Bowling Notes

Free Lance, Volume XVI, Issue 867, 16 February 1917, Page 25

Bowling Notes

By Wrong Bias

FIIHE lea/ding event on. Saturday . -~- -afternoon was the home-and-home match (8 rinks a-side) between the Newtown and Wellington Clubs. On its own green the Mother- Club just kept on top by 4 points, but the four rinks, that went out for wool on the Newtown green came home very closely shorn. All was lost save honour. In plain English, they sustained a crushing defeat, 100 points being scored to their &>• •■■■,- '. '. , ■''.' . ; At Newtown, Jim Brackenridge was chief executioner, and his 33 against J. G. Webb's 14 tells its own tale. . Gooder, even with Tom Ballinger lead r ing, wasn't good enough for Noble, who scored 24 to his opponent's 9, and Willie Wylie' knocked 10 major points out of Porteous (26 to 16). Ted Hill's i was the only Wellington rink to get a owin; he was 21 to Duff's 17. On the Wellington green, two . very lop-sided \ games nearly balanced each other.; ; Jackman slapped up a score of 27 against Powell's. 8, but Sievwright, - of Wellington, got ho forr'arder than 10 ; wnile Jack>Laughton rattled up his 25. Veteran Geo. Prince was too tough, a Txxd, for- Churchward, who finished up 5 under, but Horner finished' up .7" ahead of Newtown's Scott. The aggregate-result was a win for New'ipwnby 36 points: 189..t0 144. thorndon had, some pleasant experiences last week. ; On Monday, four veterans (Freeman, he "is 84 and still nimble, Gamble, RosSj Conlin) went up to the Wellington green, "■■'■ and had a most enjoyable game with Evans,' Hamilton. Berry, and Moult, coming • home victorious -by 22 to 19: ■■ On Thursday, at Thorn*don, a. return game by the same players Brodie, Williams, Hamilton, and ■■ '■. Moult, resulted in a win :fbr the visitors by 27 /to 20. •This involves a final game and consequent afternoon tea. There's lots, of „fun in .these;• friendly games. Oh Wednesday, three rinks from the Hutt ambled up to Thorndon and went home winners by nine; points. Trevethick beat Conlin, 34 to 15. Jones beat Shallcrass, 18 to 151 Hollard- t went. down to Thorndon's Smith (a " dark horse) by 30 to 17, notwithstanding that Hollard picked Tip seven in one .-■•• head. .•"■•.■ '■ ' Khandallah sent along a team under tihat genial skipper, Captain McArthur, and Wilson, of -Thorndon, got up a scratch team to meet them, and won b.v 2i to 19. . The Thorndon rink championships started on Saturday afternoon, resulting in two wins each for the following

teams : —Section I—Pearson, ~' Collins, Pattie, Cohen (skip); Chittey, Seaton, Burdekin, Ross (skip). Section 2— Wiggins, sen., Willings, E. Johnson, Wiggins, W. (skip); Dumbell, Gamble, Hogben, Plimmer (skip); finals to be played next Saturday. There were four rinks in \ each section. . : Davy Ross has come through the scrummage—"prood" and smiling—as Thorndon's Singles Champion for 1917, and everyone is highly pleased; for Davy is a true sport, and fights to the last ditch. . He will worthily •■■■ sustain Thorndon's credit when the Champion of Champions match comes on. .'■' There was much disappointment- at Karori on Wednesday last week when only one Wellington Club rink put in an appearance to carry out the arrangement for a friendly match of three rinks a-side. When engagements of this sort arc made the Club which defaults should at least give timely nc-i t'ice that it cannot keep faith. . - Hataitai metits Waterloo, oh Saturday in a home-and-home match with Lyall Bay—B rinks a-side*. The struggle at Lyall Bay worked out to a very fine result, the Bay-ites being just one point up—9o to 89. For Hataitai, Bailey was 13 up against Dillon, but MaTtin only got. 11 to Burgess's 26. Halhday. (Hataitai) was a point up against /Blake, and Pryor and B. Martin tied at 22. But it was on the Hataitai turf itself that the Bay-ites put in their solidest, work. What do you say to Reid's gigantic score of " 40 against Slater's ridiculous 3 ? It is the slating performance of; the season. Brandon had little Barnes on ice for 27 to 13, and H. Ward was;, 2-up against A. Claridgej : but "Raven . wasn't: equal to . Hataitai's MaeWhannel by 7 points. Lyall Bay Won the match by 47 points; Te Hiwi had a go against Victoria (2 rinks': a-side), and won by 2 points. Ferguson .was 5 down against Vosseler, but Shallcrass atoned for that by getting 7 ahead of Marcus Marks. ""■ Johnsonville played " Eastbourne a 2-rinks match (one on each green) and won by 53 to 36. Morgan, for Johnsonville, was 16-up against Levi, and Orr was 1-up against Marquis. .«•*.,.-■» ' .e. Deep and general sympathy is felt in bowling circles for Mr. Flem. Laurenson, of Palmerstbn North, who is mourning the death of his son (Mr. A. H. Fleming Laurenson), a fine young man of 24, who passed away on Monday last at his parents' residence. The deceased,: after leaving Wellington ■ College, was a member of Messrs. Whitcombe and Tombs' staff for some time "and then joined the reporting staff of the Palmerston North "Standard." Although a. sufferer from an internal complainj; since: boyhood,. he managed, in the early days of the war, to pass the „ doctor, and went away with the Expeditionary Force to Samoa. Military service only intensified his malady,- and after a,: few months he returned home. As soon as his health improved he offered again to enlist; in fact, his ardour to serve his country was such that he made six separate attempts to enlist for Europe. He had excellent literary taste, was a great collector of books,