BOWLS.

Dominion, Volume 2, Issue 415, 26 January 1909, Page 7

BOWLS.

THE SINGLES CHAMPIONSHIP.. : v ;■' (BJ'TELEGttArn—FItESS\4SSppiATIO!f;)i•■'■ .:-' .-' '.';'■'. Chrisfohurch,- January 23.;; : The finals in the singles championship were/ played to-day on the Canterbury-green.',,KZ'.'"' '• Second round of- section 'winners' :?Scptt (Caledonian): 21 beat, Bently,' (Duriedin) 14, t'raser (United) 22 beat; H'Dougair (Christchurch) 20, Gisborno'abye. '.'Scott got:home nicely from Bently. Tho Caledprnan ■ mail was playinga great game-andgotaway witli : a lead, Bently was rather off colour,, and yeas'- not nearly 'so deadly in his'drawing as on the previous; day. < The game' between Eraser and M'Dougall was an extraordinary one. \ At tho eighth head r Ffa'ser:was"'lsvup to 1, the Christchurch man having only';'.a' singkV to his; credit. M'Dougall \ rifa'do'?-a' great recoyery and scorKl.so 'wpnvth'at.'.'in the. last head he. had ;tied. An extra head was played, and Fraser got a couple of shots OUt Of it.. '■: ; '.-'.

Third round: Goldstone (Waimate) 19 beat Scott (Caledonian) -17. '-'■■• :■:.';■:::,'/" ; -

■'! Semi-final: /Varcoo (Victoria)' 17 beat Fraser (Unitecl) 16, M'L'aren(Dunedin)' 18 beat 6oldstono'(Wairiiato)"l6; ■■■'!'.' !"'':*.:"':'; ! - ■' The final: M'Laron (Dunedin) 20 beat Varcoe (Victoria) 13. '•"In 'this' game ; fVarooo started ,offi with two' twos, "■'■But'M'Laren netted 3 at tho third head, and .equalised l ' with' a single at the'fourth head. 'On the next head Varcoe lay ;ono shot; and'J.as'.'M'Lareri'' failed to draw, the Victorian was one'up. In tho sixth head Varcoe"drew.right, on the jack and lay short, i but M'Lar6'nl : sliifted.''him ; with his next bowl,.and lay orie'. : ;After a good drawing .contest in. this -Mad M'Laren lay two points;, Varcoe,,by. excellent drawing,: oarrled. 'off: a 'fine , three:,in--tljo -next: hoail, making the scoro Bto 6 in:-his'favour!- The Dunedm player equalised matters on'';the. eighth head by 'somjo Plever play: 'Varcoe lay. short, and M'Laren, playing' a"littlo,"heavy, followed through and displaced Varcoe, gaining .'two shots."''-.Var-cop ,was lying two on the next .end,-; and 'M'Laren, failed to alter, the position with his last bowl, •': 'M'Laren got' a singlo on tho tenth, cutting-Varcbß'pu't of. a.four by trailing the kitty.i'-Oni.theolpventh head _tho score was 10. all,- Varcoo sending tho : kitty to 'M'Laren, but saving a two," .On the twelfth head Varcoe-added 1 a'single ;ijnd' M'Laren again; equalised"' with ,a r 'single-in the thirteenth/head, >Yarcqe : '-go't-/a single out of tho next, M'Laron "shifting'a''second with;a drive!, -In the fiftoerithfheadiJl'Lareji got. a two/ His first was-bumped- up by Var-, coe, and the. second was secuited pyajfino l draw. .His third-bowl pvorranthe jaok.but: howas ono up on the game;'" He notohed;a singlo in tho next head;-and by'fine drawing added <a- three in the following head,'' which made the score 17-to 12 .in-his'favour.-' In' the: eighteenth ■ head Varcoe'- ''gqt'.-a-single,. inissing'.a- second in tho'jmeasure.-"-: J At ; '- : this" stags Varooo was.four dow'n, 'and:his charlpe of winning against the experienced'southerner, was; rodnced to » minimum.-' ! M'Laren.' pra'Cr tionlly clinched thingsyby- -cutting himi-"vmt' of two shots ;in the nineteenth" head and lying shot himsolf with his third bowl. On tho twentieth head- Varcoe r lny.:shot-i\withs his bowl, but M'Laren, with'-a-^up.'draw;''got-in-, and'beat him.'for the-'poinfc In-the final head M'Laren scored a two,-and this won tho singles, championship' 13. Inter-island match, Nbrtli-'Y, South: Hardie (S.) 27 beat Thompson'J(N.)-16, Keast: (S.) 20 beat Webb (N,) 19',*'BroW"(S.) •19 bent Moult (N.):lGi Stark (S:)'2l.-.beat Prico (N.) 20, Barlow (S.) 16 boat':Munro :(N.)."15, Ballinger. (N>) 23 beat - Dale <(S.)-19,"-Johnston (S.) 20 beat Ns-'sh ,(N.) 18, :20' beat Crowley : (N.) 15.-:Scott-n(S.)'-21 :boat: . Campbell ,(N.) 16, totals,'" South'; 173;-: North 160. On the seybjith hoa'd'scores wero;58 ! to : 24 'in favour of .Nprth; but-; on'.the ■'•fourteenth South. were 114 to' .108.' 'iThe:ms<toh-' was practically a 6cratelrmi}teh,-and:was'by no means representative of,'the two.'islands.Mr.i 0.-L, Keast has,.received-a sheaf; of : telegrams frprq: friends :ahd.: well-wishers throughout'the Dominion v corigratnlating' hjm and his team on having won- tho'New.ZealandBowliug Association'? rinks.ohampioiisliips;,'.'