BOWLING.

Sun (Christchurch), Volume I, Issue 31, 13 March 1914, Page 3

BOWLING.

EASTER TOURNAMENT PREPARATIONS. The programme for the Easter tournament of the Christehurch Centre has been issued, and it promises to work out fairly well. The rinks will be commenced on Good Friday, April 10, at 8.30 a.m. There will be four games of 16 heads each, or a time limit of two hours. On Saturday the doubles will be commenced at 8 a.m., with three games of 16 heads each, or a time limit of 2* hours. On Easter Monday the rinks will be continued, with three games of 16 heads, or a time limit of two hours. The section and green winners in the rinks and doubles will be found, and the finals will be played on Tuesday, April 14. The prizes for the rinks are: —First,

phies valued at £4; and second,' two trophies valued at £2. In the general conditions it is laid down that entries close at noon on Saturday, April 4, with the secretary, Mr D. E. Wood. In the event of a tie in any game,, an extra head is to be played. Section ties are to be treated as section winners.

Much interest is being felt in the doubles, semi-final and final, which are to be played to-morrow on the St. Albands green. The St. Albans pair (Oakey and Dobbs) meet Kaiapoi (Parnham skip), and F. Lucas and C. W. Colville meet Pairman and Sandstein. The games ought to produce some excellent contests, and any one of these four pairs is a potential winner. The chances of the Christchurch pair are very much fancied, and if Dr Sandstein plays as well as he did last Saturday he and his brother medico should about get there.

Great preparations are going on for the ehampion of champion rinks contest, and the clubs reps, are taking every opportunity of trying themselves against outside combinations, just for practice. Already"the writer hears of two champion rinks which were beaten by scratch teams, but of course the champions live in" the hppe that The Day will find them in invincible form.

The club competitions are practically over now, and as the nights are drawing in play has stop stop very early fei the evening. In a week or two there won't be much play after six o'clock. However, most of the club champions have been found, and competitions generally are more forward this year than they have been for some seasons past. One of the Canterbury Club's greens is being subjected to a strenuous weeding process. The operation seems 'to be a very thorough one, and it is to be hoped that the club will reap the reward in a clean and true green next season.

Congratulations to A. Jack, of the Sydenham his victory in the Maddison trophy. In the semi-final and final he disposed of two formidable opponents. Even after his remarkable victory over the Ashburton crack he was by no means out of the wood. A good many people thought that in his game against Campbell he had played far above himself, and that he had not another game like it "in the box." It would have been no disgrace to him to have been beaten by Torrance, who is a good all-round bowler. Jack, however, though down in the early stages of the game, stuck to his man, and gradually worked into a winning position. Sack plays a very attractive and sporting ganjp, and as he is quite a young man the/e is every chance that his name will "ultimately appear more than once on Mr Maddison's silver column.

OPAWA CLUB. The Tress Cup Handicap Singles Competition is now almost finished. Denny (scr.) defaulted to Thompson (7), who then met Spiller in the third round, being badly beaten. West (7) met Talbot (4) in the second round, and won. He now meets Steans in the third round, and the winner of this game will meet Spiller in the final. On Saturday play will commence in the Presidents' Bink Competition. SYDENHAM CLUB. There has been bo further play this week in the Club Doubles. In the Colts' Singles Competition

Chambers has 5 wins 1 loss, and Coote 4 wins 1 loss. Coote meets Manhiro, and should win easily, when he and Chambers will play off for first and second places. Dickcnsen and Butler both have 4 wins £ losses, but their puly hope lies in Manhire being able to beat Coote,-when they with Coote would tie for second place. In the President's Doubles, Mercer (s) has won the A section;, M'Cullough (s) the B section; and Spiller (s), Lillington (s), and Woolf (s), with 4 wins 1 loss, tie in the C section. A social evening will be spent in the Club room to-night at 8 o'clock, to* bid farewell to Mr Jas. Young, who leaves shortly for a trip to the Old Country. * On Saturday a twelve-rink friendly match is to be played against Edgeware, nine rinks on the Edgeware green and three on Sydenham.

UNITED CLUB. In the first year Players' Singles, Christie and Swallow are equal with 3 wins and 2 losses, Linzey has 3 wins and 3 losses, and Phillips 2 wins and 2 losses. In the Handicap Singles, Christie has won in the A section. In the B section Phillips leads with 4, wins 1 loss. Woolf, with 5 wins, meets Thompson, 3 wins, in the C section —one of these two being expected to win the section. There has been little play in the D section, in which Stark leads with 6 wins. CANTERBURY CLUB. The final of the Argyle Singles was won by C. M. Gray, who defeated Alexander by 26 to 20. In the Bowlers' Champion Rinks, English, Kirker, Summers, and Ronayne (s) beat Taylor, Hastie, Manson, and Hoffman (s) by 14 to 12. Ronayne 's rink also defeated Clark} Haworth, Tait, and Maynard (s) by 20 to 19. Maynard's rink defeated Bell, G. Baker, Redpath, and Brown (5) by 18 to 16. In the Colours Doubles, W. E,, Maynard and Hastie 26 beat Kirker and Alexander 16; Haworth and Finnegan 26 beat Bell and Penlington 15; Summers and Cherry 22 beat Bingham and Clark 20. A four-rink game between the Canterbury Club and the Commercial Travellers will be played on the Canterbury green on Saturday. SUMNER CLUB. A meeting of the committee of the Sumner Bowling Club was held on Monday night, Mr G. W. C. Smithson presiding. Plans for the pavilion were considered, and it was decided to call a general meeting of the club to select a design, and consider ways and means to raise the money required for its erection. It was" arranged to close the green on March 31.