BOWLING.

Poverty Bay Herald, Volume XLVII, Issue 15710, 29 December 1921, Page 5

BOWLING.

PEACE SHIELD TOURNAMENT.

The third tournament for the Peace Shield will take place on the Gisborne Bowling Club's greens at Kaiti on January 2 and 3. The tournament, which has been an annual- institution under the joint control of the Kahutia and Gisborne Club executives, will this year be conducted under the auspices of the new Gisborne centre. The handsome memorial shield was the • outcome of a voluntary effort oil: the part of all local bowlers, afc the close of the war, and was first won in 1920 by a. Gisborne Club team, skipped by W. J. MacDonald. On the last occasion of competition, the shield- was won by a Kahutia rink, skipped by J- Newton, and the outcome of tin's year's tourney is the subject of eargef speculation. There are sixteen teams entered, of which eight are from the Gisborne Club, five from Kahutia, two from Poverty Bay, and one from the Strangers. , The entries are as follows :

Gisborne Club:. Doolan, Gambrill, Mahoney, and Miller (skip); Hird, Truman, 1 Stephenson, /and Nasmith (skip) ;■ Hooper, Zachariah, -A. S. 'Seymour, Hueston (skip); Wildish, Michie, Holmes, Thelwall. (skip); Gibbs, Russell. Halford, Home (skip); E. Adair, T. F. Crawford, Armstrong, Sinclair (skip); Short. Grieve, Maude, Craig (skip): J. T. Witty, Clarkson, R. Robertson, Kymo (skip). Kahutia: Mcllroy, O'Donnell, Butler, Rothwell (skip); Power, Eaton, C. Somervell, Newton (skip); Atkinson, Taylor, Martin. Sawyer (skip); Harding, Clarke, Wilson, Flavell ■ (skip); P. Muldoon,-'E. Robertson, R. Muldoon. Spiers (skip). . Poverty Bay: Ashton, 1). (J- Robertson, Jenkins/ Allan (skip); Wilkinson, G. T. Bull,' Munns, Coutts (skip). Strangers: Leslie, Brown, Partridge, Sidebotiom (skip). - In the tournament any team with as many wins as any section winner gains admission to the final. The draw has been made as follows : A SECTION.

First day—first round: Miller v. Hueston; Home v. Nasmith; Rothwell v. Spiers; Newton v. Allan. Second round—Miller v. Newton; Hueston v. Rothwell; Home v. Allan; Nasmith v. Spiers.*' Third round—Miller v. Spiers, Hueston v. Allan; Home v. Rothwell; Nasmith v. Newton. Second day—fourth round—Miller v. Allan; Hueston v. Nasmith; Home v. Spiers; Rothwell v. Newton. Fifth round l —Miller v. Nasmith; Hueston v. Home; Rothwell v. Allan; Spiers v. Newton. Sixih round—Miller v. Home: Hueston v. Newton; Nasmith v. Rothwell; Spiers v. Allan. B. SECTION. First day—first round: Thelwall v. Coutts; Craig v. Sinclair; Kyme v. Flaycll; Sidebottom v. Sawyer. Second round: Thelwall v. Sinclair; Craig v. Kyme; Sidebottom v. Coutts; Flavell v. Sawyer. Third round —Thelwall v. Kymo; Craig v. Sawyer; Sinclair v. Sidebottom; Flavell v. Coutts. Second day—fourth round—Thelwall v. Craig; Kyme v. , Sinclair; Sidebottom ■v. Flavell; Sawyer v. Coutts. ' Fifth round —Thelwall v. Sawyer; Craig v. Sideboftdni; Kyine v. Coutts; Sinclair v. Flavell. . Sixth round—Thelwall v." Flavell; Craig v. Coutts; Kyme v. Sidebottom; Sinclair v. Sawyer.