BOWLING REVIEW

Hawera Star, Volume LIV, 7 March 1935, Page 9

BOWLING REVIEW

SOUTH TARANAKI CLUBS MID-WEEK GAMES YESTERDAY INTERCHANGE OF VISITS In mid-week bowling matches played yesterday five" rinks from the Haw-era club visited Patea and w-on by 118 points to 110 largely as the result of a commanding lead of 41 points to 18 established by T. Herbert against White. The weather w-as ideal and the green in lexeeflent order. The guests Were welcomed by the president, Mr R. G. Scown, and Air D. AlcCormiek, Hawera president, replied. . Results were as follow, the names of tho Patea players being mentioned first:

Parsons, Hurley, Ale Kenna, Paterson 22 drew with. Champion, Baker, Tidswell, McCormick 22. Pearce, O’Reilly, Scown, Casey 23 beat Saunders, Dow r ner, Goodchap, Canning 18.

Palmer, Illingw-orth, Glenny, White 18 lost to Joll, Jackson, Colelough, Herbert 41.

Martin, Dracey, Richards, Sheahan 20 beat Payne, Hobbs, Adamson, Winks 19.

Shield, Quickenden, Bourke, P. Bourke 21 beat Bootten, Buckrell, A. E. Wills, Robb 18.

PARK DEFEATS MANAIA.

At Manaia five rinks from the Park (Hawera) club won by 126 points to 101. The green "was in splendid condition. Air J. W. Snowdon -welcomed the visitors, and Air F. Quin replied. Results were as follow', the names of the Park players being mentioned first: Nieper, Sheehan, Franklin, Quin 26 beat Adlam, Massey, Franklin, Payne 23.

(Mahoney, Rowe, Butler, Thurston 29 beat Snow-don, Hunger, Sutton, Watts

Goodwin, Dahl, Bremford, Chadwick 28 beat Clare, Hammonds, Butler, Harrison 27. Hunger, Northrop, Walsh, Smith 20 lost to Robinson, Putt, Paul, Bourke 21. Riley, Gibson, Parkinson, Hotter 23 beat Meuli, Sandford, Best, Espiner 16. Forthcoming Fxtures. Thursday, Alarch 7. —West End oneday tourney. .Saturday, March 9.— President’s Day, opening of New Plymouth Club’s jubilee; a representative rink from each club to be entertained. Saturday, Alarch 9. —Two rinks from Haw-era club visit Tariki; five rinks from Hawera club piay Park at Hawera. Monday, Alarclx 11. —Jubilee tournament commences at New Plymouth. Wedne.say, Alarcn 13. —Five rinks from the Park club visit Patea. Saturday, March 16.—Five rinks from the Hawera club visit Avon. Week-end, March 17. —Park team will play Rapanui. Wednesday, March 20.—Taranaki championship singles final at Para green. Saturday, March 23. —Opening of South Auckland tour in Taranaki, at Patea in the morning, Park and Hawera at Hawera in the afternoon.

Week-end, March 24.—Entertain South Auckland touring party.

Monday, March 25.—South Auckland v. Manaia, Auroa, Eltham and Kaponga in the morning, at Opunake and Stratford in the afternoon.

in the morning, at Opunake and Stratford in the afternoon.

Saturday, March 30.—Syme Shield competition at Park. Saturday, April 6.—Five rinks from Kaponga visit Hawera. Tuesday, April 9.—Closing date of entries for the South Taranaki Easter tournament.

Friday, April 19.—South Taranaki tournament at Hawera.

Divisional Singles Championship.

By defeating F. E. Clarke on Tuesday evening N. H. Murray has won the Hawera club’s championship, retaining his two “lives.” Murray last year won the pairs championship with E. M. Bardsley as lead. A pair of twos on the last two heads gave J. W. Thomas the victory over F. Chadwick in the final of the singles championship of the Park club during the week-end. In the first game Chadwick established a lead over Thomas which he maintained almost throughout to win comfortably by 21 points to 13. By consistent scoring early in the second game Thomas obtained a lead of 14 to 4, and at the end was still 10 points in the lead, the score being 21 —11. The final game was evenly contested, first one and then the other obtaining a slight advantage. The standard of play was high and the game was exciting, particularly in the later stages. With two heads to go Chadwick had a lead of 20 points to 17, but Thomas’ scores on the last two heads gave him the match and the title.

