BOWLING

Manawatu Standard, Volume LI, Issue 28, 3 January 1931, Page 2

BOWLING

NEW YEAR TOURNEY. SECTION PLAY - COMPLETED. Section play in the Manawatu Bowling Centre’s New Year pairs tournament concluded with tho sixth round yesterday. Sheean (Patea) was the only skip to survive without suffering defeat. He played in Section C, in which Ramsay was next with only one loss. Moffatt and Fenwick each finished with only ono loss in Section A, while Wenham and Rendle were similarly placed at the head of Section B. Details of the final two rounds of section play are as follow: SECTION A. Fifth Round. B.ayliss ( Palmerston North) 21 v. McLean (Oroua) 14; Fenwick (Northern) 20 v. Wainwight (Patea) 14; Tantrum (Takaro) 24 v. Arnott (Palmerston North) 14; Mosen (Raetihi) 23 v. Gd?rand (Manawatu) 10; Mattar (Foxton) 27 v. Sparrow (Palmerston North) 26; Moffatt (Terrace End) 32 v. Ranson (Bulls) 21. Sixth Round. ' Fenwick 22 v. Bayliss 16; McLean 23 v. Moffatt 12; Mattar 28 v. Gerrand 16’; Tantrum 24 v. Mosen 8; Ranson 25 v. Arnott 15; Sparrow 20 v. Wainwright 19. SECTION B. (Fifth Round.) Pickering (Palmerston North) 28 v. Renwick (Hawera) 20; Wenham (Feilding) 23 v. Boon (Palmerston North) 18; Home (Woodville) 18 v. Radford (Manawatu) 16; Brown (Palmerston NortK) 20 v. Roore (Foxton) 18; Rendle (Eastbourne) 18 v. Howe (Foxton) 15; Goodey (St. John’s) 27 v. Davidson (Terrace End) 8.

Sixth Round

Brown 21 v. Rendle 19- Pickering 29 v. Howe 18; Wenham 28 v. Goodey 6; Renwick 28 v. Davidson 19; Roore 20 v. Radford 13; Boon 23 v. Horne 21.

SECTION C, Fifth Round.

Smith (Takaro) 20 v. Wardrop (Woodville) 18; Ramsay (Palmerston North) 21 v. Stevens (Bulls) 10; Thompson (Foxton) 26 v. Greenwood (Upper Hutt) 15; Paton (Palmerston North) 23 v. Barnes (Manawatu) 16; Aitken (Oroua) 24 v. Childs (Terrace End) 20; Sheean (Patea) 26 v. Neilson (Oroua) 15. Sixth Round. Childs 21 v. Paton 20; Wardrop 25 v. Greenwood 19; Barnes 22 v. Smith 21; Sheean 25 v. Thompson 18; Stevens 20 v. Neilson 18; Ramsay 20 v. -Aitken 8.

The positions at the end of section play were as follow :

SECTION WINNERS DECIDED

RAIN INTERRUPTS PLAY

The tournament reached its final stages to-day. Two games were played this morning to decide the winners in Sections B and C where players had tied. The winners then met in the semi-final, Bourke and Sheean, skip (Patea) having the bye on account of winning Section A outright. Wenham, of Feilding, easily defeated Rendle (Eastbourne) in the match to decide the Section B winner. Wenham established an early lead and was in the ascendancy throughout. Fenwick (Northern) also had a comfortable win in Section 0 final over Moffatt (Terrace End). Only twelve heads were played in each of these two games. Play was delayed considerably this morning through interruptions arid postponements forced by rain, the conditions adversely affecting the greens. Allen and Wenham, skip (Feilding) met Helsby and Rendle, skip (Eastbourne) to decide the section B winner, each having registered five wins in the preceding six rounds. Wenham opened with a single on the first head, but Rendle scored similarly on the next. Wenham then added a couple and Rendle another single. Wenham secured a nice four on the fifth head, but Rendle took the next for a couple. Wenham then added two successive singles, to lead 9—4 on the eighth head, where he drew a beautiful toucher right through a nest of bowls. Rendle failed by inches to alter the position in his final attempt. Wenham drew the shot on the next early and took the head for two, Rendle failing to dislodge him. Wenham scored singles again Tn the tenth and eleventh heads, where the game ended in his favour, 13—4.

