BOWLING

Wanganui Chronicle, Volume LXXXII, Issue 19448, 6 November 1925, Page 4

BOWLING

FULL-RINK GAMES KAPAITOI CLUB. The following rinks have been chosen for full-rink play, starting to-morrow, at 2 p.m.:— Low, Thomson, T. V. Brown. Gordon. Morrison, Russell, F. Handley, Handley. Park, Roberts, Johnston, Willis. Bassett, Hammond, R. S. Brown, Curtis. A. Handley, Swan, Sum mor ell, Herd. Gordon plays Herd. Handley plays Curtis. Willis a bye. WANGANUI CLUB. The following rinks have been chosen for the club’s full-rink competition Moynihan, Avery, Rev. Cox, Bates. Addcnbrooke, Whiteford, Olson, Cohen. Rowe, Ruscoe, Meuli, Webb. Thorp, Doull, Anderson, J. D. Jackson. Glenn, Poynter, Brown J. T., Crawford. Harle, Davies, Hedditch, McNiven. Armstrong, Pridham, Cramond, Flower. Jones V., -McSkimming, Murray, Keesing. Adams, Wilson, Jacobs, Tomkies. Neumann, Hally, Fry, fillcy. Cork, Jamieson, Shcwan, Jones F. Milne, Caiman, Patterson, Harkness. Shirriffs, Bush, Robertson, Nixon. Macey, Lucena, Astbury, McFarlane. Brown, R.S., Grant, Haworth, Foster. Aylmer, Willis, Gilmour, Goldstone. Norris, Ryder, Jennings, Allomes. Lewis, Muir, Price, McGorrcry. Greenwood, Cooper, Cavcll, Warden. Spriggens G., Valentine, Battle, McAneny. Pauli, Broad, O’Meara, D. Scott. Thompson P., Trcloar, Crcsswell, Harden. The above have been drawn into three sections, and the first round will be played to-morrow. The following is the draw:— Section A.—Flower v. Bates; Allomes v. Harden; Tomkies v. Goldstone; McFarlane v. McNiven. Section B.—McGorrcry v. Cohen; Webb v. D. Scott; Tilley v. Crawford; Jackson a bye. Section C.—Foster v. Harkness; Warden v. F. Jones; McAneny v. Nixon; Keesing a bye. ST. JOHN’S CLUB. On Saturday the second round in the full-rink competition will be played. The draw is as follows: Parkes v. McMillan. Moffatt v. Kerr. Galbraith v. Upton. Hewetson v. Sewell. Hutchinson v. Jack. Delves v. Kirkwood. Christie v. Gellatly. Benefield v. Green. Ball v. Grieve.

THE BRITISH TOURISTS. A MOMENTOUS VISIT. In the course of some remarks about the visit of the English team, “Trundler” writes as follows in the 1 ‘Auckland Star”:—The strike has upset the arrangement by which the bowlers of Perth were to meet their distinguished visitors at Frenmantle and entertain them for the rest of the week. They were also to be met by Mr John Spence, president of the Australian Bowling Council, the silver-tongued veteran orator, whose visit to Auckland with the New South Wales bowlers three years ago will be so well remembered. No doubt ho will have gone as far as Adelaide, and he ill not be the only Sydney bowler to meet them, as Air Tom Yates is leaving for Adelaide with a builders’ bowling team of four rinks to play for a cup presented by Mr James Wall, the New South Wales president. It is a triangular annual contest between New South Wales, Victoria and South Australia, and they play each other twice. Air Wall is one of the party, which will comprise about twenty nu ri and twelve ladies, and as they are to be entertained in Adelaide for about three v ?ks it will give the British vi itors a good idea of the hold which bowling has established in Australia, a point which they will be able to appreciate still better when they realise the immense distances which separate the capitals on the south-eastern side of Australia, which look so close together on the map. How the Tour Originated.

The significance of a trip to the Antipodes by 38 British bowlers cannot be overestimated, and the thanks of all the bowlers in Australia and New Zealand is due to Air Melbourne Orchard, who organised this initial undertaking on such a large scale. An English paper refers to him as a champion of Temple Club, and congratulates him on his success in arranging this great trip. Air Orchard himself mentions several important considerations which had to be kept in view in order to make the trip possible at all. One was the time it would take, and also where the members would be at stated times. Many of them are in business in a large way, and there must naturally be times when they will require to be in cable communication with their friends. Mr Orchard mentions in a private lett. r another point which the writ ? also gathered from the first itinerary arranged. This is not only a bowling tour, but an invasion of the Dominions by representative men of mature judgment, and he wants them to see as many of the scenic beauties as possible. They arc not a team of athletic footballers, to be raced up and down the country at break-neck pace, like the Press delegates were a few weeks ago, when some of them pulled out of the more strenuous side trips in < rder to have a quiet game of golf. Air Orchard mentions that it will be quite impossible for them to please everyone, but I he hopes the team will r. t be worked to death. Naturally the social side will be fairly strenuous. Australia House were to give them a reception on ti e afternoon prior to their sailing, and in the evening they were to be received and entertained at the New Zealand I Pavilion at Wembley. A goodly crowd of London bowlers were going to Tilbury to see them off, and their tour through Australia and New Zealand will be one continual round of gaiety. Probably what will suit them, best will

[be two games per day, with a half- ! hour’s motor run before each match. | One clause in Mr Orchard’s letter j which arrived this week will arrest attention. “They will win more matches than they lose after they have been playing together for a few matches. I consider that when they arrive in New Zealand it will take a good team to beat them.” What They Will Wear. The general directions to the team requirff them to pro . ide themselves with grey flannels and a blue blaz r with badge and gilt buttons, a panama hat with green silk ur.derbrim and hatband of touring team colours, silk tic in same colours, and brown shoes. No doubt there will be a similar direction here, making it compulsory that all local bowlers must wear .heir club colours. The intimation from Wellington which was given last week, relative to the interchange of badges, is apparently correct, for each of the 38 tourists must provide himself with ‘ ‘at least 150 badges.” As this is about the number of matches they will play they evidently intend to give a badge to everyone they meet, so the clubs in Auckland would do Well to keep a good stock for their members to give in return. How Long They Will Stay. One very welcome piece of information in Mr Orchard’s letter is that some of the members intend to remain in New Zealand a month or so after the official tour is over, and these will most likely take part in the Rotorua tournament. What is quite clear is that : o 'itinerary can be definitely ft..cd at preIsent, for nobody can say when the main body will leave. The Tainui is quite six weeks behind in her running, and

it is not yet certain whether they could transfer to another steamer, for dur ing the autumn all the outward accommodation is usually booked up some months ahead. Unless, therefore, the Tainui rushes back to New Zealand in ballast there is no chance whatever that they can get away on February 1(1 and the whole itinerary will have to remain open until something more definite is known.