BOWLINS.

Star (Christchurch), Issue 19847, 16 January 1920, Page 6

BOWLINS.

DOMINION TOURNAMENT.

SINGLES COMPETITION OPENED.

The pleasant weather in which the singles competition of the Dominion howling tournament was opened this morning was in marked contrast to that in which yesterday's rink games were played. Yesterday's rain had freshened the greens, and the compeiition which is being s playod on tin? twolife system, started well. There are ISO players, and five rounds will he played to-day. ten greens being in use. The general tournament arrangements continue to work well.

THE UMPIRES,

The follr.-vri np; are la-day'* green uin pi re? - B. To it 'Canterbury), A. S. Bruce (OpawiO, J. If. Sosper (United). ,f. -fmvsfy (F.dpoivarei, H. Hansford (Chris!church). Fantham (Xe.v Brighton), If. Bruce (St Albans). If. .Kcctk-y (Limvoori), C. T. Ascii in an (Beckenham) and Ur Gossett (Sydenham).

NOTES ON THE RINKS.

Tlie first heads of the Romuera (A. F. Spiller) v. Wellington (S. Potter) game were won by the former, and at the ninth head the score was VI in 2

in his favour. Spiller continued to lead, and at the seventeenth head the score was Spiller 10, Potter 111. Potter was two behind ft the twentieth head. The last head was plaved in the rain. Potter had the best of it, but scored only one.

W. Bremner (Invercargill) started off his game against G'. Gray (Kilburn) hv scoring a five. In the fifth head he scored another five, ami he was then 1. to Gray s one. However. Grnv replied with a five on the seventh head, and another five in the ninth head brought his score within four of Bromner s. Brit, Bremner forged ahead again and on the thirteenth head scored his third five for the game. He was 12 up at the fifteenth head, ami after that never looked litre being beaten. Ln to the eleventh head the mime between R. W. Kirk (Takahr.) and E. (a. (Lynll Bav) Twjs vrry ovon. the score at this head beinc; Tyrrell 9. Kirk 8. A five on the next, head gave lyrrell a comfortable maroin. but hv the sixteenth head Kirk had wiped out half this majority. The last heads went to iyrell, who won with a margin of

At the elevenUi head the score in rlv p trn , t [ nrcl S - Sha, T> t. Westport (U. Pniikhnrst) game was U to ]f) in favour of the latter. Tn the nest three leads Sharp peered nine, thus giving him a lead of eight. A five on the e Hw teenth head gave Sharp a lead of il, Wo won with five to spare. A good start was made hv E. G Tyrrell (F.ynl Bay). j n his game against S. Sharp (Stratford). Bv the Sixth head-he was tire up. J n (ho next head Sharp got. three, to which Tvrrell replied with a three on the eighth head However, a three, on the tenth head and a ronr on the eleventh put S'.;r-,f ford m the lead. With Id heads gone Sharp was three- in the lead. Tyrrell made a good effort in the Inst head hut scored two onlv. ’ 11

