BUSY BOWLING WEEK.

New Zealand Herald, Volume LXI, Issue 18884, 5 December 1924, Page 6

BUSY BOWLING WEEK.

W& 1 THOMSON SHIELD MATCH. US* *' • , :V; :■•!■■;. U - VERY ' INTERESTING GAMES. *. •;-•■; ■: ' f<y COMMENTS ON THE PLAY. lllliK v, ' 7 : \>: "-'''■ • * " ■" .. ...' . . -/■- > by skip. ■ There was no doubt about the succ^ Sa . of the first match for the Thomson Shield, between, 'Wellington and 1 Carlton, on Wednesday. First of all the weather was ' perfect,' the green and . surroundings in ' great -order, ; and the arrangements carried "out under the direction of the Gar - ton president • were of the best. « luncheon provided 'at the green at noon was a- great idea. It kept the P y®* B on the green and they were thus able to ! - speriH a pleasant extra two hours, an so the interest in the function was ep : • up from the first, bowl till the final head in the evening. not quite so fast for : The green' was not quite so fast the afternoon _,pc as in the. mora the afternoon games as in V„i. f hv ' and this was the reason, no doubt, why the first few heads were of such a ragge nature Short, bowls were M» i ; ' fret Bft and 10ft. away in two or three •' of the rinks However, the players soon found the weight of the green and some really well-drawn heads resulted. A noticeable feature of the afternoon s ay was, the absence of fast work, there being only three "dead* . heads all told. . In the game, Lamb v. Mayer, the Carlton team got well away and were 10 to n on the third head. The lead was well t maintained up to the 12tli .when : : the board read 15-6. • From then on the «. . came was ; very keenly contested, but ; Mayer" was playing a hard, luck game. .; However, "he , had some insolation on he •• - last head, when he notched a 5, making '"> . the score: Lamo 25, Mayer 19. *, v Glendinning , repealed his rooming s /victory over Truscoti »y playing a splendid came His team certainly helped him J greatly, but the outstanding player , was undoubtedly the skip himself, who proved to be ft versatile player m drawing and playing a resting or, running shot which was extremely useful* on several occasions. , '; - Txuscott Hot at ' Top Form. ' • '.Truscotfc did not -seem to play with the same amount of confidence that he usually displays. Several times he was unfortun- / ate in not being able to strike a length i •; when the head was g lying badly against ; " him. - • The Wellington team led from start; to : finish, although - the Carlton-ites ( V were only .3 down, score 15—3.2 on the ~ 15th head, but| the Wellington _team increased their lead in the remaining heads * and the game ended 24—" The - Snedden-Porteous game was an ; uphill fight , for the Carlton represent:* tne. - He' was behind all the way, though -#«"on>the 12th head he was only 1 down, score 10—9. Carlton did not pick the green .-as well as the Wellington : team, , orteous himself '"was playing very _ well i , and - this 'made it all» the harder for Sned- ■ den,' who had to fight ; for . his points all the time. " ' . „ . ' "The game between Kilgour and .Potter was , the " star attraction of the .afternoon and attracted considerable attention. It s ij was a dinij-dongigasne and a really good ' exhibition !of bowls. ■■■;■ On . the '7th head the board read Kilgour 8, Potter 7, and iroin" then ' on the Carlton 3 team kept the lead, until 'on tho 20th head scores were Kilgour 20, Potter 19.' Kilgour added a single on the Jilst, bringing his score* to , , 21. Almost to the last "bowl it was any- " one's" game arid was really won on the | 19th head, .when McArthur's (Wellington) V 1 • bowl f on the jack. was driven , off : ;by Wrightson and - the jack landed in the ;r: ' ditch. The Chiton' president drew J two ;: v shots close •to ' the ditch and Kilgour added another. *, Potter failed with both , his' shots, as .he failed to get up t# the scoring woods. • 2 v -,"ln * accordance with arrangements made between th« two cluhs, : the |Wellington players; take the shield „ homo with them and the Carlton representatives will have - to "go South, to attempt 'to win it again : : and , get. their names once more inscribed.: The : return of th« • shield is a