BOWLS.

Dominion, Volume 5, Issue 1344, 23 January 1912, Page 2

BOWLS.

PERFECT DAY ON PERFECTGREEN3 • Bowlers are r.hronic growlers and excuse 1 finders, but yesterday's . superb weatlioi lcit them bankrupt of anything to complain abour. It; was a P'nii'l of days—onu of the kind which we get perhaps a dozen times in the year. And it was u holiday! Every giwi in the city was enlivened by a concourse of merry men, bent- on making up.for the recent spell of peculiar weather, and one and all Had a delighttul day -with "kitty." WELLINGTON CLUB. On the Wellington Club's green a rinlc tournament was held, tho prizes being allotted by the president and rice-president. There wero 04 competitors, these Ixing divided into four sections of four rinks each. Thr>x games of 21 heads were played, tho following being tho result of tha rounds :— First Round. Crane beat BaJlinger, 20—14; Frost beat Sievwright, 20—19; Thompson beat Hill, 38 —10; Porteous boat Magnus. 27—12; Wcbli beat Waddell, 17—13; Churchward beat Veiteh, 35—10; Ballantyne beat Still, 32—12; Moult beat Geddis, 24—12. Second Round. Sievwright beat Ballinger, 21—13; Crano beat Frost, 24—21; I'ortcous beat Hill, 21—20; Magnus beat Thompson, 22—15; Veiteh beat Waildell, 30—1); Churchward beat Webb, 25—7; Ballantyne beat Moult, .32—18; Geddis beat Still, 17—14. Third Round. Frost beat Ballinger, 24—1G; SievwTight beat Crane, 24—18; llill beat Magnus, 2(3 —21; Porteous boat Thompson, 25—11; . Churchward boat Waddell, 25—14; Ballantyne beat Geddis, 23—21; Webb beat Veiteh, 29—9; Still beat Moult, 20-20. Tho result of tho above games brought out the following winners (or ties) of sections:—\ Section A—Crane, Sievwright and Frost, tie. Section B—Porteous wins. Section C— Churchward wins. Section D—Ballantyne win 6. The ties in Section A and tho winner* of tho other sections all count as winnerv for tho purpose of the play-off, which will tako place at tho Wellington green at' 4.30 p.m. to-day. The draw is as follows:— Churchward plays Sievwright; Portcoua plays Crane; Frost playfe Ballantyne. SENIOR PENNANTS. The following is tho result of tha Petonc-Thorndon game in the Senior Pennants on Saturday:— At I'etoue Green.—Pctonc—M'Arthur, Beynon, Fowler, Ross (s.), 20; Thorudon —ihomson, Gamble, Ross, Kerr (s.), 10. Pctone— Hlvines, Cowie, Mclhuish, Udy (s.), 19; Thorndon—Stephenson, Clarke, Conhn, Wilson (s.), 16. THORNDON V. PETONE. Thorndon—Chittey, ,T. M. King,' HntcK, Gray (s.), IS; Petone—Jones, ilopkius, l'reeth, Wylie (s.), 31. Thorndon—Petersen, Stoevens, Hogben, Muuni (s.), 21; Petone—Findley, Cometti, M'Arthur, Coles (s.), 17. HUTT AND IIATAITAI. The following is the result of tho Senior • Pennant game between llutt nnd liataitai, played on Saturday afternoon:— liataitai—('bridge, Galvin, M'WJiannell, Topp. (s.), 17; Hutt—Judd, Ginger, Palmer, Trevethick (s.), IG. Hatnitai—Williams. Rhodes, Gruar, ■. l'ryor (a.), 22; llutt—Nicholson, worth, Jones, Hollard (s.), 13. liataitai—Williams, Morrah, Ilorncr, Laurenson (s.), 20; Hutt , Seymour, , Stevens (s.), 19. liataitai—Penney, Kinniburgh, Grif. fitlis, Mitchell (s.), 7; llutt—M'Kenzio, Casey, Barlow, Macaskill (s.), 27. Totals—llutt:, 75; liataitai, 00. ■ JUNIOR PENNANTS. Ballinger, Chcosonian, Martin, Smith (Hataitai), 31; Tamblin. Carker, Chapman, North (Victoria), 10. Thorndon v. Pctone.—Petone forfeited this Biatch.lo. Thorndon. HATAITAI CLUB. Yesterday the liataitai Club played'. & . , friendly match against Otaki, on tho Hataitai green, which proved most enjoyable. Three rinks on each side plavcd tlirco full rounds during tho day. The visitors were entertained to lunch at Godber's. The result of tho day's play was a win for tho liataitai men, both on games aud oil points. • TOURING AUCKLAND PLATERS.. On .Friday morning, at 9.30, on the Vic toria green, the Auckland bowlers will play six rinks chosen from_ the clubs ill tho southern end of tho city, and ono from Petono and another from Hutt. In the afternoon, at 2 o'clock, they play ton the same greeu) eight rinks representing the Bowling Council. At 8 p.m. they will 1m entertained at a smoke concert in the 1 Wellington Club's pavilion. On tho Thorndon green, on Saturday morning at 9.30, t.liev play eight rinks representing the nortficrn end of the city. After lunch ' they will he the guests of the Wellington Club. Tho following rinks will represent the council at Victoria green on Fridav at 2 p.m.:— Rink No. I—J. Smith, I'. Bennett, . Laughton, Prince (s.). Rink No. 2—Cohen, Jackman, Mason, Pnrnta (s.). Rink No. 3—Avery, Townsend, Laurenson. Keith (s.). Rink No. 4—Maver, H. Veiteh, Brimskill, Bell (s.). Rink No. s—Frost, Miller, Brown, Churchward (s.). i Rink No.' G—Muir, Kelly, Ballantyne, Ballinger (s.). Rink No. 7—ledger, Campbell, Blan- ' cluini, Moult (s.l. Rink No. B—Corliss, Haybittle, E. J. Hill, llary (s.).