SIX ROUNDS COMPLEIED

Chronicle (Levin), 13 February 1947, Page 7

SIX ROUNDS COMPLEIED

Yesterday's Play In Fours Bowling WELLINGTON, Feb. 12. With six rounds completed in the championship fours tourney at the Dominion bowling tourney, 18 unbeaten" fours have qualified for the postseetional play of two rounds tomorrow which will bring the sectiou play to a elose. Forty-one fours with five wins eacli are weil placed to qualify. Couditions proved very trying for the contestants, the temperature being the highest of the season with lit^ie wind to temper the excessive hea .. All greeus were exceptionally fast. The 18 fours wliieh qualified with six wins are Conby (Ellerslie), Miteheli (Hienheini), McCiymont ^Ponsonby), tlreniner- ^psom), Fleming (Newtown), nenry (fcjydenham) Jonnson (Port Ahuriri), White (Kunanga), Wilson (Mt. Eden), liaffles (Onehunga), la r'renz (Maitai), Hawkins (Paretutu), Wyatt (Karori), (Jullen (Thorndon), MeOullough (Oarltou), Eivingstone (Onehunga), Exelby (h'ra-nkton- Junetion) aua Eainbess (Whangarei). The fours with live wins are Wardrop (Victoria), Higgison { Featherston), Mattar (Thorndon), Bpearman (Ohristehureh K.JS.A.), Gardner (Invercargill), Haworth (Wanganui East), Eeid (Masterton), Taylor (Hataitai), Watts ^Hataitai), O'Neill (Kunanga), Hquire v Hawera), Spurdle (inglewood), iladwm (Huit),' Gray (Kelburn), Eeid (Ey all Eay), Adams (Karori), Oil.es (.united), Eove (Port Chalmers), Kolls (Featherston), kjherwood (Seatoun), oicogluud (Otahuhu), Oleeson -(Papatoetoe), Annstrong (Oonville), Barton [_jixia Toa, Hastings), i'uller (Waitara), Melnnes (Temuka), Scott (Seatoun), jJyson (iiaiiyburton-Johnstone), Wiliianis (Edgeware), Harris (Wanganui), JLlykes (Seatoun), llotter (Okato), Beil (Patea), Field (Karori), Besley (Sydenuain), Veiex (Onehunga), " Adams (Phoenix), Dickson (Khandallah), j.^iugsiau(i (Nelson), iiitchie (lnglevvoou) and (Jlaridge (St. Kilda). Atter losing his first two games E. Haworth (Canterbury) has had a string of four wins and still has a possibility li qualifying. His hardest xnateh was against A. JNeedham (Wellington) who led 11 — G on the lUth end but failed to seore agaiif till the 20th end by which time Haworth led 19 — 11. On the 21st end a iive to Needham enabled him to get withm striking distanee. He required. four- on the linal end to win but eould oniy noteh oue. Oue or the most sensational games •of the afternoon round was between H. E. 0. Dickson 's Khandallah four and r. X'urnell (Epsom). The latter jumped au ay to a liying start including a seven ou tue seeond end to lead 14 — 0 on the oth end and 10 — 1 on the 7th end. On Lne next seven ends llieitson notched 17 points to halt his o.pponent 's run but r urneil relaliated wuli 10 points on tlie next four ends. On the 18th end Furnell led 20 — 18 but the' fortunes of the game were due for further fiuetuations. On tlie 19th end Dickson went uack one-up but dislodged his opponent's sec'ond shot -bowl to lie four aud added another with his next bowl, making the seores: 20— 23 in- Furneii's itavour. Tne splendid ligkt -put' iup. by :^icivspn 's tour had its; rewafd ' a^sMia' took the lead shortly afterwards to ,»iu. J3— 29'. Thh inateh.lasted 4:1- hours during .wMeh: 02 :p.oiuts • w.er.e aggfegated, sonie :exeeiieiit* boU'ls beihgk vvithessed. ki D: Deuueit; (H-'astingSj)! failed to 'niaiiitain .liis gob:d; foi'm of; the earlier auunus. 'bj. iiudshh ^Opgiy\?a) won his morning game eomfortably but went uuun to o. Proudioot (Paekakariki) in tlie afternoon and requires two ruore ..ins to qualify. y r ranxs (ajaimorai), a former chain pion, is out of the running. a. A. McCiyiuont (Ponsonby), slcip of oue of the unbeaten fours, is a .onner JS'cvv Zoaiand ICugby League ro presentative. He has been playing •jonis tor seven years only but has a linc tournament reeord. He has as his i\o. 3 his ±ather-in-law, E. Jury, who oxvipped ihe i\ew Zealand chanipion fours in 1919 and 1921. A. E. Gardner (invercargill) kiiied nine ends in tlie inatch with C. A. Hawortn ( \\ anganui East), but thc elfort was unavailing. This is OanJ ner 's only loss. lUcOullougii ks unbeaten Carlton foui had a very hard game with Caley (Oentral, Petone), winning by a single point 011 the linai liead. There appcars to be now not less tliau seven playing days ahead of tlie tournament and players are discussiini ihe possibility of speeding up the auuual iixture by sueli meaus as applying the sanie two-life systeiu to the fours as is applied to tlie pairs and the singles. In these events a player has two iives only in, the preliminary play. He is out as soon as defeated after that, and one •reason for the use of the two-life system in the preliminary play is that over •a thousand players have eonie hundreds of miles to compete and it is disappointing to rcturn without having had a fair number of games. It is recallcd, however, that in Australia thcre is.no twolife system at all. It is sudden death from the start, and half the fours return, in eases thousands of miles, with only one game, one defeat at that, for their journeys. Players are controllers of the game in New Zealand and have eommented uxion the unxirecedentcd good weather. If it had been otherwise the congestion at this date would have precluded any accurate idea as to when the tournament would end, and oue day's rain during the singles would have meant 150 players still left in instead of six as at present. It had been intended to play the outstanding first-round game of the first sectionsingles between F. White (Runanga) and E. P. Exelby (Frankton Junction) on the Karori green at 5 p.m. yesterdiv, but White 's protractcd four in the afternoon precluded this.