BUSY BOWLING DAY

Sun (Auckland), Volume II, Issue 492, 23 October 1928, Page 13

BUSY BOWLING DAY

MANY GREENS ACTIVE FINAL RESULTS With the weather clearing early in the day, most, of the bowling clubs that arranged Labour Day tournaments were able to go on the greens yesterday and put in an enjoyable day. Following are the results of the semi-finals played in the evening: CARLTON Fine weather prevailed for the Carlton Club's tournament, which attracted 160 players. In addition to the details published in The Sun yesterday the followins semi-finals were played:— Semi-finals—Wiekstead, Brittain, Rowe, Fookes, 17, v. Lamb, Bruce, George De Launay, S; Isaacs, Elliott, Kilgour, Snedden, 17, v. Wrigllt, Mackav, Stevens Ritchie, 5. The final between Snedden and Fookes will he. played on Saturday. PONSONBY Tlio playing of Sections A and B in the Ponsonby tournament resulted in wins for McGregor and Bryant respectively. The play-off will take place at a later date MOUNT ALBERT Clark and Garlick were the sectional winners at Alount Albert. The final will be played later. EPSOM Section A H. Wright, 4 wins; Boyne, 3; Bremner, 3: Crawford. 2; Jenkin, 2; J. Wright, 2; Morrison,' 2: Gribble, 2. Wright, St. Heliers, won the section outright. Section B Roylance, 4 wins: Bourke, 4: Nash. 3; Burton. 3: A. Jones, 3; Hopwood, 2; Gosling. 1; Taylor. 0. Bourke, Mount Eden, won the play-off, and will play Wright in the final next Saturday. ROCKY NOOK A progressive pairs tournament was played at the Rocky Xook green yesterday, 32 players taking part. The winning skip was W. Williams, with 5 wins and 1 loss, and the winning lead T. Jones, with 6 wins. DOMINION ROAD Sixteen teams competed in the Labour Day tournament played in two sections by the Dominion Road Bowling Club yesterday. Results are as follow: Section A Hawkins, 4i wins. Section B Leyland, Sayers and Ashbury tied with 3 wins each. In the first play-off Sayers beat Leyland. RAWHITI Section A Buckman. Clarkson, J. Wliitehouse, Donnel (Nomads), 4 wins, 1 loss; Wilmot, Schofield, Worthington, Hardcastle, 4 wins, 1 loss; Hamlin, Sam ways, Chiplin, McKintey, 3 wins, 2 losses; Savin, Sharkey, D. Walker, McPherson, 3 wins. 2 losses; Rev. Pattison, R. Walker, Haslam, Austin, 1 win, 4 losses; Barker, Mailland. Watson, Stubbs, 5 losses. Hardcastle won the section on percentage of points. Section B Woods, Jackson, Moncur, Oldham, 4 wins, 1 loss; Angus, Johnson, Simpson, Briggs (Te Papapa), 3 Cameron, Bennett. Woller, Taylor, 3 wins, 2 losses; Vincent, Culpan, M. Thompson. P. Thompson, 3 wins, 2 losses; Bolton, Robertson, Martin, Eaves, 1 win, 4 losses; Catterselt, Miller. Mclnnes, Alillard, 1 win, 4 losses; Oldham won the section. In the final of 15 heads, Oldham, IS, beat Hardcastle, 5. GREY LYNN Section A. Preston, Buckley, Binns and Curtis tied. In the play-off Preston beat Buckley and Binns beat Curtis. Preston defeated Binns in the final. Section B. Tonge won the section outright with five wins.. The final between Preston and Tonge will be played at a later date. POINT‘CHEVALIER Following are the results of matches played at the Point Chevalier Bowling Club’s green yesterday:— Breckon, Fairweather, Allum, Bull, 14, v. Holdsworth, Clarke, Gibson, Boag, 28; Walters, Laing, Dyson, King, 17, v. Phillips, Storey, Barton, Lanigan, 16. PUKEKOHE The annual tournament for the Northern Waikato Bowling Association’s banner took place on the Pukekohe Bowling Club’s green yesterday. The sectional play was completed, leaving the semifinals and final to be played next Saturday. Twenty rinks competed, x-epresent-ing all the clubs in the association, as