BOWLING.

Auckland Star, Volume LIX, Issue 223, 20 September 1928, Page 13

BOWLING.

PREPARING FOR SUMMER.

TOURING PARTY RETURNING

(By TRUNDLER.)

The clubs are getting in early with their intimation of their programme for Labour Day, October 22. Full rink tournaments will be held at Carlton, Edendalc, Ellerslie, Epsom, Grey Lynn, Otahuhu, Ponsonby, and Takapuna, and at Pukekohe a combined tournament will be held for all the clubs in the Northern Waikato Association. Mangere will conduct a pairs tournament, and progressive pairs will be played at Helensville and Manurewa. The earliest club opening so far announced is ] Pukekohe, on October 6. St. Heller's will open informally on the same day, reserving a more ceremonial function for December 1. Competitors. in the Press match at Carlton on Saturday will see the rinks published. Any who find themselves unable to play will please advise the sports editor of the "Star," or Mr. A. J. Thompson at the "Herald." If the weather is threatening, as it was last year, competitors can find out if the match is postponed if they telephone to No. 394, Information. Hillsboro' are holding a full rink tournnment next Wednesday, September 26. With such a green to play on, the committee merely had 4o whisper their intention, and the list was filled up at once. Intending competitors at Rotorua will be interested to know that the committee have definitely decided to commence the first tournament on Monday, February 4, and the second on February 18. The Dominion Tournament. Congratulations are due to the new executive of the Dominion Council in Wellington, and particularly to their energetic secretary, MJ-. R. W. Shallcrass, for getting a move on very promptly in their preparations for the big tournament. The posters arrived yesterday, and the first thing that arrests attention is that it has blossomed out under a new name. Instead of being called the Dominion Tournament as heretofore, it is called the " Australian and New Zealand Bowling Carnival." This is really a far better title, at any rate on this occasion, for it is more than a tournament, as it includes the first series of

international Test matches ever played in New Zealand, and the Australian bowlers will doubtless accept the handsome compliment thus paid them. Posters are going to the various State associations in Australia, and also to Fiji, Canada, and the United States, but there is no information yet as to whether any British bowlers are expected. Entrance fees and prizes are on exactly the same scale as in former years, the prizes being trophies to the maximum allowed by the rules, five guineas per player, and although a lot of people often suggest that better prizes should be offered it is doubtful if there would be any more satisfaction if the amount was raised to the Australian level, f8 per player. Entries close on December 15. N.Z. Tourists in Canada. All the New Zealand 'bowlers who are now touring the American Continent, except the seventeen whose names were published a fortnight ago, with their ten ladies, will leave Vancouver to-day by the Niagara for Auckland, and should arrive on October 8. Those who remain will spend all this week bowling and sight-seeing in and around Vancouver and Victoria, and next Monday they leave for California to play at San Francisco, Los Angeles, and Pasadena. The exact itinerary has not been received, but they are all returning to Vancouver (except the four South Island players, who are returning by the Makura to Wellington), and they will leave Vancouver by the Aorangi on October 17, reaching Auckland on November 5. Letters by the Aorangi mail next Tuesday will easily catch them at Vancouver, if addressed care Mr. J. E. Baxter, 2605, Scott Street. The Aorangi mail will also catch the Niagara party at Suva. Our party made the visit to Windsor Castle as arranged during their holiday in London, after the bowling tour through Scotland, and played the Royal Household Bowling Club. Unfortunately the King was away yachting at Cowes, but Mr. Hardley sent him the following telegram:—"The New Zealand bowling team and friends now in the Homeland, and visiting Windsor to-day, beg to be permitted to express their loyalty and devotion to His Majesty, and also their gratification at being allowed to play the final match of their official tour with the Royal Household Bowling Club on the Castle green." His Majesty's private secretary replied as follows, in time for Mr. Hardley to read the telegram at the conclusion of the game:—"The King has received with pleasure the message of greetings

you have sent from the New Zealand bowling team on the occasion of their match with the Royal Household Bowl- I ing Club. In thanking them for their loyal assurances His Majesty trusts that they have all spent an enjoyable day at Windsor." HILLSBORO' CLUB'S TOURNEY. A full rink tournament will be held by the Hillsboro* Club on Wednesday next, play commencing at 9 a.m. sharp. The following skips have entered teams: Parsons (Ponsonby), Hoskings, Bates (Carlton), De Launay (Epsom), Scantlebury (Auckland), Robertson (Onehunga), Alleley (Mount Albert), Pascoe (Auckland Centre), Fraser (Mount Eden), Battersby (Mount Eden), Russell (Remuera), Parker Hill (Papatoetoe), Wilkinson, Sheath, Pollard, Thompson (Hillsboro').