BOWLING

Otago Daily Times, Issue 22518, 12 March 1935, Page 5

BOWLING

CHAMPION OF CHAMPIONS BEST DEFEATS GARDINER IN FINAL The Dunedin Bowling Centre's champion of champions contest, which was concluded at the Caledonian preen yesterday, was won for the first time by J. D. Beat (Otago), the well-known Otago Club's Singles player. The green was fast and in excellent order, but throughout the day a strong north-east wind blew across the rinks. Best had bie easiest game in the final, in which he met H. Gardiner (Dunedin), winning by 24 to 10 on the eighteenth head. The attendance throughout the day was surprisingly large. The following are the results:— FIFTH ROUND TWO-LIFERS. J. Veitch (West Harbour) 23 beat H. Gardiner (Dum-din) 11. OXE-LIFERS. F. Lambeth (Balmacewen) 21 beat J. Smith (Caledonian) 13.' C. Timlin (Port Chalmers) 20 beat' W. Firidlay (Kaikorai) 16. J. D. Best (Otago) 20 beat J. Tonkin (North-East Valley) 14. Smith, Findlay, and Tonkin were eliminated. Gardiner was well off his game against Veitch, who established an early lead, and, after getting four on the eleventh head, led by 16 to 4. Gardiner scored three and two on the next two heads, but Veitch then took charge again and had an advantage of 12 points when the game concluded on the • nineteenth head. Lambeth overwhelmed Smith in the early stages of their game, and with only seven heads played led by 14 points to one. Smith, however, made a good recovery, and held his own during the remainder of the game, but Lambeth's early lead enabled him to win comfortably, the game ending on the twentieth head. Findlay and Timlin staged a close contest, and, after the twelfth head had been played, a single point separated the players. Two successive 3's, however, enabled Findlay to lead 15—10. Scoring on the next three heads, Timjin equalised. Findlay added a single, but 2.1, and 2on the last three heads gave the victory to the Port Chalmers representative. Great interest centred in the game between Best and Tonkin, in which Best, after scoring on four successive heads, led by 13 to 10 at the sixteenth. With a brace on each of the next two, however. Tonkin led. 14 —13. Best got a 2. on the next, and by trailing the kitty on the twentieth, leaving the white and the shot bow] on the edge of the ditch, added a 3. Tonkin twice narrowly failing to take the kitty into the ditch. Tonkin required the possible to tie on the last, but Best secured a brace to win a good game. SIXTH ROUND Gardiner 16 b-at Lambeth 14. Best 20 beat Veitch 12. Timlin, a bye. Lambeth was eliminated. ' Gardiner staged a great recovery to beat Lambeth. He began well to "lead s —nil with three heads played, but Lambeth took five successive heads to go into the lead by a point. GaMiner equalised on the ninth, and added one more on the tenth, but Lambeth took charge again, and. stoning on five successive ends, led by 14 to 7, with 15 heads played, and seemed certain to win. Gardiner then struck his best form, and Lambe"th did not score again. With one head to go the scores were 14—all. and Gardiner drew two beautiful shots on the last head to win.

