BOWLING.

Star (Christchurch), Issue 16641, 25 January 1922, Page 4

BOWLING.

DOMINION TOURNAMENT. CARSWELL WINS RINKS. (Per Press Association.) DUNEDIN. January 24. Two of three competitions in the Dominion Bowling- Tournament were concluded to-day in fine weather. . The doubles finish on Wednesday. The semi-final in the rinks competition saw a surprising collapse of Harraway's and Henderson's teams, which had shown great form playing against each other yesterday. Even the skips were not at their best and the bowling of the rest was all astray. Harraway was beaten by Parsons. 10-26, and Henderson by Carswell, 12-2 S. Parsons's rink collapsed in the final. Their bowling was as bad then as it had been good in the semi-final, while Carswell’s rink, which came through the competition with only one loss, were howling with deadly accuracy. The latter rink kept increasing their lead and the game ended on the eighteenth head, 308. The singles semi-final was far more interesting. The play was even and bowling good. The two Masterton "airs, skippered by Perry and Kerr, were defeated by Carolin 19-15 and by Rigby 21-19 respectively: Rigby, who was drawing splendidly, defeated Carolin in the final 21-13. THE DOUBLES. The following green winners in the pairs competition, played off: — Brackenridge 17 heat Anderson 16. E. Smith 23 heat Isaac 19. Wright 22 beat Sub an 12. Ha in 19 beat Hogg 14. Brackenridge 25 beat Wright 10. The last game was a semi-final. The other semi-final lies between Smith with Hutcheson and Hain with Parson^. RINKS SEMI-FINALS. Carswell (Taieri) 25 heat Henderson (Lyttelton) 12. Parsons (Ponsonby) 26 beat Harraway (Dunedin) 10. RINKS FINAL. Carswell (Taieri) 30 beat Parsons (Ponsonby) 8. SINGLES SEMI-FINALS. Rigby (North-east Valley) 21 beat Kerr (Masterton) 19. Carolin (St Kilda) 19 beat Perry (Masterton) 15. SINGLES FINAL. Rigby (North-east Valley) 21 beat Carolir. (St Kilda) 13. DISAPPOINTING RINK PLAY. TWO COMPETITIONS COMPLETED [From Our Corrf.spondsnt.J DUNEDIN. January 24. Two out of the three competitions in the Dominion Bowling Tournament were concluded on the Dunedin green to-dav. in the presence of a few hundred spectators. Both the semi-final and final games in the rinks competition were distinctly disappointing owing to the surprising collapse of wo rinks which had been playing at 1 ,e tpp of tlieir form the afternoon before u tire semi-final. The rinks which ue.es ukippai by Henderson (LyttrSitonJ and

Harraway (Dunedin) suffered an overwhelming defeat at the hands of Carswell (Taieri) and Parsons (Ponsonby). In the same way in the final. Parsons’s rink which had been bowling in great form against Harraway, went right off form and gave the Taieri men the easiest of wins. Carswell’s redoutable rink played splendidly and kept piling up the score until the eighteenth head, when the game ended 30-8. Their record in the post section play ’s six wins, one loss and a bye. The runners-up, (Parsons's rmk from Ponsonby) have six wins and two losses. Of the others who reached the semi-final. Harraway (Dunedin) has five wins and two losses and Henderson (Lyttelton) four wins, two losses and a bye. SINGLES SEMX-FINAL. The semi-final in the Bineles competitition was much more interesting as the play was even. Righy (North-east Valles 1 and Carolin (St Kilda) went final which was won nicely by the former. His bowling was wonderfully accurate. THE DOUBLES. One of the two semi-final games in the pairs competition was played 3 ;esterday and was the last game of the afternoon. It was started while another double and the rinks final were in progress and probably few of the spectators realised that it was a tournament game The result was an easy victory for Brackenridge (Newtown) against Wright (Balmacewan). The other semi final and the final in this competition will be played on Wednesday, beginning about 2.30. RINK SEMI-FINALS.

