BOWLS

Northland Age, Volume XVIII, Issue 41, 25 February 1949, Page 1

BOWLS

GALA DAY TOURNAMENT Tomorrow, commencing at 1 p.m., the Kaitaia Bowling Club are extending an open invitation to everyone to participate in tli e afternoon’s draw. T 0 those prejudiced few who usually declare that they will have to wait until they tramp on the ends of their

beards, now is your chance to try this grandest of all social games without losing any cast. For the ladies it will be another ! milestone in the progress towards ! that happy day when they will ue independent of all mankind, for the financial success of tomorrow’s carnival will surely bring much closer the bowling green or extended croquet grounds so much desired. At any rate, whether you care to play or not, visitors are assured of many other diversions of interest at what will assuredly be the outstanding social event of the year. JUNIOR SINGLES Vegar Beats Fyfe

Yes.eiday afternoon quite a tug' j gathering- was treated to an exceptionally tine exhibition of singles play when the remaining- two-lifers in the junior singles championship, L. Veg-ar and K. Fyfe, met. ; Fyfe, consistent with the promisi ing form in the pairs, got away well and led by 7. before Vegar scored, 'ihe latter, however, gradually made • up the leeway and on the 20th had a lead of 2. Fyfe showed that he j can be versatile so early in his bowling- career by killing the next end, and j on the replay, scored 1 to lose 18-17. [ Vegar, by the way, missed qualify- I ing- for the first year contest on ac- ! count of community bowling at the | backend of last season. . UMPIRE’S DISTRACTION There was a humorous sidelight in I the singles contest between the two- j lifers, Hanlon and Clark, on Satur j day, when popular umpire -J. B. Rey- 1 nolds, after having- thrown the mat I or the bank for the umteenth time, strongly protested about the domestic J qualities of the players concerned. The dictator rf the law had ri & nt on his side for the. N.Z B.C. run- reads “That the opponent of the last player at each end shall remove the mat behind the rear ditch.” INTERMEDIATE FOURS The first tournament of its kind, the intermediate fours competition, to

be held in Northland, has been set down for Saturday, March 19 ; at .Kensington. { The rule governing intending competitors for the new competitions, is that each four is to comprise cue three, one first or second-year player and the remaining- two can be either twos or leads. CHAMPION OF CHAMPIONS ' .The champion of champions pairs

will be held on March 18 and 19 on Whangarei Greens and the singles, on March 19.