BOWLING.

Otago Daily Times, Issue 14457, 25 February 1909, Page 10

BOWLING.

Notes' by Jack. I learn from i.lie secretary of the X.Z.R.A. that in all 19 entries were received from bowlers prepared to make tho tour of the Noith Island. Six players from Canterbury sent in their names. Mather unluckily the loiter notifying this (act did not arrive in lime to be placed before the meeting of the council. The delay may have been caused by the secretary having to proceed to Invereargill somewliat unexpectedly two hours before the meeting was held. As the additional nominations would have brought the itinnbcrs up to only four rinks, it is not likely the council's decision to abandon the trip would have been affected.

Hoslyn got homo, in the four-rink championship game against North-Bast Valley by 10 points, but it was, a close thing, the A'uliey players being in the lead with two heads to go. .). Karnes for the Valley had a lead of 5 points at the finish over W (,!. Allntttt's stron."' rink, while G. Dunn's rink had a similar advantage over 11 11. &oit's rink. For Heslyn,.]. Scoukw piled iu 30 to Kidd's- 14, and Wodderspoou was 4 to the good against Hurray's rink. The Valley Green, on which the, play took place, was in beautiful order, and the hill men found it quite a (.rent, to play on it. Two rinks aside played on the lloslvn Uroe.it. and the aggregate with the championship rinks was taken for tho inter-club match, which was won by Koslyn by 38 points. Roslyn has played its five games in the championship contest, having won three'ami lost two.

Congr.-ituratic-ns to Cavftivham on having defeated the Dimedin Club in tho interclub contest. The win was a narrow one, only 1 point the sides, and, of course, the senior club did not play its full strength, or anything like it: but, despite all this, when the ago of the Caversham Cinb is taken into consideration, and the fact that though a comparatively small club, it was putting nine rinks in the field, tho win ww* a meri'torirais one, a»td should do 0. greal deal of good lo the club by enhancing its prestige. The win takes the sting out of Ihe five losses sustained in tlie champioiishin contest.

The oilier iivlsr-chib matches played in niifl ;il)Ont Dunedin on Saturday do not call for much comment. Ka.-ituna defeated St. Glair in a three-rink srii-ms by 26 points; but in a four-rink crudest with Out.ram on their own green Ka.itun-.-i suffered defeat by 16 mints, a great performance on the port of the country club. St. Kikla disposed of TUlmarewan in a 70-rink aside match l>y 37 pomts. Caledonian defeated Green T--lan.il by 3 points in an eiidtt-rinlc aside eon-test.

The news received bv cable of the death of Mv Max Menderdiausen in. Berlin was not unexpected. The later general ion of howlers will scarcely l>e able to remember tiliis ex-president of the Dune<lin Club. He wa-i not a prominent plitvor, Although ho took pwt in one or two tournaments, but Iw was a fine orcanifer, ssxl a- great upholder of the serial side of the gnnic. He Yr,i<; a devotee of dominoes, and old members of the Dun-editi Club will recall ma.nv l-attlcs royal in winch he tcok part with the late -Mr Sicdeberg and others who are still in tho land of the living. Tile pi-ogryjiime of tho lnvercargill Easter tournament is to hand. It has been defuiiicry decided to add a singles competition to he played on the Thursday before. Good Friday, so that it will not interfere with the programme as carried out in previous yeais, while it will provide play for those who can spa.ro the time to reach Inwrcargill on the Wodnewlnv evening, There is evidently goiiwr to lw a largo entry for the tournament this year, and, provided the weather is favourable, those wbo take part hi it should havo a gocd time, as the greens ore all in hue order. Mr Gibir/n, secretary of the Oamaru Easier tournament points out that this year a fourth link match has been added. It will not interfere with tlit> usual play, r.or prolong the tournament, being, in fact, another s-ietio-n made up of los?rs in certain rounds. For the four rink and two pairs competition.-, £50 10s is set apart for trophies or medals, in addition to which six framed certificates are given as third prizes. Although no mention is made of the Waimato Green on the printed programme, it is to be requisitioned as usual. Entries for the Rinks close at 9 p.ni. on Monday. 4th April. As soon as 64 rinks have nominated the entries will be closed. The draw will take place at once, and be published in Tuesday's papers, in addition to which it is intended to notify each skip drawn on the Waimate Green of that fact, so that they can proceed to Waimate direct on the Thursday. The Pairs entries close on Friday, April 9, and those who played in tiie iiinks games at Waimato will b:i protected against being sent there for the Fairs. Now, it is this protection to which objection may well be taken. As tho players are in Waimate. as tho green is good and the hospitality undoubted, why bring back to Oamaru one lot of 64 pi-avers and send away another hatch'; This seems to be unnecessarily mulcting players by making them pay the railway fare which had been previously paid by other players. It would be much easier for all it those playing at Waimate in the Rinks were to continue their piay in the Pairs games. The Oamaru Tournament. Committee would certainly be consuliing the wishes of visiting bowlers if it changed its arrangements in the direction suggested.

