BOWLS

Poverty Bay Herald, Volume LII, Issue 16201, 26 November 1926, Page 12

BOWLS

KAHUTIA CLUB The weather was fine yesterday afternoon, and the members of the Kahutia Club were enabled to play off another round in the Dan Barry Memorial Shield competition, the different games resulting as follows: Vail, Jones, E. Lane, Dudfield (s), 22, 'defeated E.\ Hogg, Batson, H. Miller, Gibbs (sj, 14. Scarfe, Leslie, U. P. Lane, Roderick (s), 19, defeated Stannard (sub.), Murphy, Haisman, Martin (s) 13. Williams, Keany, Sim, Cruickshank (s), 27, defeated MacKinlay, H. Martin, C. Pollock, Prince (s), 16. Ordinary game.—Clarke, Flavell, Power, Atkinson (s), 21, defeated Taylor, Smith, Hawkins, Sawyer (s), 12.

Rain coming on at the conclusion of the games prevented further matches being played.' Members are notified by advertisement that the time of starting for the annual picnic has been fixed for 9 a.m., and all who intend going are asked to bo punctual.

GISBORNE CLUB An interesting afternoon's bowling took place yesterday on the Gisborne Club's greens, the following games being played:— Thursday Fours.—Third round : Gandellj Moncrieff (sub.), Stewart, Staff (s), 17, v. Braver, C. Adair, Michie, Maude (s), 14; Redstone (sub.), Cossey, T. F. Crawford, T. A. Crawford (s), 25 v. Adams, Nasmith, McKeague, Hueston (s) 12; J. Jones, F. Harris, Crawshaw, Holmes (s) 26, v. Khull, H. Jones, E. Adair, Seymour (s), 11. .' .., The results of yesterday's play made this competition very interesting as the (earns skipped by Holmes, Crawford, Hueston and Seymour are all even with two wins and one loss. A further round will be played next Thursday. Ordinary Games.—Muller, Stoneham, Ingram (s), 26, v. H. Bright, E. Henderson, Allan (s), 11; Rowan, Thelwall, Halford (si, 19, v. Primrose, Barry, Horne(s) 19.

Champion Singles".—The first round of this competition has ,now been completed with the following results: Stewart beat E. Adair. Sutton beat Michie, McKeague beat Boys, Home beat Henderson, Sidebottom'beat Allan. Sinclair beat L., Bright, Holmes beat C. Adair, Hueston be*at Campbell, Hird beat Gambrill, Watson beat Halford, Staff l:«!at IT. Bright, Adams beat A. Coleman and S.' Coleman beat Gandell. A number of these games were closely contested and on several occasions an extra head had to be played to decide the winners. The second round can now be played. Saturday Fours.—The second round will be played to-morrow when the following teams meet:—Halford plays Sidebottom, Allan plays Boys, Watson plays Sinclair, Coleman a bye.