BOWLING.

New Zealand Times, Volume LXX, Issue 3826, 23 August 1899, Page 3

BOWLING.

At the meeting of the Council of the Northern Bowling Association, hold at the Wellington Club’s pavilion, Captain itclwin, president, was in the chair. The inter-club tournament of 1900 was, set doivn for the 29th January at Auckland. The’annual event will- be called tihe “Century Tournament,” 'and games of tayontj'-one heads will he played club against club to a finish. The entrance fee was fixed at 10s each rink, and it was decided that there should be first and second prizes, and a third prize of an association certificate for a clear win only, and that club entries must consist of two. rinks.; The council approved of the suggestion that a match be played between the North and South Island Associations, and it was decided that it should be a biennial one, the first to bo held iu Christchurch in November, 1900, and the following one in Wellington, representation to consist of twelve rinks from each association, and that the winners be the best two out of three games of twenty-one heads each. The New South Wales Association wrote stating it would probably visit New Zealand, and asked for the most convenient date. An invitation was extended the New South Wales men for the “Century Tournament,” and it was decided that accompanying the invitation a desire be expressed that the visitors-would visit other centres in the colony. '