44 Left in Post Section Fours

Manawatu Times, Volume 66, Issue 14, 17 January 1941, Page 7

44 Left in Post Section Fours

LIVINGSTONE FAILS TO QUALIFY Per Presa Association. CHRISTCHURCH, Jan. 16. r At the eud of the fourth day 's play iu me New Zealand lours aowv cuampiouahip 44 teams secured tue necessary aix wins or more to put Lnem into tin# , post-sect ion play in winch oech of ilium starts on afresu witu two iivw. xue weatner to-Uny was nu« and thougn a lew o-f tne greens wore induing biigutiy most ox ui'ia were runuxflg iHator uuti tney nave oeeu tumce tho ' commencement ox tue tournament, a rainy strong easterly wimi umoe coute ditioas tricky on any green tnat was at ig nil exposed. n- Migu ecores were recorded iu many re instances, chief among tuem oexng tne j win of W. je'. Haowm inuttj from E. ty a. Smith (nogeware; 46—0. other a, mgu scores we*e u. v«. fcaanms (Woolin stun) 36—13 aguiust r.. a. Jonu« to a (n-eeston), b. c. ax. ttmith (North End, es xuvercargtiJ) 3i—l3 against W. Brown it (United; and J. M. Glies 34—14 against to vih D. Bennett (Hastings;, in Many teams starting to-day’s piay [1- witn only lour wins to their credit o- iougnit uesperateiy to get tne required ia six out there was tue usual crop of tn surprises. W. 3. Crawford (Otago) iy was the only one to beat C. Spearman il- (K.S.A.;, the score being 2'i —2l, and re noth finished up with seven wins and one loss. J. \ eitch (Dunedin) only just made his games, winning his first out losing the second 39—2» to W. D. Ramsay (rihirley;. One of the surprises of the day was the failure or W. Anderson (Dunedin) to qualify. He uad live wins up to this morning out lost to A. Clark (Harrington) 29—14 and to Vv. Buist (Oamaru) 25—15 in the afternoon. a Onehuuga (F. Livingstone) who r ‘ needed two wins to-day io qualify for the rinks, was eliminated 30—23 by th# y bumuer rink skipped by H. Btoneman, which is now in one finals. ie The lour greens chosen for the postsection play are all in excellent order rt and some first-class oowiing is expected. !(i in view of the success of tne West Ie coast lours skipped by E. K. Moss and O’Neill there nas been more tnan the 16 usual amount of interest in the coming 8j games. O'Neill is young and plays a S nard lorcing game, his attack using particularly accurate. Most of the teams left in are wellbalanced and in many of tne games xt will be a case of the skips deciding the issue with the last bowi. The starting limes ox each round of post-section play on all greens will be 9 a.m., 1 p.m. and 4.15 p.m. Each game will be of 21 ends and will have a time limit of three hours. The semi-final of the singles between J. K. fchnith (Elmwood) and Kettle j (Nelson) will commence on the tot. A Doans green at a bout 3.30 p.m. e