EASIER TOURNAMENT.

Colonist, Volume LII, Issue 12754, 29 March 1910, Page 3

EASIER TOURNAMENT.

MONDAY MORNING.

The bowling tournament was brought to a ciose yesterday afternoon though a tew ot the visitors are remaining behind and looking lor a name to-day. Another fine day lavourctl the players, and the wnia was not sufficiently strong to v'u ' t f r -;-; with the play to any approc ia );o extent. Both greens wore in full plaj nU day, throe rounds or matelies beur . avod A largonunibcr or specia?o!s were present throughout the and moie interest has beeJi displayed in the games than previously. itic MJtai v^iub came out ot the tournament with the best average, winning twelve out of fifteen matches. Of the younger clubs, l J icton stands out well ana can give the older cubs a good game at any tune, lho golden Bay (Takaka) players made a better showing than tne actual scores denote, and with the necessaiy tune tor experience there can be no doubt that this club will acquit itselt as creditably as Takaka docs brother branches <>f A? the conclusion of the day's play the whole of the players gathered on tho Nolson green, whero M\ *• •«• Jones, junr.r took a photograph ol the massed teams. • . At the invitation of the visiting bowlers, tho players then adjourned to the City Club. Here the Rev. V> . S Lucas, as President of the Nelson Club, on behalf of .his own club w id the iaitai Club bnetly «P"»~f.* h ? pleasure it had been to have sug i a largo representation from .outwje clubs He emphasised the point that the l^cal players were less concerned h wfigVatches than they were in seeing that the visitors were pi-oper-lj "aterod for with games and their Blenheim, said that so much had the visitors appreciated tho kindness of the JNeisoTKers, that a committee drawn rSn the whole of the visiting clubs lad decided that they ahouU -join m asking the Nelson and Maitai Clubs S bo present that they might drink the? healths. He had been chosen as spokeßman, and he felt is an hon--2ur H The weather had been glorious, nost ' enioyable games had been plaj"d?aiShe hospitality had been most, generous. Bowls was more than a me:e game and a striving for vic-iorv-it promoted friendship and had a good moral effect wiiJiont tofS JW of a zest of keen contest. The Nelson Club had a beautiful .green, one of tlio best in the Dominion, and it was fortunate in its officers with a "King" for a secretary, but the Maitai Club also was well olf, it was good, for though it had no church <ugmtary at its head, it had a "Chappell" all to itself. The Nelson green was so good that looking at it one would say that anyone could play on ft, but the Maitai Club had a green that only experts could succeed upon— that was why the Maitai Club was so 'Tp&ul supply of a sparkling beveiago being then forthcoming All Griffiths proposed the health of tjie two Nelson Clubs, . askmg the bers thereof to join m, for, as to said, tho Nelson men could drink health to the Maitai and the Maitai to the xVclson Club. The toast was drunk -with -musical honours, and after the Rev. \V. b. Lucas (kelson) and Mr Chappell (Mai tai) had suitably responded, the ers left "by last night's The afternoon tea on tho kelson creen was provided by Mrs (ur) Lucas, and on the Maitai green by are the details of yestewlay'fl play:—