BOWLING.

Star (Christchurch), Issue 8831, 18 January 1907, Page 3

BOWLING.

NEW ZEALAND ASSOCIATION. EXHIBITION TOURNAMENT. The bowlers who are engaged in the New Zealand Bowling Association's Exhibition tournament were tromewhat alarmed this morning for the success of the day which is, from many points of view, the most important of the tournament. To-day is the " c Ladies' Day," and good weather is, of course, essential, co that bowlers had good reason to be anxious when a cold south-west " buster " and an occasional brief shower greeted their waking hour. Onoe more, however, their gjood fortune aeserted itself, and though it may have been tempting Fate to delay the Ladies' Day until the fifth day of a remarkably fine-weather tournament, the penalty they paid wae a comparatively light one. A heavy hailstorm just uefore two o'clock clearly diminished the attendance, but had little effect on the play, only making the greens a little less keen than before. The morning's play -was confined to the Christchurch and Canterbury greens, where the Doubles tournament was continued and the first games of the jinglehanded championship were played. Many bowlers being disengaged, there 1 was a large attendance of spectators at the Canterbury green. The Ladies' Day match, North v. South Island, of sixteen rinks a side, was begun at 2.30 ; p.m. on the Canterbury 'green. The following were the results :— j DOUBLES CHAMPIONSHIP. Third Bound. Leighton and Conlin, _1, beat Brown and Waddell 10. Veale and M'lntosh, 18, beat Barnett and Weir 17. Longton and Bary, 22, beat Brown and Mercer 16. '• Allan and Mackie, 23, beat Berry and Moult 21. Fourth Round. Buchanan and W. M'Donald, 18, beat Woolf andi Borland 9. Craighead and Harrison, 23, beat Holt and Crowley 17. Pollock and Brightwell, 17, beat Porteous and Porteous 10. Oakley and Oakley, 19, beat Gibbes and Still 17. Campbell and Scoullar, 18, beat M'Manaway and Munro 12. J. Johnston and H. Smith, 17, beat Mollison and J. Heron 16. Crawford and Sneddon, 17, beat Neill and M'Laren 12. f SINGLES CHAMPIONSHIP. First Bound. W. Harrison, 14, beat J. Campbell 7. A. M'Gregor, 18, beat J. Hill 5. W. Finn, 13, beat E. Holt 10. J. Button, 14, beat T. Riordan 12. J. Ponsford, 16, beat W. TurnbuU 14. J. Young, 21, beat J. M. Geddis 17. W. Poole, 16, beat N. W. Nicholson 15. E. Crowley, 15, b&a* N. Bell 10. C. Payne, 19, beat H. Gunthorp 15. W'allaoe, 16, beat Murray 7. Betta, 12, beat Strange 8. Durie. 17, beat Clark 12. L. Miller, 18, beat J. M'Kinnon 14. Coxheadi, 14, beat Harper 13. % . - Stone, 19, beat Stott 14. Sollitt, 16, beat A. Young 9. Hewai, 16, beat Pollo*ck 4. M. Shedklan, 15, beat E. Falck 12. J. Porteouß, 16, beat A. Gillies 7. J. H. Maynard, 15, beat A. Stark 13. Second Bound. M'Dougall, 17, beat Gallaway 13. Torrance, 16, beat Smellie 10. Bentley, 19, beat Hitchen 11. Scott, 16, beat M'lntyre 15. Hickey, 18, beat Coxhead 13. . Wilson, 12, beat Mercer 7. W. M'Laren, 19, beat G. Summers 15. " J. A. Nash, 16, beat W. Carswell 10. RINKS CHAMPIONSHIP. FINAL STAGES. /• Gradt B (Second-place Winners in Sections.) Third Bound. Dunedin (Harraway, Gilmour, Hunter and Gillies skip), 27. beat Nowtown (Wylie. Roberts, Price and Prince skip) 20. At seventh' head, 9—4; fourteenth; head, 25—10. Semi-final. Christohurch (W. Hellewell, Dr Thomas, S. Manning and V. White-Parsons skip), 20, beat Timaru (G. A. Simmers, M. White, G.Sealey and W. M'Hutcheson skip) 19. At seventh head, 3 — 6; fourteenth head, 10 — 12.