GAME OF BOWLS

New Zealand Herald, Volume LXXVI, Issue 23384, 28 June 1939, Page 21

GAME OF BOWLS

CHALLENGES FOR TROPHIES TEAM'S GREAT RECOVERY 15V SKIP The Edwin Stars challenge game played on the Auckland green on Saturday demonstrated once more that a contest is often not won until the last bowl of the final head is played. At one stage H. Kitchen's Stanley team held the commanding lead of 17 points to G, with seven heads only to play. The marine club's combination was its successful tourney rink, with the usual order reversed, 11. McMastcr playing in the No. 3 position. On the other hand Rocky Nook was without the services of Keatley, Farley and Page, whose places were taken by Mills, Randrup and J. Brown, the latter playing as skip. Under the circumstances, it says much for the second Rocky Nook string, especially Brown, that they were able to make up the leeway and actually defeat such a strong team by a margin of four points. The winners scored on JI heads to their opponents' 10. The next challenger is E. Eshelby, West End.

Two well-matched teams played at Mount Albert for possession of the Denison Pins. 11. Thomas' local team was opposed by a challenging Hallv-burton-Johnstone rink in the charge of F. Dyson. Ably led by .1. Bull, the challengers held the upper hand for most of the game, in spite of good defensive play by the Mount Albert skip. The score was J.'i-all on the 12th head, but on the next head 11 allybur-ton-.Johnstone scored six points. This came about firstly through the good play of Bull and Stenberg. the No. 2. Thomas was down four points on the change-over and, electing to drive with his first bowl, went right through the bead without disturbing anything. Dyson also had misfortune with his first bowl, as, in attempting to press back a .Mount Albert bowl for a further score, he succeeded only in cutting it across, and bis team was then lying two shots only. Further bad luck came Thomas' way when his second shot, which was meant to trail the jack, connected with his only bowl on the head, and he was then six points down. Thomas reduced the leeway to two points on the loth head, but the challengers scored consistently by singles, chiefly over the last five heads, and* emerged with one head unplayed with a margin of six pfiiuts. The next challenger is Pitt, Carlton.