BOWLING NOTES.

Southland Times, Issue 19227, 14 December 1903, Page 2

BOWLING NOTES.

(i*y "• Skip.- : sHr T «°^'™ a s £«•?•■, but * believe thnt ** W O«W bo ,-.», , ? satisfaction in ploying an important bxture on a bad giWn and « i?i Vi ?°» llult tee» would be falling in mi.v Vi le Wlsnes of Playera by decidin ff to P'aj tho game on the Southland green. i,. V J • lv ' t *" ff oin t r ahead vcQ' briskIt^i! l >n tlu " <«o««l»le-hanc!ed match providing some very close unrt interestill? c ? ntests - ' s " 4 /«- Mcllwrick and WalInit have pne through their 8 trauics withuut n loss, although two naira Kiim ujul Stcans. and Howie r^T,» l if S M s st. t , renuoU! * opposition that the j-fdouhtohle Aluc and his mate had to »>u rnntciit with a draw. l n the .rink iiintfh „v Wednesday Howie will make vorvi, r S K^ /« r ,*«<:e«*s. tho skin, haxi ni.,v' U '"' i'i s llU H»c s « Is not merely to v as . wdl as hp can. but to keep his pla>er.s in good humour and «ct the best possil.lo work out of thflm and, .most important of nil. to show a front of unlailiiifr (M^ood temper himself, no mntter whut the record of thu scoring hoard. At the South Rre-en i»layers hnvo been practising assiduously, and as tho green is in the pink of condition some very (rood tramps Imvv taken place. Porteous and Gn>nf<ill secured a "love" gpmp from Churton and Sebo. I{. B. McKay, Vith a bandicap of three POiatSj. BJOflt

atred to beat Porteous in a trophj match by just those three points. Gresham too, proved too many for Sebo ir another of these games. In one of th< games the players contented themselves with scoring at '20 ends and the leading player walked off happy with a one-poini victory. It was not until the secret ar> looked over the card later on that In discovered they had played one em short. That victory might be a defcai vet I hear of two strong rinks for the Pun (•din tournament from the Southland Club. J. Yates is associated with I'or teous, Grenfell ai\d Porter, while H ' Taylor has the same ninths that lu>l[>e< lum to win first prize at the i-» •■"«■:' yamfr— J. Runnic, J. Taylor, ami •' *•■'- ler.> Other rinks are sure to i.e.nuui.- upFrom Northern! Findlay. Siuiin. mj-h-----wrick and Wesney will take rink* so that InvercargiU ought to hnvc some n-pu-sentatives among the prw Wl ""["' nf i „„ The players to reprose.it Vm bond on Wednesday, uniess-i.y the "»« • > t ,")i place on the South green, M vo moie rinks are chosen— arc :A. Cioss, A. A>ingJ Kissel 1 and W. Wesney. A. Martin. J. Manson. L. l'adget and J. i indlay ; J. Mcllwrick A Cleans. J Cun-ningham-ami A. E. Smith; A. Masters. J Allen, J. ft- Hannah, and W. Mcllwrick • j'. fireer, J. E. Hawkins, A. C. Kinfc and J. C. Howie ; J. Dunlop, T. A. Wallace, A. Harper and PL. Gilkiisou.