BOWLS

Dominion, Volume 21, Issue 130, 1 March 1928, Page 13

BOWLS

CENTRE’S CHAMPION. PAIRS KELBURN, KARORI, AND HATAITAI LEFT IN Cool, fine weather, and a good grippy green were the conditions pluvaiiing yesterday, when the nominated pairs Horn seventeen Wellington clubs assembled on the Thorndou Ciub's green to try conclusions tor the centre's champion pa is These were played oil on the sudden death” principle—one loss and out—and by 6.15 last evening all pairs bad bee 1 eliminated, save the I the Karori, Kelburn, aud Hataitai Clubs. The semi-final betweenKarori and hiataltai will commence at 10 a.m. to-day, and the winners will meet Kelburn in the afternoon. Results wero as follow : FIRST ROUND. Lower Hutt (lillis aud Round nil 23; "Wellington (Warwick and E. J. Hill). 16. SECOND ROUND. Seatoun (Gilbert and Jackson) 18; Victoria (Bolton afid J. Brackenridge), 16. Johnsonville (McWlnnnie and Mills), 24; Khandallah (Bath and Bennett), 18. Kelburn (Williams and Koutley), -0; Newtown (Claridge and Sexton), 18. Upper Hutt (Gubbins and Papper), 19; Lvall Bay (Topp and Raven), 10. Petone (Appleyard and Melhuish), 19, Central (Robertson and Jones), 18. Hataitai (Carswell and Cometti), 24; Hutt (Ellis and Roundhill), 10.. Island Bay (Duncan and Perkins), U; Thorndon (Hyams and Munro), 14. Karori (Burn and Cooper), 20; Eastbourne (Woolley and Munro), 19. THIRD BOUND. Johnsonville, 19: Seatoun. 15. Kelburn, 20; Unper Hutt. 12. Hataitai. 26: Island Bay. 22. Karori, 23: Petone, 20. FOURTH ROUND. Kelburn, 30; Johnsonville, 12. . The day’s play left Kelburn. Hataitai, and Karori still in the running, with Kelburn a game ahead. At 10 a.m. today Hataitai and Karon will play oil, and following that game the winneis ■will meet Kelburn. ' Kelburn, which is perhaps the bestfancied pair, had a fairly solid win over Johnsonville, which gave a good display for the first half of the game, when Mills lost his green, throwing up a lot of narrow stuff. Williams led with deadly accuracy for Routloy (Karori). Karori, which only won by a single point over Eastbourne, liad a sevenpoint win over Petone. Melhuish, for Petone, was not on his game, but his lead plaved sterling bowls right through. Perhaps the most j sensational game was that between Hataitai and Island Bay (the former pair (Carswell and Cometti) scoring a six and a five on be fourteenth and fifteenth heads whilst on the sixteenth Island Bay notched a five-sixteen points in three heads Forking and Duncan represented Island Bay. vice David Munro and his partner. VICTORIANS DEFEATED. Bt Tblegbaph.—Pbess association. Hamilton, Fel»uary 28. Five rinks of the visiting Victorian bowlers played a match with club representatives of the Waikato group this afternoon. The visitors lost the game by 112 to 109.