BOWLING

Dominion, Volume 12, Issue 5, 1 October 1918, Page 7

BOWLING

DOMINION TOURNAMENT. Colonel 11. J. Collins represented Wellington at the first meeting of the council of the New Zealand Bowling Association, held in Auckland on Friday last. The association tournament will be held in Auckland, beginning on January S, and will be a patriotic one. It will consist of rinks, pairs, and singles. All the details in connection with the tournament are left in the hands of the Tournament Committee, which consists of the executive members of tiie council and the Centre Committee. It was agreed that the full rinks bft divided into sections of ton, on the system adopted at Dunedin, up teV the conclusion of section play; no team to qualify with less than six wins. After 'section play is concluded the "two losses" principle to be applied. Winners to play winners aud losers to piny losers, on the same system as ivas adopted at Dunedin last year for the singles competition. The pairs competition will be played in sections of six; winners of each section to be found. Suction winners to be played on the sudden death principle; 21 heads to bo played. The singles competition is' to be conducted 011 the same system as was adopted in Dunedin last year. A conference of delegates from each centre will be hold during tourimm-'nt week. The matter of direct representation on the council from each centre, which was suggested by Mr.- J, Allan (Invercargill), was left over to be discussed at the oaiiference meeting in January.