NEW YEAR BOWLING

Manawatu Times, Volume 66, Issue 4, 6 January 1941, Page 7

NEW YEAR BOWLING

Wood and Skoglund Win Pairs Tourney

TWO NORTHERN TEAMS CONTEST FINAL The final of the Manawatu Bowling Centre’s New 7 Year pairs tournament saw two Northern. Club teams opposed —Wood and Skoglund meeting Connor and Anderson. The result was a win for Wood and Skoglund, but they by no means had the game all their own way. As a matter of fact, Connor and Anderson established a considerable lead in the middle of the game. Results of play were as follow: — Semi-finals. —Wood and Skoglund beat Turner and Greenwood (Manawatu), 25-10. Connor and Anderson beat Larcomb and Kershaw, 21-10. Final.—Wood aud Skoglund beat Connor and Anderson, 18-16. Semi-finals There were poor showings in both semi-finals played in the morning. Wood and Skoglund ran uw r ay from Turner and Greenwood, leading 13-0 at the sixth head. Greenwood scored a two on the seventh and Skoglund took the eighth for a single. With a single and a four Greenwood took the next two heads and the cards read 14-7 in favour of the Northern pair. After that all the heads went to Skoglund, except the sixteenth, which he won one up. The game ended after the eighteenth, 25-10.

Larcomb and Kershaw were likewise unable to do very much against Connor and Anderson, the board reading 10-2 against them at the completion of the ; ninth head. At the fifteenth it Tead \ 15-3, at the sixteenth 18-5, and at the eighteenth 20-6. Kershaw then came to light with a four on the nineteenth, but Anderson took the twentieth with a single and there the game ended, with the score 21-10. Final Skoglund annexed the first head one up with the first bowl Wood sent down and the second head one up with his own last bowl. Anderson replied on the third head by taking the kitty through with his last bowl for a two. The fourth head went to Skoglund two up as tho result of excellent drawing on the part of both lead and skip. Connor ran a toucher in the fifth to give them tho head one up. 11l luck dogged Skoglund in the sixth. Wood lay within | an inch of kitty but Anderson knocked j him away to lie there himself. Another close in put him two up and gave him the the lead, 5-4. The seventh went to Anderson one up and the eighth two up. He lay three but Skoglund nicked one out with a drive with his last bowl. Both Connor and Anderson were drawing excellently and gave Skoglund much hard thinking to do. Wood pushed the kitty through a foot or two in the ninth but Anderson for the second time knocked him away to usurp the position. Then he drew close in and Skoglund was obliged to try to destroy the head j but failed. Scores: Anderson 9-4. The i tenth head saw Skoglund again lying j two down and another drive missed. Anderson now led 11-4. Skoglund had bad luck again with the eleventh head. He was lying two when Anderson, with his last bowl, ran in just in front. Skoglund had a little better luck in the twelfth, Anderson knocking ono of his bowls into the count for two. This was Skoglund’s first score for eight heads. Ho nearly messed up the thirteenth by knocking away his lead, who was lying the shot, but fortunately he remained there himself. Tho board now read, Anderson 12-7. The fourteenth was also Skoglund’s, though he nearly missed when Anderson again, with an excellent draw, sneaked in in front. Skoglund drove him out and took the head, one up. The gap lessened when Skoglund took the fifteenth, two up, the head being a plain one. He also ran off with the sixteenth for two and the pairs were level, 12 all. The tables had not turned for Skoglund, further excellent drawing by both lead and skip giving them the seventeenth four up. Anderson again tried hard to slip in between and while he had the measure of the green, his bowls were just a little fast and ran past. Anderson took the eighteenth by driving out Skoglund, who lay the shot, and running the kitty to one of his own bowls. Score: Skoglund 16-13. Anderson killed the nineteenth after Skoglund had robbed him of position, but the replay saw Skoglund improve his tally with two. The leads left the skips plenty of room on the twentieth and Anderson did the better drawing. However, he could do no better than two up, which left him still three behind his opponent. For the last head Wood’s last bowl lay the shot, all other bowls by both'leads being well away. Anderson just grazed kitty with his second but ran well past. Then Skoglund placed a bowl still closer and lav two up, but Anderson, with his last, slipped in front to take the head one up. The final score was thus 18-16. Kershaw and Greenwood played off for third place. The game started out in favour of Kershaw, who maintained the lead right through. Skoglund added to his bowling reputation with this win. Previously he has won two Easter rink tournaments as well as being twice victorious in tl champion of champions singles, twice with the champion of champions rinks, and once with tho champion of champions pairs. Tho prizes were presented by Mrs. A .F. Wimsett after Mr. J. A. Nash, Centre president, hid congratulated tho winners.