NEW YEAR BOWLS

Poverty Bay Herald, Volume LV, Issue 17453, 30 December 1930, Page 12

NEW YEAR BOWLS

PEACE SHIELD TOURNEY 22 TEAMS NOMINATED • The annual Peace Shield bowling tournament, conducted under the auspices of the Gisborne Centre, will commence on New Year’s Day, the competition concluding on January 2. Twenty-two teams have, nominated for the tournament, which is considered almost as important as the Burton Cup series, held every Easter. Representatives from the Tokomaru Bay, Tolaga Bay, and To Karalca clubs will participate, and Wairoa may send up one rink. The draw will be announced in to-morrow’s issue, the personnel of the 22 teams being as under:— Poverty Bay.—A. Slight, W. Cameron, J. .1. Hartley, E. Somer.vcll (s); Falconer, Holland,. T. Wilson, Hickman (s); Fronde, Gardiner, Ashworth, Morrison (s); Campbell, Barrett, ■Wyatt, D. G. Robertson, (s).;. , Wood, Wilkinson, T. A. Crawford (s); Gandell, Wauchop, Colley, Hopkinson (s); Hughes, Ross, Rosie, Blackburn) (s). Gisborne. McCulloch, Stoneham," Englebretsen, Holmes (s); Beaver, Northover, Wilkinson, Beckett (s); Adams, Clark, T. F. Crawford," Sinclair (s); Bridge, Chrisp, Henderson, Smith (s); Noqd, Johnson, A. Hay, W. J. Hurston (s)’; Morris, Riddcil, S’. Coleman, Allan (s); Fowler, R. Robertson, H. Bright, Stephenson" (s) 1 . ’ ; Kahutia. —Morris, C. E. Robinson, Dudfield, Jenkins (s); H, Smith, ;,E. Robertson,’ Campbell, 'Rothwell (s.); Baker, Roots, Simpson, Town (s); P. W. Smith, C. Pollock, R. Morse, Bragg (s). To Karalca, —MeGannaehan, Sutton, Beckman, 801 l (s); Wilson, Lo uglier, Auld, J. Murray (s). Tolaga Bay.—C. Taylor, E. C. Smith, G. Crowley,, E. Crowley (s). ' . Tokomaru Bay.—Roberts, Brown, Thompson, Neill (s).

A whirlwind played strange tricks on a Christchurch bowling green on Saturday, according to the Star. On one rink a bowl lay exactly iii line with the pegs dividing the adjoining rink. It was the last head and the scores were even. A player was about to put the measure on the bowl to decide the result of the game when the whirlwind came over the green. The bowl was blown back into the head of the rink to which it belonged, and the’wind then curled round all the bowls on the head and rolled them across to another, ri,nk. , .