BOWLING NOTES

Free Lance, Volume XIV, Issue 720, 18 April 1914, Page 21

BOWLING NOTES

By 'Wrong Bias.

BOWLERS were very lucky this Easter with the weather conditions that prevailed for their tourney. Saturday was a splendid day, though a breeze prevailed in the afternoon, and Monday kept passably fine. There was a slight shower or two in the morning, "but a high wind kept the rain away throughout the afternoon. And so the bowlers enjoyed themselves. The day following the holiday rain descended heavily, and thus I say again our bowlers were lucky. There were 32 rinks engaged, occupying four sections, and were representative of nearly all the local 'dubs. Section A was placed at Thorndon on the opening day, and engaged therein were two rinks from Wellington, two from Victoria, and a rink each from Hataitai, Thorndon, Lyall Bay, and Hutt. It was expected that Porteous's rink, comprising Grenfell, Erskine and Thompson, would win the sections, and the anticipations of the "pickers" 'were realised, for this redoubtable Wellington skip and his team came through their six games with ne'er a loss. In their first bout they secured a win from Hatch's Victoria team by 2 point®—the nearest .•approach they got to defeat. In their second game thev put up 23 to Tonks' <Lyall Bay) 14 on 17 heads, and fin : shed -the day up by winning from Johnson's Hutt team by 5 points. Hogben's Thorndon team started off 'badly, for Nasmith, of . Hataitai, after letting him get a seven on one ntad, beat him by 19 to 13. Then the Thorndon skip got his revenge by beating Hunt, of Victoria, by 6 points, and 'Hatch, also of Victoria, by 1 point bare to ±n. close game was that between Tonks and Nasmith. The latter was 1 up on the last head and lay three. Tonks, however, with a firm draw, wicked off one .of the lying shots, ran across to the jack, and wicked it off to two of his wing bowls, thus winning the game by 1 point. On the second day this section was at Newtown, and all the rinks seemed bent on a levelling-up process, Porteous's rink excepted. This team got in wins against the rinks skipped by Nasmith, Hogben, and Hunt,- and won out. Nasmith's rink got 'in two wins, against Hunt and Hatch ;' and Saunders, of Wellington, also got in two wins, Johnson and Tonks being the vanquished. The result of the section was that Porteous got 6 wins; Nasmith, Saunders, Tonks. Hogben and Hunt were tie for second honours with 3 wins and 3 losses; Johnson had 2 wins and 4 losses ; while Hatch "footed" the section with 1 win and 5 losses. The highest' score put up in this section was recorded by Nasmith's team, .with 28 points. **' * * Section B occupied the Wellington green on Saturday, and this section was •composed of two Wellington rinks, two Victoria rinks, and one rink each from . Hataitai, Hutt, Petone and Kelburne. Fossette's Victoria team secured their first win by two points from Alex. Laurenson's Wellington rink, and in' their other two games played that_ day they increased their margin every time. Six points was the difference in their favour against Hendry's Hutt rink, and they were nine up against Mcßobie's Kelburne team. Mcßobie's rink came in for a rough time all round. _ Norwood's Victoria rink rubbed it in with a 20 to 10 score, but Stephens, of Petone, was even more severe, for his men put up 26 points to the Kelburne skip's 7 —19 points of a difference.. It was only on the second day, however, at Thorndon. that Mcßobie came to light with his men. He commenced by polishing off Hendry by 23 to 8, following this up by beating Alex. Laurenson by 19 to 8, and finishing up by defeating Berry's Wellington rink by 23 to 17. Thus three wins went their way, but they were not. the only rink to get. in three wins that day, for Fossette and his merry men had kept on their winning way. They added three more scalps to their belt, defeating Berry by 22 to 9, Pry or, of Hataitai, by 13 points, and Stephens by 15 points. Thus the section went to Fossette's rink (Maddeley, Martin, and Varcoe) with 6 wins; their club-mates, in Norwood's rink, were second with 4 wins and 2 losses; Mcßobie, Stephens, and Berry, 3 wins, __ 3 losses; Laurenson and Hendry, 2 wins, 4 losses; Pryor, 1 win. 5 losses. Alex. Laurenson's rink put up 27 points in one game —the highest in the section. *-# * * Sectino C's convincing ground was at Victoria on the opening day, and things were decidedly interesting at the conclu-

