BOWLING NOTES.

Timaru Herald, Volume CXXIII, 19 December 1925, Page 4

BOWLING NOTES.

(By “Pavilion.”) j 1 S.C.B.C. COMPETITIONS. ! (liesults to 12th December.) THURSDAY CHAMPIONSHIP. ’

I FIXTURES. SATURDAY, DECEMBER 19th. West End v. Timaru, at West End. Park v. ICia Toa, at ICia Toa. Ashburyj a bye. SHIELD “B” SECTION. Timaru B v, Waimate at Timaru.

NOTES. Thfe final round in ail sections of the South Canterbury Bowling Centre's competitions (with the exception of one postponed game) wiil_ be completed this week. The exception is the Thursday match, Waimate v, Timaru, which is pencilled for January 14th. The winning of the Thursday championship apparently rests on the game Detween 'lemuka and •,Timaru. It the latter win they will be in ;an uriasspilr' able position, but if Temuka win, the result will be in doubt until after the matches to be played by Waimate are completed. , The Saturday championship will goto West End if. that club can bept Timaru on Satuz-day, and in any ease, as there are no ties, West End. has the best average of points .so far, and wilt probably win on points, whatever the result of Saturday’s matches may be. The winner of the Shield section will be Waimate, probably, ns a_wpu for Timaru next Saturday will'; give, the. three leading teams a total I. of two 1 ! points each, and in that case Waimate ; with the best average will .be the ‘ section winner. If Waimate defeat ’ Timaru “B” the former Ivins the section outright, and will play Timaru A , in the final. i

| The levies Chib can be heartily j congratulated on winning the double event last Thursday,', the Bristol Gup and the'- Thursday championship match, by a margin of 24 points. Temuka had 3 rink wins. Fraser beat Laing 21—11, Smith beat Creemcr 25—13, and Edwards beat Grant 31—12. One rink, Carpenter’s, drew with C. Smith 22 all. Waimate had four rink wins, Granger beat ■ Collins 22—15; Collett boat. McCallum 21—19; Jackson beat Ferguson 20—1 G; Healey beat Hunt 21—17. Temuka with the highest aggregate, 166 to 142, won the match. It was certainly hard luck for Waimate to lost the match, .after winning in a majority of rinks. . have the draw for the next ‘Bristol Cup fatcli, arid wlll plny Temuka on the Temuka green on Thursday, January 7th. y '"v ..r: The, South. Canterbury Tournament is being, well supported by local bowlers, but entries from outside clubs are a bit thin. The visitors will include lost, year’s winners of the rink, W. Hedges ' of Ocean Beach, and D. Gibson, of i Taieri (who were runners up on that ! occasion), Watson (United), Kellaway j .(Linwood), Slater (Meadowbank), Lock ; (St. Clair), Higgins (Ashburton), i Taylor (Sydenham), and Falconer. ! Alcock (Balmacewan) will play in the ; pairs and singles. Fairlie is the only local club not represented in the tournament. Two greens, Park and i West End, will be used in the Kinks Competition, for which there are 32 l entries, and Timaru, Park, West End, Ashbury, and ICia Toa greens for the Pairs Competition which has 70 entries. It is to be hoped that the weather this year will be favourable; the Centre had a very busy and anxious time last year on account of the wet weather experienced, and are looking for much better conditions this year. The Centre has room for extra Pairs and Singles for the tournament, but immediate application is necessary.

BLACK CAT MASCOT. , ' " Quite recently on the Victoria Bowling Club’s green (writes No. 2 in the Wellington Post), while two rinks were playing for the Hammerton Badges, the No. 3 of the challengers was just in the act of delivering hie bowl when a black cat ran across in front of him, and then over the full length of the green. He claimed it on behalf of his team as a good omen, but the holders of the badges likewise claimed the cat as their mascot. Strange to relate, the match ended in a tie. Mr W. F. Wade, an English bowler who has been asking for advice eon- ; cerning the kind of bowls the British team should use in the forthcoming Australian and New Zealand tour, is answered by an Australian bowler now staying in London. “Opinions differ in Australia, just as they do here,” says this writer. “M,v own preference is for wood. As a small-fisted man they suit me better. There was an unexplainable deadweight or density in composition bowls, which caused me to drop them on the point of delivery, and, further, my experience was that the compo did not run nearly so generously on a dead green. Mr Wade is altogether misled in his statement that the use of composition bowls in Australia is almost universal. In my own club not more than three or four members use them, and I should say that not more than 10 per cent, of Australians favour them. In my own State few of the best players have been converted to composition, and I do know that one of the most skilful bowlers in Australia, who had a pecuniary interest in selling composition bowls,- stuck to his words. I do think the narrow-running surface of one of the composition makes appeal to many as they did to me; but it was the shape, and as I can get the manufacturers of wood to make lignum vitae on the same lines, I intend to take | back a set of lignum, which lias proved I to me the best all-rounder. Mr Melbourne Orchard agrees that the days of i the lignum <yitae bowl are by no means ! numbered in Australia and New Zealand. If Mr Wade, he says, had raised the matter of differing bias in the Dominions he would have hit upon a very thorny subject.

P. W. L. Pbs. Temuka . . • 1 3 Timaru .... 0 3 West End » . 2 2 Wa ini ate . . . 2 1 Geraldine , . 3 1 Fairlie .... 3 1 SATUKDAY CHAMPIONSHIP. P. W. L. PU. West 3 3 0 3 Kia Toa ...» 1 2 Park 3 2 1 2 Timaru .... . , . 3 1 2 1 Ashbury .... 4 1 0 SHIELD B. SECTION. P. W. L. Pfo. Geraldine , ■ « ... 3 2 1 .2 Waimate . . . . . 2 2 0 2 Timaru .... . . 2 1 1 1 West End .... 3.0 3 0