certainty, whether Carlton win it or not. . The ". Carlton r president must have felt ;j > ; very proud of tne great success the first I'■ > contest; for the r shield ; proved; ! •J V Tho Grocery Trade' Match. r : : The team , representing the , ■ wholesale grocery, trade, though, generally conceded ; to ■*: be : the stronger • side, had to lower their : colours to the retail combination in the first of the series of matches for the K Cup, at Mount Albert on Wednesday. There wa,s little margin between the \ teams in any of the four ' games. v ': ; . Of the individual matches, the ClarkeWarren contest was perhaps the best, the difference at the end being only 2 ; points, with . retail the victors. 'Hie fea- ;: v tures were the good lead game for Retail ;-by : Page, the general president of the . Grocers ~ Asosciation, and the fine skipping VganiiPof Clarke. The West Ender _;:;i was particularly deadly in his driving : shots, which were very cleanly executed. , ' "»Osborne, the • Ellerslie champion, had no "difficulty in stalling off Roylance, and i notching a surplus of 6 points for retail ' The . Epsom president, Jervis Wright, ! also accounted for 6 5 points for retail by L defeating the Onehunga representative, ; McFarquhar. Kayes /was the only survivor of the Wholesale skips, The Rocky Nook representative downed the Dominion Road skip," Coupland, by 9 points, score - 24-15. - ' ■ -. .'■''■■■ . ' ' - Public Service Tourney. H ; "'lt, is traditional that bowlers are a : , cheerful and companionable lot, more so . 4: probably than c.»!y. other ? branch of sport, : but for sheer good fellowship and fun let , me recommend the annual . reunion of the ' % State's servants when they meet for their ■ pairs tournament. " The " full ' rir>k " -i / meeting, which by tradition takes place ] always-on St. Patrick's Day, is the big event in the service bowling world. It , is also a splendid opting, but the a/fair always (parries witTi 'it a certain amount of gravity, or shall, we say, responsibility, of which the happy-go-lucky " pairs " are free. " .So it was on Monday last, when the Civil Servants of all sizes and grades, boys almost, soma- of them, and greyhaired retired men in plenty, foregathered at the spacious Dominion Road greens for A* elr v day of un an d good' fellowship. At this stage it may be mentioned that i the real object of this tourney is mainly i for the benefit of the retired officials, who take full advantage of the fixture bv i entering freely. . * Sixty stripped for the fray and shortly 1 before 9 a.m. Mr. C. W. Garrard, vice- ? president, in the absence of the president, 1 Mr. W. Campbell, briefly addressed thn V players. ■ c , A better- day for bowling could not- } have been 'desired, and. the competitors i were soon hard at it, the two greens prosenting a very lively and pleasing appear- 1 ance. .Among tho players were raanv [ leading lights of the game in Auckland \ to-day. j The games went on with short adjourn- ' merits for lunch and afternoon tea—not forgetting certain other little adjourn- i ments—till nearly 6 o'clock, when the ] favoured, more skilful or lucky few, with ' 1 perhaps a trifle more gravity of face i and demeanour, settled down to plav of! i the section ties. ( Hard Luck Stories. ; . While this play was proceeding the = beaten candidates stood in little groups i watching the play and listening sym- ' pathetically to the hard luck story of one i ■; of, their number—just how it was he »ir ■ they just failed to qualify for the final , . tussle.. . ■■■.-* Bowlers rank with fishermen in that ' " tls rf* .always have*half-a-dozen good and sufficient reasons 'why they just failed to land t the : " big fellow." As they recount the critical moments of the failure every . man ; jack of the audience is just J<k~ hobbling over to recount how he also missed the good thing. By popular consent, Dame Fortune hat» hiiiofi v 0 °l ame , for ma a had shot. Shirt, ( 7 the player in .his heart 'of nearts to be '- a pear » l without peer. Such mm i ( ™° Ptlm " ni °! thc bowler - and it lot VT f yin « that , they 'dl retain a wSu&^S O^thcm; This is par: the Purl" U a ° . nv ' rs ' more especially ' e " G seJ "