BOWLING

Otago Daily Times, Issue 20892, 5 December 1929, Page 4

BOWLING

By Jack.

COMING EVENTS. Dominion tournament, January 13, entries December 7. Alexander tournament, December 25, entries December IS. Invercargill tournament, December 31, entries December.2o. Timaru tournament, December 25, entries December 13. ‘ Nelson tournament, January 1. entries December 17. ' Rotorua tournament. February 10, entries January 25. Rotorua tournament, February 24, entries February 8. Wanganui tournament (rinks), December 26, entries December 12. Bowlers were again disappointed on Saturday (the srond occasion this season), the heavy rain showers which fell throughout the day making a postponement of the afternoon’s fixtures essential. When the Petone Club (Wellington Centre) was formed in 1897-98, if the founders had had a little more foresight and bad bought the whole section right through to Jackson street, including the present green, they could have had the whole lot fob £3OO. They were a bit dubious, however, in case it did not take cm, so bought the back section for £73. To-day the front section in Jackson street, .with a. frontage of about 120 feet, is worth at least £SO a foot, which would have been a nice little nest egg. To anyone not conversant with the rules such an incident as a bowl (not a toucher) which passes beyond the Uerbing.of the rink and falls on top of a bowl which was a toucher, being claimed a " live ” bowl, would seem ratner ridiculous. Yet, such a bowl resting on a toucher is not ‘“dead,” according to rule 43, which reads as follows;—“Any bowl which is prevented from falling into the ditch , by. reason of iU resting on a toucher therein shall be alive, provided that such bowl is not wholly outside ‘ the side boundary of the rink.” Such an unusual happening occurred in one of the pennant games in Wellington recently, and while there was no argument over the claim that the bowl which rested on the toucher in the ditch was “ alive,” yet it was a source of testification to many. This case has been referred to before, and there was a lot of argument as to the constitution of the ditch, but the ditch question would seem rather to be beside the point. The crux of the question is the fact that as there is an implication that the ditch is_ part of the rink, and as a toucher lying in the ditch is “ alive,” the bowl which is not a toucher coming to rest on top of a “ live ” bowl must certainly be “alive” itself.

According to a Christchurch writer Canterbury playvrs will be present in force at the big Dominion tournament in Dunedin in January. A_ good many Wellington bowlers (writes No. 3 in the Dominion) are making arrangements to take part in the 'Dominion tournament at Dunedin, Kelburn will be fairly strongly represented, and may have four or five rinks in. At P*® ser >t it is known that three rinks vhl be going, in which the skips will be T.‘ Gray, J. Doherty, arid A.’Lomas. J. Lowery is at present uncertain. A rink from, the Dunedin—A. Gregory and Mrs Gregory and T. M. Stewart and Mrs Stewart, when visiting Christchurch during Cup Week met a St. Albans rink consisting of Hebden, Evans, Horne, and Renton. This is a particularly fine rink (writes Jacket. ” in the Sun), and .looked like winning, the score on the . i iead sta nding 15 to 6 in St. Alban s favour. The game, however, resulted in a win for Dunedin. The Dunedin nnk also scored a win on the Christchurch green. A game is booked for Ivovember, 1830. Tim following advice—with which it is necessary to take the proverbial pinch ot salt—is tendered to bowlers in a wellknown Wellington club. The advice is trained and hung on the wall in the locker room:—' .

Xever • be afraid to take the green, there is no charge for it. If you are short, pretend you played for a block, even it no one believes vou. Never refuse to play No. 2. A good - a position wins more games than he loses, and can make or mar the game He can also tell the skip how it shoo'd have been done. • ihe skip should never show hia team ho« much green to take. He may think profanity X>,nS ’ but he is rea,ly causing fhJ w„ S t lP i u h ° , niak , es l his team play on the blocked hand and keeps the open one tqr hiraslef so as to get the credit for drawing the shot, deserves all he gets, and usually gets it. ’ hJ£w Skip 'll 10 walks up after everv a ldlb * ee r th ° he J& P a >‘ s No. 3 a high compliment. The latter should retaking a stroll round the green to see if the flowers are growing. There is not enough exercise in bowls. men e Th?- 810 U ( L never grumble at his men. They can the more easily forgive The n tc!';m Ull,relf ’ n S he so °’ ft « n does - SSpte. hSS fienCrally most cause

After the match has been iton, the skin forks’ ahvay ? take f “’l credit to himseU for storing the victory. When the came is los: he should blame his team. This means that the skip may hold his job for pieces? 0 ' IS ’ Wbile the team is chopped to

present Sips the " reas ° n f ° r some of our Five members of the American-Bowlin-Association, composing the first American bowUng tram ever to have visited R-f tain recently left Liverpool for New JlmW, S e ,hJ'! ite S ‘" "V» CedriZ iviemoers ot the team were drawn from clubs and associations from New York te California, and played 22. matches against British teams in Loudon the Midlands, and Scotland, of which they won five drew two, and lost 15. The first match the team played was on Saturday bow inir t • agan ’t th , e Ro y a l Household W-ni® t,e historic grounds of Windsor Castle, where the visitors were Wind" by ., tlv ? I)oints - 0n arrival " Windsor the team received a letter of welcome from his Majesty the King. The Ate w'- 1IC r"' a 8 ,mtler t,le ca Plamcy of her F t \ lVZC ’ T aS t beaten o« Septanber 21 m the only test match played against England In an interview prior Mr, Furze said the tour had . K !'° at s,, cccss. They found the greens .\ciy superior to their own. Everv-' ,ey i 13(1 rfceiv ? d ,MO «t lavish hospitality. and everyone had been most kind to them. On January 18 next vpjip *' concluded Mr Furze, ‘/a British is wo'Ll'Sfh? fstat^ 8 in ''atuni matches, and we shall hope to make our visitors n« welcome as you here in England have made

An episode, not without its Jmmotir. ,< reported trom one of the big Sydney dubs A phiyrr ,-i danced to the notice board adjusted Ins Blasses, and read that the selectors had placed him No, 3 to another whom ho considered his inferior. Out came a big blue pencil, and with some vigour ouf went hjs name, accompanied l)> a How of flowery language specially fitting the occasion. It was the evenin' before the pame, and the gentleman who was placed to skip had not seen the makeup of the team. So; for the sake of peace the selectors took down the sheet it heirm merely a. " friendly,” and reversed the positions, putting the blue pencil artist skipping, and the other No. 3. “ Anythin > for peace,” thought they, but the sequel was disastrous. Calling on his way to business the next- morning, the original skip walked up toMhe notice board, ad* justed his plnsscs, and then the steward hoard an abrupt grant: With legs outspread, and innrmunnpK of disapproval that put the others expressed sentiments well in the shade, out came a fountain pen, with: ‘‘Me third for him? Strike me pink, what next? ”