BOWLS.

Dominion, Volume 6, Issue 1640, 6 January 1913, Page 8

BOWLS.

RESULTS OP SATURDAY'S PLAY.: 'I

With the grcateri numjier. of tho crack players away ih Auckland at the Northern liowling i Association's tournament, no intor-club niatchcs of moment were played: on Saturday afternoon. What interchanges ■ there avcto wero only . friendly guines, .whicli perhaps are, after ail, the inost pleasant to participate in. : ; The veather' was ' favouraolo: duitng the: earlier lialf of the afternoon, but after' Hint: it blew! "big guns," playing liavoc with many a well-laid''"bowl? ' ' '' ' . Interest in bowls .during this week will to centred, in ; tho telegraphed i reports 6f the big tournament at Auckland, in which 3GO bowlers from all ; parts of. the: North , Island are concerned. .';.Thd9- number is forty (ten rinks) fower than-took part in tho Northern Bowling: Associatioii's ■.tour- , namejit in Wellington i.la'stt.ycaD,^a- fact which to some extent indicates; that Wel'lington is tho most •conveiiients,centre'.for; tho bbwlfog' fraternity. . This ,point -will : no doubt sooner or .later,be, ono.on lyliich' there niiist be serious debate, as vrith the' amalgamation ■- of tho Xor 111. and South Island Associations, the .question of where next year's'tournament is to: be played .must bo considered almost at once; .: First, , howeveri the question of how that tourna- |i hi?nt;.is>to be arranged must:be decided, There ds lib ~city which could accomniodnteir;'gay,l,2oo''rink's, "so- that either the now v'open' door", will' hayo to l>e closod,, or a' now 1 basis, will have.. to' be definedAs the .local control is to bo placed in the 'hands of ■ centres, it. is felt.h wiso.wav 1 out of "tlio, difficulty might be for each centre'.to hold its own tournament, and. for the two leading rinks-tho winuers and runners-up in' cach—to play.' in', tno deciding tournament for the championship of th' 3 Dominion. There is bound to be a good deal, of talk .over .tho matter at. pendiiig tournnnieiits,.' north . And south, vrorlcablo scherho,should bo ready to ,wi tabled':^.soon: as the, amalgamation is "formally : ratified'.: ' ' -V.'-■> ■The. results ', of:' Saturday's .play.', on . the. local* greeiis l pro as follow.;—;V: •' HUTT-*-WELLINGTON. On Wellington, green: Hutt—Ha} os, Up-. : ton, Birch, ; Palmer. (5.), : 22; .Welliiißton-, Hildroth; Manz,- Campbell,' Magnus, (s.)r ' Cook,' Knapp, 'Williaiiis (s.),- 28; Hutt-Gormg, Hognrth, Kelly (sO, 33; Hutt—Sinclair,- Chapman,: Yates, Hodgins (s.)j ii.: . , ;■ ; . , . Wollington-Jcniungs, Harding, White, Crane (s ), 2b; Hntt-Black, Dawson, Judd, Barlow 1 ;<B.), .18.'. , ' Oil Hutt: creeii;- Hutt—Dawson, ; lushworth, Cuft, Slovens ,(5.),. 11. Wellington -Houlder,'Norton, May*, Brown (s.), ,19. - H. SimpMon, Pole, Si'Kibbon, Callender (s.yi3; W: Ledger, Wntson,. Churchward, ■ ii;' Knight, Morris, Wagg, , M'Kenzio 29; W. 1 Tanner, Seymour, Nicholson, Humo (sO.JS. . _ •. ' . H; Humphries, Davidson, Casey, Alacas-: kill; 1G; W. • Barker, Saunders,, Ncilson, ■ Siovwright,; 21, -. ~ - [ ICELBURNE—KHANDALLAH. . ' . 'An' three-rink' .-game, was 1 nlaved between Kelburne nndilChandallah. ' oil' tbo' latter's 'green, resulting 111 an easy win for ICelburno. The scores were as follow:-Kelburne-Battcn, namerton,, Dodds, Johnston (s.), 27r RhainlallaliEwing, Simmons, Fleming, Nalder (s.), IJ. ' Kelburne —Widdop, .Mansfield,. Hartou,, . Horner (s.), 27! Hiitclungs, Bourke, M'Arthur (s), 18. Kelburne—Hutchison, , Mcudowcroft,. !, Gannaivay, Duguid (s.), 32; lujron-Wal- ■ die, Vincent. Allan, Duinboll (s.), ,14. ■- Totals—Kelburne, 8G; Ivliandallah, jl, . 1 " THORNDON CLUB.' , ' Thorndon Roses., .•• , ; Exley, G. Johnson, J. P. Brandon, J, M King (s.), 24i Pattio,. Stanford, Harvison' Preetli (s.), 23. At tlio end of th? twentieth head wanted ftreo to'tio and four to win., Ho got tlio three and 1 then' set out, to get: the one extra.. Twice, when .the bowls were lying Mwnst him, he made a dead, head ot it, but ' King then scored a single,. -and won- the trophies for the fifth, time- in succession.:: . Thorndon Shamrocks; ; Dvlmbcll,' Hill, Preemaji,- P.; Brandon (g.), 19; Marchland, Jourdain,'_ Gamble, J. T. King (s.), 17. ~ .l IN AUSTRALIA., By XelcEraph—Prcsi Acsociation— Copyrlttlll ~ . Melbourne,-January 3. ' ■ In the champion bowliiig tourney New South Wales beat Ballarat in tho final-1