BOWLING

Dominion, Volume 10, Issue 3026, 13 March 1917, Page 7

BOWLING

CHAMPION OF CHAMPIONS' PAIRS WON BY NEWTOWN Tho linal for the Champion of Champion Pairs, in winch Spiers and W'.ylio (s.), Nowtown, met H. Mayor and Gray Is.), Kelburn, was played yesterday before a fairly largo assemblage of. bowlers. Tho wcathor conditions woro not too pleasant, but tlio green ran fairly fast and true, oxcept that tho southerly wind held tho bowls out on one hand, ilayer won the toss and throw a short head and lay a couple when tho skips changed ends. Wylie, with his lirst, ran tho jack to the ditch and scored, drawing a second shot later. Gray could not alter. 2—o. Tho second head went to Kelburn, 2 all. Closs play followed, Gray ovontually scoring 3. Spiers drew two shots on the fourth head, and theso wero undisturbed. Score, 4—6. Throwing a lone head Spiers lay tho shot and Wylio added two more, putting Newtown in' tho lead, 7—5. Tho sixth head wont to Kelbunij Mayer putting on three, Gray adding two. Wylie drovb with his four bowls, but saved only one, 7 — 9. The next liead saw Spiers draw a beauty on the jack. Wylie, with his third shot, drew dead to tho jack, and lay tivo shots. Gray camo up with a last ono on to tho front stuff, dislodged Wylio's two, and lay four. Wylio replied by drawing second shot. 7 —lo. Mayer again scored 3 on tho short head thrown, but Spiors opened them up and lay the shot. Driving on the part of tho Kelburn skip and drawing by Wylio left the homo pair with the shot, B—lo. Good leading by Spiers left Wylie two shots iu when ends were changed. Wylio drew two more, but the Koburn skip cut one out-, Newtown, notching a useful 3. 11 —10. Givo-aud-tako play on the tenth head gave Newtown another. Oil tho next Spiers drew a- beautiful shot with his laßt, and Wylio added a second and third, but opened up tho jack. Gray missed with his third and fourth, and three moro went to Newtown; 15—10, and eleven heads gono. When the skips changed ends on the next head Spiers lay threo. With his sccond bowl the Nowtown skip wicked the jack awav from his own howls to two of Kelburn's, and Gray drew a, third, fourth, and fifth, Wylie driving in an effort to get tho jack for four. Opinion on the bank was that in doing so, Wylie used bad judgment in this head, drawing to the head being much tho better plan. Tho scoros were once again oven —15 all —and tho onlookers' interest in tho game, which had flagged somewhat, was thereby renewed. Wylio killed the next head and more give-and-take play in tho re-play finished with Wylie drawing the shot dead to tho jack. 16 —15. Indifferent pla.y upon Wylio's part ended in Gray scoring a. single on tho fourteenth and evening the score—l 6 all.

The beet plav of the afternoon was witnessed in the course of the next few heads, oapeciallv so On the part of the Newtown pair, the scoring in the heads changing with great frequency—2, 1, 1, 2'went to Newtown, Giving them the lead of 22 to 16 three heads from home. Tho Kellrurn pair were outplayed usually on tho lone heads, but fairly regularly on the short ones. The nineteenth head opened with very loose leading, Mayer lying two. Wylie drovo but ultimately drew the second shot, and Gray failed to alter. 22—17. Very line leading on the next head ended in Gray killing tho head when Wylio was scoring a couple. Upoii replaying tho lay of tho head favoured Kolbiim right through.' Wylio could get no closer than third shot, which Gray failed to displace for five. Sooro, 22— 19.

The final head opened with a -perfect draw by Mayer which Spiers displaced with his last. Gray sprang the jack and lay two. W.vlio. with his second, opened up the head with good position. Gray replied by taking the jack arid lying one. W.ylie, with his third, run out the shot howl, but moved the jack, Kelburn apparently lying; 3 and a tic. Gray, with his last, just overran the head, and Wylie could not alter. On the measure Kelburn cotild only score two, and so lost a closo eamo by a point, 22 —21.

Mv. 0. . Luke, the Newtown Club's president, called for cheers for the winners and congratulated tho losing- pair on the good fight they bad put up.

Mr. S. H. Underwood had chargc of the came.

Tn; tho pennanfc_ match Scatoun v. Potone, Seat.oun will bo represented as under: —Away—Berry, H. M'Girr, Magill; Green (s.). Home —Carey, J. 14. Bradley, Meston, Lauchlan (s.). Junior Friendly Seatoun t. Hataitai: At Home—Stevens. Jd'ason, Taylor, . C'ollio (a.). .

The section of the. inter-club match Tkorndon v. Fetone, played at Pctone, resulted as under:— I Thorndon: Dumbell, Stanford, Staff, Upham (s.), 20: Petqno: £. Cooper, Bargh, Henry, Hay (s.), 20. Thorndon: Munro, Ronaldson, Johnson, -Wiggins (s.). 16; Petono: Findlay, Cometh, Cowie, Beynon (s.), 21. Thorndon: M'Eidowney, Seaton, Barraud, Diraook (b.), 24: Pctone: Curtis, Gilraour, R-enmo, Colo (s.)j 24. Thorndon: Medland, Spencer, Petersen, Thomson (s.), 19; Petone: Allan, D Ross, Fiitb, Wjlie (5.),. 20. Tho total score for both town and suburban greens was—Thorndon, 149: Petone 169. '