BOWLING SENSATION.

New Zealand Herald, Volume LXVIII, Issue 20969, 4 September 1931, Page 6

BOWLING SENSATION.

RINK DISQUALIFIED, J PLAY IN BRISBANE CARNIVAC SOME PECULIAR INCIDENTS. I A sensation was created at the bowjL carnival at Brisbane last week, when"* New Sonth Wales rink, skipped by ter, lost its match with a Victorian rinkS skipped by Blair, after Scotter's boH had been challenged. They were tested and the appeal was upheld. l rink had played right through the sec. tional games. It was explained officially that |W ter's bowls bore the Australian Bowlin Council's stamp for 1929, and, aa an* bowls bearing the stamp of the MQnc j for a year later than 1926 could be in the competition, Scotter's bowlj wtr» eligible. Any bowls, however, open to challenge during the competition but' Scotter's bad not been previously. It was stated by the officii that after the result of the test they no alternative but to disqualify the-rink. Scotter refused to make any comment other than stating that the bowls bore the official test stamp of the Australia Bowling Council for 1929. He had also had them tested at the close of last year ig Sydney, but had not had them stamped then. When put on the table after tl» challenge they did not have the requisite draw, and the player concerned refuse] to have them treated for further n» at the tournament.

The rink skipped by W. Bremner, W«»t End, Aackland, was the only New Zt*. land one left in the last ten of the rinij championship, and it was eliminated fat a match with a Brisbane club rink. Plaj throughout was keen. After the scorn were 8-all, Bremner led 12—8 and then 15—0, but the Brisbane players carried their score to 15 all, and, on the last end, scored 2 and took the game. I There was a remarkable incident daring the progress of sectional play, fa which rinks skipped by Stanley, of Victoria, the Australian champion, and Lowe, New Bouth Wales were concerned. Lo*t was lying shot and in an effort to remove it Stanley drove and hit his own second wood. The two bowls flew at a tangent* hitting many woods on the way to the ditch, and they were all Victorian timbers. The result was that every Vietorian bowl was cleared off the rink, and Lowe scored the possible eight points. Another rare occurrence took place during a contest between rinks skipped bj Bleach, Queensland, and Naylor, Net < Zealand. On the seventeenth end two opposing bowls' were touching kitty when the slaps came to play. Naylor with his first bowl drew to the jack, and had also a toucher. Thus three bowls were all lying on the jack, and the result mi no score. On the eighteenth end Bleach scored and won. One match in which two Brisbane skips were concerned could not be finished before almost total darkness set in. The skips had a consultation and decided, darkness or not, to finish. All available lights were turned on, and the. player) were blindly, playing, to an imaginary jack. The successful team won by U to 8.