Bowling Notes.

Free Lance, Volume II, Issue 94, 19 April 1902, Page 19

Bowling Notes.

By Wrong Bias.

THK bowling sensation oi: the season came oft on Satuidtu atteinoon when Victoria's champion team, which won the Kchun Featheis the other cLv went clown heawh befoie the Petone icpiesentatives. It was looked upon up Mount Victona w<n as the softest of sott things But it s a canin duel that nc\ci piophesies till the numbers go up. Snaddon, Mack, Goodcr and Brackennclge senior woiv the Foatho.s when the st.uggle began And Reid Gilmoui Johnston, and Austin were the daiino- adventurers who issued rorth f,om~Petone to tackle the champions A <rood deal of empathy was felt foi them when they stepped uoon the green But thex didn't win the match with sMnpatln oxacth Victoua opened with a single. Petone following suit on the second head Braokonndge then struck out with a 3 ditto Austin Four heads tour a A single to the local team on the fifth head then a tie on the sixth On the seventh, Biaekenridsre made a miahtv effort and scored five— lo-4 This must have been Victoria's la^t kick tor from the eighth head Petone had it all its own wav, sconnor 21 to A ictoiuVs (>, the game finalh resulting 9-,-K) Petone's scoie, in eleven hoacK included a five two fours a tliiee^ and two twos No one- not even the losers I am suie - grudges Petone its victoi\ It is a plucky little club for no matter how doughty the team b\ which it is opposed -whethei in tournament tor champion ponant or for Feather^— it alwa\ s comes smilmglv uo to the sci atch, and pIaAS right out to the bitter end. B\ the way. some of the Vietoua 3okeix attribute the defeat to the fact that Bilh Mack had a strange nan of shoes on— two sizes smaller than his usual Another set of tiophies changed hands on SaturdaA afternoon. Nancairow and Svd. Lambeit sallied forth from New tow n to give Harry Smith and Xoiiio Bell a run for those Diamond Buckle* which t'hev weai on the Wellington green. The Newt own pair staited off with a single and the Wellington duet made answer with a 4 and 2 Small point* were counted till the Bth and 9th heads weie apropriated bv New town foi 4 and 3 which made them 10 to 8. With 13 heads gone, Wellington weie leading bv 12 to 11. The next two heads, which were the la*t fell to Newtown for 2 each time, and Nancanow and Lambeit sailed home with those Buckles in their pockets, and a scoie of lo to 12 to their credit The Hamerton Badges provided a lopsided game at the Victoria gieen on Saturday Hendiv's team (Hatch, Mo^er and F. and W. Hendrv) which has held these trophies for about two months were completely out-general led bv McGo wan's boys — A very Leslie, Norwood and Mac himself They managed to notch six singles only in the 21 heacH while the chaUciigeis piled up 29 The. kangaroo, as number thiee nlaAed a good game for his side and 'Tournament Joe" was alwa\s theie when wanted. For the loseis Hatch got on to the nest-egg occasionally, but did not pi ore ,i good sitter The Victoria green will be closed foi the season after Saturday the 2(>th Apul The New tow n Club put up then shutters for the season on May 3id Some of the leading plaveis have already put theur slrppeis aw a\ For instance, genial Joe Martin has gone foi a tup to the Old Country. Underwood also ha^s gone Horne — foi his health's sake he says, but I suppose he'll manage to see the coronation. Ban lia^s been seiiouslv ill, and I am glad to hear he is convalescent now. Bh th (Tommy) is touring the Auckland and Taianaki districts, on pleasuie bent The Senior Bow Is Handicap up at New town approaches its finalit\ Powell and Nancarrou having to pla\ off hn the tiophv Inter-State bowling matches have be^n exciting interest over on the othei mcl<> New South Wales sent foiu rmks to Adelaide at Foster time and won one game fiom South Australia and lost the other Vietoua played Tasmania, three games at Melbourne and won two out of the tin cc Then, Victoria sent a team to Sydney to tackle New South Wales and when the mail left, Victoria had won the first game ("four rinks a side) bv 94 to 92

lii the seim-hnals foi the Wellington Keinoi Bowls, Ted Hill has got a leg-ui l>\ winning his hist against W. Gia\ Hoopei, ot Auckland, beems to be a hummei all light He lias just knocked spots out of Ledinghain the champion ot Jus club The scoie was 21 to 1 And it was not till the 20th head that Lodingham managed to bieak the duck's egg The annual match between the Longuns" and the Short-uns" umc oft on the Wellington green on Wednesday afternoon, and there was an cagei crowd to witness the long and tho short of it Length was represented bv Messrs. James Rusm'll. Voitoh Ro*se (Post Office), and J. C. McKenow, and Bicwtv with its motto of Multum in parvo," sent forth a& its champions Goo Wnght ('Wee Geoidie." as they affpctionatelv call him up at Tliorndon), Mack I-; J Hill and Bell From the lump tho Lilliputians, made the pace warm. They started off w ith ."3 and they won the match bv two points. They are now several sizes bigeer than tihev woio prior to Wednesday