follow; Clevedoin* Patumahoe, Waiuku, Pukekohe, Buckland, Tuakau. In section A the Waiuku rink (N. NaugUton, W. L. West, W. Teape and B. Xeil) tied for first place with Pukekohe (TI. Burrows, S. T. Day, W. J. Short and S. A. Hosking), each with three wins. A play-off of live heads resulted in a win for Waiuku. The winners in the other sections were:—Section B: Waiuku (W. R. Harris, M. Aldred, H. M. Barriball, G. P. Williams), 4 wins. Section C: Pukekohe (David Roulston, T. Thompson, S. Perkins, Duncan Roulston), 4 wins. Section D: Pukekohe (W. Jenkins, T. Pollock, E. F. Snell, W. S. J. Munro), 3 wins. STANLEY BAY Under pleasant weather conditions members of the Stanley Bay Club celebrated Labour Day by carrying out a progressive pairs tournament. Keen contests were the order of the day, and at the conclusion of the games it was found that six of the skips had to play off to decide the winner. Five heads were played, with the result that F. Cox took first place, with A. E. Smith as runnerup. F. Whitley won the leads prize outright with four wins, while S. C. Clarke came next with three and a-half wins. HUNTLY President Frank Littleproud welcomed a large attendance at the opening of the Huntly Bowling Club’s season on Saturday, paying a deserved compliment to the green keeper, who had the riverside club’s ground a picture. All'. Littleproud enjoined all those present to come over to the good old game, incidentally congratulating the club’s members on their enthusiasm resulting in increased membership. Airs. Littleproud threw up the first jack, while Airs. Percy Crimmins, the Croquet Club’s president, made the first drive on the croquet grounds. The secretary, Air J. Douglas, and his committee had made excellent arrangements for opening day, and with Mesdames Littleproud and Crimmins and their strong committee attending to the entertainment side in an enthusiastic manner. the offiocial opening for ID2S-29 was ! easily the record one. Six rinks were played during the afternoon with visiting I teams. Results were as follow: J. Turton, 24, v. AlcFarlane (Xgnruawalxia). 20: F. Littleproud, 20, v. Morris (Glen Massey), 20; E. George, 20, v. Yeaman (Frankton Railway), S; J. Holland, 26, v. Harris, (Ivimihia). 23; C. Scott, 23, v. Thompson (Starr Town), 11: G. Shaw, 27, v. Leonard (Starr Town), 12. Totals: Huntly, 140. Visitors, 04. PAPAKURA The official opening of the Papakura Bowling Club took place on Saturday afternoon in beautiful weather. Mr. Jas. AlcCall (president) referred to the loss the club had sustained in the death of Air. Duncan McLennan, a generous supporter of the club. Airs. G. W. O’Connor threw the first jack. The following clubs were represented; Auckland, Dominion Road, Papatoetoe, Alangere and Clevedon. The following are the results of the play:— Robertson. Trimble, Ryburn. Hope, 2i, v. Diekev, Laslett, G. Boagey, McCullough, 23; O’Connell. Page, Harding, Leitch, 17. v. Hunt, McCallum, Simpson. Winks. 17; Cornford. Percy, Alogford, Hammond, 27, v. Bull, Aleikie, W. Boagey, McEntoe, 17; Alullens, Brendon, Bales, 30, v. Andrew. Willis. Rowe, 13. WAIUKU The following are the results of games played on the Waiuku green on Saturday : Gill, Whiteside, Roscoe. Teape, IS, v. Southgate. Flavell, Crouch, Williams, 16; Pickard. Chalmers, Greenhead. Jack, 19, v. Xewth, AlcXaughton, Eomiar, Xeil, 16; Honey. Arbuckle. W. R. Harris, H. M. Barriball. 31, v. Arkle, A. King. Millington, Wright, 22; Bridle, Summerville, H. King. 22. v. Braun. Horton. AY. L. AA'est, 19: Tong, R. J. Harris, 22, v. Aldred. Jones, 15 TE AWAMUTU Showery weather was experienced at Te Awamutu on Monday for the Te Awa-

