BOWLING.

Otago Daily Times, Issue 19013, 8 November 1923, Page 4

BOWLING.

By Jack. 'The results of the opening games in the intorclub bowling matches which commenced on Saturday do not afford much in the way of a guide in regard to the strength of the various competing clubs, the heavy wind, which was in fact almost a gale, keeping the players more or less guessing iu their efforts to woo the elusive kitty. The most surprising result, was the defeat of Dunedin, which went down iu three out of four sections to St. Clair, and in one section out of two to Anderson's Bay. It was a day when anything might happen and it is not surprising that some big totals were amassed. For instance Coxon (St. (Tan) scored 29 against 21‘ by Gillies (Dunedin)—a total of 50 points. In this section there was a tie and an extra head had to bo played between Coxon and Gillies, which resulted in favour of the St Clair rink. Against Anderson's Bay Stewart (Dunedin) had a runaway win against Hinchcliff, the scores being 27—9, but Irvine more than averaged his club mate’s defeat by running up 26 points to Barnes’s 4. Simpson. (Anderson, s Bay) was also in good scoring mood m totalling 28 to Crawford’s 13. St. Kilda, one of last season s runners-up, has not commenced too promisingly in scoring only one banner point in the opening match. St. Kilda played two sections against West Harbour, and one each against Fairfield and Taieri. M’Curdy went down rather heavily to Silver (West Harbour), the scores being 12-24, but Jacobsen more than evened matters by putting together 30 to Mullinger’s (West Harbour) 12. Fairfield scored fairly heavily at the expense of St Kilda, the latter being down in each rink in the section. The heaviest scores were Scott's 25 to Irvine’s 14, and Mann’s 23 to Claridge’s 11. Against T;iien Adeas a rink was in fine form and it certainly saved the St. Kilda section from defeat in scoring 35 to Maokie’s 15. ’ The old rivals Balmaoewen and Otago were pitted against each other with the reeult that the Maori Hill players have the maximum points to their credit. The igame was well contested, but, as the scores indicate, Balniacewen held the upper hand. Another club that has started off _ promisingly is Caversham, last year’s winner of the wooden spoon. In defeating Kaituna it cannot be said that Caversham had a soft draw, and the defeat was so decisive that no room for doubt was left in regard to the winning club’s superiority on the day’s play, the margin of points over 'Kaituna in each section being quite decisive. Shortt (K.) and Blackwood (C.) played a closely-contested game, the former winning by two points, and there was also little between Mitchell (C.) and-Moir <K.), the former having a winning margin of four, but the remaining game in the section—that between Will (L.) and Penrose (K.)—resulted in an easy win for the former bv 29 to 13. Penrose played for Anderson’s Bay last season. The next section finished with the scores 75 to 45 in Caversham’s favour, Thomson (L.) compiling 52 to Sanders’s 10, and Forster (C.) 29 to Allan's 12. In the remaining section Caversham totalled 69 to Kaituna s 29, Forrester’s rink helping themselves to 31 points at the expense of Campbell’s men, who scored 13. Kaituna also played one section against Caledonian, but met with no better luck the Caledonians winning easily by 65 points to 78. D. Hutchison scored 21 to Cormack’s 12. Farrell (who is making his debut as a skip) 21 to _ Payne s 15, and Amtman 25 to F. Smith s 11. „ n Caledonian also met North-East Valley in four sections, winning in each instance bv a substantial margin. In fact. Caledonian bad a field day, winning in 12 rinks, being in one, and losing two. Some heavy scores were registered. Hungerford (C.) defeated Rhodes by 23 to 12. Dey defeated Sneeston by 22 to 10, Isaac defeated Grace bv 32 to 18. Abbott, defeated Owen by 35 to 8, and Honoyman defeated T. Allan bv 40 to 3. The two successful Valley skips were Dryden, who defeated Gilhgan by 28 to 21, and Rigby, who defeated M Donald by 25 to 23. ‘The followirtg is the result of .Saturdays inter-club matches: Club. Wins. losses. Points. Anderson's Bay J J J Balniacewen _ 1 " Caledonian ® ' Caversham 3 ~~ Dunedin 2 4 \ „ Fairfield I , Kaituna ~~ 4 ~ Green Island i | ‘ Knikorai * 1 - Mornington • j North-East Valley ... * ~ Otago J 3 „ Oulram 1 „ . Port Chalmers - Uoslyn 1 * 9 Glair -I ‘ ‘ Pt. Kilda 22 _ Taieri I 2 ' _ Vest Harlmur I 1 1 The Dunedin Bowling Centre’s booklet containing a list of the season s fixtures is now out of the printer’s hands, and as usual contains a fund of useful information for bowlers. The draw for the interclub matches provides for 11 games, finishing on March 15. The four-nnk championship games, as has already been stated, will this season be played on Saturday afternoons, and as this competition will occupy seven Saturdays (not including the finals), 18 afternoons will be occupied in inter-club and four-rink games. All the clubs in the centre (19) have entered in the four-rink championship which will be played in three sections—two each of six clubs and one of seven. In the last-named there will of course be a bye in each round. The following is the draw for the first round:- — SECTION A. November 17. Dunedin v. Balmaccwen, at Dunedin. Otago v. West Harbour, at Otago. Fairfield v. St. Clair, at St. Clair. SECTION B. Caledonian v. Caversham, at Caledonian. Kaituna v. North-East Valley, at Kaituna. Kaikorai v. Port Chalmers, at Port Ohalmers. SECTION 7 C. Taieri v. St. Kilda, at St. Kilda. Outram a bye. •• Green Island v. Anderson s Bay, at Green Island. Roslyn v. Mornington, at Roslyn. The games this season will consist of 25 heads each and will commence not later than 2 p.m. In the event of wet weather preventing play on a Saturday, the games set down for that date will be played on an evening before the date of the next fixture. The suggestion made some time ago by Mr Tonkin in regard to determining the section winners in local tournaments has been adopted, the object being to expedite the finding of the winners. A rule has been framed which reads as follows; “Where two or more rinks or pairs win the same number of games in their section, then the aggregate number of points scored against each rink or pair shall be deducted from the aggregate number of points scored by each rink or- pair, and the rink or pair w'ith the greatest margin of winning points shall bo declared the section winner. In the event of a tie occurring and a qualifying game haring been played, the scores of the qualifying round shall also be counted, and form part of the aggregate to determine tlie section winner.” The above rule should go a long way towards eliminating tedious delays which hitherto have been unavoidable, and it has the merit of being quite fair to every player. It will keep players busy in trying to score every point possible and will do away wtih the senseless habit of “faking” the score pard*. Now that the new howling season is under way it will not be out, of place to draw tile attention of players to the alterations to the “Laws of the Game” os agreed to by ■ the Council of the Dominion of New Zealand Bowling Association at its annual meeting in September last: Part 111, Rule 7,-which reads; “A player having delivered his bowl must not follow it further than 10ft from the mat,” has been amended by striking out “10ft” and inserting “15ft.” The penalty for a breach of this rule is as follows: “For the first uphold appeal to the umpire, or for the first breach of this rule observed by him, the player making the breach shall be cautioned. For the second or subsequent upheld appeals to or Ibreaphos observed by the umpire, the penalty shall lie—(a) The bowl shall be declared ‘dead,’ and be removed from the green; and (b) If the bowl so removed had previous to it coming to rest come into contact with any other bowl, or the jack, the skip of the opposite side or the opposing player in singles competitions shall have the option of (1) leaving the head as it is, (2) replacing the disturbed bowl, bowls, and—or the jack, or (3) declaring the head “dead.” ”