GREENS STILL HEAVY

Otago Daily Times, Issue 27291, 18 January 1950, Page 6

GREENS STILL HEAVY

NO MAJOR UPSETS SKOGLUND HAS FOUR WINS PA CHRISTCHURCH, Jan. 17. Conditions improved considerably for the second day of the New Zealand Fours Bowling Championship at Christchurch today. Rain on Friday night, Saturday morning and again on Sunday morning made the greens heavy for Monday’s play, but the steady winds of yesterday and Monday speeded up the greens, although they were still slightly heavy. There were few surprises in today’s games. The holder of the title, T. T. Skoglund (Otahuhu), won his two games without difficulty, giving him four successive wins. J. Mingins (Onehunga), a previous winner of the title, has also completed two days without loss. C. L. Spearman (Christchurch RSA), winner of the Fours in 1944 at Dunedin, lost his fourth-round game to H. E. Burton (Auckland), who had lost all his previous three games. The New Zealand Singles representative for the Empire Games, J. Pirret (Tuakau), has also survived the first four games without a loss and appears certain to qualify. The Hutt rink skipped by W. F. Hadwin had its first loss in the fourth game, when it was beaten by A. Steel (Bluff), 24—18. The Canterbury Club veteran, R. Haworth, won his third game against W. A. Logan (Hokonui), but lost his fourth to G. T. McNally, 27—13. The Australian four, skipped by E. C. Waldron, had a bad day yesterday, when they lost both games. They lost another today when they were beaten by A. King (Lyall Bay), 24 —18, in the fourth game. One of five surviving players in the Singles Championship. L. J. Edwards, one of the most popular figures in the tournament, lost both of his games on Monday but had two good wins against H. B. Kay (Shirley) and A. S. Mclnnes (Temuka) today. The veteran Christchurch bowler, J. D. Marks, has played for two days without losing a game. Marks has been a prominent competitor at. New Zealand championship meetings for many year?. The Kai Toa (Timaru) rink, skipped by W. G. Milne, one of the three remaining players in the Pairs, started well yesterday with two wins, but were beaten in both their games today by J. Tyndall (St. Heliers), 25—17, and by A. I. Anderson (Woburn), 26—25. J. Turpin (Canter-" bury) has had two good days with four successive wins. He beat M. J. Casey (Thorndon) this morning 27—18, and J. W. Bulger (Anderson’s Bay), 31—19, this afternoon.