BOWLING

New Zealand Herald, Volume LXXI, Issue 21968, 27 November 1934, Page 7

BOWLING

PUBLIC SERVICE TOURNEY DRAW FOR .SECTIONS The 14th annual pairs tourney (three bowls) conducted by the Auckland Public Service Bowling Association will be played on the Auckland and Mount Eden Clubs' greens next Friday, commencing at 8.30 a.m. Following is the draw for greens and sections: AUCKLAND GREEN Section A.—Mason, Simpson, Walker, Thomson (Railway); Williams, Allan (Post and Telegraph); Patterson, Braithwaite (Retired Teachers); Macmorran, Maher (Lands and Survey); Lanigan. Rowell (Police). Section B.—Hollis, G. Duncan, Brooke, Bowles (Railway); B. Smith. Bourke (Post and Telegraph); —, Wrigley (Defence); Hardy, Plummer (Education); Scott, Westbrooke (Agriculture). Seotion C.—Lorifrier, Grinter, Barnes. Colthurst (Railway); Hounsell, Macey (Post and Telegraph.); Tracy Inglis, Hardie Neil (Defence); Mackune, D. Smith (Lands and Survey); Campbell, Till (Police). Section D.—McGaffin, Hammond, F. T. A. Williams, Blackburn (Railway); Ryalls, Murray (Post and Telegraph); Elliott, Pinch (Education); Barclay. Newton (Mines): Dodd, Jackson (Public Works). Section E.—Thomas. A. Williams, Beehre, Dougan (Railway); Keyes. Wells (Post and Telegraph); Slaughter, Hollows (Labour); Joyce, Godfrey (Lands and Survey) l : —, Spellman (Police). MOUNT EDEN GREEN Section A.—L. Campbell, Mcßeat'h, McLaren, Watson (Railway); Yanko, Harvey, F. E. Robertson, Colebrook (Post and Telegraph); LofTley, Lloyd (Retired Teachers); Langridge, Purdy (Public Works). Section B.—Pearce, Jordan, Moon, I. W,. Turner (Railway); Green, Kerr, McLean, Boyce (Post and Telegraph); Tulloch, rletcher (Stamps); Gage, Eales (Police). Section C.—Smith, Reed, Clark, Robertson (Railway): Crow, Brookes (Post and Telegraph); Taylor, T. Walker (Retired Teachers); Jackson, Milton (Mental Hospital); Johnson, Dixon (Lands and Survey). Section D.—G. Wilson, Foster, Drummond, Gillespie (Railway): Pearce, Vivian (Post and Telegraph); Hosking, W. H. Newton (Retired Teachers); Flinn. -Elvy (Defence); Moore, Lane (Lands and Sur- % Section E.—Fowko, Lancaster. Home. Gribble (Railway); Fletcher, McMahon, (Post and Telegraph); Waters, W. Smith (Retired Teachers); Adumson. (Public Works); Tudhope, A. D. Newton (Lands and Survey). HUNTLY CHALLENGE MATCH In a game for challenge buttons at Huntly during the week-end the challengers, R. Tweedie, Davies, Hedley and J. Douglas, defeated the holders, Brown, Boyd, J. D. Turton and Hall, by 33 points to 16 MASON STARS COMPETITION [from oun own correspondent] HAMILTON, Monday On the Whitiora green on Saturday the holders of the Mason Stars, Jonathan, J. Morris, Davies and Cliffe, retained the trophies, beating N. Ibbotson, Rotherham, R. Street and Cole by 20 points to 19/ HAMILTON CLUB'S RINKS [from our own correspondent] HAMILTON, Monday The Hamilton- Bowling Club's champion rink elimination competition was continued on Saturday, when the second and third rounds were completed. Results were as follows:—Second round: Cleary, Adams. Horton, Little, 