The Lyttelton rink fared badly at the hands of the Taieri team, the players in the latter finding the strength of the green right away and scoring 10 on the first three heads, two fours and then a two. Henderson’s men. improved and got three on the fourth head and one on the fifth. Carswell then got a straight’ run of five more heads, including a five on the seventh, giving him the substantial lead of 20-4 on the tenth head. The Lyttelton team, faced with a most difficult position, as the Taieri men were in perfect form, put up a stern fight. They scored for five successive heads, but were never able to secure much, two twos and three singles only being obtained, leaving them still nine down at the conclusion of the fifteenth end. Taieri got two on the sixteenth head, and another one to Lyttelton made the score 22-12 on the seventeenth end. The play in the eighteenth inohes, an dTaieri lying two. Henderson used both his bowls trying to drive his opponent out. He improved matters, but failed to get the shot bowl out, Taieri thus adding another single. The nineteenth end was no more favourable to Henderson, and again he took to driving. He got the jack, but failed to burn the head, kitty remaining inside by a few inches and, Taieri lying two, Henderson carried matters no further.; Taieri’s win was secured by genuine good play and fine skipping, and Carswell 'was warmly congratulated on- all sides. - Harrawdy’s Dunedin rink lost their game at the beginning by allowing Parsons (Ponsonby) to pile up 15 points in the first seven ends. In the next three Dunedin made six, but at the twelfth end PonHonby were 19. Dunedin came up four in the next two heads. In the fourteenth head Ponsonby -were lying one, and Harraway’s drive, with his last bowl, missed. Parsons’s drive in the next head, when Harraway’s bowl was on the kitty, was more successful, and he scored another point, 20-10. The next end wa9 also won by Parsons. The last bowl Carolin had bowled well, and Dunedin were lying two, but Parsons drew round, knocked one Dunedin bowl out and left his own between the other and the kitty. Harraway drove at the winning bowl, but missed it by a foot. By a difficult cut out of the kitty at the finish of the next end Harraway might have scored two, but his shot just missed by a fraction, 22-10. Harraway’s second shot at the kitty in the next end was true, but Ponsonby were fortunate still and got two points. For the last few ends Hogg had been playing right off form and, added to that, was the fact that Ponsonby had the green better than Dunedin, whose collapse, after a really fine game against Henderson the day before, was surprising. Hogg improved towards the end and. in the nineteenth head, he drove the kitty and one of Ponsonby’s bowls into the ditch. Parsons, however, drew beautifully right to the very edge and Ilarraway’s drive missed, 25-10. Ponsonby added another point in tbe twen-

tieth head, when the game was given up, Dunedin being then 16 down. RINK FINAL. The final of the rinks was very onesided and very disappointing, the Taieri team playiug better than ever, simply getting all over Parsons’s rink. The latter gave a most disappointing display, being quite unrecognisable as the same rink that had defeated Harraway so handsomely in the morning and that has played with such consistent form throughout the tournament. M'Kinnon, the Taieri lead, played an outstanding game, being nine times out of ten right on the jack, while tho second and thirds, the two Allans, were steady and thoroughly reliable. Parsons’s team left everything to their skip, for head after head they were simply nowhere, and Parsons had to carry the whole burden oA his own shoulders. He exhibited great courage and splendid sportsmanship, hoping apparently that his team would yet strike something like their real form, but 80-8 on the eighteenth head was too much. As he said, “It will do me,” and ho declared off. At the end of the fourth head Carswell stood 9-0. Then the Ponsonby rink got one, onlv to be followed by four more to the Taieri men. Ponsonby got two singles owing almost solely to Parsons himself, though Casey, his third man. assisted on the second occasion by breaking up the leading position. The rest of the game was quite uninteresting, Taieri piling up strong positions and Parsons having to do the best he could under the most adverse conditions. The score went to 18-3, 19-3, 20-3 20-4, 23-4, 25-4. 27-4, 27-7, 27-8, and finally 30-8 on the eighteenth head. It was tne old Btory of a good team gone to nieces, the most tragic spectacle the sporting field can offer. Parsons retained his own game and took what was coming to him in sportsmanlike fashion. He warmly congratulated the conquerors amid a cheering hank.

SINGLES CHAMPIONSHIP PLAY. The final between Rigby (North Eapt Valley) and Carolin (St Hilda) was somewhat disappointing, as it was plain from the .beginning that Rigby's deadly accuracy was bound to win the game. Occas. ionally Carolin played jqsfc as accurate shots, but Rigby was hardly ever off it He maintained a. small lead until the twelfth end, when an accurate draw to the jack ga-ve Carolin one point. The score was thqn 11 aff. Rigby settled dpyfu fo it then and won r he next six ends. In the thirteenth end, Carolin. with a fine shot, cut the kitty over to one of his bowls, but Rigby won by drawing to Carolin and displacing him. The next end Rigby got one point and in the next head, three bowls grouped behind the kitty gave him two more points. At the seventeenth head the score was 18-11 in his favour. In the eighteenth head Carolin was lying one, but Rigby again displaced him and Carolin’s drive went wide. Rigby knocked his own bowl with his last draw, but did not lose the point. Cardin went up two in the nineteenth head, Rigby just missing a draw in front by a fraction. ltigbv was lying one before his last shot in the next end and got the two points. The score was then 21-13, so the la® 4 head was not played. Rigby is thus the singles champion for the Dominion this year.