BOWLING NOTES

Free Lance, Volume XVII, Issue 914, 18 January 1918, Page 18

BOWLING NOTES

By Wrong Bias

rWIHB attention of bowlers throughout the Dominion lias "been focussed since last week-end on the big tournament in Dunedin, and yet the reports appearing in the daily papers have been meagre and unsatisfactory in the extreme. A conference of Seventh Day Adventists or a Kaiwarra Trotting Meeting would have received just as much notice from the Press Association. I have been at some pains to glean some particulars of the fight put up by the teams from this Island, but space is limited and time short. a * * * The Pairs Competition, which opened on Thursday, 10th inst., was shut down on Friday through rain and. _ resumed on Saturday. The green winners proved to be: —Dunedin : McLeod and Parsons, of Ponsonby. Among the defeated were C. Bary (Wellington) and his skip, Orchard (Christchurch), Grenfell and' Jackman (Wellington), Baskiville and Ted Hill (Wellington). North-East Valley: McDonald and Sanders (Kaituna). Among the passed out: Tasker and Ingram (Wellington), Wyatt and Benzie (former Wellingtonians). Mornington: Bishop and Rawlinson (Dunedin). Otago: Herton and Knox (Edgeware, Christchurch). Among the unplaced : H. Smith and Magnus (Wellington). Caledonian: Hogg and Hannaway (Dunedin). Among the defeated: Head and Crawford (Newtown), Fossette and Norwood (Victoria), Spiers and Noble (Newtown), liomas and Gray (Kelburn). St. Kilda: M. Casey (father) and Vie Casey (son), of Ponsonby. Among the defeated: Holds worth and Kinvig (Wellington). Caversham: Dickson and MacDougall (Christchurch). Roslyn: Cbmpton and Wylie (Te Hiwi). Among the slain: M. Walker, of Ponsonby. Balmacewen Green: Fraser and Woolf (United, Christchurch). Among the defeated: Madeley and Crane (Wellington), Philpotts and Masson (Canterbury). Kaikorai: Atkinson and Brown (United, Christchurch). Passed out: Johnston and Thompson (Wellington). The rink tourney started on Monday blest with fine weather, and after three days' play, Wylie (Te Hiwi), Noble (Newtown), Gray (Kelburn), Bailey (Hataitai), have all qualified for the "sudden death" finals with a record of 7 wins and 2 losses each. Magnus (Wellington) has also got into the finals with 6 wins and 3 losses as his record. The Caseys, of Ponsonby (father and son) ar© in it after 8 wins and 1 loss, and Professor Walker, of Ponsonby, got through with an unbeaten record.

Other skips of repute who are into the finals are: Haldane (Nelson), Smellie (Green Island), Dall (Dunedin), Foster (Caledonian), Ham (Invercargill), Ca-lder (Oamaru), Smart (Stratford), Gillies (Dunedin), and MacDougall (Christchurch). And now a few particulars about the doings of the Wellington Province rinks: — Prince, Davies, Spiers, and Noble (Newtown) won two out of their first three games, beating Watt (Otago) by 2. and Bur son (Linwood, Christchurch) by 8, but doughty Willie Carswell (the Taieri veteran) downed them by 28 to 16. Next day Malcolm (Kaikorai) beat Noble 20-18. Madeley, Redstone, Fossette, and Norwood (Victoria) also won 2 out of 3 games first day, beating Scott (Roslyn) 33-23, and Bur son 25-17, but losing to Watts (Otago) 13-15. On the second day Carswell beat Norwood 19-17. Johnston, Horner, Thompson, Porteous (Wellington) started badly by losing to Bremner (Invercargill) by a point, and losing to Johnson (Dunedin) 15-31. In the; third game they beat Marker (Edgeware) 25 to 12. Next dayt they started with a win against Houldsworth, Compton, Shallcrass, and Willie Wylie (Te Hiwi) 17 to 12, and also beat Smith Gisborne) 27 to 7. Wylie's first loss was to Porteous, for he opened the campaign by beating Smith (Gisborne) 25 to 17, and Haldane (Nelson) 22 to 16. Captain Holdsworth, Ingram, Tasker, Crane (Wellington) got to work promisingly. They beat Wattie Wyatt (Dunedin) 3 up, and Smellie (Green Island) 5 up. Fastier (Caversham) beat Crane 8 up, and Efford (Rangiora) beat Crane by 1 point. Baskiville, Fowler, Duff, and E. J. Hill (a rather composite team) won the first game against - Sandston (Christchurch) 2 up, but lost to Gagliardi (Edgeware) 5 down, and lost to Casey (Ponsonby) 2 down. Sandston's team included Wyatt and Benzie (two former Wellington players). Hill also lost to H. W. Wilson (Auckland), 13-22. Grenfell, H. Smith, Jackman, and Magnus bit the dust in the first game, beaten by McCurdy (St. Kilda), 8 down. Then they won from Dee (Maitai) 9 up, and from Henaglian (Caledonian) 2 up. Magnus also beat Cruickshank (Bluff) 4 up. Lomas, Doherty, R. Kinvig, and Gray (Kelburn) after losing their first game to Smith (Invercargill) 7 down, notched wins against MacDougall (Christchurch) 4 up, and Henderson (Lyttelton) 4 up. The fourth game they lost to Adams (Blenheim), and the fifth they won against Armstrong (Pukekohe) 9 up. Claridge, Fielding, MeWhannel, and W. Bailey (Hataitai) beat Read, Chitty, Underwood, and Crawford (Newtown) 30 to 11, Thomson (Carlton) 16-13, and Stevenson (Hokitika) 23-19; they also beat Smeaton (St. Kilda) 1 up. Crawford, after losing to Bailey, beat Hain (Invercargill), as well as Calder (Oamaru), and won a tie against Wilson (Balmacewan). Brown, Tattersall, H. Nash, and J. A. Nash (Palmerston North) started with a loss to Cole (St. Clair) by 1 point, and then won against Irvine (St. Kilda) 3 up, and Howarth (Caversham) 9 up. The fourth game was a loss to McGallan (Christchurch Suburbs) 3 down.

Roydliouse, Pliilpotts, Fisher, and Masson (Carterton) g,alloped off witli 3 wins, beating in succession. Smith (Gisborne) 1 point, Haldane (Nelson) 24-12, and Bremner (Invercargill) 2-7-18. They lost their first game oil second day to Redpath (Canterbury) 17-23, and they lost again to Fraser (United) 17-25. Hughan (skipping another Carterton team) lost to Casey by 5, and beat Tonkin (N.E. Valley) 4 up, and beat Hill (Wellington) 2 up, but lost to Cameron (St. Kilda) 2,down. The Auckland Centre's rink tournament at. Christichurch ended with the final tussle between the teams skipped respectively by Professor Maxwell Walker (Ponsonby) and Mcßobie (Remuera). The latter was beaten by two points. The. Auckland Club team, skipped by G. B. Osmond, which won the Dominion rink championship last year in Wellington, isn't represented at aIL, in the present Dominion tournament at Dunedin. Auckland Province is only poorly represented in this year's Dominion tournament at Dunedin. Only sis rinks made the trip: viz., two from Auckland Club, skipped by A. J. Parker and H. W. Wilson (Town Clerk); two from Ponsonby Club, skipped by Maxwell Walker and Parsons ; one from Carlton Club, skipped by J. Thomson; and one from Pukekolie (in Premier Massey's electorate), skipped by Wright.