NEW ZEALAND BOWLING COUNCIL

Dominion, Volume 13, Issue 1, 26 September 1919, Page 5

NEW ZEALAND BOWLING COUNCIL

ARRANGEMENTS FOR NEXT YEAR'S TOURNAMENT. Br TslejraDU-i'reH Association. Christchurch, September 25. At a meeting of the council of the New Zealand Bowling Association to-day it was decided that next year's tournament should be held «t Christchurch, starting on Thursday, January S, and that the Executive Committee of the Christchurch Centre bo n tournament committee. -Arrangements in connection with the order of play were agreed to as follow :— Tho pairs to start on the Thursday, and to bo played on the sectional system, players being guaranteed five games, to be followed by the sectional ties, after which tho successful pairs will play off on the sudden death system.

The rinks will be played in sections of ten. three games of twenty-one heads being played each day, tho section winners to play off on _ tho two-life system. The rinks competition is expected to start on Monday, January 12. Tho singles will be played on the twoi'fe system, in sections of three. i'ho entry fees wero .fixed at: Rinks, i.s. wer man; singles and doubles, 10s, per man. Minor details, such as the method ot playing off where two or more Tinks tie with five games each in a section, wero left to the Tournament Committee. A motion that no trophy of a value excecding''.£s ss. should be presented to any individual player at any tournament was agreed to. It was resolved that elections in connection with the council should take nlace in the last week of July, and that the result should bo sent to the secre : tary of the association, who alone should make the result known. The council decided to invite a team from Australia or New South Wnles to visit New Zealand during the tournament, or such other time as might be convenient. In order that visiting bowlers may bt entitled to the privileges of membership of evorv club during holiday periods, it was decided to recommend clubs, through the various contres, to issue tickets to members which they could present when on a strange green. The council decided, to inform the Wellington Centre, in'reply to a suggestion, that it considered the .proposal to hold tournaments in the North and South Islands simultaneously was not advisable. Mr. Bnrnett said he hoped southern members would always guard strongly against anything tending towaroi centralisation, which would ultimately lead to Welliiieton as the headquarters.