BOWLING.

Otago Daily Times, Issue 15449, 9 May 1912, Page 10

BOWLING.

Notes nr Jaok. Tho Otflffo Club has closed down for tho season. Tlio green has been top-dressed, and. according to soma enthusiastic memtars, the young grass _is already showing through tlx) to|Hiressing. The dosing gamo proved most enjo.vablo until tlio elements put an end to tho play. The club ties wore very evenly contrstea. -Thoso resulted as follows:—Champion Singles. W. G. Browor; Junior Singles, J. Sptnka; Champion Ilinks—J. Brown, E. Smith, .T. Komnitz, C. 11. Smilh (s); Doublos-0. M'l'ttik, J. Hamilton. Six rinks from tlie Ota go Club accepted tho invitation of the Waknr; Club on Saturday, and took out the bonds t'ney had put nwav for tlio season to Kike part iu a friendly eoirtcst. 'Ilio Ulago flayers woro successful, thanks to tho large lead which A. Gregory and Kemnitz secured against their opponents. Hio Dunedin Club will probably oloso tlio green officially next Saturday with-a' match between sides clkjscii by the president and vice-president. At tlio same uino it is in contemplation, if't'he weather keeps One, to allow members to go on playing for a little while longer. The new ' two-rink green is playing so well, ,md has ft! ! » P° 0< w,l ° «U'niss I lint it is not likely to lie damaged by «, little extra nlay. . .11 t:cs " ro ~ow wcll advanced, and should lie completed by Siitnrtlnv. Somo keen plav was shown last .Saturday in somo of tho singles. Tlm newly-acquired billiard tablo was opened for play on Saturday and has Iweii well patronised <luring tlio present week.

A interesting coincidence occurred on Saturday in connection with the (dosing game of t'ho Balmacswen Chili. Two members of the club discovered somo months ago that the.v were l»rn not only on tho same day of tho year, but also in the same vea- It so liapponed that on Saturday they were celebrating their natal anniversary, mid, quite by accident, found themselves inured together in tJie " Doubles" game, which tlie oommittoo had arranged. •\s might tie excreted on snch nil mis!^'!?'".rif C;ißK> ? " lm:k >" 'wins " were irri sistihie, and soon ran awav to victory. JVl.cn Ihey ,-ftrted after the rrtop B said to ii,, l!l '., ;', rp ,, doing to-night!" Well, siud 11, Jam goin;? I" take tho lllc °l K : rn - "So am ir said B. Sitting upstairs?" "Yes, of course I" .0 fill 11 And when tliev met again later in the evening, they found themselves sitting in tlie samo row of seats almost witlur arms roach of each other I Indror bowling in tho winter has " caught on in Scotland. Nearly 2000 players took parr in the Scottish Indoor Bowling Association s seventeenth annual championship tournament at Dumfries. Several train' conveyed competitors and their equally enthusiastic friends-some 'hailing from as far north as Glasgow, whilst of the southern contingent some nrrivod from ilnuick nml Chester. The prizes mimif 1 i V m"'! tlloSo (lislfilmUd bv 1 rcvost J. T. S. Thomson. The Championship Cup was Avon by Nallacetown, wltoso representatives had a clear lead of 10 points, having scored 35. 1