BOWLING.

Oamaru Mail, Volume XXXV, Issue 9746, 24 January 1908, Page 4

BOWLING.

THE AUCKLAND TEAM IN AUSTRALIA. [By Electric Tklkgrapii.—Copyright.] (Pkr Prkss Association.) Received 1 January 23. at 8.42 a.m. Sydney, January 23. The New South Wales team which visited New Zealand 1 entertained the Auckland ere, taking them by special touiing cars to the show places around 1 Sydney, and aftonvard's entertaining them at lunch on the Waverley green. Messrs Evans and Crouch, who visited' New Zealand, spoke in unmeasured 1 terms of the boundless hospitality accorded, the New South Wales bowlers in New Zealand. The visitors played n eix-rink match against the Waverley team. Scores :—Shekhvick, Mewburn, MTntosh, Carlow, 22: Waverley, 25. Wooller, T.. Rankin, M'Callum, Rankin, 21 ; Waverley, 29. Miller, Carlow, jun., Hudson, Laurie, 18; Waverley, 22. Sclmauer, Perritt. Young, Harrison, 25 r Waverley, 17. Michaels, C-aldicntt. Kusahs. Coutts, 19; Waverley, 19. Arey, Hill, Eyre, Handcock, 20; Waverley, 21. Totals —■Waverley, 133; Auckland, 125.

THE DUNEDIN TOURXANIENT. (I'Kit l'ltivss Association'.) Dunedin, January 23 The New Zealand' Bowling Association's ladies' day was hold on the Dunedin green in fine weather. There wa.s a record' attendance. Following are tile further results in the RINK MATCHES. C'arswell t'l'aitrri) 25 beat Pringle (Timaru) 14. Erskine (Southland) 17 beat W. Dall (Dunedin) 16. Gillies (Dune-din) 27 beat Scott (Outram) 14. C4oldstone (Waimate) 21 beat Lockland (Balmacewan) 7. The eom i-finals of the Doubles resulted:— Brackenridge and' Brackenridge (Victoria, Wellington) 26 beat Carson, and Carson (Ivaitangata) 2. Turnbull and' M'Leod 1 (Taieri) 17 beat Thomson and! MvLarcn (Dunedin.) 14. Sanders and' Sanders (Ivaituna) 23 beat Murchison and White (Dwnedin) 12. Wheeler and Harraway (Dunedin) 21 beat Laureneon and Ballinger (Wellington) 14. 11l the first round 1 of the semi-finals St. ICild'a beat Kaitangata; and the second round' resulted :

Short audi Bentley 20 beat Middlemass and Hislop 15. Inkster and Goldstone (Waimate) 26 beat Kces and M'Donald! (Palmerston) 12. The rinks left in are skipped by Carswell (Taieri), Erskvno (Southland), Gillies (Dnnedin), and' Goldstone (Waimate). SINGLES CHAMPIONSHIP. Jacobsen, I' 6 beat W. Brown 14. D. L. Christie 1 (Taieri) 12 beat Short (Dunedin) 11. C'arswell piays Goldstone Semi-Final. Woolf plays On-swell or Goldstone. Christie plays Jacobsen. Final. The winners in the semi-final play off for first and 1 second positions,' and the losers for third and fourth positions. The four pairs left in are skipped' by Harraway (Dunedin), Brackenridge (Wellington), Bentley (Dunedin), and Goldstone (Waimate).

THE AUSTRALIAN TOUR. (Per Press Association.) Dunedin, January 24. Arrangements have been completed for tiie Dominion bowlers to visit Australia. Thirty players leave the Bluff on March 30 on a six-weeks' trip. Ten days will be spent in Tasmania, playing Hobart and Launceston; three matches will lie played against Vie toria, and' aiso against clubs at Melbourne, Ballarat and Bendigo ; three against New South Wales; three against United Australia. Representative teams from South Australia and Queensland will bo pitted against them at Sydney. The return will bu via Auckland, playing ciubs at ihe principal centres on, the way home.