BOWLING

Wanganui Chronicle, Volume 73, Issue 427, 19 November 1930, Page 4

BOWLING

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St. John’s Club Notes.

In the full rink competition th® third round was advanced a stage on Saturday but the heavy downpour prevented the games being finished. A® an average of 14 heads had been played it was decided to complete th® games next Saturday after t<jn fourth round games are finished. The score® and number of heads have been taken.

There were some run-away games on Saturday but it is wonderful how a game changes and with a third oi the game to go anything might happen.

Substitutes were in evidence on .Saturday, four threes being placed as leads. Truly it is hard to get a system satisfactory in ever way. Gonville sent a rink along on Friday and gave the holders of the Keesing Cup a fright by keeping ahead right through the game. St. Johns Jay a tie on the last hea ~ the Gonville skip tipping in another which was practically right in. his way, the head generally favouring St. John’s. Benefield skipped in Kirkwood’s absence and Rowling played lead vice Green. In a bannerette match Gonville were again the challengers and very nearly took away the Bannerette, as they led in a very close game up till the last few heads, St. John’s four on the twentieth head giving them a comfortable lead to start the last head. Both teams played well and the play was quite up to senior standard. St. John’s team was entirely different from last season’s. It is understood that Wanganui East have a challenge in so it will not bi long before another match is played. The club competition games are being got through rapidly now but the weather has been against players and no doubt the match committee will extend the date a few days to give a chance to players who are behind with their games. Just at this stage it would be well to consider if the threelife principle does not entail too many games being played and if it would not be wiser to cut it down to two lives. Personally the writer thinks this must be done next season.

The evening rink competition and the “Ferns” competition are still to be started and then again it is some years since there W’crc games for the senior singles star and the B single® button. Both of these are challenge competitions. The two bowl pairs for the “Tikis’* is another lapsed competition. The “fhrec-Jifc” is certainly better than section play, but the twolife” is still better, most players being content when defeated twice.

It will soon be time to think of making up rinks for the January Dominion tournament at Auckland. So far there is no indication of how many rinks will be going from this centre, states af Wellington writer, but it is a striking thing that when tournaments are held outside of Wellingon there are more rinks from Wellington taking part than from anywhere else. Wellington bowlers liberally patronise tournaments in other centres, even as far away as Oamaru and New Plymouth, but except when the Dominion tournament is held here there are few outside entries for Wellington tournaments. There may be a reason for this, but it is difficult to discover. If Wellington Is a good central point from which to strike out for other tournaments, it should also be a good focal point when tournaments are hold hero.

AV hen a smart soldier steps out on parade there can be found no fault with his uniform, for he has taken the utmost pains with every button. That ’• just as much a matter of pride as it is of discipline- When a bowler turns out as a member of his team it is splendid to see him dressed in a manner that shows he has some pride in his appearance as a unit of that team. The following, taken from an Australian exchange, must appeal to bowlers in tne Dominion: “Much time has been spent by bowlers this week in polishing up their bowls in preparation for the fray of 1930-31. And let us hope that they are paying equal attention to their attire, and that they will step on to the greens each team looking like a combination of players, and not a miscellaneous collection of stragglers from the ends of the earth, some in whites and others in greys, blues, or any other colour, and wearing head-pieces that might have been salvaged from th® Ark.” Bowlers Defined.

“The definition of a bowler !s on® who has paid his sub,” said Mr J. Moyes, president of the South Canterbury Bowling Centre, at the opening of the new green at Highfield recently. This remark caused a good deal of amusement, as did also the reply of Mr G. T. Dawson: “I’m pleased to hear that—so far Highfield has no bowlers at all.”

Notes From Gonvill® Great interest is being taken in th® Singles and Pairs games on the Gonville green, and already some surprises have been registered, some of the younger players upsetting the calculations of the older onesThe second and third rounds of the Singles have been drawn and these must be played not later than December Senior and Willis Shield games are to be played on Saturday against St. John’s. The Gonville Club is the holder of both these trophies.