BOWLING.

New Zealand Illustrated Sporting & Dramatic Review, Volume XIII, Issue 793, 18 May 1905, Page 13

BOWLING.

(By

the “Skip.”)

The Mount Eden Club members have good grounds for indulging in a little crowing, for they have won every one of the inter-club fixtures this season. Carlton were the last victims, having been beaten by 139 to 120.

H. W. Brookes did best for Mount Eden on Saturday, beating Wilson by 32 to 12. Kilgour was the most successful Carlton skip, winning by 23 to 16.

The Remuera green will be closed for the season after Saturday next.

Ponsonby put up the shutters for the season last Saturday. The green has not worn so well as usual, being very bare in many places, but, of course, there has been a great deal oi ..y on it.

The Devonport green was in perfect condition on Saturday, and looked as though the season was just opening instead of closing, for there was not a suspicion of a bare patch anywhere. The chief item was the final of the championship between Gardner and Ralfe, which was wonderfully keenly fought out. Gardner had won the first game by 23 to 12, but on Saturday, the second game went the other way, Ralfe taking it 23 to 18. The closing stages of the final game were very close, Gardner getting home by a single point with 21 to 20.

Eva beat Reeve in the final of the First Year’s Players’ competition at North Shore by 23 to 21 after a very close go. A fairly strong four from the Auckland Club, skipped by Handcock, went ovei’ to the Shore on Saturday, but a team skinped by Eagleton put them through by 19 to 16. Eyre, at third man, played a great game for the winners, being repeatedly on the jack. It was 16 all on the twentieth head when the Shore men got in three and won handily.

R. R. Ross has won the Mount Eden championship by 21 to 8 and 23 to 19, AV. H. Mercer being his opponent in the final.