BOWLING.

Press, Volume LXIII, Issue 18903, 19 January 1927, Page 14

BOWLING.

♦ ■; • DOMINION TOURNAMENT PAIRS CHAMPIONSHIP. (PRESS ASSOCIATION TELEGRAM.) AUCKLAND, January 18. The Pairs Championship in connexion with the Dominion Bowling Tournament was continued to-day. Five rounds of section play were completed, and all section ties decided. Thereafter, some matches to decide green winners were played. The systom adopted i 3 that tho winner of Section A 1 plays the winner of Section A 2 to decido the winner of Section A, and eo on throughout the other sections. This means that nineteen will enter the poat-section play, which will be on the sudden death principle. The section winners were as follows: Section A I—Chapman (Rocky Nook). Section A (Edendale). Section B I—Ryan (Remuera). \ Section B 2—Walker (Auckland). Section C I—Scrivener (Wunganui East). Section C 2—lnglis (Epsom). Section D I—Trayea (Mout Eden). Section I> 2—Torrance (Ponsonby). Section E I—Bell (Hamilton). Section E 2—Fraser (Auckland). Section F I—Daniels (Remuera). Section. F 2—Chapman (Ponsonby). Seotion G I—J. D. Smith (Dunedin)."' Section G 2—G. Clark (Mount Albert). Section H I—Proctor (Remuera). Section H 2—Caughley (Kelburn). Section I I—Kilgour (Carlton). Section I 2—Atkinßon (Kahutia). Section J I—Nairn (Mount Eden). Section J 2—Livingatone (Onehunga). Section K I—Badford (Manawatu). Seotion K 2—Jack (St. John's). Section L I—Pollock (Nowlown). Seotion L 2—Harraway (Green Island). Section M I—Gordon (St. John's). , Section M 2 Eownsley (Papatoetoe). Section N I—Trusoott- (Carlton).

Section. N 2—Armstrong (Pukekohe). Section O I—BenefieW /St. 'John'*). Section O 2-Spillcr (Wellington). Section P 1-AUsopp (Dominion road). Section P 2—Naylor (Thotndon). Section Q I—Wakeley (Rocky Nook). Section Q 2—Hutchison (Dunedin). Section R I—Pilkinjrton (Hamilton). Section R 2—Roulston (Pukekohe). Section S I—Sliillito (Timaru). Section S 2—Whito (Hastings. Green winners were found in the following Section C—Scrivener 23 heat Inglis 15. Section F—Daniels 24, beat Chapman 20. Section G—J. D. Smith 26 Beat G. Clark 15. Section H—Proctor 20 beat Caughley 16. Section I—Atkinson 26 'beat Kilgour 20. Section K—Jack 23 beat Radford 20. Section o—Benefield 21 beat Spiller 16. Section o—Hutchison 27 beat Wakeley 19. Section lB lB beat White 16.

PAPARUA CLUB. The following players will represent Paparua, v. United at Papania green, on Saturday:—Davison, Bailey, Bailey, Pollock (s); Kempthorno, McTavish, Henderson, Evans (s): Payne. "Watkins, Allen, Worsley (s); McNab, Cutts, Evans, Grant (s); ■Walker, Slade, Harper, Poolcy (s). ELLESMERE ASSOCIATION. The Dunsandel Bowling Club .inflicted a decisive defeat upon the Leeston Club in a Loudon Booster competition match, played on the Dunsandel green, the winners having a lead of 2S points at the finish. Dunsandel'a triumph was the result of superior play all round, Leeston having a lead in only one rink. The result of tho match means that Dunsandel Club will retain the Rooster, which has been in its possession for several seasons.

The following are the names ot the skips and scores of the individual rinks:—J. Boag 20, W. Watson 22; A. Macpherson 21, S. Johnston 16; G. W. Kime 31, H. Neove 10; J Burgess 16, M. Curran 12; totals: Dunsandel 88, Leeston 60.

A new club, a driver, which the- inventor claims cannot slice the ball, has vertical grooves fluted to correspond with 1,1)6 curvature of a golf ball, and moulded on the club's face. When the ball is struck, the ridges catch and drop it into one of the grooves, preventing motion sideways.