rautu Bowling: Club’s full-rink tournament, at which nearly 100 bowlers took part. Following are the results:— First Round.—Tailby, 11. v. Porter, 10: Clark, 3, v. Pilkington, 16: Burchell, 21, v. Weatherell, 2; W. J. North. 4. v. Land, 16; Ross, 12, v. Littleproud, 22; Noonan, 15, v. Lynburn, 15; Grant, 17, v. Burrow. 9; Douglas. 10, v. Turton. 12; J. T. North, 17, v. Bell. 3; Tomlinson, S, v. Cruickshank, 13; Cornish, 11, v. James, 7; Smith, 5, v. Cullum, 11. Second Round.—Tailby. 10, v. Clark, 0; Burchell, 10, v. W. J. North. 10; Ross, 16, v. Noonan. 10; Porter, 9, v. Pilkington, 15; Weatherell, 17, v. Land. 11: Littleproud, 16, v. Lynburn, 11; Grant, 22, v. Cullum, 5: Burrow, 13, v. Smith, 11; Douglas, S. v. Cornish. 13; Cruickshank. 11. v. J. T. North, 10; Tomlinson. S. v. Bell, 19; James, n, v. Turton, 19. Third Round.—Tailby, 15. v. Burrow, 4; Clark, 7, v. James. *10; Porter. 10. v. Cruickshank, 9; Smith, 6, v. W. J. North. 20; Cullum, 7, v. Cornish, 9; Noonan, s. v. Grant, S: Douglas, 9. v. J. T. North. 7: Burchell, 12, v. Tomlinson. 10; Pilkington. 10, v. Lynburn. S; Ross. 9, v. Weatherell, 10; Land. 7. v. Turton. I*> : Bell. 14. v. Littleproud. 15. Fourth Round.—Tailby, 3. v. Ross. 15Clark, S. v. Porter, 11; Burchell, 8, v! Land, It; W . J. North, 15, v. Lynburn, 15; Turton, 10, v. Cruickshank. 12; Cullum, 2, v. Noonan, 14; Pilkington, 12 v. Grant, 13; Tomlinson. 9, v. Cornish’ r< " Littleproud, 9. v. J. T. North. ' 14;’ Weatherell, 11, v. Smith, 11; James, S. v * ‘row, 19; Bell, 6, v. Douglas, 12. Fifth Round.—Tailby, 15, v. Cruicfc--9; Clark * v. Cornish, 9; Burchell, 14, v. Douglas, 11; W. J. North. 13. v. James, S; Ross, 12, v. Smith, 5: Tunhnson, 9 v. Noonan. 9; Grant. 7. v. > T. North, 11; Turton, 23, v. Porter, 2 Pilkington, 23, v. Burrow, 13; 'Weatherell, to, v. Littleproud, 7. -r,fvV‘™ e LV up ;r-. Pi!kin S ton (Hamilton), A^-arnutii) , U 4‘wi^n sT*”* Ta “ by < Te Co^niS~f?o n^taSViae e ) t . I,erinSt ° n - BU tler> ONEHUNGA , The Onehung-a Club plaved its annual dav Pe Tha n f n° r ? he Xeilson Cup yesterrne foliomn E are the final results;

ivinner: J. W. Mac Mow. PAPATOETOE P arti ciPate<3 in a progicbwi\e pans tournament vesterdav at ,?ev. 00 ,i ClUs i 0 . n 9* four rounds.' G. Rawnslev won the skips section, with the maxi' mum number of wins and w leads trophy, with i'' wins'* Toss 5 “ manurewa T. as a . lair attendance of mem--55? ® at the Manurewa Bowling Green, held % progressive pairs tournament wai G Ganaher won the skips' trophy and J. Wilcox claimed the leads honours! OTAHUHU A tournament arranged bv the com. mittee of the Otahuhu Bowling Club called' hel ? yesterday, was canon ac:c ? uut of the unfavourable weather. During the afternoon some of draw ÜbeiS partici P ated an ordinary

Sectior K. V. Sutherland ., K. 13. Wright .. .. Robertson .. Hills ...... _ » A Wins. . .. G Losses. 1 1 3 Gatland.. Ivenny .. .. 5 Schnauer .. In the play-off Wrig and Avon the section. lit beat Sutherland Sectior Macklow Hlowerday MacFarquhar . . Brown .. .. i B Wins. Losses. 1 2 s Bassett .. . I- J- Sutherland .. 2 4 4