BOWLING

Stratford Evening Post, Volume II, Issue 223, 19 April 1933, Page 6

BOWLING

Thrilling Game at Hawera WESTON'S RINK WINS TOURNEY With scores even up to the 18th head a thrilling finish was provided in the final of the South Taranaki Easter Bowling Tournament contested at Hawera yesterday between Weston's Avon (Stratford) team and Hawera Park. The former won with a score of Is to 15, following a game in which the standard of play was excellent.

Running shots were exploited to great advantage by the winners, and each member of the Park team drew with great accuracy. The teams were: Avon: Rudkin, Lonsdale, DjLckhir son and Weston.

Park: Walsh, Cran, Sheehy and Chadwick.

From the outset the game was closely contested, and at the fifth head. Avon led with 5 points to 3. On the sixth head Avon added thrso and on the seventh head Park added one, making the scores B—4'8 —4' in favour of Avon. Park scored more consistently on the next lew heads and on the 11th brought their score to eight, with Avon still one in the lead. The scores were 9-all on the 12th head. On the 15th head Park had established a lead of two, with a score of 12 to 10, but on the next head the order was reversed, and Avon led 13—12. Park again went to the front with 14—13, but Avon returned on the next head and led 15—14.

Lonsdale had a good shot on the 19th until Sheehy carried kitty off to Walsh's bowl for two. Weston drove kitty right back for a single and then added a second. Chadwick instead of getting Sheehy to put in a back bowl might have been better advised to have had a block. It was the decisive head in the match, leaving Avon leading 17 —14. Walsh had the better of the leading on the 20th, Cran putting in a second. Lonsdale was a shade narrow. Weston drew the second shot and then the shot itself, a beauty, to lead by four with one head to go. When the skips went down on the last head Chadwick was lying two with the possibility of getting four if he could move kitty. He dropped his first bowl and the second, a good one, hit an Avon wood in the running. This went up for second shot and kitty was left untouched.

The chairman of the tournament committee congratulated the winners and runners-up and presented the trophies. The final, he said, had been one of the best in the tournament's history, being close with excellent bowling. He congratulated the Avon Club on the number of its entries. Cheers were given for the finalists, Messrs. Weston and Chadwick replying. ••..,.