TOURNEY OPENS

Nelson Evening Mail, Volume 79, 12 January 1944, Page 2

TOURNEY OPENS

DOMINION BOWLING CHAMPIONSHIPS PLAY IN SINGLES AND P^IKS Dunedin, This Day. Under perfect conditions the New Zealand Bowling championships commenced this morning with sectional play in singles and pairs. Twentythree city and suburban greens which had been carefully tended and were in first rate order, were engaged. The Mayor, Mr Allen, who was president of the New Zealand Association in 1917-18. welcomed the visitors and declared the tournament open. Entrants in the singles played five games during the day and in the pairs four. *n the first set of games Koseph tCanterbury), a member of the present champion four, accounted for McHish (Caledonian). 18-13. Reese (United, Christchurch), well-known in Canterbury cricket circles, defeated Goodsir (Brighton). 16-13. Crisp, 80-vear-old Phoenix (Oamaru) player went down to Bridges (Frankton), 11-26. Vaughan (Caledonian). Otago centre champion of champions for the past two years, played his usual aggressive game and showed excellent form to defeat Rowlands (New Brighton), 22-11. Hunter (Petone). winner of the pairs in 1937, began with a good win of 18-13 against Chatfield (Edgeware). Lambeth (Balmacewan), singles champion in 1930. beat Finn (Ashburton) 21-16. One of the easiest wins of the morning was that of Stoneman (Sumner) who disposed of Callender (Otago) 24-7. H. C. Alloo, a prominent crick£ter of former days, won with even less difficulty from Butler (Waihopai) 24-4. Maslin (Hawera), one of the present pairs champions, had a close contest with Doel (Onehunga). winning 21-19. PLAY IN THE PAIRS In the pairs. O’Neill, colourful player who did well as a skip of a Runanga four in a previous tourney, had a narrow win over Baxafall (Woolston), 21-19. Haworth (Canterbury) skip of a winning fours in 1936 and 1937, and of a winning pair in 1936, scored a decisive win over Hogg (Leith), 24-11. Singles: Spearman (R.S.A.. Christchurch), the present title holder, won a high-scoring game against Aitken (Caversham), by 35 points to 5. The first major upset came when Ellison, a one-armed Portobello player, accounted for J. R. Smith (Elmwood), runner-up last year, 16-13. A Williamson, a member of the winning four in 1941, had a comfortable win against Hindle (Balmacewen) 21-9. Deare (Carleton), singles champion in 1940 and skip of the winning four in 1931, defeated Watkins (Leith), 22-9. Pennington (St. Kilda), Clark (Ashbury), Hamlyn (Ashbury), Thomas (Otago), Keast (Te Rangi). Vaughan, Williamson and Deare also registered another good win m the second round. Lambeth got home by a point from Plummer (Linwood ). There was a surprise when Maslin went down 5-24 to R Hewitt (Alexandra). Local players appeared to be showing up better in the pairs than the visitors Two wins by default were recorded, Temuka from Hataitai and Meadswbank from Dunedin