Features Of Monday’s Play

Northern Advocate, 10 January 1939, Page 3

Features Of Monday’s Play

The annual championship tournament of the New Zealand Bowling Association was continued yesterday. Five rounds were played on various city and suburban greens, and there were 406 competitors. At the conclusion of yesterday’s play there were 76 survivors, 26 of whom are two-lifers.

Play in the singles competition was continued on four greens this morning. The remaining 26 two-lifers met on the Carlton green, where one match between one-lifers was played. The other one-lifers will play at the Epsom, Auckland and Mt. Eden greens.

The feature of yesterday’s play in the singles competition was the high standard, which surpassed that seen at any previous national championship tournament. :

Great interest centred in the appearance of the English champion, K.

I. Cross. Playing on the Hemuera green, he delighted the spectators with his very free action. Champion Crashes.

The holder of the. singles title, W. D. Bennett, of Hastings, who 'won the event in Dunedin last year, was eliminated from' the competition in the fourth round, when J. Kerr, Onehunga, gave him his second loss in a game which resulted in. a score of 23-17 against the champion. Bennett, who was at Rawhiti, won his first game against W. W. Edgerley, New Lynn, rather easily, but lost his first life to E. Moloney, Gisborne, in the second round, by 25-12. Whitelaw’s Revenge.

An instance of two old opponents meeting was in the contest between M. Whitelaw, Whangarei, and R. Buchan, Rawhiti, formerly of the Northern club, where he was holder of the singles championship. Buchan had previously defeated Whitelaw in the final of the North Auckland Bowling Centre’s champion of champions contest in 1937. .

A great game resulted when the pair met yesterday on the Te Papa green in the fourth round, victory going to Whitelaw by 19-13. Whitelaw thus had four wins on end, and so earned the bye in the fifth round. How Play Went, Results:— Section A, at Epsom.—Third round: McPhail 16 v. Holland 15. Section N, at Te Papa.— Third round: Whitelaw 23 v. Murdoch 13. Fourth round: Whitelaw 19 v. Buchan 13. Fifth round: Whitelaw, a bye. Two lives: Whitelaw.

Section S, at Waitemata.— Third round: Oates 22 v. Marwick 20; Lockley 16 v. Brydon 13. Section T, at St. Helier’s. — Third round: Gray 20 v. Reynolds 10. Fourth round: Reynolds 20 v. Rankin 12. Fifth round: Gray 19 v. Reynolds 16. Section U, at Epsom.—Third round; Addison 17 v. Gribble 14. Fourth round; dribble 30 v. AdamsomlS. Fifth round: Addison 20 v. Gribble 15.

Section V, at Mt. Eden.— Third round: Finer 23 v. Vodanovich 13. Section W, at Mt. Albert. —Third round: Martin 25 v. Greville 11. Fourth round: Greville 23 v. Drinnan 13. Fifth round: Greville 22 v. Keast 19. One life; Greville.