BOWLING

Otago Daily Times, Issue 22822, 5 March 1936, Page 4

BOWLING

By Jack,

FIXTURES March 7—Otago v. North Otago. March 7 and 9—Champion of champions. March 14. —Otago v. Southland, at Invercargill; shield matches to be played the same day. March 21. —Otago v. South Otago. March 21 and 23.—Adess Shield matches and leads and seconds tournament. March 28.—Otago v. Canterbury, at Dunedin. April 10, 11, 13, and 14. —Easter tournament. INTERCLUB CHAMPIONSHIP Heavy greens and occasional light showers were experienced for Saturday’s interclub games. Fairfield retains' its position at the top of the list with 80 points, but Logan Park, which was in second position, has dropped back to fifth, and Caversham and West Harbour now share second position with 76 points each, Balmaccwen being fourth with 73 points, Logan Park and Oiitram following with 72 points each. Fairfield, Caversham and West Harbour scored eight points each in Saturday’s games, the only club to head them off being St. Clair, which won nine games out of 12 for a total of nine points. The following table shows the results of Saturday's games, with the total points scored to date by each club:

*Dunedin, three wing for a bye. tPort Chalmers v. Waikouaui. throe rinks to be played March 7. WOMEN’S TOURNAMENT Those who doubt the ability of women nn the bowling green would have changed their views if they had witnessed the final stages in the Kinks’ and Pairs’ Championships in the recent tournament conducted by the Otago Ladies’ Bowling .Association. The semi-final in the Rinks between Mrs Adess (St. Kilda) and Mrs Warrington (Caversham) provided a keen tussle ir. which some excellent bowling was witnessed. Mrs Adess established a strong lead in the early stages, the scores being 12—4 in her favour when six heads had been played. Caversham then held the mat for five consecutive heads, scoring 1, .1. 1,2, and 2, to make the tallies 14— all. The final stagey were keenly fought, St. Kilda getting heme by a margin of three points. " The other semi-final —that between Mrs Easton " (Dunedin) and Mrs Seymour (Caversham) provided another fine contest. Dunedin dominated the early stages and led by 10 points to two on the eighth head and 14 to 7 on the eleventh, but Caversham then put in' a strong challenge. scoring 4,3, and 1 on the next three heads lo lead 15 —14. Mrs Easton then notched a three to which Mrs Seymour replied with a brace, making the totals 17—all on the fifteenth head. Cavorsham followed with two singles, Mrs Easton following with a three and a singlb to lead by two with a head to play. This yielded a 1 single to Caversham, leaving Dunedin one point to the good. The anticipations of a stirring final between Mrs Easton and Mrs Adesa attracted a large bank of spectators and the duel they witnessed well repaid them the time they spent in watching the game. Both rinks played fine bowls and excellent form was shown by each skip. The Dunedin players especially showed fine team work and their skip proved an inspiration to them. St. Kilda opened with a brace, and Dunedin followed, with a single, Mrs Adess then began to forge ahead, and with eight heads played had established a lead of 11 points to 4. A strong challenge by Dunedin then altered the whole complexion of the game, three 3’s and two singles in a row giving Mrs_ Easton a lead of 15 points to 11.. St. Kilda, however, came back fighting strongly and taking the next four heads with two singles, a 2, and a 3, again reversed the positions, the scores being 18 —15 in' Mrs Adess’s favour with 17 heads played. Mrs Easton then notched a brace, and Mrs Adess a single. A. 4 to Dunedin on the twentieth left St. Kilda 2 down with a head to play. When the skips crossed over for the final head St. Kilda lay three welldrawn shots, and the position looked fairly safe for Mrs Adess, who took no risk of spoiling it. Mrs Easton played a fin§ shot with her first attempt, but fell about 18 inches short, but with a great effort she drew a splendid second shot with her next attempt to pull the game out of the fire and win by the odd point. Both teams were deservedly, applauded for their fine play. The, final of the pairs between Mrs Austin and Miss Mee (St. Clair) and Mrs Forster and Mrs M’Connell (Caversham) was noteworthy principally for the remarkably tine exhibition of bowling by the St. Clair ladies. Caversham also played well, but the form of the St. Clair pair was good enough to test many a strong men’s pair. Better leading than that of Mrs Austin is seldom seen. St Clair ran to a 7 —l lead on the fourth head, which had been increased to 14 —6 on the eleventh, and 20 —7 on the fifteenth. Caversham fought on gamely, but could make no impression on the St. Clair pair, who ultimately ran out winners by a good margin. CENTRAL OTAGO NOTES The event of the week in Central Otago was the visit of the Dunedin Centre players to the ’various towns. Arriving at Clyde on Thursday afternoon, three Dunedin rinks played against the local club in perfect weather, and on a keen green. Mr Harlow, in the absence of the president, gave the 'visitors a warm welcome, to which Mr Hinton replied. A visit was made to the Molyneux Company’s big dredge in the evening, where the visitors were greatly surprised at its size. Scores (Clyde names first)A. Harris, J. Ross, W. Harlow, J. L. Davidson 29, W. Harrison, J, M'Narey, J. Thomson, G. Adess 14; A. Arnett, J. Holt, E, Mollison, I*. Miller 24, Norwood, Bishop. W. Gladding, J. H. Hinton 16; G. Larking, W. Lopdell, P. Edmonds, H. E. Stevens 9, W. Ross, A. Riach, W. Kinaeton, J. Veilch 31, "Totals: Clyde 02, Dunedin 61. Playing for the Jolly Cup at Alexandra on Friday afternoon, Joe Davidson again relieved Tom Sunderland of the trophy. The Alexandra green played very nicely, and promised well for the centre matches on the Saturday. The Clyde men held the advantage all the way, winning easily on the twentieth head. Scores: —G. Larking. J. Holt, IT. E. Stevens. J. L. Davidson 21. J. S. Munro. W. Russell. E. Marslin. T. E. Sunderland 12,' Roxburgh has the next challenge. The Champion Rink Competition will be hold at Cydc on Saturday, commencing at 9 a.m. sharp. In the Clyde Singles, Mollison defeated Harris, and Davidson won from W. K. George. SINGLES CHAMPIONSHIP The Champion of Champions Singles Competition will be played on Saturday and Monday. The recent wet weather has delayed the various club competitions, but, no doubt, the majority of the champions have now been found. The Balmacewon championship has been won by G. Finlayson, who dcieated W. Rolfe in the final by 18 points to 12. The Dunedin Singles final will be played tins evening by G. A. Nelson and K. Morrison, each one-lifers. Nelson beat J. ■Marshall - last evening in an exceedingly well-played game. CENTRAL OTAGO TOUR Sin, —We desire to correct what we consider a discrepancy in the report of the intereentre match between Dunedin and Central Otago, played at Alexandra

