BOWLING.

Press, Volume LIV, Issue 16143, 22 February 1918, Page 9

BOWLING.

CENTRE CHALLENGE BADGES. The. ninth ma.tch for the Centre Badge® and Watson Challenge Shield vas played on the United green last evening, between Linwood challenger. United (Thomson), holders. At the ~th head the acoros reud il to 1 in Bi"nts favour, and at 14 heeds It to 0. On the 21?t head the lirks were enual—-'J all- All extra head was piayed jn the dark. matches ana handker-chic-fs being used to "■'."hern kitty !a>". Tito head ended in Linwood s favour by The scores were:— Lir.^ood—T. G. Strsnre. J. Buchanan, T. Marriott, .7. R. Brunt (?"> v . United— V«". Hal!, ft. Mclienzie, Suttic, T. Thomson (El The r:ex! challcriers arc Papanni fPcoi). The competition closes on March ,-ilst. CENTRE RINK COMPETITION. The finiil "to twee n Sydenham and United will be played on the Chrialchurch green on Saturday week. AKAROA CLUB. The Akaroa Bowlin; CrJD's green has been verv "veil patronised during the summer holidays by vi3it;rs bowlers. Even no'.v. with February nearly over, there :s ecaicely • a:i afternoon when th 3 weather is favourable but v.-bat visitors, gather on the green. Lately, such well-known players n.3 Had field (Sydenham), Br. Ussber, and Boyd (Tiniaru), Glendinnmg (Otago), have frequently been sdcti trying conclusions with lecal players. The club's competitions arc not m;;kin£ much headway. Broken w&ather, the demands of the cocksfoot harvest, ana the extra duties thrown upon many of the members by the shortage of labour, have picvented any one of the tournaments from being finished. In the doubles, fcr which eight entries were received, some good progress. however, has been made. T. Lewitt and .T. S. Dcdds so far have won all their matches, and it appears likely that they •■•ill run through unbeaten. Their last match against ilaJ 1 and Hayward (skip) nroved, un to the 15th head, a keen, "neck and leek" contest. Then the light bcran to I'ail badiy and the match was finished in the dark, a. little after S p.m. The. winners played Ter** cocsislentlj* throughout, and, after the IGth head, kept well in the lead, finally coming out 10 points to the good* CANTERBURY CLUB. The following have been selected to play at BeckcnJiaan to-morrow : —il.!), lAavis, yox, liotimua; 'iayior G. C. bmtth, Gray, Denny; Bingham, Oullen, Kirker, Mateou. NEW BRIGHTON CLUB. The following wiil represent New Brighton at IjYtlciUjq 10-morrow: —Patrick, Aluirbou, Barrett, Bosomworth (s); Brown, Eastwood, Kogei-e, Jones (s); Bealey, Cooke, Stokee, Beaumont (&) i AlcCrce, je'unthom, Drake, Aiiigcr (c). ( SUMNER CLUB. The. following ars the results of conipetition games p.ayed rcccntly: — Championship rink3 —L. Treleaven, G. Alexander, J. Williamson, -Dr. .-Gcseet (s) defeated J. b. Neville, 11. Piercy, J. Jllingworth, H. Gilby (s), W. J. Hampton, J. Booth, G. W. C. Smithson, W. F. Raphael (s) defeated L. Xrcleavon, G. Alexander, J. Williamson, Dr. Gosset (3), W. S. Mitchell, 1\ W. Partridge, H. Barlow, I'. Barlow (3) defeated H. \\ r • Heslop, S. East, T. B. Boulton, W. S. Heyes (s), W. S. Mitchell, i\ W. Partridge, H. Barlow, I''. Barlow la; defoated L. Tielcavcn, G. Alexander, J. Williamson, Dr. Gosset (3) Chajupionship doubles—W. S» Mitchcll and H. Barlow defea-ted J. Williamson and G. Alexander, W. S. Mitchell ajd H. Barlow defeated K Piorcy and H., Gilby, R. Piercy and H. Gilby defeated J. Williamson and G. Alexander, W. J. Hampton and G. W. C. Smithson defeated J. Williamson and G. Alexander. Championship singles—H. Barlow defeated S. East, "W. S. Mitchell defeated W. F. McArthur, I«. Gibbs defeaied E. A. Johnson. Non Sta.r Singlee—J. S. Neville defeated L. Treleaven, R. Piercy defeated G. Alexander, L. Treleaven defeated G. Alexander.