BOWLS

Press, Volume LXXI, Issue 21413, 4 March 1935, Page 18

BOWLS

♦ CENTRE CHAMPIONSHIP PAIRS LINWOOD AND CANTERBURY TO CONTEST FINAL The championship pairs of the Christchurch Bowling Centre was carried a further stage on Saturday last, the venue of play being the-Opawa. Club's green. The weather was Wks* and the green was in good order, ov abling the competitors to produce« very high standard of bowling In the third round, main interest centred in the game between Canterbury and Cashmere, and spectators were treated to a very fine exhibition of all-round play. Fortunes fluctuated throughout the whole game, which to remarkable for the particularly accurate driving of the Cashmere skip a oooosed to the solendid draw shots 01 Finnegan. The beard read 25 all to the second last head and in the deciding end Morrison drove the jack .o the ditch, giving Canterbury a single. Finnegan added two more counts* and Morrison's last bowl, which I6OW as if it would be a measure for .spot just trickled into the ditch, giving Canterbury a win by three points. The other games were not so keeni? contested, and the semi-finals aw failed to arouse any . excitement

amongst the spectators. The final will be contested, onj date to be decided by the centre, between J. C. Smith and B. J. Finnegaj (•Canterbury) and R. McLachlan ana S. Sneddon (Linwood). , Saturday's results were as followsThird Round R. McLachlan and S. Sneddon iWJ wood) 24. H. Taylor and J. Hartley (Papanui) 8. ,tf-»iii. J. Andrews and J. Morgan <Hea i cote> 26. R. Garth and E. LangW (Sydenham) 14, „ t-..„«,»-i ,T. C. Smith and B. J.W* (Canterbury) 28. W. J. Dobbsandt ,f. Morrison (Cashmere) 25. =, J. Morrison and S. P. GillW" (Bcckenham) 26, J. C. Simpson ana * Brown (Kaiapoi Working Men s uw» 14. Semi-finals , Smith and Finnegan 24, Andrews ano Morgan 12. „. Mnrr i. McLachlan and Sneddon 22, M°n son and Gillespie 10. Championship Rinks The champion of champions n" competition of the Christchurcn b« ing Centre will be commenced on a urday next on the Canterbury" United greens, the first game w - scheduled for 12.30 p.m. BECKENHAM RINKS TOOBNtf The annual rinks tourney ° " Beckenham Bowling Club was new Saturday 16 teams P art } cl * winning rink comprised G. y ID i, Maddren, C. Spearman, and VV- B ' i 3 (Sydenham), who were the four rounds. Rinks Sneeston (Beckenham). DobK \" enham). Tregurtha fOpawa'. (Beckenham), and Wilson »£"> tied for second place with tnrw each. Linwood were successiw « play off, the team being G. "« F. Redpath, C. Shaw, and H. wi» KAIAPOI V. RANGIOBA^ In th.- imerborouch contest forJ h ' K) Jmnsh Shield a five-rink match Vt«. £ apoi am! Knnciora was plaverf at »,; S.i.uHhv aft.rnnon and "*»»«£,** for Kaiapoi bv 3 J games to \i- fir „>:- resulted as follows (Kaiapoi nam" Mealirtr 24. HarErraves HMonk 2". B.tiley -"■ i Evans 20, Keir 12. 1/ Ksraitiana 17. BnnfiMd 21. If Butcher 24, MiHiws L -