SECOND TOURNAMENT.

Nelson Evening Mail, Volume XLIII, Issue XLIII, 25 September 1909, Page 2

SECOND TOURNAMENT.

First prize, trophy, value £1 10s : Ne-1 son Rifles; won 7, lost 2; aggregate, 127 (Captain Stewart). Second prize, trophy, valued £1; Port; won 6, lost 3; aggregate, 123 (Mr Robb), Mr Brooker's trophy (photo of winning team, highest .aggregate: Nelsbn Rifles, 127 (Captain Stewart). . Booby prize, presented by Port team (team scoring lowest aggregate) : Maitai y bowlers (Mr J. Milner). Musical honours were accorded each s captain as he received his team's trophy. The presentation of the booby prizes _ cause dno end of fun, and the recipie nts accepted the tokens of their skill with due appreciation of the importance eof the occasion. The booby prize" for c tbe first tournament is a challenge i- trophy. It is "awl marked," informs s the public that he holders "can' play 1 • for shintee," and now bears two inscriptions, deeply cut into the leather of which he emblem is; made. Mr Johnston, in receiving this on behalf of ! " the Scottish Society, "expressed pleat sure" — "it was something, anyhow," as Qhe said. He challenged the Maitai 1 Bowlers to a match for the booby tro-; c phias. The workmanship and engravj. ings were, done by Mr F. N.Joneis. . The booby prize for the second tour* ; nament was also a leather shield, a testimony to the skill of Mr F. N. Jones t as a worker in leather. It borS on its ; face the assertion' that the "Mighti . Bowlers had no idea of crib." Mr Milner, as - did Mr Johnston, accepted the trophy "with pleasure," but he declined to play the Scottish Society for the trophy. The Maitai Bowlers had won their trophy outright} — and they were going to stick to it — to hang it up on the green. The. bowlers would, however, be pleased to meet the Scotsmen in a friendly game. . The Chairman referred to the proposal to play a Nelson-Wakatu Association match ; but no decision was come to in regard to the match, the matter being . referred to the Committees. ! Mr Stiles, of the Wakatu Association, . who was present by invitation, congra- . tjulated the Nelson Association on . its ! successful season, and referred to the . good feeling existing between the two > associations. Next year, he hoped, the ! two associations would combine and pre- ; sent trophies at the same time, as , big wind-up. i Mr F. Harford, who presented tie > Nelson Association Shield, said that now [ the Association had grown he would like to make the shield more valuable. He i offered to replace it by a better shield > with the silver inscriptions transferred, and the offer was accepted with thanks i and musical honours, i Refreshments were handed round; and the remaider of the evening was spent i in cribbage. ) A very pleasant time was spent by all , present.

* r The smoke concert in connection with the Wakatu Cribbage Association's tournament, will be held at-' the Trocadero Rooms on Friday evening, next, when the prwes' won will be presented. A pleasant gathering is anticipated. Appended will be the Anglers' team i agamst the Old Na'vals (Wakatus) in the i match at the Anglers' Club Room on Monday evening, at 7 o'clock sharp : — ; J. E. Hounsell and H. Hounseli; Sow-' man and Young ; Hesseltine and "Gra- - ham; Batchelor and Hanby; Mansfprd : and Shone; emergencies, Sherwood and. Gibs.