Best was in excellent form in his game against Veitch, who suffered hie first defeat. Best immediately struck the form which he had shown in beating- Tonkin, while Veitch, though occasionally playing a beautiful shot, was not generally as accurate as he is when he is playing at his best. Putting in a beautiful first or second; Best as a rule left Veitch at a disadvantage, and though he fought hard at, every stage the West Harbour player was never once able from the time the first head wa s completed to gain the lead. Best "had a lead of 7 —2 on the sixth, but Veitch took the next three with • singles, and on the thirteenth Veitch was only one point behind. Best strengthened his position with a brace and a single, but another brace to Veitch still left him with a fighting chance. Best, however, added two more singles, and with the possible or the nineteeth won a fine game by 20 points to 12. "semi-finals Gardiner 16 beat Veitch 15. Best 21 beat Timlin 17. Play was even in the early stages of the game between Gardiner and Veitch, but by the time the tenth head had been played Veitch was leading 9 —4. Gardiner from thi s stage began to show a decided improvement, and was drawing beautifully, but he remained behind Veitch until he secured a brace on the sixteenth, wlren the scores were 11—10 in his favour. He continued to strengthen his position until the nineteenth when he was five in the lead. Veitch, however, made a characteristic good finish and secured a brace on the twentieth, requiring four to win or three to tie on the last head. He drew beautifully and had three round the jack when he trailed the kitty some distance, but he still lay three. Had Gardiner drawn within four feet of the jack he could have got a second, but he failed to dp so, and, with the scores even, an extra head had to be played. On thw Gardiner drew full to the jack to get the shot, and Veitch failed to alter the position, leaving Gardiner the winner. Timlin led in his game with Best until the seventh head, but from this stage he never looked like winning. He required four to tie when the bell sounded and left Beet the winner on the twentieth end. FINAL Best 24 beat Gardiner 10. Since Gardiner had finished so well against Veitch he was expected to extend Best, but from the start he could not find a leagth, while Best, playing his third game on the same rink, continued to draw steadily. On the first head ■ neither player could put a bowl within two feet of the jack, but a measure gave Best three shots. Gardiner's first on the next head came to rest right on the jack, and it remained the shot. On the third head Best's vfirst was only inches from the jack, but Gardiner carried it forward to lie. With his last, however, the Otago man took Gardiner's 6hot bowl out and lay. » Gardiner got the 6hot with his second on the next head, and Best failed in an endeavour to take it out, Gardiner's last also counting.' Gardiner lay two on the fifth head, but with his third Best drew the shot. Gardiner regained the advantage with his last, and as Best was well over the head with his fourth the scores became level—four all. Gardiner 6eemed likely to establish a good lead on the sixth end, on which his first three were counters, but Best's third made a measure of it, and with his last he drew beautifully on to the white. As the measure went in his favour, he secured a brace. Drawing well on the backhand Gardiner lay three good shots on the seventh, and with seven heads played went into the lead 7 —6. On the next, however, he was very erratic, and failing to get within feet of the jack, enabled Best to score a four. Gardiner's first bowl on the ninth was beautifully played, and he was able to score a single. He added another on the tenth, when Best narrowly failed to trail tlie kitty for two or three, and the Dunedin man was, as a result, only one behind. From thin stage, however, Best took almost complete charge of the game, Gardiner repeatedly failing to gain his objective. On each of the next four ends the Otago man scored a brace, and Gardiner on the fifteenth got a single only after a measure. Best at this stage led 18 —10, and he went on to score a brace on each of the next three ends to win by 24 to 10 with 18 ends played.

DUNEDIN v. CIVIL SERVICE

The following are the scores in the match played on Saturday between Dunedin and Civil Service (Dunedin names first): —Bean, M'Kinlay, Gregory, Hogg 18, Columbus, Kerr, Rowden, Shepherd 21; Lawrie, M'Millan, Scott, Mackie 19, Sinclair, M'Kibben, Easton, Nicholson 17; Cuff, Briggs, Martin, Smith 21, Adam, M'lntyre, Torrance, Kensington 18; Thorn, Rosevear, Burke, Morrison 26, Eccles, Grant, Rivers, Facer 12; Hodge, Campbell, Hunter, Melville 22, Smith, Whitelaw. M'Lean, Drain 9; Rewca6tle. Jenkins, White, Bentley 23, M'Leod, Osborne, Clancy, Sissons 19; Simpson, Siedeberg, Lawson', Rodger 18, Duncan, Cooper, M'Dougall, Campbell 20; M'Hugh, Duthie, Kitchen, Harraway 12, Dowland, Downing, Leyland, Bennie 33; Gardiner, Martin, Porteous, M'Naught 24, Adams, Boulton. Armstrong, Vaughan 16; William, Falconer, M'Callum, Smith 21, M'Grath. M'Pherson, Newlands, Melville 15; Robertson, Brailey, Beecroft, Adams 16. Ayres, Lunam, Gallagher, Ellison.'l7; Robertson, Higgins, Gray, Murdoch 19, Lightfoot. Ball, Phillipps, Robertson 20. Totals: Dunedin 239, Civil Service 217. At the conclusion of the game Mr T. G. Phillipps (president of the Civil Service Bowling Committee) congratulated the Dunedin Club on its vfin, and expressed the thanks of the members of the civil service for the opportunity presented by the Dunedin Club for taking part in this friendly match. Mr Rodgers (president of the Dunedin Club) suitably replied and expressed the hope that this annual match would become a permanent fixture BUILDERS v. ALLIED TRADES. The following players will represent Dunedin Builders against the Allied Trades on the Dunedin green on Thursday:—A. King, W. T. King, M'Laren, Thomson, H. Morrison, O'Connell, C. Glue, G. Glue, Paull, Hindle, O'Sullivan, L. ■Woods, Swan, Mullinger. Orr-Campbell, Naylor, T. Ferguson. A. Harris, Burgess, G. Dunn, W. Loan. R. Watson, A. Silver, G. Clark, J. Clark, Forbes, W. Ross, A. Armstrong, F. H. > Jones, J. Orlowski, W. J. Love. F. L. Lawrence, L. C. Buist, Hooper, G. Lawrie, Cunningham.