Saturday last. Without attempting in any way to belittle the excellent work of Mr J. iS. Hinton in organising and managing the Dunedin party, we feel that we cannot let the statement_ “The general management and organisation for the day were in the capable hands of Mr J. 11. Hinton ” pass without comment. All duties pertaining to the day’s play were in the hands of the Central Otago Centre’s ellleient secretary, Mr J. L. Davidson. In justice to him we would be pleased if you would make this correction.. In conclusion we would like to say that the games with the Dunedin Centre were enjoyed as much by .the local bowlers as they apparently were by our visitors. —We are, etc., W. K. George, Pres., 0.C.8.A. R. E. Austin, Exec, member.

Ta m V M i a nts Date. O i-!. '3 •o. | o Fairfield .. .. 2 1 8 . sf' Caversham 8 4 8 76 West Harbour .. 4 o 8 76 Balmacewen ., 6 6 6 73 Logan Park 1 5 2 72 Outram .. .. 2 ] 8 72 St. Clair 9 3 9 60 Taieri 2 4 4 GO Mornington 3 6 4 65 J Green Island .. 4 2 8 64 Kaikorai .. .. 3 6 4 61* Caledonian 9 6 71-5 GO 4-5 Kaituna 7 8 5 3-5 60 North-East Valley 5 7 5 60 Leith .. .. 8 4 8 59 Otago .. • • 4 5 5J 58* Dunedin .. 11 7 7J 56§ . Roslyu 8 7 6 2-5 54 2-5 Anderson’s Bay 5 7 5 53 Brighton 2 1 8 52 Port Chalmers f2 1 4 52 St. Hilda .... 4 11 3 1-5 48 Waikouaiti . .t — — — 48 Tainui 2 4 4 38