PARKHOUSE WINS.

Star (Christchurch), Volume XLIV, Issue 660, 13 January 1933, Page 12

PARKHOUSE WINS.

Singles Bowls Championship * of N.Z. EXCITING FINAL. Per Pres* Association. WELLINGTON, January 12. After an exciting match before a big crowd, W. Parkhouse, of the Wellington Club, won the singles bowls championship this afternoon, when he defeated T. T. M’Alister (Onehunga), 1715, in a game in which the loser was on the trail from start to finish. Semi-finals and finals all produced magnificent bowling. W. Beisley, of Fremantle, declared subsequently that the games constituted the finest singles contests played in the finals of the New Zealand championship. Mr Beisley said that he had never seen anything better, even in Australia. The semi-finals were brilliant games, Parkhouse needing two on the last head to win, and got them, against Edwards (Temuka). In the other game, Reid (Lyall Bay) was one up against M'Alister, with one head to go, and M’Alister got two to win on the last head. Beautiful weather continued, and conditions were perfect, the green being keen. As a compliment to the Commonwealth, L. S. Gumming (City Club, Sydney) and W. Beisley (East Fremantle) were asked to umpire in he semi-finals. Mr Beisley also umpired for the final. The banks of the green were packed when the four semi-finalists in the singles stepped down to begin play. Farkhouaa v. Edwards. Parkhouse was now up against the biggest hurdle, for the Temuka player has been knocking at the door of the singles event for many years past, reaching the final several times without winning it. Parkhouse drew first blood with 2 and 1, and there stuck for six heads. Edwards took three twos and three singles. Parkhouse placed two bowls at the back In the tenth head, and with his third drove the jack to the ditch for three. Edwards tried to draw, but went over. In the next head Parkhouse added another three by pure drawing. Edwards was deadly on the jack, and must have made at least twenty touches. Parkhouse lost the green on the next head, and Edwards put four to his credit. Four even heads mdde the score 15-14 in Edwards’s favour on sixteen heads. At the nineteenth head the players were all square, 16-16. A battle of wits on the twentieth head saw Edwards take a single, and Parkhouse faced the last head one down. Parkhouse drew a foot behind. Edwards drew one inside and the next beside it. Parkhouse killed the head. In the replay Edwards went out too wide, and Parkhouse drew the shot. Edwards was wide again. Parkhouse put in a better one. Edwards drew measure for second shot. Parkhouse trailed the jack for two. Edwards ran through, leaving Parkhouse two, to win. Parkhouse 18, Edwards 17. Raid v. M’Alister. Reid made a promising start, finding the green, and took three. M’Alister scored one. Reid had the best of matters in the third and added three. He was for a time beating his opponent on the draw, and, scoring four on the sixth head, took the lead, 10-4. M’Alister crept up, and a change came over the game. The Onehunga man scored ten points on the next six heads, and led 19-15 with three heads to go. Reid again came in the picture. His second bowl was short. The next took out M’Alister’s second shot to leave him lying three. M’Alister ran through without changing, and Reid drew the fourth. All square, 19-19. Reid scored a single on the next. On the last head Reid placed his first bowl a foot behind. M’Alister drew one inside it. Reid rested it out for two. His opponent drove and saved one. Reid failed to improve the position. M’Alister rested the last two bowls between Reid’s shot bowl and the jack to score two and win. M’Alister 21, Reid 20. The Final. This left Parkhouse and M’Alister in the final. The first head was rather widely spread, but Parkhouse got three M’Alister drew two just behind the jack. Parkhouse ran behind. A short head. Parkhouse rested the opposing measure, shot out and took two. M’Alister drew on the jack. Parkhouse failed to move it and was one down. M’Alister added one by trailing the jack over to be behind it. One to M’Alister, who drew his third three inches from the jack, 5-5. With three bowls each down M’Alister was lying two when Parkhouse drew the shot dead. Parkhouse was lying two and M’Alister had a front bowl. Twice he rested into it without strength to turn it Not. a good head. One to M’Alister. M’Alister trailed the jack to Parkhouse, who added another. M’Alister saved oiie. Parkhouse with his third rested the shot bowl off and held the shot. Parkhouse lying two, M’Alister killed the head. In the re-play he rested Parkhouse out to take two. M’Alister had a triangle of three round the jack, beautifully placed. Parkhouse could not resist the target, drove and scattered them to get the shot. A single to M’Alister. A poor head, the nearest bowl a yard away. The measure gave M’Alister two 11-11. Another wide head, M’Alister lying four until Parkhouse drew it with his last bowl. The seventeenth head was deadly foi M’Alister, who had been chasing all the time but never headed the Wellington man. Parkhouse scored three. 15-11. Parkhouse was on the jack and added another. M’Alister drove and the jack re-bounded to the front, giving him two. Parkhouse again drew the shot, but M’Alister beat it with his last. 15-12. M’Alister took one. 15-13. Parkhouse drew behind the jack. M’Alister rested it further in, but beat him. With his next Parkhouse trailed the jack for shot. M’Alister drove and missed. Parkhouse drew with his last for two. 17-13. M’Alister was four down on the last head and drew two. Parkhouse was handy with his two. M’Alister had a front bowl position, hard to make four M’Alister tried to head and took out one of his own balls, to be two. The game ended Parkhouse 17 M’Alister 15. APPEAL TO BOWLERS. A few weeks ago an appeal lor assistance was made to the Christchurch Bowling Centre by the committee of the Y.W.C.A. The request was unanimously approved by the centre delegates, and it was left to the Match Committee to carry out a scheme for raising the necessary funds. The Match Committee decided to ask all the city and suburban clubs to hold a progressive rinks or doubles tournament, to-morrow being set aside as the day for making the appeal to bowlers. From reports that have been received, it is apparent that several of the clubs have taken up the proposal enthusiastically, and. it is hoped that all the clubs will lend their aid, in order that the contribution from the centre will be substantial. The proposal of the Match Committee is that play shall start on each green at 1.30 p.m., which will permit of a full afternoon of play.