W Tll PnnU aS an /w™ c-o n tos (. lie tween 0 . 1 ankhurst (Westport) and R AY urk n-aknka). At the olovoS W 1 ankhurst was one on. but bv niinmthe next two heads KiVk got in rfm 1 y ? nf ;. lllp tesult of the next head matte tho scores even. rnukhuvst scored on the last two heads and won . The surprise ot the day was the w v m which Lyttelton lost its place hi ii,e competition by defeats f,-on, ‘ Wellin'*. onnmlßemnera. 1 1 was not thm, LvT telton played badly l. U f j ln. t Im-f- wasagainst them particularly in the 'mime against Wellington. In the afternJm hom again,l Hemnera ihe position the sixteenth liead was U ( 0 ]() poo ler s Invonr, hut two heads later Henderson had drawn love] only i 0 go down on the last throe head's. The strong Wellington rink, with the veteran Carswell as third nlaver d Fountain skip, had a peculiar f ,onee in .he second game vosierla’v n gainst St John's fFraser). the hoard showing eight heads gone rif.hlßpSs to I rnser and none to Fmmt-im 1 ti Vell.npton rink nulled j ] , hp Imt Inst hv 2o to 19. The St' Job i\ nnk ,ts a very good one, ,1m mml m (ton and general nl„v being Trnsei slops with easy confi loik-p, rnif j rein ers a fine, w^Lthoitglu-oui' Ihe plav of his nnk all t.hrmmh sue' gests that St John's will L 0 7, linnl nnt- to <Tnek in the Dm,] singes. -ALer playing well throughout |}- r tournament Hemingway Inst hB place yesterday, being defeated in in, , and third rounds of the da I-/ a <muS Ha era way (Dunedin) and Fenl-„-i ton). Probably the cold eondiHmv‘V iected .he veteran skip. His twoopp, : iient skips were very much vmuUer tn years and stood tho elements hcUer. I hatuix (Cnlder . which l, ns p l nvrf , well nil through the rinks, won in '(1,7 second round rather easily, Orevnumll, (Jones) losing hv nine, 28-17 ISst round of (he day .a battle mval was witnessed between CulderN nnk and Si John's (Fraser) and after n great tussle the Oamnru men bad to yield pride of place to the Wanganui rink, but by only one point. (Wider still lias a ebanee. however, having lost only one game ' k

Harrawny is a name famous in Dunedin bowling, and it is likely to he perpetuated in the present tournament for Harraway’s Dunedin rink is one 0 f the five teams that have still two lives to (heir credit and (he Dunedin team is also playing with good combination and Harrawny is a line strategist and also plays a • handy howl when it is wanted.

The rain delayed play yc-sterdav. hui except that, bowlers were driven 10 (he pavilion on two or Hires occasions to seek temporary shelter, the programme mapped out for the day was carried through, the only alteration required being the cutting down of the third round from twenty-one to sixteen heads. A isiting and local howlers at the Christchurch green had the almost unique experience of seeing their bowls lying on the green with a coating of white, in the form of hail. At ib e moment it fell, driving players away, the heads were under way ami Hie howls had to he left where they lay uulii the heads were completed .subsequently.

The hail soon disappeared and the green remained unaffected, playing truly and well, jf a shade slow. Jb was noticeable, notwithstanding, that a little extra propulsion landed a bowl in the ditch.

Ihe rather novel officii of “ Tearoom Intelligencer'’ was filled by a howler at the (..'anlet bury howling green yesterday. A largo crowd acre watching the Wylie-AValkcr game, but ilic rain swelled tho ('rowel in the tea-room. So that them last-mentioned might- not miss the delights of the game, one oi' their number stood cm a chair inside one of tho windows, and retailed happenings- in the outside world, in terms such as the Following: ''Walker is picking up his howl. He is wiping it. He lias stooped to play it. lie has gone right through and missed the lot. Mo is walking clown the green, lie lias stopped, am! is -peaking.” Imp last- tragic sentence was ••The game is finished, and he is down and out.” “Four no and two heads to 1 go ” was a remark which announced an exciting stage oi Hie second-round game between .Maxwell Walker (Ponsonliv) and IT Wylie (Kaiapoi) yesterday. Wylie opened with a score of one, to which Walker replied on the. second head. Flay was close until the seventh head, when Wylie scored a five. On the tweilih head they had nine each, and on the fourteenth len each. Jtv this time the weather had become very trying, and a heavy green made piav uncertain. Walker’s rink seemed especially at a loss after the sixteenth head. ITiin and hail made an adjournment necessary, and when fho game was resumed rain was slid descr-mling. Wylie did all Hie scoring from the seventeenth head. Walker made a final attempt to trail kilty, hut failed and lost, 3 £-12.

