BOWLS
PEACE SHIELD GAMES TOURNAMENT ENDS TO-DAY Provided the weather continues, fair, the Peace Shield tournament is expected to conclude this evening, the final game having been set down for this afternoon. Th c semi-finals engaged the attention of bowlers this morning, the Kahutia Club’s green providing the venue. A pleasing feature of the semi-final round was that each of the four rinks engaged belonged lo a different club, the rinks being skipped by D. G. Robertson (Poverty Bay), G. A. Neill (Tolaga Bay), J. J. Martin (Kabutia), and J. W. Holmes (Gisborne). The sixth round of tho tournament was disposed of yesterday nfternoon, and this closed the sectional play. The seven links with the best records of wins in the sectional play wove then drawn for a further elimination round, with the object of reducing tho number of rink s to'four. The survivors are those mentioned above, Smart, Wootton, and Harkess losing their post-sectional matches. Details of the sixth round were as follow :—A sect ion : Holmes 20 beat Allan 16, Wilkinson 14 beat Sinclair 13, Wootton 23 beat Alahoney 15, Ilnrkess 24 beat Robertson 10. B Section: Stephenson 24 beat Stoneham 18, Alartin 23 beat Sawyer 19. (The balance of the games in B* section, and all games in G section, were abandoned.) Of the rinks which survived the sectional competition, Martin was the only one to come through without a loss. In his match witti Sawyer, in the ultimate section game, lie was disadvantaged in tile early stages, but took command later, and van out the winner by a small margin. He got the bye in the next series of matches, and thus gained (he semi-final stage without a loss. The records of the seven rinks concerned in the post-sectional round were: —
In this morning’s games, Neill was drawn to meet Robertson, while and Martin met in the other. Keen interest attached to the outcome of these matches, and there was a good attendance of bowlers at the Kahutia Club’s greens. .
Won Lost Martin 6 0 Robertson 4 2 Wootton 4 2 Holmes 4 2 Neill 5 1 Harkess ... 4 2 Smart 5 1
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Poverty Bay Herald, Volume LIII, Issue 16539, 5 January 1928, Page 14
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357BOWLS Poverty Bay Herald, Volume LIII, Issue 16539, 5 January 1928, Page 14
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