BOWLS

Dominion, Volume 12, Issue 125, 20 February 1919, Page 6

BOWLS

WELLINGTON CHAMPIONSHIP SINGLES. The annual contest for the singles championship of tho Wellington Bowling Centre, was commenced on the Hutnitai Club's line green at 3 p.m. yesterday, when tho two byes-were played under conditions that none could complain of. After a long spell of dry weather the steady rain which fell during the cariv hours of tho day gave the sward a firm grip. Indeed the green, which played very true, was just n little too 'heavy for tho most interesting kind af play. Tlio bowls finished altogether too "dead" for any exhibition of thoso fine touches dear to the heart of the good singles player. Almost without exception tho play .was reduced to stolid <liawing, and lacked anything m the way of spectacular shots. Tho result of tlio two byes were -as follow:— '

Jfunro (Thorndon) boat Chisholm (Hataitai), 22— U. Cooper (Karori) beat Edwards (Island Bay), 16 —15. In the first of these games Munro won nil the way, purely through his Kupmor drawing powers and green tactics. Chisliolni abandoned the game at the conclusion of the twentieth head.

Tito Karori-Island Bay same win well contested throughout, and interest was sustained np til) the last bowl was played. Edwards, who plays quickly and with sound judgment, led up till halfway through, when C<ioper got the strenglli nf (lie <rreen, and mode up lee-, way rapidly. From the fifteenth, head it was a iieek-iinil-iiwk slnijwle. Chsper was two ahead on the twentieth head, lull in the final head Edwards only manured to get in a. single. •

The first round of t!io singles will commcnee on tin* Hataitai Club's green lit 0.15 a.m. to-day.

Mrs. Gibson lias given ,£IOOO to Cambridge University to found, a post-gradu-ate scholarship in Spanish" literature m memory of her husband, who translated known works,