I here was a close tussle between S. Gordon (>t John's) mid R. H. Stephen:- (Kclh'irn) in the second round yesterday. Stephens had tilings his own nay until the eighth head, and on Iho

tenth he had a score of 1-1-2 in his favour.’ Gordon then picked up, and .scored two fours ami a, two. Stephens replied with a three and a. one. In the next three heads Gordon did the scoring, Stephens got one on the nineteenth head, Gordon added two in the next ’two bends, and then they were IP each. An extra, head yielded one to Stephens. • 1. Woolf (Christchurch) kept ahead of W. Deo (Matai) right, through the game yesterday, once be rcncliod the sixth head. Prior to that Bee had scored four, hut two twos brought Woolf even, and another two on the sixth head gave him his lead. Doc was unable to alter his score until the. tenth head, by which time Woolf had eleven. On the fourteenth head tho score was 11-10 in Woolf's favour, and this ’Woolf enhanced to 18-10 hy 'the eighteenth head. Dee .scored two ami two ones, but was four behind cm the last head. Throughout the game between Laws (Victoria) and Gibbs -lordan (Rangiora) in the second round yesterday poised in tho balance. .lordan, who had vanquished Walker in the, first round, led oil with a one. hut in the seventh head the score was six-all. Jordan got away to nine before Laws made another .score- a lour. Jordan equalised, hut in tho next four heads Laws and his supporters had a rim of success which gave ihein a majority of tire. •lordan .drew oven on the next two heads, hut on the second to last head Laws was three ahead. A gem] deal of excitement centred round the lasthead, on which Jordan gained two, but lost bv one.

(Mooli I.Chrisu'hnrch) started off well with lire against, Nash (Palmerston' North), and was six ahead on the fourth head, but Nash bucked uo and drew level on the eighth head, Woolf went ahead again, and made his lead up tn five on the louripenth head. Bv the sixteenth' head Nash had minced this to two, hut as the game stopped there chance of vieiory was gone. IK'o (.Matah bad a close game with (Abbs Jordan (Hmigiora) in the third rnnj.ul. _ f'larly in Dm game ,J o ifl.;tit had the host of it, and it was tin;, until the eleventh hear! that Dee drew level "ith him. I hey kept ciose together jrom then on, and tied on the hi-t~hoad. The extra head went in Bee's favntt" A. F. Spiiler (Bonuiera) led from the 'Uiri lro:i\ l\. Ihiwonh and at (hr eleven)h Imad he wap nine up. W r.l, ;-,vo heads logo Ha wort!, was still six behind Snider. This margin Jmlpcd Spill, t to van ccnifoidably. A >ix mi the second head uas m.i Ic hv V, . Lre inner (Invercargill) in „j s game jp tno third round against A. p l.endon (Wanganui). .Alter (b.is Wang.'iuii scored fai-Iy rnn>i--ionUv, and v.n.s two up on the eiev.mlli h.e'ad, V.v tiie thirteenth head London was' -i\ up. but hv ihe fifteenth head Breir.uer was oniv one behind him. The. la-r head was very evenly contested, ho:l; sides playing well. ' Tuvercargilf was lying two v. hen London, will a Due shot. got. ni on the jack and scored uuv, thus winning tin-, game.

NOTES ON THE SI NODES. Section ( , on the Canierhury green to-dny. w;rs c, stif. mm. it, im/ludefl ot Ir-nst four ex-r-hiiinpinns;-- .Muxwell Vfnlkor, Cur,well, I larrawu v mid Vt’ylie.

.Maxwell AS alkor (dom nnhy) had much ihc hoit<>i J f)i Ins game againM. L A. Grange f.iucalaud) tin’s morning, i!o started '‘.fitSi si three, mounted to hvo in the iii'xi. liesui, tin.l sifter allowing his opponent ;i solitary ono jumped iwo-oue-two-lwo he loro Grange got V.iiother one. Grange, then scored a two, lint "Welker replied with a iinee, two twos and n one. Grange notched another one. In which Walker oppose',! three ones. Grange put, on a spurt, and in the last lour heads rose from live lo 111. hut W aiicer was safe uilli the -3 he. had compiled pieviorndy. Ju his next game against V,'. Calvert (Beckenham) Maxwell’ Walker came n cropper. On the second iicsid Oalvorl, put nji a ■! to Walker’s oDcning one. Walker set out hard upon his trail and was leading on the eleventh head hy 4. Calvert cquchsca on the fifteenth head, hut Walker gained one against him on the next. There W alkcr’s score stopped whereas Calvert went on | 0 victory in jump:; of iMI-.1-l. G. I lali ( Kaiiipoi) who plays lead for Wylies rink, rivaled a surprise I>y itie easy mamirr in which lie put down V I lord ( Kdgcw.ire). The gaum was coni chiucd mi tlie seventeenth head, Had having run up '.hi lo A, 4. W. Dollau (I anierhurv) • m ,i \v 0. G. Taylor H,ytlolton) "v. P '. v T .|j matched and play va s alwavs' close’ Scores were repeatedly level throughout the game and it was onlv towards the end that Dnllan pulled to the from, and won hy Id io 13.