Although very Utile has been hf.ard of the Wakari Bowling Club this sea-:cn, it is n club that bowlers will have to reckon with by-aiid-byo. Their green not being yot in a, fit state for play, Balmaccwcn extended an invitation to ilicm lust week to send a rink or two to their green, and although lialmaxawen was largely represented on thoir inteir.lub fixture with St. Kildit. they had sufficient players available to give the Wakari men -,i. good game, the laurels going to Wakari wjth a score of 24 to lj&lmaeowoifs 13. Hithcrlo the one great drawback to the progress of tho Wakari Green has been the want of water. However, a permanent supply is now being laid on. and members can rest assured tha.f everything is being done that can lie done to got the green into a playable condition. The site is an ideal one, being sunny and well sheltered, ami almost surrounded by bush. Already some of its members are. not a little proud of tho fact that it possesses the material that goes to make history.

Calmacewen Club is extremely fortunate in possessing members who take a very keen interest in the welfare of tho club. At a meeting of the Rowling Committee on Monday night the secretary had the pleasant duty of announcing tint Mr 11. \V. Gamble hud presented io the club a handsome set of gold sleeve-links, witli the club's monogram inscribed thereon, the committee lo decide as to how they were to be won. Mr Gamble has on Previous occasions shown his interest in the club in a similar manner. The Martin medals, which were presented by another member (Mr A. W. Martin) have caused quite a stir on tho green. They have been played for eight times and have changed hands on three occasions, while several" rinks are waiting thoir turn to play for them. Last Saturday's garden party given by Mr Dawson (the president of' the Otago Club) has been already dealt with so fully that there is little to Ik added beyond stating that the affair was an eminent success, and the reputation for hospitality enjoyed by Mr Dawson and the Otago Club was fully maintained.

A writer to the Milton Mirror 1 , evidently one who toolc part in the recent visit lo the Likes district, draws a comparison between the State-managed green at Queenstov.'n and -the potato patch at Avrowtown, and, strange to say. he pro. nounccs in favour of the Arrow patch so far as real thorough enjoyment goes. At Arrow, in place of a fine "pavilion and tea house orectcd by the State, there was a large, hastily-erected, marquee. There was no State-paid female handing out tea and refreshments with a staid countenance but a bevy of laughing, smiling ludins) wives of the home players, all anxious and striving to make their new friends happy and at home. What a variety of cake's and tea. and other drinks there were ! And cheek by jowl on the seats, and on the grass, men, and babes, arid maids, and muthjrs, and boys, chatted pleasantly, and Old So! cast a warm, approving eye upon the scene. And that enthusiastic 'farewell scene! It will long bo remembered. flic _ tournament for the single-handed championship of Victoria resulted in L. Waxman, of the Armadale Club, winnin" the championship, with A. N. A. Bowman as runner-up and W. A. Clcndinnou in third place. In the final game Waxman led for a time, but Bowman overhauled him, and the score was 12 all at the fifteenth head. Waxman went away again and won_ by 6 points. During the "tournament Waxman put down seven strong players. Waxman won the championship in 1905. and was third on another occasion. Ho was also third at Sydney last Easter. He* has been champion of his club three times, and and has. skipped and won the Champion Rink Tournament of Victoria four times in seven years, and was runner-up in one year,

Kaita.nga.ta. defeated Stirling in the second round of tho South Ot&go Centre's championship by 15 poin(6. Epsom, Cor Stirling, accounted for D. Alexander Vv 21 to 1?! Tor Ifoittrngafa, Rutherford heat A. Anderson ;>y 20 to 17, w! 3c V?. Brown defeated H. T,ittw w 19 to 14. Ths Fhcenix Cfob ("iamaruj (our

rinks down to Palmerston on Thursday last but had to return !ion:c a defeated team by 17 points. Hewat's rink defeated Galloway's by 10 point*, but the three other Phoenix rinks wore in a minority. J) r ITislop's riiil; defeated Patters by 21 to 18 and K 11. Clark accounted for Wafeon by 22 to 20. Lefevre ran away from \V a j. doll's rink, winning by 31 to 9. The visitors had to- rush for the train as soon as the game was finished.

