BOWLS & BOWLERS

Dominion, Volume 7, Issue 2133, 27 April 1914, Page 7

BOWLS & BOWLERS

: THE CLOSE OF THE SEASON. The visit of four rinks from the Christchurch Bowling Club to the \\ellineton Club, which was to have taken place on Saturday, did not materialise.. At the eleventh hour a sufficient' number of members could not. bo got together to malco the trip, owing to illness and the lateness of tho season, so the visit is definitely postponed until next season. In any ease, the heavy iain which fell during the afternoon on an already sodden green would have helped to make play well nigh impossible, which fact loft no regrets locally. The season is now practically at an end. A good deal of rain and the lato | cold snap Sas convinced tlio careful bowler that he is much better employed playing a quiet game of bridge or 'five hundred" in tho .pavilion than in tread- , ing the spongy green, .with all the penalties it entails, and so most, of the players liavo applied the oil-rag, to the lignum .yitao, contented to wait for next, season's sunshine.

THE HUTT CLUB'S PAIRS. Tho semi-finals of the club's paire, Johnson and Palmer v. Davidson and Jones, were played.on Saturday, and proved a very interesting game. On the sixteenth head tho score was 14 all, on tho eighteeth 15 all, on the twentieth 16 all. On the last head,' with the shot lying against him and one bowl to go, Palmer essayed a running shot, but owing to a number of short bowls he just sufficiently grassed one to deflect his own, and thus spoiled an otherwise good shot. In tho.n'nal, Davidson and Jones met Yates and Seymour, and this: was another good game . The players were 16 all on the sixteenth head, but on the eighteenth nead Jones scored 4, which gave him the advantage, which he maintained'till tho end, the final scores being 18—23.

KARORI CLUB. The Karori Bowling Club wound up the season on Saturday, when tho final for the Henderson Oup competition was played, and won by Crawford's rink. Scores: Malin, Gregg, Bead, Crawford, 21; Sunley, Lloyd, Cox, M'Lcnnan, 12. Bowlers, be up-to-date, fit your hards with Bussey's Composite Bowl, sin. (31b. boz.), oin. l-32in. (31b.'60z.), 5 1-lGin. (31b. 70z.). B. Houldsworih, Tobacconist, Sole Agent, Cuba Street.*