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Otago Daily Times, Issue 17874, 3 March 1920, Page 8

—The pith of sunflower is said to he by far the lightest vegetable substance. Dried mffiilower pith is, in fact, 10 times lighter than cork. The sunflower plant is cultivated to a great extent in (Jentral Russia, where every part of tho plant is put to some use. The pith, in particular, is carefully removed from the stalk, and used in making life-saving applianoes.

BOWLING

By Jack. There was much, * gramblmg among bowlers on Saturday whan it waa known that all- ioterchib fixtures had been postponed, and it would. oerfcainly appear that the oommittee in control of theoe games erred on the side of' caution. The rain in the earlier port of the foronoon left the greens somewhat heavy, bu/j following on the prolonged spoil of . dry weather the greens were able', to ' absorb a' large quantity of moisture and still be in a oonditiao for play. Still it must be remembered that tho centre's Green Committee has anything bat an enviable task to prefpnn, aa it is, necessary to come to : a decision about 11 a.m. in order to give the ctufas an opportunity to order refresh- - ments for, the aftenxxm, and unpromising weather,conditions at 11 a.m. can be very 1 substantially changed for the better an ' hour and a-half later. Last Saturday was a case in point. At 11 o'clock the weather was dull and threatening, and the glass gave of further rain, bat in the' afternoon the conditions were all that could , be desired, i The mepbere of the committee were no doubt also influenced >In ~ their decision by * the fact that quite, a number of the .bowlera have been and' are at present laad up with, influenza.;' I understand that all matches whiah have been postponed up to tho present will be played later in the season. . . . Although many ■ bo'jrlers; were inclined to look co the i with disfavour under whioh the interclub matches are being played this season, it certainly appears to be ■ working out very satisfactorily. Under .the system last season ■ no one knew the position of the otpbs until the end of the season, with the result that very little ' interest waa taken in the play, but this season the clubs are as keen' as mustard, and even those that have no chance of occupying -first place are keen to lower the cokwrs of the leading l teams. • Keeninterest ; . is being taken in the Singles Championship in the various clubs at present. Some of the clubs have already found their champions, and the contests in the other cdube are nearing completion. All games rirast 'be finished by IViday, as a will; be made on, Saturday with the / champion of champions games. The following have won the dhampion- . ! ships of their respective clubs:—D. Sloan, Green Island 1 : ; A:Hnghiea, Outram; ,J, Tonkin, North-Eost Valley; J. .Veitoh, West Ilarbisr; and, —, Blaokwood, Caversham.' In the final between Blackwood and Howarth, 1 onthe Cavereham Green, the former had a comfortable: win. The final on the Valley Green between , Tonkin ' and Rigty, waa ikecnly 'contested, the veteran Tonldn, who 1 finally proved the winner, being hard pressed until the very .:■ ■■ last head. ■ . J. Veitoh has again won the champion singles of the West; Harbour Green. On his form he will take a lot of beating. W< Gale waa the runner-up. The latter is « young player full of enthusiasm, and is always a hard man to beat. J. Veitoh and T. Donaldson ' ore leading in the rink ties, .with 1 low,'each. - The Roelyn Club's conteet has been fined down to five players:—D. Campbell (two lives), and O. Dickson, J. Scott, F. Anderson, and Cameron (one life each). Two players remain in the Caledonitm Club's Singles Scott and V. j Cavanagh, both one-lifers. Edwards retained two lives until he met Oavanagh, tho latter proving his downfall. Cavanagh has come to the , fr<mt; rapidly,' and is now a hard man for the best to beat. Scott ' defeated Henaghan (the club's popular pre-1 aidon-y. Scott and Edwards met in tho flemi-final last night, Scott winning- with a , big margin to-spare. ' Scott and Cavanagh will meet in the finali C. Amtman (two lives) and R. Coxon lone life) are the/sole survivors ?in the St. 31air Club's competition. In the Dunedin dub the 'oontest has : narrowed 'down to two players—E. Harra- ' way (two lives) and J. Beaitley (one life). I Harraway beat Steel in the senu-final last! night by 2 points, and the winner will now meet in the final. In the Balmaoewein Oub Morrison beat Jones by a narrow margin after a keen game. Marrison and Kirk Wood met last night, the latter winning by 21 to 14. Kirk- . wood (one life) will meet Anderson in the - final. ■, '■ ■ i

M"Fariand beat Drumimond and Stuart beat Summerell in the semi-final of the Singles Championship on the St. Kilda Green last night. In the final D. M. Stuart beat D. ; M'fariand after a well-contested game. The first few heads produced even play, after which Stuart gradually forged ahead until the soore 'read 12 to 7 in his favour. -- .Then : a 4- 'to - Stuart "piaotically settled matters, the game ending in his favour by 9 up and two heads to play. Entries for the Easter tournament are . now being received by the secretary, Mr B. ) Banning. Judging by the talk in the , cJub pavilion the entries this 1 season will bo very numerous. An enjoyable match was played on the Caledonian Green last week; between rinks represeirting Speight and Col and the-Hill-vside Workshops, the former winning on the post. A smoko ''was subsequently, held in the clubs pavilion, and a hapnv hour . , was spent. . A hearty vote of thanks was accorded .the Caledonian Chib for tho use ot its greon and pavilion.' ■ Jihr&UA (president for an ''invitation -to be present at, a smoke concert in :the„chib , s' ev^anin ? *<> entertain the SnTteife,™' ™ b ' »1» **>: The club ties on the West-Harbour S fe. W: PW* B9 ' a number T "P «ccntlv. Y' will probably iiavo a rinlr- in fUa J. Kay, A. Sihrer, and E. Mullin- " SKIPITISi" Some caustic criticism and candid «d vice_ ttrrttetr by Mr A. W. Brown (Caledonian Club) and published some eight or ?hfn& d? ° m to duties S the players in a rink game, is worth reproducing, as Mr Brown's remarks illustrate what is to be seen only too frequesntlv si?tSN?lstsr wtwa.**! result that often there are three third players and four skips,in a rink. It isS an,uncommon, thing when players cLZ ends,, to see the Wer meet the skiohalf way up suggest something; then to see Jhe thnd man, when he gets to the jack end, sit over the end and tell ; h /u lp , should do—generally i 6 ®' immediately after to* shot m played, he discovers, without oily alteration of ,the bowls, something the tto foa starte Seoond and third men will argue,. whilst the leader screws up his face and bv mtures, at the back of the end (where the third cannot see him), instruct the skip Jhk to do anything of the kind. Now, all •this is done unthinkingly.,. The players have the same object in view-viz., to win Jht Ol £ 3boiJ d 1 forget S the captam has been mafang a study of the end from the very first. bowl, and be SJT I<teaa to carry oui He may be an a«iept_in trailing the jack or, if His men are lying two or ihrm i-J may be good at blSg H® have disoovered how, by taking one of Ife ®nemys bowls out, he can get a "Dot." rr draw a seoond' to sav e whnl an this if S others w®h to run the show, and trv to . display how incapable he is to be a%iv? How nice it looks to see the skfn cartfer quietly. i>ut to see the third rnan en _ + t „ end and take charge^yf onSh£0 n Sh£ '& worse. A nnk should be worked „Sv % le ® der to the B kip shtld Lll, d ®monßferation. Third men should walk to tho other end, look an^ , 13 not far distant when the game will be worked by si cms Tfu»rw garnet