BOWLING

Otago Daily Times, Issue 22755, 16 December 1935, Page 2

BOWLING

MEETING OF CENTRE A meeting of the executive of the Dunedin Bowling Centro waa held on Saturday night, the president (Mr J. J. Read) presiding. PRESENTATION TO AUDITOR. Before the business of the meeting was commenced the chairman made a presentation to Mr C. Russell Smith as a token of appreciation of his services as auditor to the centre for the past 14 years. In handing to Mr Smith a set of bowls, the speaker expressed the appreciation of bowlers of the Dunedin Centre of the work which he had undertaken in the interests of the game. The secretary (Mr R. Hanning), Messrs George Nelson and James Nelson also paid a tribute to Mr Smith’s work on behalf of bowling "in Dunedin. Mr Smith suitably replied. In the course of his remarks ho suggested that the time had come when the centre should give consideration to opening an indoor bowling green in Dunedin. Now that there were so many women bowlers, he said, the need for such a green was particularly urgent. He was sure that if it was started on the right lines it would be a financial success. NEW COMPOSITION BOWL. The New Zealand Bowling Association notified that the new Jaques composition bowl had been approved at a meeting of the executive, subject to confirmation at the next meeting of the council.—Received. TOUR OF CENTRAL OTAGO. It was decided to set up a eub-com-mittee to make arrangements for the tour of Central Otago at the end of February. The secretary and Messrs J. H. Hinton and T. Smith were appointed as the personnel of the sub-committee. It was suggested by the Central Otago body that nine rinks should make the trip. Three would leave Dunedin on Thursday, play Miller’s Flat on Thursday afternoon, Roxburgh on Friday morning and Alexandra on Friday afternoon. Three other rinks would leave Dunedin on Thursday for Cromwell, play Bannockburn on Friday morning and Cromwell on Friday afternoon. The final three rinks would play Middlemarch on Thursday, Ranfurly-Nascby on Friday morning and Clyde on Friday afternoon. The centre matches would be played in each case on Saturday at Clyde or Alexandra. These suggestions were approved. OUTSIDE PLAYER INCLUDED. The president of the Caversham Club (Mr A. Melville) said that last Saturday a prominent Invercargill player had played for the Caledonian Club against Caversham. He wanted to know if the centre would give a ruling on this point, and referred to the position that would be created if prominent outside players were allowed to take part in competition games. Mr W. G. Lloyd (Caledonian) said that his club did not know what had occurred. He explained that the selector saw the player in question, and in the speaker’s opinion in inviting the latter to play had been actuated by a desire to bo a good fellow. The club, however, did not agree with that sort of thing and the selector was put in his place. The club felt that the only thing to do was that Caversham should take the point for the game. After some discussion the chairman said he felt that it could be left to delegates to see that this did not occur again. It was decided to refer the position to the Match Committee to report. BREACH OF THE RULES. A lengthy discussion took place on the breach of the rules involved in delivering bOwls off the mat. A motion was put; forward by Mr W. Callender that at the Christmas pairs tournament the umpires be instructed to see that the provisions of the mat rule were strictly enforced, and this was carried. COUNTRY VISITS. Regarding visits to country clubs, it was reported that games had been played at Outram and Fairfield. Games had still to be played a_t Waikouaiti and Seacliff. It was, decided to make a visit to the last two dubs on a Saturday afternoon early in January. CHRISTMAS PAIRS TOURNAMENT — r _ The following is the draw for the Dunedin Centre’s Christmas Pairs Tournament (two additional entries will be accepted) : CALEDONIAN. Section A. —H. Gardiner (Dunedin) v. J. Tonkin (North-East Valley); J. Hinton (St. Hilda) v. M. Thompson (Kaikorai) ; C. French (West Harbour) v. J. D. Best (Otago). Section B. —A. Love (Caversham) v. B. Edwards (St. Hilda) ; A. Blackwood (Roslyn) v. G. Campbell (Balmacewen). ST. HILDA. Section A. —G. Mackie (Dunedin) v. F. Boyland (North-East Valley); A. Walker (Anderson’s Bay) v. D. O’Connell (Roslyn) ; T. O’Connell (Leith) v. G. M'Kenzie (Mornington). Section B. —J, G. Bently (Dunedin) v. J. Billiard (Caversham) ; A. G. Robertson (Anderson’s Bay) v. J. Nicolson (St. Clair) ; J. Abbott (Caledonian) v. R. M'Skimming (Green Island). KAITUNA. Section A. —H. Williams (Dunedin) v. J. Crawford (North-East Valley) ; N. Nickels (St. Hilda) v. J. M'Gregor (Kaikorai) ; H. Rowley (Leith) v. A. D. Crawford (Hokonui). Section B. —W. Anderson (Dunedin) v. D. Scott (Caversham) ; J. Mooney (Anderson’s Bay) v. W. Buist (Awamoa) ; J. Carman (Caledonian) v. W. Murie (Green Island!. NORTH-EAST VALLEY. Section A. —C. Beecroft (Dunedin) v. G. Porteous (Caversham) ; E. Longworth (St. Hilda) v. A. Hanna (Kaikorai) ; J. Veitch (West Harbour) v. J. Hamilton (Hokonui). Section B. —H. Walker (Dunedin) v. R. J. Todd (Caversham) ; R. B. Clark (Roslyn) v. A. Moore (Logan Park) ; L. Edwards (Caledonian) v. J. J. Davis (Kaituna). CAVERSHAM. Section A. —K. Morrison (Dunedin) v, C. Symons (North-East Valley) ; J. Robertson (St. Hilda) v. T. Reid (Roslyn); S. Deveraux (Kaikorai) v. L .J. Ireland (Mornington). Section B.—R. E. Sissons (Dunedin) v. P. A. M'Comish (St. Hilda) ; C. S. Peake (Anderson’s Bay) v. J. O’Donoll (St. Clair) ; J. Lambert (Caledonian) v. N. M'Gorliek (Bluff). KAIKORAI. Section A. —H. Telford (Balmacewen) v. J. S. Duthie (Dunedin); J. H. Dodd (North-East Valley) v. A. F. Anderson (Roslyn) ; D. Whiting (Leith) v. W. G. Love (Port Chalmers). Section B.—J. Maxwell (North-East Valley) v. J. Forster (Caversham) ; J. F. Himburg (St. Hilda) v. L. D. Johnston (St. Clair); W. G. Lloyd (Caledonian) v. W. Callender (Otago). OTAGO. Section A. —J. Buchan (Balmacewen) v. J. Marshall (Dunedin) ; H. W. Kirkwood (North-East Valley) v. E. Mullenger (Roslyn); W. Findlay (Kaikorai) v. F. Collier (Port Chalmers). Section B. —E. Macdonald (North-East Valley) v. N. W. Johnston (Caversham) ; IV. Gladding (St. Hilda) v. L. D. Coombs (St. Clair) ; J. L. Page (West Harbour) v. J. Burleigh (Taieri). ST. CLAIR. Section A. —J. C. Rigby (Dunedin) v. J. Hope (North-East Valley) ; W. Jacob-