J. H. .Hayward (Akaroa) and A. Dee Malta!) also proved to be evenly matched, and in a ding-dong contest wi'li heads going first to one and then the other a tie resulted and Hayward won by one Hi llie extra head.

G. I larking-; (.Sclmiii) v.ou nicidy fio’. G. Yager ((.■aiiterhury) hy K’h, );{ Yager was in ironi, on tiro tenth head

‘ini Irmi th.it onwards Harkness genially hud tin: belter of matters.

I’. C. Gould (Ngarmnvahia) scored 23 agaurst F. AV, V\ ;;o (Grcymonth / and "on easiiy. I'vxcept that.the totals Mere oven on the sixth head — (j all— Gould ahvay.- lield the upper hand. Hy deleaiing .Al. F. Barnett (Canterbury) in ins next game by IS to 17, Hall noi only put up a, very fine performance hut demonstrated ids undoubted ability ami consistency, Sinclair Mono tiown omuio >i . *J Shearman (viintcrbury) in the second round by 2U to 11. Tho strong side Mind made play diliienit and Shearman nidged ii very veil. 'lager lost Mi.; .ccoud game, against laylur, 21 to IS. and was the first compel nor tv) 10.-e his place.

tmiiid won his second game, against l>. Cookes (•Carlton), rather easily by 22 to 13; A. I l '. Hpillnr (Hcmncra) 'run comlortahly Irom J. A\ . Hayward (Akaroa) by 20 to 1-3; and' .llarkne-.s deicati'd .Dolland by IS to 10. the winners m cadi instance placing good bowls. , 1,1,0

I In; overhead conditions were plea nnl on the gremt-. tins morning, lint ill.I nitcil green being more exposed than 'ho oilier the effects of the sonllicrly, a Mile wind for the players, wen- Ico. considerably. The green was also a little slid alter the ram. and drawing, therefore, was not so effective as usual. I he innovation introduced on the 'proposal ol Air i.l. S, Barnett ((.nnierburv Cluh) whciony the players arc grouped m threes, th» odd ono umpiring till his turn to play, worked out well tins morning ami bowlers appreciated ihe change. Tin; system is on its trial. The point in its favour is that it provides an umpire ior every game’, whereas under the old order more or less difficulty nvas experienced in finding enough umpires. .fudging from today s results the innovation may he adopted by other centres and heroine permanent' in ihe conduct of the. annual louniaments. No provision seems to have been made for a lime limit in 10-ii,iv < single games and in ronse-pnem-e play got behind and at midday lim second round was not completed. S. Sinclair (Lyttelton) demonstrated his ahiliiy us a howler in his game, against \\. Fraser ((.'hri-dchurch) in the first round of tho singles on the Fniled green t’«-. morning Fraser is one of tho best-known of local players and a bo'.vlcr of high reputation. Sinclair is <nin ol the .Lytlelion champions whoso fine play has been a matter of comment in tho tournament events. Fraser scored hut eight to Sinclair's 23. the gamo ending on the eighteenth head. Fraser began with three in the. first head, but Sinclair scored the next ten heads, 18 to 3. Fraser prevailed in tho 3-tli, L3lh, 13th and I.6th heads for a two and three singles Sinclair won in tho 11th, 17th ami ISth.