Shield Semi-Final. Last Saturday saw West End (Northern Division) meet Park (Southern Division) at the Avon green and for the second year in succession the West End combination was too strong, the scores being: W6st End 144, Park 135—a difference of nine points. It will be recalled that last year when the clubs met in the final West End won with a margin of 17 points—l 39 —122. A comparison of the respective rinks’ scores is interesting. Last

year the results we re, the West Ena skips being mentioned first: Boulton 25 v. Smith 18. Billing 24 v. Chadwick 19. Lobb 33 v. Colman 15. Beale 26 v. Quin 16. Douglas 15 v. Goodwin 31. Honeyfield 16 v. Mason 23. This year the scores were: Boulton 26 v. Quin 25. Bruce 24 v. Smith 23. Petty 26 v. Hotter 16. Douglas 24 v. Chadwick 22. Luscombe 20 v. Goodwin 23. 1 Billing 24 v. Afason 26. On each occasion Mason and Goodwin have been thp only tw-o Park skips to win. Five of the six Park skips skipped in each game, Hotter skipping instead of Colman in this year’s match. West End fielded three newskips this year in Luscombe, Bruce and Petty. Five of the games w-ere very close, but Potty’s rink was ten points superior to Plotter ’s. The van-j guard o? Petty’s rink outplayed the Park rink and Hotter w-as frequently left to play saving shots w-hich he performed w-ith credit. It is only fair to mention that the Avon green w-as not nearly as fast as tne Park green and this caused embarrassment to the southern players. The West End green is fairly fast and it must be said of them that they were able to adapt their delivery to suit the srength of the green. This was a factor which game them their victory. No excuses are being made by Park on their defeat and they have accepted the result with that sporting demeanour w-hich is characteristic of the club. West End, who are the present Taranaki champions, now meet the winner of the Western v. Central semi-final. Pihama have won the- Western Division and Stratford and Inglewood are playing off a tie to-day for the Central Division title.

Easter Tournament. Entries for the South Taranaki Easter tournament have been limited to 36 rinks and as one South Taranaki club has notified an entry of nine rinks it behoves clubs which intend to participate to send in their entries promptly to Mr J. Eoy, the tournament secretary. Play will be confined to the Hawera, Park and Manaia greens. Successful Schoolmasters.

Schoolmasters in Taranaki have had a fair measure of success in winning club dhanrplonshijpsi notably R. Buchan who is also the Western Division finalist, J. W. Thomas (Park) and his brother, R. Thomas (Eltham) and N. 11. Murray (Hawera). Dominion President. The president of the New Plymouth Bow-ling Club, Air Franklin White, has received - w-ord that Mr Raymond Sheath, Auckland, the president of the New Zealand Bow-ling Council, will be present for the opening of the club’s jubilee tournament on Saturday. He w-ill be accompanied by Alessrs. Coldicutt, Paseoe and Hosking, all past presidents. Lambie Shield. Play in the Lambie Shield bow-ling tournament opened yesterday w-itli section play at both Opunake (section A) and Kaponga (section B). Three rounds were completed, the results being as follow: SECTION B. First round. —Espiner and Williams 21 v. Sinclair and Smith. 14; A. V. Tait and O’Brien 23 v. Peat and Alarcroft 17; Hikaka and Julian 28 v. McGregor and Burton 12; Steere and Walker 22 v. Glengarry and Tito 17; Carey and Roebuck 30 v. Parkes and Feaver 11; Sole and Lewis 23 v. Bradford and Johnstone 19.

Second round. —Johnstone 29 v. Feaver 13;'Williams 23 v. Lewis 17; Smith 31 v. O’Brien 11; Julian 23 v. Mareroft 21; Burton 16 v. Tito 15; Boebuck 28 v. Baker 14.

Third round. —Roper 24 v. Burton 19; Johnstone 25 v. Walker 23; Williams 25 v. Feaver 12; Lewis 22 v. O’Brien 20; Julian 20 v. Smith 19; Tito 23 v. Mareroft 14.

SECTION A. First round. —Hickey 27 v. Ritchie 10; Gunson 25 v. Hammersley 21; Gardiner 22 v. Morris 19; Tyack 24 v. Edwards 22; Andrews 28 v. Lawn 19; Patene 29 v. Webby 15. Second round. —Edwards 26 v. Ritchie 13; Hammersley 22 v. Andrews 20; Gardiner 25 v. Webby 12; Morris 27 v. Patene 17; Tyack 19 v. Hickey 14; Gunson 22 v. Lawn 16. Third round.—Lawn 39 v. Webby 17; Hickey 25 v. Patene 19; Ritchie 20 v. Gunson 12; Morris 24 v. Hammersley 13; . Edwards 24 v. Gardiner 17; Tyack 26 v. Andrews 13.