Four rinks fioin Waimutc visits] Oamatit on Thursday last and tried conclusions with a Meadowbank team, and beat them bv a majority of 25 points. The rink skipped, by lianning, a former player for Caversham, was down 5 points to Howe's rink, but all the other Wainiate skips had a win, Goldstone boating .Miller by 25 to 19. Akhurst tail- Kennedy by 27 to 10, and Lang accounted for Taylor by 25 to 18. Afternoon tea was provided by tho ladies of the ilcadowbank Club.

The Likes correspondent, of the Witness writes:—"As a large number of Southland bowlers rame up last Saturday on the weekend trip two matches were arranged on the Queonslown Green. On Monday tho Southlandors played a Qneenstown team atoh side being represented by three rinks! The mutch owlcd in an easy win for Southland by.72 to 45. On Tuesday a. fourrink match was played between Southland and a combined'tram from Qneenstown and Arrowtown. After a very close and exciting contest the combined team proved victorious by ono point, the scores being— Wakalipu, 69: Southland, 59. On both days the weather was fine, and tho green played very true.

A Southland bowling correspondent writes:—"The Southland Centre may congratulate itself on having nearly carried out a very successful programme of interclub matches up to the present. The Goro Club some years ago made for it-elf tho reputation of being at least as strong as any other Southland club, and this season its members are showing that there are still a largo number of skilful players in its ranks. Last week To had tho temerity to venture into the Gore stronghold with seven rinks, and paid for such temerity by having to knuckle under to tho tunc of 194 points against 91. There was but one rink that malle any stand against tho Gore attack — that skipped by M'Hutehoson. In this case Tc Kangi started off at a great pace, scoring 12 against 2, but Paterson is an experienced skip, and he kepi his team well in hand, and by the time the eighteenth head had been played o.idy three points separated lug score from that of his opponent. Then in the last three ends his sido got in 2—2—5, and finished up with a remarkable win by six points. To bo 10 points down halfway through the game ai>d then finish six points up is something to feel gratified about. In all the other rinks the defeat was most decisive, tha Gore teams scoring jnoro than two to one both as to the number of points and the number of heads.

On the same- day the Southland Club sent five rinks to Mataura, and succeeded in winning, but only by the narrow margin of {our points. Mataura can boast of some first-class flavors, and the contest for the premiership of the Southland Centre will probably be a matter of very keen interest in all fiitccc.cding seasons.

The triangular match among the three town clubs has now teen concluded. The conditions wore that each club was to choose a rink by ballot, and the three were then to play against each other on a neutral groeu. J. Dewar, A. Harper, \Y M'Huteheson, and J. Findlay were tho chosen of Te Rangi: T. Wallace, J. Allan, C. K. Hannah, J. Hain, North End; and .T. Manson, A. AY. Millar, A. K Smith, J. Rennie, Southland. The lirst match, Southland and North End, was very closely contested, and a, most interesting game ended in a victory for North Knd by [our ixiiitt?. Then Southland mot Te Rangi. but the players of the latter club were sadly off colour, ami an easy win for Ronnie's rink was the result. At one stage the score was 23—3. but after that Te Rangi livened up somewhat, and the finish saw them only 10 points down, 25—15. The final match of the round was played on Friday last, when tho North Knd quartet defeated To Rangi by 20—H, and thus, won first position.

The Southland Centre intend? obtaining ft valuable shield for annual competition among the affiliated clubs. Ono rink from each club will compete, and the dal-" for the contest will probably l» March 17. The players arc beginning to arrange their Easter combinations, and it is pretty certain that from Invereargill alone there will be 15 or 16 rinks competing. Wo are looking forward to a record ontrv.

ICia Ton Club (Timani) tried conclusions will) the old club in tKnt town in an eiVrlit-rink-aside match. The event excited a good deal of interest, and tlmrn was a largo muster of spectators on tJio Timaru. Club's fircon. As might bo expected, the. junior club did not have much show against the more seasoned players opnoscd to thorn, 11)0 Timaru skips in every rink having an advantage, the aggregate result being—