BOWLING.

Timaru Herald, Volume CXXIII, 24 January 1927, Page 13

BOWLING.

DO Ml NION TO UE N AMEN T.

CLARKE wins singles

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AUCKLAND, Jan. 22. _ TJie Dominion bowling championship tourney concluded at the Carlton green to-day, with the playing ot remaining games in the pairs and singles championships. Results:

PAIRS CHAMPIONSHIPS. (Final). A. Brockelush " and M. M nllcer (Auckland) . 32; v. Bell senr. and Bell junr. (Hamilton), 12.

SINGLES CHAMPIONSHIP. (Semi-Finals). Bell junr. (Hamilton), H; v. Smellie (Green Island, Dunedin), l l b. H. Clarke (Rocky Nook, Auckland), 17; v. Mclntyre (Hamilton), 7.

(Final). Clarke, 24; v. Bell, 11. Walker, who won the singles c . lial j r ‘' pionship in 1919 and 1923, added the honour of skipping the champion pan, after a good fight in the early stages Bell, who had his son as Had, non tho first two heads, getting thiee each, and led, seven to nothing a ■ the third head. Walker opened » account with a single on the louit , adding another on the fifth and sixt . Walker burned the head tvica «vi the seventh, and scored three, reducing Bell’s lead to 7-0. A single to each followed, Bell adding two on the tenth, when the board read, Hamilton u > Auckland 7. Bell scored one on tho eleventh, but Walker took the next three heads with one, two and one, making the score eleven all at the end of the fourteenth head. the next lflad was keenly contested. Brockleush pushed out. Bell junior s shot bowl, and added a. counter to he two. However, Bell senr. drew the shot. Walker then disturbed the head to iio two. Bell touched one of Walker’s woods near the kitty, but on a measure, Walker scored two, and took the lend for the first time, by Id to 11. Thereafter Walker was never headed. He won two successive heads with three and one. Bell scored one on the eighteenth, his first point since the eleventh head. Bell was one on the nineteenth, but- AValker cut out the shot bowl to lie three, a position ho maintained to lead, 20 to 12. Splendid drawing was witnessed on the twentieth head. Auckland was one up when the skips changed ends. Walker added another, and the failure of Bell senr. to drive out Walker’s bowls gave the Auckland pair the championship by 22 to 12. The final of the singles between Clarke and Bell was .disappointing. The latter, who had figured prominently in all three events, had evidently felt the strain, and lacked tne experience of Clarke. . The latter lea eight to five at the ninth head and added six more before Bell took the thirteenth with a single. Olarke reored four at the sixteenth, ana Bell three on the seventeenth. . A two on each of tho two following heads gave Clarke an unchallengeable lead, mid Bell retired, Clarke winning by .34 to 11.

THE BRISTOL CUP

RETAINED BY PARK CLUB. Having defeated Waimato a few weeks ago lor the .much coveted Bristol Cup, the Park Club was called on on Saturday to delend the trophy, a challengehaving been entered by tho Ivia Toa Club. The weather was ideal for tho contest, and the i ark green, where tho match was plujed, was in good order, and very last. The holders of tho trophy were confident at the outset that they could stall off tho challenge, but the issue was in doubt until the last few heads. . , , , , ~ When all rinks had completed the seventh head, the holders had L points to their credit, and the challengers had 49. Tho next seven heads saw, the positions revcised, however, Kia Toa then having a lead of one, the scores being: Kia ioa 100, Park 105. Up to this stage, Kia Toa had been playing very steadily, but they now fell away badly, until, at the close of the game, they were 25 points down. . In the rial-:, O’Leary (Park) v. Wilson! the former started off well, being 4 up at tbe second head. Wilson took three on the next, however, and one on the fourth, level. At tho eleventh head, Wilson had established a lead of 8, but O’Leary reduced this to 5 at tne thirteenth. The next head was an easy one for Wilson, who gained seven, but O’Leary gained two on flic three succeeding heads. He, gamed another on tho last, but Wilson. took the game, 25-17. Fraser (Kia. Toa) scored a point on each of the first five heads, two on the seventh, and two on the ninth, in his contest with Newton, tin'scores at this stage being: Fraser 9, Newton 5. From then on Eraser fell away,

and Newton, wiping off the deficiency, went on to win by 22 to .13.

Hadlee (Kin Ton) line! little difficulty in definition; it. Miller, the final score being 19-12. One of the easiest wins of the afternoon was that of Austin'■ (Park), who defeated Sonter by 29 to 14. .The winners played good bowls, and were never seriously troubled. The; closest and most interesting contest was that between Cowlos (Park) and PurrooL. The first two heads gave Darrocli a load of live, but on the next three be failed to score, Cowles scoring 2, 4 and 1. r l he position was just the reverse. in the succeeding three, Darroch scoring 2,2 and J, which gave him a lead of three. Two singles to Cowles and a three to his opponent saw the lat tor’s lead increased to four at the eleventh head. At the fourteenth he had increased it to six, but from then on to the end he succeeded in scoring on one head only, the eighteenth, which he took by one. Cowles scored i, 2,2, and 1,1, 2 on the last three heads, which gave him the game by two, t!ie final scores being 21-19. J. Miller (Park) easily defeated .Funner, 32-13, while Kirk (Km Tea) registered a victory over F. 13. Hawkey by 2d to 14. Following are the scores, Park names being mentioned first:— Strong, Pa (etna n, Pell, O'Leary (s), 17; v. Clough, Warrington, Hocking, Wilson (s), 20. Worsley ; , Hitch, ’Wilson, J. Miller 'T), d2: V. RohePson, McJennett, Hunt, Farmer (s), Id. -Tomlinson, Creasy, Cosgrove, Dawson ■ (s);, IS ; v! C. Morgan, Berry, ElKs. W. Hawkey (s), 14, Clarkson, Cranston, Gilmore, R. Miller (sV:. 'l2, v. Leigh, H%stie, Watson i. Hadlee («), 19. G. Cowles/ Jenkins, Karton, "VV. TT. Cowles (s) 21; v. Holdgale, Chaplin, Radcliffo. Darrocli (s). 19. Sherlock, Cross, Barnes, Newton (s). 22; v. Davis, Invih, Tavlor, Fraser (s) id. ■/

Niall, To’neyclifTe, Stevens, F. Hawkev (s), 14; v. Fenwick, Metliven, Hall, Kirk GO,' 23. Anderson, Shannon, Thoreau. Austin (s), 29; v. Colder, Radcliffe, Kinross, Sonter (s). 14; Totals: Park, 163; Kia Toa, 105. *