BOWLING

Waikato Independent, Volume XXXVII, Issue 3270, 23 February 1937, Page 4

BOWLING

THE CAMBRIDGE CLUB SATURDAY’S DRAW GAMES There w'as a large attendance of bowlers on the Cambridge Club’s greens on Saturday when ordinary draw games were played. Results were: H. Speight, J. Hooker, Davis and Dr Tod 17 v. Hammond, D. Phairn, M. Butler and T. Dix 12. W. Drake, Rev. C. W. Chandler, C. H. Cooper and Mi McNamara 33 v. J. Sullivan, C. Waghorne, H. Wood and A. Hulme 19. B. Ferguson, J. Richards, HE. Martyh and C. W. Hooker 20 v. E. H. Leigh, H. Webber, N. Hill and EdNVin James 15. J. Cameron, D. Bourke, F. R. Wooldridge and E. C. Wallis 19 v. P. Graham, Crowe, J. C. Allan and J. Linsley 16. A. J. Law, H. Bromwich, C. Andrew and H. E. Amyes 25 v. W. R. Laurent, T. Clayton, A. C. Wallis and G. Zainey 17. M. Johnson, A. White and A. Finch 23 v. J. Riley, D. J. Lundon and J. Low 19. LEAMINGTON CLUB A. Larcombe, T. Dagg, Chivers and J. Mclvor 20 v. G. Hoskin, L. Foster, R. S. Hanna, and V. G. Boulton 17. ■ " Handicap Singles: W. Horne 28 v. Hunt 23; Hall 27 v. Calloway 9; Fitzgerald 21 v. Lowe 18.

HARDLEY SHIELD On very fast greens the annual Hardley Shield matches between the Auckland and South Auckland Centres were played at: Hamilton on Saturday, the trophy being won by Auckland.

The Cambridge team, E. J. Easter, R. E. Pilkington, 11. N. Freeman and Edgar James, was defeated in the morning by Pitt, Goldwater, Sykes and Fookes by 25 points to 19, while in the afternoon a loss was again recorded against Katterfeldt, Goldwatery Firth and Gifford, 24—19. A Pearce, and S. Lewis, ot Cambridge, played three and skip respectively in another team, winning in the morning by 24 to 19,

COMPETITION RESULTS

, . • CHAMPIONSHIP SINGLES .Owing to the .need to find the Champion of the Cambridge Bowling Club early in March to compete in the Champion of Champions competition at Hamilton, players are asked to make every endeavour to keep to schedule and facilitate the work of the match committee. Results of the third round arc K. N. Freeman 20 v. H. Wood 9.; A. Pearce 23 v. ,A. \Vill);s M; J. Richards 22 v. C- W. Hooker 16; W. R. Garrard 21 v. H. E. Amyes 11; D. J. Lundon 17 v. S. Lewis 13; M. McNamara 21 v. A. Finch 16; W. E. Westlake 17 v. T. Dix 12; ,N. McFarlane, a bye. The draw for the fourth round, which closes tomorrow, is as follows: ■ Two-lifers: A. Pearce V. H. N. Freeman? N. MeFarlane v. (Onelifers) J. Richards ;: W. B. Garrard v, D. J. Lundon; McNamara v. W. E. Westlake; Hi Wood v, A Willis, President's Fair's In the president’s s paii'sa compefttion, D. Phairn and’ N. MeFarlane have reached the final’ by defeating T. Clayton and G, James 24—14. Oil the other side of the draw C-. Wag.horne. and Edgar James meet JiRichards and H. N. Freeman, the Winners to meet Phairn and 1 M’cFarlane in the final. Wright’s Trophy s The final of the Wright’s, trophy competition will be played between W. Moore and the winner of D. Phairn and E. Martyn.

TOURNAMENT RULES

CAMBRIDGE CRITICISED Criticism of one of the rules of the Cambridge Bowling Club's annual Easter tournament is made by “Trundler” in the Auckland Star, and- if would probably be as well for the executive to be guided by his remarks. ‘‘Reference has been made to the Rbtotaa committee being several years behind in one of the only two laws of the game quoted in the programme, but at Cambridge they are worse, for they give a rule which is. directly contrary to the laws,” ne w'rites. “After stating in last year’s programme that the rules governing the competition shall be those of the Dominion of New Zealand Bowling Association, although that has not been the correct name of the association since 1931, and although no club and no centre is permitted

•to do otherwise thanplay under jt&dke' Miles',! they add another as foljlcws:: ‘Th* v bnnfe pfe£s are only visjibie guides to> itfiifc boundary, and in jth'e event of a» littte* being used' the !kerb marking l shall'' be the points jfrdffli the*” line shall be jstrefchcdl’' ■_ •; • “No umpire - Wtyuick dare to do this, jfor His hi’sf dut : see that the tales and-lWi: Of ‘ 'game are adlieredi tbj’.'atp ‘The* four corners' 1 of tiie rink- shall! be* marked by pegs? rtbt’ Ifesk than direMiftlf, nor more thartvone ihbh in. width} driven into the°tbp’df the bank where* practicable, the outside edges' of stich pegs to be * tlife' of the rink.’ ..... . v ... „ “After alt the "difficult^'Which the Auckland'rVile’ raising' committee had in 1929. to get the? ambiguity over the rink' boundary removed, it comes as .a. shd.ck to realise that', Cambridge hastaot 1 yet fottfifl ' out the result lof.dh'eir'shqOessr in’getting the boundary, defined'. Tacks arc often put in tlid kerbirig of thegreen for the convenienCe. of the green-. keeper himself, but on n’O account may they be considered by Hie players and the umpire. As for a line, this is quitp out of date} - A'stfUare is quicker attd more reliable, and if a square is not handy the scoreboard held upside doWri'iS far better than a line.”