SENIOR PENNANTS

NZ Truth, Issue 1255, 19 December 1929, Page 17

SENIOR PENNANTS

Strik^Aßuii of %A Luck \i, In Capital (From "NiZ^l^ufcti's" Wellington Rep..) • ALTHOUGH a reduced programme ■ was -arranged . for. the senior pen-, nant, the first round fell on the day of Wellington first air pageant, the second was postponed on account., of wet greens, and'ttfetttiird round ;4tr«.ck the opening game olihß English cricketers. The Thqr.ndqrL.Ciub had, the beat day out they-.hav e :ever had, winning ten rink games out of 12, accounted I for perhaps* jby the ;fact that several; of their players i^ere absent' at the cricket match. The East'frourjie Club, by winning three games- out of' four, against Wellington, maintains its position at the head of the ladder with a total of 87.5 wins. - • ■ As v previously forecasted, Hataitai is makinga better showing than it has previously-done, 'and cecured a7O per cent, win oh Saturday, and is running Eastbourne . very . hard for first place. The Victoria Glub, the winners of last season, do not appear to be real tryers, and are running very stiff. ; , The entries for the centre . tournament closed with 46 rinks, two more than last season and the same number as. the year before. The four greens chosen, should be m good .^condition, and if the weather is favorable :7thpse ..taking part will have a pleasant holiday. - The most successful player m centre tournaments is R. Cometti, of the Hataitai Club. He has been m the winning team no fewer than four -times, three' of , which were In the last, three successive years. •■ ..-."■ It was not surprising, therefore, that when the Dunedin selectors were looking round to get the best players to represent >lew Zealand that Cometti met tKelr eye, I He is particularly useful and he has I generally played m the position. of No. 2 •^erroneously regarded by many bowlers as A» inferior one. . :, . , . , VF Cometti Is a stylish player, and has every shot In a bowler's kit. Parr b haps his weakest one' is the fast drive. ! In his anxiety to get pace, he is Hable to (oae direction. The merit of a drive is not m the speed at which the bowl is.niade to travel;- but m hitting the object aimed at.