CROQUET

Dominion, Volume 21, Issue 116, 14 February 1928, Page 3

CROQUET

DOMINION CHAMPIONSHIPS CONTINUED JUNIOR HANDICAP SINGLES DECIDED Bi Telegraph.—peess Association. Palmerston North, February 13. Perfect weather conditions prevailed lor the croquet tournament at Palmerston North to-day, making the play much mure pleasant than towards the end of last. week. Great interest is still being displayed, and the final games should attract much attention. The tournament is expected to terminate on Wednesday morning. Results are as iollow:— LADIES’ CHAMPIONSHIP SINGLES. First Life. Second round.—Miss Steel 2fi, beat Airs. I’itcaitliley 21; Airs. Gambrill 26, beat Mrs. Spring 1(1; Mrs. Smith 2(1, beat Airs. Hfien IS; Airs. Johnson 2(1. beat Mrs. Gardner 18: Airs. Rhodes Williams 2(i, beat Mrs. Gambrill 24; Mrs. Petrie 2fi, beat Mrs. Horn 1. Third round.—Airs. Johnson 2(1, beat Mrs. Gardner IS; Aliss Heskct i 2fi, beat Mrs. Coutts JG. Second Life. Second round.—Miss .Hesketli 2G, beat Mrs. Boocock 1: Airs. Gardner 2(1. beat Airs. Johnson 24. Third round.—Mrs. Brabant 2(1, beat Mrs. Walker ,8 ; Airs. Bartlett: 2(1, beat Airs. Wickens 21: Miss Hesketli 2(1, beat Mrs.- Sehnaeur IS; Mrs. Tiffen 2(1, beat Mrs. McKay 7: Mrs. Brabant 2fi, beat Airs. Barllefl Tiffen 2G, beat Mrs. Smilh .ll). HANDICAP SINGLES (SENIOR). First round.—Mrs. Petrie 2G, beat Airs. Walling Jones 15: A. Ross beat Airs. Hamlin by default: Airs. Gardner 2G, beat Airs. Corbridge 21; Archdeacon Meredith 211, bent Airs. Bennett 5; Stratton beat; Airs. Lawrie bv default; Airs. Smith 26, beat Mrs. Tiffen 8: Mrs. McKay 26, bent Airs. Cole. 9; Airs. Horn 2(1. beat Airs. Spring 22. Second round.—Airs. Horn beat Mrs. IJarvi'v bv default; A. Ross 26. beat Mrs. Gardner 21 : Airs. Wiekens 26. boat Mrs. Lowery 12: Archdeacon Aloredith 2(1. beat Airs. Johnson 21 : Airs. Bartlett beat Mrs. Murray 19; Mrs. McKay 26. '■'at Mrs. Cob 9; Airs. Horn 26, beat Mrs. Spring 28. Third round.—Mrs. Horn boat Airs. Harvey hr default: A. Ross 26, boat Boocock 2" - AG's. Wickens 26. beat ''auvlilov 17: Tlohortson 26. beat Airs. Jar vie 20. HANDICAP SINGLES (JUNIOID. Final.—Mrs. Jamieson (Terraco End) heat Airs. Griffiths (Island Bay Atunieipal). HANDICAP DOUBLES. Third round.—H. P. Stratton and Mrs. Watkins 26, boat Airs. Horn and Airs. Jones 9. OPEN CHAMPIONSHIP SINGLES. Aliss Sleel beat H. P. Stratton, 26-10. NOTES ON THE PLAY

There were very few spectators at the tournament this morning. Since the conclusion of the Test matches on. Saturday there has been a general exodus of visitors from Palmerston North. The heavy rain on Saturday night has been most beneficial to the greens, and they are now looking very well. With another shower or so they would be in excellent condition. Had the rain fallen a week or so ago, that fact combined with the attention Mr. A. Cottington, the greenkeeper, Jias given the greens, would have kept them in that state of perfection Dr. Edgar /Whitaker was so keen to maintain in days gone by. I‘l.iys was resumed yesterday morning in the handicap singles, and ladies’ championship. In the game between A. Ross and -Mrs. Gardner, in the handicap singles, the Wellington player made a good round of ton hoops with yellow. Bhick wont to the penultimate hoop in a couple of 1 urns, and blue made five. Red and yellow laid behind the second hoop ready for red's rush Io the first hoop. Blue missed them. Red made one point on that turn. Using her bisques (31) to good advantage, tho southern player reached the rover hoop with one ball and the ante-rover with iho other. In the fiifst life <f the ladies’ championship Mrs. E. A. Smith (Christchurch) met Mrs. F. Tiffen (Napier). The latter 'made a break of four with yellow, and blue and black moved to the third hoop, before game had been in progress long. Red followed with three points. In and out play followed for some time, the Christchurch player eventually winning by seven points. Previously Mrs. Smith (1) had played Mrs. Tiffen (sen.) in the handicap singles, when the former player won bv 18 points, but when they met in the ladies’’ championship Airs. Tiffen scored ten more points than she had done in the previous game, when she was giving away a bisque. .Mrs. Tiffen met Airs. McKay in the ladies’ championship. Soon after starting, Airs, Tiffen made a break of seven with blue, then followed with a four to the pre-rover, but later on when aiming for her black ball made the rover. Red got in some splendid long shots during her turns. Airs. Titt'en made three with the black ball in a tui;n, and, over-roll-ing a hoop, sent the ball to red instead of blue, but this mistake was not of much benefit to her opponent, as she did not score off it. The Napier player made some fine shots, and proved the winner by a large margin. A very close finish was that between Miss Steel and Mrs. Pitcaithley, the English visitor winning by one point, in the first life of the ladies’ championship. In the same event Aliss Steel played against Airs. Sedgwick, and the visitor made the best break she has done since arriving in Palmerston North, thirteen points for one ball, and three for the other, IS in all. The only event so far completed is the handicap singles, junior, which has been' won by Airs. Jamieson End), the runner-up being Mrs. Griffiths (Island Bay Atunicipal Club, Wellington). An element of luck, good and bad. prevails in all games, and one played yesterday was eloquent of this. _ Airs. Petrie, playing against Mrs. McKay in the handicap singles (with blue and black), was for the last hoop with both, and her opponent had n bisque left. Per opponent came down to separate on the bisque, bid the ball laid right in the centre of the boon, and ns she was unable to roquet either, Airs. Petrie pegged out, her on-’onent being left with a bisque in hand.