sion of the day's play, three rinks having three wins to their credit. In this section there were two Wellington rinks, two Hataitai rinks, and a rink each from Te Hiwi, Victoria, Thorndon, and Newtown. Horner's Wellington rink led off by defeating Martin's Hataitai rink by 1.7 to 12, following this up by scoring a similar total against Te Hiwi Whittle's 14, and ending up with a 6-point win from Hemingway's Victoria rink. Barnes, of Hataitai, also got in three wins, defeating Hemingway by 8 points, Jackman, of Thorndon, by 12 points, and Kinvig, of Wellington, by 8 points. Duff, of Newtown, was another skip, to get in three wins; his first was by 10 points against Jackman, his second was 8 points up against Kinvig. and in his third game he was 3 points better than Whittle. On Monday, at the Wellington green, Horner settled Duff's chances for the section by defeating him by 28 to 17, while Whittle gave Barnes a loss b- 10 points. In his next game, however, .Horner experienced defeat at the hands • of Jackman, and this put Horner and Barnes on the same footing;, for Barnes defeated Duff in his game by 8 points. The meeting; of Barnes and Horner in their last game of the day was an interesting one, for it decided the winner of the section. So close was the game that only 1 point separated the contestants at the finish, and that point was in Horner's favour, with the score 15 —14. Thus Section C'went to Horner with 5 wins and 1 loss: Barnes, Duff and Whittle, 4 wins, 2 losses; Kinvig. Heminev way and Jackman, 2 wins, 4 losses; Martin, 1 win, 5 losses. Horner's team made top score in this section with 28 points. His team comprises Duncan, Munt. and Brodie. On the Newtown green Section D opened proceedings, with two rinks' from Wellington, and a rink each from Lyall Bay, Victoria, Hutt, Hataitai, Kelbourne and Newtown. Magnus, of Wellington, and Hues-Eon, of Victoria, were the only skips with a clean sheet on Saturday.. In their first game, Hueston's rink-vanquished Macaskill's Hutt team by 7 points; they beat Gray's Kelburne rink by a similar margin, and Jones, of Hataitai, also by the same margin. Magnus beat Jones by 3 points, but his other wins were big ones, 10 up against Claxtoft's Lyall Bay rink, and 13 up on Prince's Newtown team. On Monday, at Victoria, Hueston continued his victorious career by defeating Prince by 24 to 9, while, Magnus was checked by Macaskill—l6 to 14 being the score against him. In the next round, however, Magnus evened matters) by defeating Hueston by 1 point—2o to 19. He wanted 4 to win on the last head, and after killing several heads with drives from one or other .of his. team, he got the coveted 4. By Magnus beating Gray by 22 to 7 in the sixth round and Hueston gettine the better of Remington's Wellington rink by 2 points, Hueston and Magnus were again on level terms, and thus tied for their section, with 5 wins and 1 loss each. Magnus's team comprises Wyatt, Gale and Gooder, while Hueston's associates are North, Besant, and Snadden. Claxton finished next with 4 wins and 2 losses; Gray and Remington, 3 wins. 3 losses;" Macaskill, 2 wins, 4 losses: Jones and Prince, 1 win, 5 losses. . Gray put up the highest score in this section with 31 points. In the playoff on Tuesday, Hueston beat Magnus. * *, * # Up at the Hutt on Good Friday two Te Hiwi rinks played against the siiburban club, and won on the aggregate by 90 points to 81. Wylie's Te Hiwi rink-

went down in both'its matches, first to Macaskill by 25 to 18, and then to Hendry by 26 to 17. Lock's team carried off the honours, beating Hendry in the morning by 31 to 20, and Macaskill in the afternoon by 24 to 13. - Up in Napier a tournament was held at Easter for the Burton Cup, open to clubs from the East Cape to Dannevirke. In this tourney the cup was won by a Turanganui (Gisborne) team. Previously the cup was won twice in succession by a Gisborne team, but last year a Napier four carried, the cup to the Hawke's Bay city.