BOWLS

Poverty Bay Herald, Volume LIX, Issue 17946, 25 November 1932, Page 10

BOWLS

GISBORNE CLUB GAMES NO GRADING OF PLAYERS Four competition games in the Gisborne Bowling Club will be suspended for one week in each mouth, for the iuture, and ordinary games will be substituted. The innovation, decided on by the club committee recently, was brought into force yesterday, when members expressed their appreciation of the change. The innovation is accompanied by a change in tho system of picking-up for ordinary games, the positions of graded players being discontinued, and an opportunity being afforded to 'all members of taking more prominent positions in the games arranged. The reversal of the order of grading yesterday resulted in close finishes in the three games played, the results being as under: — IT. E. Bright, Alaude, Adams, Miller is) 17 v. Stephenson, Crawshaw, Rathsuch, Zaehariah (s) 37. Henderson, Whelan, Corson, Williams (s) 39 v. Holmes, Noad, Jones, Clark (s) 18. Armstrong, Sutton, Sheen, J. S. Hay (s) 22 v. Robertson, T. F. Crawford, York, Johnson (s) 21. Yesterday’s hostesses at the Gisborne green were Alesdames Nasmith and Johnson. —Champion Singles— Second round. —Winners’ section : Sinclair beat Holmes; Alaude beat Armstrong : G. Crowley beat Smith; Craig beat Williams; E. Crowley beat Stephenson. Losers’ section: Henderson beat Balfour; McCullough beat Zaffer; Tvngebretsen beat Beckett; Clark beat Thornton. —Champion Pairs — Second round.—Winners section: Nasmith and Smith beat Shaw and Henderson. Losers’ section: Adams and Sinclair beat McCullough and Park 5 Sutton and J. Hay beat Johnson and Robertson. . Third round.—Winners’ section: Nasmith and Smith heat Noad and Clark; Stephenson and Engebretsen beat Crawford and Alurray. —Horne Singles— York heat Williams; Shaw beat A. Park: Neil heat Zaffer; Sinclair heat L. R. Bright; Shaw beat York; Shaw beat Sinclair. —Orr Pairs, Handicapdark and Zaehariah beat McGregor and Alunro; Clark and Zaehariah beat Kay and Pyke; Neal and Zaffer heat Kay and Pyke; Shaw and Johnson beat Balfour and Williams; Shaw and Johnson heat Kay and Pyke; York and Thornton beat AlcGregor and Alunro; Balfour and Williams beat Neal and Zaffer: Balfour and Williams beat York and Thornton. POVERTY BAY .CLUB Thursday’s Club Fours competition was advanced a stage further yesterday afternoon, when the following games were played: — , , Toneycliffe, Hankey, Phillips and Wilkinson (s) 13 v. Briant, Robinson, Gandell and Hartley (s) 16. Ansell, Nesbitt, Gardner and Sim (s) 21 v. Ranger, Maddock, T. Robertson and Scott (s) 16. Leech, Graham, Ross, and Whiting (s) 17 v. Rowley, Ludwig, Fischbach and Falconer (s) 19. Rusher, Andrew, McKeague and Wyatt (s) Id v. Evans, Derbyshire, Wood (sub.) and Wilson (s) 27. —Ordinary Games— Fraser, Shaw. Cotton, and Campbell (s) 32 v. Sell, Hall, Leggett and 1 altridge (s) 39,

A meeting of the council of tho New Zealand Bowling Association has given the following ruling regarding the markin,,- of bowls:—“Bowls, which are in use and which have a distinctive mark on the large disc, will be sufficiently marked to comply with the requirements if (lie numbered disc is permanently marked with the owner’s initials or with a design similar to that on the large disc. New bowls must bear a similar distinctive mark on both discs of each bowl.