24, v. Osborne, Hyde, Yeaman, Pile, 15; Plummer, Wilkes. Metcalfe, Bell. 22, v. Conradi, Lambie, H. Clarke, ; F. Clarke, 14; Grigg, Wilson. Anchor, Robinson, 20, v. Andrews. Qualtrough, Darlington, Chapman, 18; Pomeroy, ■ Aitken, Hawken, Pilkington, 17, v. Parkhouse, Curteis, ABtle, Rowe, 12. Third round: Pilkington, 19, v. Robinson, 17; Rowe, 20, v. Chapman, 19; Bell, 19, v. Little, 18. WAIKATO BANNER TROPHY [from our own correspondent] HAMILTON, Monday The Leamington Club lost the Waikato Bowling Committee's banner on Satur/l\y, when it was defeated by Glen Massey by 24 points to 11. The winning team was A. Connew, Gair, Giraud and Morris. Owing to sickness, Leamington had a re-arranged team, compiising N. Edge, A. Macdonald, J. W, Garland and J. Mclvor. WARKWORTH CLUB [from our own correspondent] WARKWORTH, Monday Matches played on Saturday on the Warkworth bowling greens resulted as follows: Alf'ii button: Colebourne, Shaw, R. B. Hart, Duke (holders),- 24, v. Halligan, Baker. Warin, Robertson, 12. Rooster contest: Rees (holder), 17. v. Taylor, 3. Other games re-sulted-.—Taylor, Ashton, Moore, 23. v. Russell, Rees, Morrison. 10; F. D. Hart, Buchanan, Givil, 21, v. Wells, Hoysted, Littlejohn, 20 . PORTLAND CLUB'S TOURNEY [from our own correspondent] WHANGAREI, Monday The Portland Bowling Club held a successful rink tournament on Saturday in , perfect" weather. The green was in good order and 12 teams participated, including representatives from the Stanley Bay, Epsom, Hikurangi and Kensington Clubs. The tournament was won by a Kensington rink, skipped by Huyton, who defeated Nesbitt (Hikurangi) in the final of five heads by 8 points to 2. Following are the results: —First round: Patterson, Harrison, Hooper, F. Wilson, 13, v. Whitham, Holland, George, Ferguson, 7; Just, H. Gribble, Gower, Brewis, 15, v. Riley, Steventon, Walder, Lee, 10; McLaren, Guest, Williams, Cox, 18, v Hill, Hutchings, Tibbitts, Steadman, 6; McGregor. Walker, McMath. Huyton, 9, v. B. Wilson, Neal, Briggs, Leese, 8; Johnson, Bvierly, Twizell. Nesbitt, 12, v. Thackeray, Chilman, Curtis, T. H, Wilson, 11; Ward, Mee, McDonald, Gibson, 9, v. Woolf, Langridge, Callam, Jones, 8. Second round: Nesbitt, 15, v. Jones, 11; F. Wilson, 20, v. Lee, 5; T. H. Wilson, 10, v. Gibson, 8; Leese, 12, v. Cox, 7; Ferguson, 16, v. Brewis, 5; Huyton, 11, v. Steadmnn, 5. Third round: Ferguson, 12, v. Lee, 11; Leese, 13, v. Steadman, 6; Huyton, 8, v. Cox, 4; Jones, 14, v. T. H. Wilson, 7; Nesbitt, 10, v. Gibson. 5; Brewis, 13, v. F. Wilson, 8. Final: Huyton, 8, v. Neßbitt, 2. WHAKATANE TOURNAMENT [by telegraph—own correspondent] WHAKATANE, Monday An invitation all-tlay bowling tournament was held on the Whakatane Club's green yesterday. Results were as follows:—Section A: Bragg (Rotorua}, 3 wins, 2 losses; Currah (Whakatane), li. 3; Shaw (Whakatane), 5, 0; French (Rotorua), 3, 2; Persey (Te Puke), 2, 3; Young (Rotorua), }, 4. Section B: Moody (Taneatua), 4, 1; Budd (Rotorua), _ 2, 3; Loane (Whakatane), 1, 4; Chamberlain (Whakatane), 1, 4; Fowko« (Rotorual, 4, 1; Woods (Te Puke), 3, 2. In the