CENTRAL CHAMPION

Stratford Evening Post, Volume III, Issue 3, 10 March 1934, Page 8

CENTRAL CHAMPION

A. Dickinson's Win BOWLING FINAL PLAY-OFF DEFEAT OF HARRIS The Central Division singles howling championship was decided <>n the Avon green yesterday afternoon, when A. Dickinson (Avon) defeated W". Harris (Stratford), last years winner. The score was 21 —17. The green was in much the same condition as on the previous day—a trifle heavy with flurries of wind i sweeping across it at times to npsel i Iho players' designs. Dickinson used i a bowl weighing 31b. Soz., as com-j

pared with I lands' 31b. The consequence was that Dickinson's howls : during the dying stages of the run j performed more accurately as a gvu I era! rule. • But Dickinson's win cannot be as- ! cribed to his using heavier bowls, for ho was definitely playing a better game than Harris, who was not up to the form he displayed against Dickinson on Thursday evening. W'k'i running shots or drives Harris was more than Dickinson's equal, btit in placing the shots on the kitty Dickinson was steadier and it was that consistency that won him the gam". At times Harris sent up ideal drawing shots and left Dickinson no option but to lose the points. On other occasions he was often wide of the mark, with as many as three howls, leaving Dickinson with a comparatively easy task, for ho had only ro circumvent Harris one good shot. Harris put up a wonderful fight rnd after Dickinson gained a of 20—13 at the, 20th heat! lie took'a single on the 21st and throe nn the 22nd to make the score 20 —17. Dickinson won on the next, head with a remarkabH running- shot that gainhim the necessary single. Harris began with a fast running shot, that burned the head after Dickinson had the shot. Neither used anything but the nraw on the second head, from which 1 karris gained a single In putting up three very wellplaced bowls Dickinson built up a target for Harris to run at. but the howl cleared everything and left Dickinson three up. Harris was narrow with his first two bowls and meantime Dickinson sent up three perfect shots and though Harris put one up to make a mrasurc his last, failed to trail the kitty and left Dickinson with 3 and a lead of 6 —l on the third head. He look another single from the next, but on the fifth, when Dickinson was lying two up, Harris ran the kitty to the ditch and took the point, with a perfect bowl that came to rest almo«t on the edge of he green. The sixth also went. to Dickinson, who was drawing persistently well. Harris, however, beat him to the draw on the 7th and Dickinson broke'-I he head up With a fast hall—is last—in an effort to burn the head, but the kitty stayed on the green and Harris drew to it with his last, bowl, a measure for second being in favour of Dickinson. He took one off the Bth, making his advantage over Harris 9—3. After lying one up Harris knocked Dickinson's bowl in toward the kitty and the calipers gave the point to Dickinson. Harris played his best head of the day on the 10th, which gavo him three points, making the score 10 —■ G. Harris burned the next head to save two points, lost one on the 11th by measure and secured two from the 12th, reducing his deficit to three at .11 —8. Dickinson just missed a great opportunity to trail the kitty for four, leaving Harris two up and the score 11—10. Dickinson had to kill the next to save another two. lie drew two on the 14th and Harris pulled one off the 15th, giving totals of 13— 11 for Dickinson. Dickinson drew two on the 16th and Harris countered with two on the 17th, only to let Dickinson take another two on the 18th, and jump to a lead of 17—13. On the 10th Harris had the shot with his third bowl, but Dickinson trailed the kitty through with his last to lie one up, a position that Harris' last howl did not. alter. The 20th head saw Harris sending up wide howls that left Dickinson two uv and a measurer. The measure was against him and his score was 20 to Harris' 13. Harris broke away from the 13, which had haunted hirn for four heads, with a well placed shot, on the 21st that, alter ed tho totals to 20—14. With howls arranged more like this familiar type, Harris scored an easy three on the 22nd to decrease his debit '..'> 20 —l7. The next head saw the finish. Harris had the advantage until Dickinson's last, howl picked up the kitty and carried it on ror one which gave hirn the required 21 points.