head Nielsen drew 10 inches off kitty, which remained shot until Christoff el played a nice trail to Ije one up. Mason promoted a sliox-t bowl for shot, which Honeyfield endeavoured to take out, but missed. Mason winning the gamej with a margin of seven points. 1 Rink No. 5. —Casey, Lee, Luscombe, Lobb (West End) 33 beat L. Walsh, Murdoch, C. Barnett, Colman (Park). 15. This Park rink was unfortunate in meeting the renowned West End skip with excellent support- from Ms lead and No.’s 2 and 3. On the other hand Colman \s rink did not play tin: same standard of howls as against Stratford Murdoch being the only player to keen, to his previous form. Oolmail's position was very difficult as he had to concentrate on keeping the, score down rather than score points himself. He was very unlucky with some of his upshots which missed by a fraction of an inch. Most of Lobb’s margin came in the first five heads, when his score was 10 to his oppon-! ent’s nil. Colman took tlireo on the 6th and four on the 9th and lOtlj. lyobb scored a two and a. one and led 13 —9 at the 10th. This margin lie increased to 19—40 on the 10th. Oil the I.7th Colman took a three, making him 13. From this stage onwards Lobb’s rink outclassed Park and finished 33 — 15. —a margin of 18 which was two more than Goodwin’s margin. Rink No. 6. —Mason, Ward, G. Sole, Beal (West Find) 26 beat Cran, W. Thomas, Hotter, Gain (Park) Hi. The isooto in this game was not a true criterion of the contest. Quin’s rink actually played better bowls, but- the “fifth man” was right against him and he could do nothing right. On one occasion he was lying a beautiful shot touching kitty when one of Ifi-s players, in an attempt to put in a position howl, played narrow and knocked the shot bowl off without disturbing kitty to be four down. On at least three other occasions Quin himself, in his efforts to be up, promoted his opponent’sbowls or disturbed the head . to his detriment. Quin’s rink took tho strength of the green quickly and scored five for the 15th head. By the 12th head, however, he had .scored only an additional, three, tho board .reading Beale 16—Quin 8. At the 20th Quin put on eight points to Beale’s five—--21—16. The next five heads produced

live .singles, all in favour of Beale. At tlio conclusion of the. game Air A. H. R. Amess, vice-president of tho Taranaki Bowling (Centre, presented the shield to Mr M. J. Marsh, president of the. West End Club, and congratulated the team on its success. The speaker also thanked the Avon club for the use of its excellent green and other facilities ana the ladies of Stratford who provided afternoon tea. An apology was tendered for the unavoidable absence of the president of the centre (Mr L. H. Sampson). Mr Marsh responded and thanked Parle for tho excellent game provided. He also complimented the Avon club on the excellent condition of its green.

The president of the Park Club (Mr J. J. Goodwin) also spoke and congratulated West End on its well-merit, ed win. He expressed the hope that on some future occasion the two clubs might meet to again contest a shield final. NORTHERN DIVISION SINGLES CHAMPIONSHIP TITLE At the West End green in New Plymouth on Saturday W. H. Freeman (New Plymouth) became the champion singles player of the northern division by defeating E. Harvey (Fitzroy). He will now have to meet H. Dickinson (central! division), P. Burke (southern) and F. Julian (western) to determine the championship of the province. The tournament was conducted under the auspices of the Taranaki Bowling Centre, Mr E. D'ingle being in charge. The bowling was of a consistently high standard throughout. The two-life system was used, Harvey being the only competitor to retain both 'his chances until the rounds were completed. The weather was fine, but, especially at the beginning, the green- was. very heavy as a result of the rain on Friday night. Nevertheless the turf was running remarkably smoothly. Results were as follow: i First round. —Goodwin (Fire Bri- ! gade) 21. v. -E. Jackson, senr. (Paritutu) 15: A. Bartlett (Awakino) 21 v. W. Bruce (West End) It; E. Harvey (Fitzrov) 21 v. W. H. Freeman (New Plymouth) .11; €. Robertson {Vogel-; town), a bye. Second round.—Harvey 21 v. Robertson 19; Freeman 21 v. Jackson 15; Bruce 21 v. Goodwin 11; Bartlett, a bve. Jackson was eliminated. '"Third round.—Harvey 22 v. Bartlett 18; Freeman 21 v. Rtobert-son 19; Bruce. 21 v. Goodwin 19. Goodwin and Robertson were eliminated. Fourth round.—Freemap 22 v. Bartlett 9; Harvey 21 v. Bruce 9. Bartlett and Bruce were eliminated. Semi-final. —Freeman 22 v. Harvey 1 Freeman 21 v. Harvey 16. INTKRM3LUB MATCH. PARK DEFEATS PIHAMA. Tn a friendly inter-club match played at the week-end Park defeated 'Pihama, 78—74 in competition for a special trophy. Results were as follow : Morning games. Ure, Gilligan, Thurston and Mason (Park) lost to Gill, Edwards, Riley and Julian (Pihama), 10 —18. Bremford, Ctropp, Villars and Goodwin (Park) beat Beck, -Glengarry, Lam.bie and Polii Tito (Pihama) 15—12. Afternoon games. Mason 25 v. Tito 21. Goodwin 28 v. Lambio 23. Totals: Park 78 beat Pihama 74. . TO PLAY AT EMPIRE GAMES. RINK FROM NEW ZEALAND. (By Telegraph—Press Association.: WELLINGTON, March 11. , New Zealand will be represented in the howling section of the Empire Games to bo held in London during the second week in August.. There will be bowling on five days, with competition in singles, pairs and rinks. Three players from Auckland ami one from Waikato are combining to form a rink They are H. Oroeott, G G. Pollard,' G'. H. Carter !Auckland and W. W. Dillicar (Hamilton). They left for England to-day by the Ruahine, and it is their intention to participate in the pairs as well as m the rinks.

the game: — 5th . 32 25 7 10th . 63 52 11 15th . 88 75 13 20th . 109 lot 5 25th . 139 122 17