play-off Fowkes beat Moody: 5 to 4. In the final Fowkes beat Shaw. 8 to 7. TAURANGA CLUB MATCHES [by telegraph—own correspondent] TAURANGA, Monday Tbo following were the results of play in the Smith Shield competition on the Tauranga Bowling Club's greens:—First round: Stonehouse, Miller, Biggs, Rowe, 14, v. Wilson, Morison, Smith, Lewis, 11; McKenzie, Parlane, Ivory, Bell. 18, v. Jefferson, Bryan, Ward, Kiddie, 14. Second round: McKenzie, Parlane, Ivory, Bell, 14, v. Stonehouse, Miller, Biggs, Rowe, 11; Jefferson, Bryan, Ward, Kiddie, 23, v. Wilson, Morison, Smith, Lewis, 14. Gumes played by members of the Tauranga South Bowling Club resulted as follows:—Challenge fours: Hewett, P. Smith. Perriman. Newsham. 20, v. Every, Lowe, Mearns, Kempßter, 12. Championship pairs: Hutton, Dykes, 27. v. Law, Bent, 7. Championship singles: Watson, 18, v. Boyd, 17. GISBORNE RINKS AT OPOTIKI [by telegraph—OWN correspondent] OPOTIKI, Monday Four rinks of Gisborne centre bowlers visited Opotiki at the week-end and.;played matches with members of the Opotiki, Opotiki Citizens' und Taneatua Clubs. On Saturday afternoon they met the Opotiki Club, which they defeated \by two points. The games resulted as follows, Gisborne players being mentioned first:—Sawyer, Power, Morse, Martin. 28, v. Kidd, Fleming, W. J Scott. Gordon, 11; Eaton, Robertson, Roderick. Allan, 19. v. Braae. Rowland. Budd, Dawson, 27; Johnstone. Miller, Murray, McKenzie, 29, v. Connor, Moody, J. Tabb, Candy, 16; Bright, Doyle, Jenkins, Dudfield, 14, v, Reece, Wilson, Hathaway, Short, 34- Totals; Gisborne, 90; Opotiki, 88.

On Sunday morning the Gisborne bowlers played the Opotiki Citizens' Club and were defeated by 13 points. Results were as follows:—Miller, Allan, Dudfield, Murray, 15, v. Burnett, Wilkins, Foy, Pranks, 25; Eaton, Bright, Morse, Tonks, 18, v. Griffiths, Battle, Payne, Oreagh, 23; Johnstone, Doyle, McKenzie, Robertson, 24, v. Patterson, Urquhart, Stevens, Frew, 20; Power, Roderick, Sawyers, Martin, 21, v. Burton, C. Tabb, Simmonds, O'Sullivan, 23. Totals; Gisborne, 78; Opotiki Citizens, 91. In the afternoon the visitors played against three rinks from the Taneatua Club, the latter winning by 10 points. Results were as follows:—Dudfield, Doyle, Jenkins, Morse, 2-1, v. Alexander, Downard, Wilson, 1 eebles, 21; Eaton, Miller, Johnstone, McKenzie, 15, v. D. McPhersop, Webb, Merric, Mitchell, 25; Power, Bright, Robertson, Murray, 22, v. G. McPherson, Urquhart, Lynch, Simmonds, 25. Totals: Gisborne, 61Taneatua, 71. NIGHT PLAY AT CAMBRIDGE [PKOM OUR OWN CORRESPONDENT] CAMBRIDGE, Monduy More than 200 local and visiting bowlers and their friends attended the inauguration on Saturday of night bowling at the CamJji . e „ s greens. The lights were officially switched on by the president, Dr. H. 0. lod, who made appreciative reference to the work of Mr. W. R. Edwards, who had originated the scheme in Cambridge. Congratulations to the club on its innovation were voiced by Mr S Lewis chairman of the Domain Board, and Mr' tl. Priestley, Mayor of Cambridge. Mrs. Tod threw the first jack.