BOWLING NOTES

New Zealand Herald, Volume LXX, Issue 21505, 31 May 1933, Page 18

BOWLING NOTES

CHALLENGES FOR TROPHIES BY SKIP Favoured by good weather and green conditions the annual match between teams representing the Press and Printers and the Auckland Bowling Club last Saturday proved most enjoyable and the result was the closest of the series yet played. A particularly strong challenging West End team was successful in wresting the Denison Pins from the holders, Ponsonby, on the Mount Eden green. The Ponsonbv team on this occasion was almost a new one, as only one member of the former team, Somers, played. He acted as skip and was supported by Watson, Johnston, and Hunt. A six to West End on a head near the commencement of the game saw the holders in difficulty early, but they fought back with such purpose that there was only a four-points margin against them with the last head to go. However, West End scored 011 this head and won the game by six points. The next challenger is Burrows, Waiteniata. There will be no game next Saturday on account of the holiday tournaments. Last year's holders of the Edwin Stars, Gardiner's Otahubu team, failed to withstand the first challenge from the Devonport team. .Pevonprrt, which was skipped by Melville, generally had the better of the game all through. There was never a very great margin of points in its favour, the most being six about half-way through tho game. The Devonpo'. t players, Buchanan, Scotland and Lowe, champion of the club, ably assisted the skip to hold such a strong tram as the Otahubu combination. Tho next challenger is Miller, Mount Edrn. The Mount Ede.i Club's successful two-Saturday ton:nanient was decided 011 Saturday, when the semi-finals and final games weiv played. By winning the final Firth, Glen Eden, has brought himself again to the fore. The final was renia/kabie for the fin? recovery made by Firth's opponents, Baker's Mount Eden rink. At one time Glen Eden held a good lead, but the Mount Eden team gradually overhauled it and was actually one point up with one head to go. Firth equalised 011 the last head and 011 the extra head the play was very keen, the position often being changed. Baker secured shot with his first bov.i and Firth elected to have a shot at it in preference to drawing. In semi-darkness he managed to graze tho shot bowl and move it out sufficiently to score a single. Baker failed in his draw and Glen Eden won a hard contest by one point.