NEW ZEALAND BOWLERS.

Otago Daily Times, Issue 18895, 22 June 1923, Page 9

NEW ZEALAND BOWLERS.

TEST MATCHES IN SYDNEY. vErom Our Own Correspondent.) SYDNEY, June 13. Now South Wales beat New Zealand at bowls by narrow margins in the first and second test matches in Sydney, New Zealand winning the third test by 5 points. Previous to tho tests the New Zealanders had played three matches on suburban greens, in which the whole 32 were engaged in eight-rink contests against local chibs. The result of these matches was two wins to New South Wales, at Randwick and Roekdal&f while New Zealand scored a victory at Marrickville. Tho first of the tests was played on the Victoria Park green on Saturday afternoon, in the presence of a large assemblage of bowlers and their friends. The New Zealand team, it was quite evident, liked short ends. They showed this by throwing the jack short of the full length of the green, and for a long time their bowls were in many cases short of the jack. This was duo to tho different nature of the turf upon which tho visitors played compared with their home greens. But when the\ match was halfway through the New Zealand representatives had got the pace of the green, and they were not slow in almost making good the losses they suffered in the first 15 heads, at which stage the scores were: New South Wales, 65; New Zealand. 49. The finish of the match found New South Wales leading by only 3 points—9l to 88. The second test was played at North Sydney on Monday, and again New South Wales won a closely-contested match—this lime by 91 to 89. The third test took place yesterday on the Mosman green, the New Zealanders winning by 5 points,—lo4 to 99. New South Wales had already won the rubber by securing the two previous games, by margins of 3 and 2 respectively, so that yesterday’s match, with New Zealand winning by 5, gives the remarkable aggregate of both teams securing the same number of points in the three matches.