Moxon. and Fenwick (Northern) met Wort and Moffatt in the Section 6 final. * Moffatt opened his account with a single, but Fenwick replied with a four. Moffatt and then Fenwick each scored two. Moffatt secured a three in the fifth head, but Fenwick took the next four in succession. l On the eighth head Fenwick drew beautifully to notch a three, liis opponent failing in a final effort to break up the head. Fenwick was lying two on the next when Moffatt took out the shot bowl, but Fenwick scored a single. Fenwick led 13 —6 after the ninth head. Each then registered a four. The final head was very close and Fenwick took a three to win 20 — 10.. 1 THE SEMI-FINAL. • Moxon and Fenwick met Allen and Wenham in the semi-final (21. heads). Fenwick was lying four on the first head when Wenham drew second shot and then drew first to win with a single. Fenwick’s last bowl was wide. Fenwick drew good second shpts several times on tne next head. Wenham then drew second shot. Fenwick failed to improve his position, and the Feilding skip added two. Allen had the shot for. Wenham when the skips went down on the third head. He was lying two when. Fenwick sent down his last bowl to draw second shot, giving Wenham a single. On the fourth head, Northern were three

down when the skips went to the mat. Fenwick was either short or through the head and Wenham took four to lead B—o, Fenwick having failed to open his account. Wenham got another single on the next, and two on the sixth head to lead 11 —0 at the luncheon adjournment. Wenham and Allen added a single for tire seventh head when play was resumed. However, showing a glimpse of his true form, Fenwick drew beautifully on the next to record a five. AVenham scored another single in the next and then Fenwick got a four, which reduced his leeway considerably, leaving AA’enham in the lead 13 —9. Wenham secured another single on the eleventh head, Allen drew a beauty with his first on the next, while Moxon sent down a nice one, only to shift his opponent’s bowl nearer kitty. Fenwick burned the head. Moxon drew a nice shot with his first on the replay. Allen replied with a toucher. AVenham took the head with a single to make the score 15 —9 in his favour, after the twelfth head. Fenwick scored two on the next head, but AVenham led 16—11, and then Fenwick broke up a close fourteenth head, but still left AVenham lying one. Fenwick drew the shot with his last for a single. AA’enham drew well on the fifteenth and scored five, Fenwick sending down a fruitless last bowl. AA'enham next scored a single and led 22—11 with five heads to play. AA’edham added another two on the seventeenth and Fenwick scored r a single on the eighteenth and nineteenth, leaving AA’enham in the lead 24—13.

AA’enham led by 26 —13, on the twentieth head, making his position unassailable.

TOURNAMENT AT MASTERTON

TERRACE END REPRESENTED,

The Manawatu Centre was represented at the Masteyton tournament by a Terrace End rink comprising Stewart, Litchfield, 0. Christiansen and H. Johnson (skip). It met with a fair measure of success and just missed reaching the post-section play. Terrace End recorded four wins in the six rounds, five wins being sufficient to qualify. The rink lost by the margin of two in one ’game and three in another. Stewart and Litchfield, competing in their first tournament, played very well.

SECTION A. Wins Losses Moffatt (T.E.) 5 •' 1 Fenwick (Northern) ... 5 1 Mattar (Foxton) 4 2 Tantrum (Takaro) 4 2 Arnott (P.N.) 3 3 McLean (Oroua) 3 3 Hanson (Bullsl Wainwright (Patea) ... 3 2 3 4 Bayliss (P.N.) ... ... 2 4 Sparrow (P.N.) 2 4 Gerrand (Manawatu) ... 2 4/ Mosen (Raetihi) 1 5/ SECTION B. Wenham (Feilding) 5 1 Rendle (Eastbourne) 5 1 Pickering (P.N.) 4 2 Goodey (St. Jolin’6) ... 4 2 Brown (P.N.) 4 2 ltenwick (Hawera) 3 3 Radford (Manawatu) ... 3 3 Horne (Woodville) . ... 3 3 Roore (Foxton) ,...* ... 2 4 Davidson (T.E.) 1 5 Howe (Foxton) 1 5 Boon (P.N.) 1 5 SECTION C. Sheean (Patea) 6 0 Ramsay (P.N.) 5 1 Thompson (Foxton) ... 4 2 Aitken (Oroua) 4 2 Neilson (Feilding) 3 3 Paton (P.N.) 3 3 Stevens (Bulls) 3 3 Greenwood (Up. Hutt) 2 4 Childs (T.E.) 2 4 Barnes (Manawatu) 2 4 Wardrop (Woodville) ... 1 5 Smith (Takaro) 1 5