SPLENDID GAMES

New Zealand Herald, Volume LXXIII, Issue 22319, 17 January 1936, Page 12

SPLENDID GAMES

WALKER'S STRONG PLAY ONEHUNGA ELIMINATED BREMNER KEEPS "LIFE" WHITTLE'S TWO WINS [nr TRr.KC.it \pii—own cohim-m-ondknt] C'Tl RISTCIHJRCII. Thursday There wore ideal conditions to-day for the resumption of the Dominion bowling tournament, and some splendid contests wore staged an the greens at Harrington and St. Albans, which were in the host of order and running fast. H. C. Alloo, the two-lifer in the singles, mot Dr. A. S. Mclnnes (Temuka) in the morning, and, playing a most consistent drawing game, ho disposed oS his opponent with a comfortable majority of 12 points. The winner is now to moot F. Livingstone (Onehunga), whoso play in defeating .1. J. Kennerley (Spreydon) very comfortably was of a very high standard. Two of those rinks who had two lives at the finish of yesterday's play lost one this morning, C. E. Tyrrell (Roslyn) and .J. A. Veitch (West Harbour), the latter going down to W. Anderson (Dunedin), who had, at the finish of the morning's play, 11 wins i plus a bye. Meeting J. E. Gagliardi's ■ Edge ware rink, who downed Tyrrell ! two up, the Dunedin men won comj fortablv. They then met P. Haworth | (Canterbury), these teams being tho only two-lifers left in the competition, j Anderson got away on Haworth in the J early stages and Canterbury were down ! on the board, but Haworth's men gave ! him a great head on the lltli, where ' Canterbury scored a nice 5, and evened I the game, 10—all. From then bn Can- | terbury held the mat for several ends, j only to see Anderson land a 6, all drawn, to go out a winner, 21—17. j Anderson now meets the West End skip, W. Bremner. 1 Walker's Good Form M. Walker (Auckland), with only ! the one life, defeated his clubmate, W. j lire, this morning, the winner's team j being in excellent form, and Ure's ; rink made their run too late, going I down seven points. Against .J. R. Smith (Kelburn) in tho first afternoon game, Walker was early dominating the match, but ! Smith made a great uphill fight and | only for Walkers' very strong play the Ancklanders would most assuredly have j been beaten. His saves in the critical stages were carried out in his best style. A bye then wont to the Auckland skip and he will be called on to play the Canterbury skip, P. Haworth. in to-morrow's game commencing at 8..30 a.m. F. Livingstone's men met L. Gordon (Canterbury). Hie Onehunga men were j in good scoring vein and Maeklow led J very The score was 16-all on the 17th, and the Canterbury men then j went on to eliminate Onehunga bv i three points. I hoy deserved their win, j as the team were very steady. Bremner Still In j W. Bremner (West End, Auckland) | kept his aingle life intact when ho de- ! feated T. Ferguson (Balmacewan) by j seven points at Harrington in the first ; game, his team playing well up to ] form. In tho afternoon they met L. J. Bull (Hawera), who had been the cause of H. L. Brighting's elimination in tho first outing, and the Tnranaki men went down to the West End rink by six points after a game in which Bremner was always a few up. W. G. Ives (Canterbury) was the next opponent for Bremner, and in a close game the West Ender again emerged a winner by five points, 21—16. Bremner now goes forward and meets Dunedin's unbeaten rink (W. binderson), who is really playing well. H. Whittle (Grey Lynn) was credited with a good win against H. Wilson in the pairs. Ho then went on and met T. Ferguson (Balmacewan). A feature of the game was Higginson's leading and the positional play by his skip. Out of the 18 heads played Whittle scored on 12. He will now have to wait until .3..'50 p.m. to-morrow for twr> pairs games to be decided in the morning. E. A. Smith (United) is to play S. Beer (Napier) and the winner to play R. E. McNish (Canterbury), and the winner again to meet Grey Lynn.