BOWLING NOTES.

New Zealand Herald, Volume LXVI, Issue 20303, 10 July 1929, Page 15

BOWLING NOTES.

MATCH FOR EDWIN STARS

A GOOD RECORD EQUALLED.

THE NEXT GAME INTERESTING.

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l)y Winning the game on Saturday against Hillsborough in the Edwin Stars challenge match, the holders, Ponsonby,

equalled the existing record of eleven wins on end. liv a curious coincidence fho game next Saturday is against the bolder or a similar number of wins, I. Clarke, West End. This game, therefore, will be invested with more than usual interest lor the challenger, as, if lie wins he will achieve the double purpose of becoming the possessor of the trophies and /frustrating Parsons' effort to break the record.

In Saturday's game the holders were fully extended to ward off the attack of the challenging team and if was only on the twentieth head, when a lead of two was secured, that the holders were safe. Sainty, the Hillsborough lead was responsible for much of the hard task Pousonby had to contend with, lie led well practically from start to finish and was very seldom beaten by bis opponent, Allen. Sheath, the number three, was also responsible for a good display and his work combined with Sainly's just about suinjned up tile strength of the team. lioth Stringci and Thompson, numbci two and skip respectively, did good work at. times, but their efforts wore inconsistent as compared with the other two.

Somerville Plays Welt. Soinerville was (lie bright star in the I'ousonbv team and particularly when most required he was always there to save or make the position easier for his skip. If this player had not been right on his game the trophies might have changed hands. Hiihardson's time was fully occupied and he got through a hard atternoon's work in a fairly creditable manner. Still, in this game and in the proceding one, he did not. show the bright form he had hitherto displayed. Parsons was as usual very steady and did not let much go by. Ho drew many line shots during the day. but. none better than on the last head. He drew the actual shot when three down and alter his bowl had been taken out by the opposing skip he promptly drew another one in its place.

The Mount Kden Club s birthday tourney was concluded on Saturday, when the linal game between Walker and Clarke was played. In winning this tourney and defeating such a doughty rival as Walker, the West End skip and Dominion champion number three has added to a long list of successes this season. He has been singularly successful in mid-week tourneys and along with the Papatoetoe skip, Parker-llill, shares the honour of most-

wins. In Saturday's game Walker had the heavy end of the stick to carry, as his forward division was slightly overmatched by the two West End men, Horsley and Co.\. The two number threes, Dr. Moir and Hardley, both played well, and performed about the same amount of useful work. That the game was an exciting and even one was demonstrated by the low and even scoring of 13 all with two heads to go. The game was watched with keen interest by a good crowd of spectators, who were no doubt attracted by the meeting of two such high-class teams.

The Mount Eden Club's mid-week tourney last Wednesday was a very successful' function. The home club's representatives, in. spite of a good muster of outside teams, had the final to themselves and D. 0. Fraser was successful in defeating Elliott for the honour. A Splendid Green.

In commenting on this-tournament one must give due praise to the fine running qualities of the green and the excellent manner in which the programme was carried out. Even at this stage of the season the green was keen and the slight dampness which is prevalent just now enabled a very sweet surface to be prepared. The Epsom team, holders of the Denison pins, had a comfortable victory over Brown's Onchunga rink at Hillsborough o'i Saturday. The four Epsom men played consistently throughout and were 100 superior on the day. The next challenge comes from Mount Albert, with J. Thomas as skip. The president. Mr. T. H. Proctor, made special mention of the meritorious performance of Mr. E. E. Daniels in winning the Hart Cup during the past season at the annual meeting of the Remuera Howling Club. Having won the coveted tiopliv three times, 1922, 1924 and 1929, the cup now becomes Mr. Daniels' property In order lo carry on the competition, Mr. Daniels has generously donated another cup to be played for under practically the same conditions. This will I). - ? known as the Daniels Cup.

ALL BLACKS FELT COLl).

BOOTS CUT OFF THEIR FEET. Besides being very wet for the first match of the All Blacks' tour in Australia the weather must have been extremely cold. W. Dal lev, who captained the New Zealanders, was reported in a Sydney paper as having said:— "It was a ■ ■ *«! game, and about lifty-fiftv was right. It was a pity it was not. a fine day. You would have seen something good if it had been. However, the result should put. more interest into the game next Saturday. "The New South Wales forwards played a good game. They put every ounce, into it, and are a fine pack. "Our fellows were affected by the cold. We never fell anything like it, before. Six men were affected by cramp in the second half. The New Zealand trainers, after the match, had to cut the boots off s>>me of the players' feel because they could not, move them.''

LE< M3EFOI{ E-WICKET LAW k

INCREASE IN DISMISSALS.

It. is unfortunate lliat it is impossible to state with mathematical accuracy ex iicllv what effect the experimental leg-Licfore-wickct law is having on play this .season, says an English cricket writer. .Ml that, can he said, without fear of contradiction, is that in many matches there has been an unusual number of such dismissals.

Thus, as many as II of 40 wickets Mere so accounted for in tho Glamorgan v. Hampshire game, at Swansea, 10 of 40 in Essex v. Worcestershire, at Loyton, and eigia of 32 in Middlesex v. Sussex, at [/Old's, while five of Lancashire so fell during their innings of 305 v. Vorkshive. Possibly a less "-melancholy state of things will.occur when players have, become more accustomed to tho innovation.