son (St. Hilda) v. S. H. .Wood (Roslyn); W. R. Howard (Kaikorai) v. W.'Brown (Mornington). " Section B.—P. Cuff (Dunedin) v. W. P. Glanville (Caversham); C. D. Gunn (Anderson’s Bay) v. W. J. Thompson (Logan Park); F. C. Smith (Port Chalmers) v. H. W. Huntley (Otago). STANDARD IMPROVED IRISH PLAYER’S OPINION. The standard of bowling has improved in New Zealand, according to Dr John Rusk, of Belfast, a past-president of the Irish Bowling Association, who is paying his fourth visit to the Dominion. He also stated during the course of an interview with an Evening Post reporter that the New Zealand greens compared favourably with the average good green at Home, where the turf was rather finer and faster. . , , , , Mr Rusk, who has a distinguished bowling record, has represented Ireland on various occasions in the annual contests against England, Scotland, and \* ales, and was the Irish single-handed representative in the Empire Games meeting held in England in 1934. He has been playing bowls since 1899, and was the prime mover in bringing about the admittance of Lew Zealand and other dominions to the International Bowling Board. He first visited the Dominion in 1919 as a ship s surgeon, and it was while he was in vv ellington that he wrote a letter to the Home authorities suggesting the formation ot an Imperial Federation of Bowls. I his event finally took place in 1928, when New Zealand, Australia, Canada, and South Africa were admitted to the board. During his visits to the Dominion, Dr Rusk has played on greens in Auckland, Napier, Wellington, and Dunedin. Since he has not been associated with the legislative side of bowling for several years on account of ill-health, Dr Kufik was unable to give any indication as to whether the proposed visit to Australia and New Zealand by a British team would take place late next year. He said, however, that the main difficulty in getting together a team would be to secure the younger players. Many of them did not have the means to make such a long tour, and therefore elderly men had to be selected. Dr Rusk added, however, that if a team was sent out, not more than half the players would be really first-class players. There would be a considerable number of Scottish players •in such a team. , , , , _ Referring to the rules of bowls, Dr Rusk said he was strongly in favour of the adoption of a' 24 yards kitty. Engglish bowlers played a 25 yards kitty and New Zealanders a 22 yards. Ihe proposal to split the difference would prevent a head being split up so easily, and the game would be improved by the compromise. , Dr Rusk said he was utterly opposed to the placing of cords between rinks — a practice which was adopted in international play. Umpires were appointed to say whether a bo\vl was out or not, and the cords often spoilt the bias. ! Bowling has made remarkable progress in Ireland since Dr Rusk stated to play 36 years ago. Then there were only five clubs and four greens. Now there were 46 clubs with nearly 2000 players.’