BOWLING NOTES

Free Lance, Volume XVII, Issue 920, 1 March 1918, Page 26

BOWLING NOTES

By Wrong Bias

nnHE Thorndon green had a day out -*- on its own last Saturday. The Club played eight, visiting rinks, representing seven different city clubs, and at the finish the aggregate showed Thorndon 54 points up. The weather was perfect, the green good, and the garden seats were well patronised by visitors. - Afternoon tea was served in the pavilion by lady friends. Petone was unable at the last moment to send a rink along, and the Wellington Club sent a second rink to> fill up the gap. Nine rinks were in use. The results were:—Mason (T.) 28, Hataitai (Kinniburgh) 16. TJpham (T.) 25, Hutt (Hendry) 31. Conlin (T.)~ 48, Karori <Shearer)-10. Wilson (T.) 20, Khandallah (Plimmer) 26. Munro (T.) 25, Newtown (De, Touretts) 35. Thomson (T.) 21, Victoria. (Haughton) 23. Ross (T.) 31, Wellington (Corliss) 17. Dimo.ck (T.) 28, Wellington (Bellinger) ' 15. It was a highly successful afternoon. The Singles Championship now lies between last year's champion (D. Ross) and C. Chittey, and the Pairs between Ross- - Wiggins and Stanford-Hatch. In the semi-final stage of the Singles Dimock retired in favour of Chittey after beating Stanford by a point in an extra head to decide the tie between them" on the 21st head. Since the above was written Ross has beaten Chittey, 22 to 12, and won the Thorndon Singles. * « e> «» The finish for the Champion Singles ■of the Wellington Club was very interesting. Sievwright beat H. W. Smith, and then Sievwright himself went out, 8 points under, to James. Immediately at the close of this match James -stood up to Tamblyn for the final, and a ding-dong struggle ensued. At the 14th head James was 7 points up. Then Tamblyn began toi come up under the whip. With 20 heads gone he was cnly a point behind. In the last head he plaiced three shots right in front of the jack, and James, electing to draw rather than drive, failed to disturb them. Tamblyn thus won the Club

Singles by 21 to 19. Certainly it was a severe strain on James to> play two strenuous games straight on end. The Pennant match between Petone and Victoria, (eight rinks a-side home and home) ended in a good win for Petone by 159 to 124. The rinks skipped by Beynon (25 to Chapman's 12), McEwan, (25 to Vosseler's 7) and Melhuish (23 to Snaddon's 9 —"How have the mighty fallen") were the star performers. Wellington had a friendly go with Hataitai (eight rinks a-side home and home) and "good old mother" won by 44 points. Webb's 30 to Shepherd's 9 was "some score," but the greatest achievement was "David" Barnes's conquest of "Goliath" Porteous by 31 to 11. Evidently the ex-chess champion moved his pieces to some purpose. In these days the Edwin Feathers seem to attract mighty little attention. They had a flutter on Saturday last when the feathered warriors of Kelbiira, (headed by Stephens) beat off the aspiring challengers of Karori (skipped by Larnley) by 20 to 13. Thirteen, you will observe, still keeps on cropping up as ai stumbling block to progress. Lyall Bay is to be heartily congratulated in that it struggled ver}- hard indeed a.nd kept faith with the Centre on Saturday last by getting eight rinks together to play its Pennant game with Newtown. Beaten the Lyall Bay warriors were, but they went down, with all their colours flying! Good luck, Lyall Bay next year, for being the sports and stickers you are! . Skip Irvine's rink went down to Jack Laughton, 32-7; Selector Reid's met Jack Brackenridge's, and went out, 35-13; Raven, the "doughty," went under to Noble and Co., 21-12; and Tyrrell's rink put up a. stiff fight against Jim Brackenridge's men, 24-20. Out at Lyall Bay, little Tommy Burgess met the "great Scott" and suffered defeat, 26-16; Martin, of tournament fame, bit the dust under the strokes of the veteran Geo. Prince, 27-12; Gilbert and Co. did not know enough for Wylie and Co. and passed in at 33 to 12; * but Dillon drew up a better "drainage plan" than Arty Duff and won, 22-21. Thus the suburbanites lost on the aggregate by 219 to 114, but, considering all things, they did well. There promises to be a tip-top little tournament on the Hataitai and Newtown Clubs' greens on Monday, March 18th (St. Patrick's Day). • The greens are- looking a picture, and the secre-