GAMES DESCRIBED

Evening Post, Volume CVIII, Issue 17, 21 January 1924, Page 5

GAMES DESCRIBED

CHRISTCHURCH, 20th Jan. Intense interest was manifested by a large number of spectators in the meeting in the first round of the rink play between Bremner and. Carswell. Both-skips stand out as among the best iv the Dominion, .and it-was apparent from the outset that they were equally, determined to win: Bremner, with four on the ninth, gained a lead of one point. Carswell evened the scores on the tenth head and got into the lead again with two on the eleventh, but Bremner came tv light on the twelfth with .'another four. Not to be outdone, Carswell rep'ied with five - and a. single, giving .him a four-poinfc lead. The fifteenth, sixteenth, seventeenth, and eighteenth heads went to Bremner, who got well into the lead with a'three-and a single, a t'iree, a two, making the scores: Brepmer 23, Carswell 18. With five a'ainst him and three heads to go Carswell made a determined effort to win, but failed to do \so.

Gray v. Rennie.—Rennie scored on only eight heads. After the nineteenth •the scores were: Gray 29, Rennie 8. ■The last two heads gave Rennie fours, bat they came too late to be of any use to him..

W. Wylie v. H. P. Dobba—Although playing on his club green Dobbs, who had got through the section play without a loss, was completely outciassed in his first game in the post-sec-tional play. Wylie got a four on the first head, and Dobbs replied with a single in the next. However, Wylie had complete control of the game in the remaining heads, Dobbs scoring two more singles only. After the seventeenth neuj Dobbs retired, Wylie having put on 20 points in the preceding eight heads. Dr. Marks v. F&ster.—This was a meeting-of top-notchers, and the scoring was remarkably even throughout. Alter the nineteenth head the scores were:- Foster 18, Marks 15. Marks scured a single on the twentieth head. Tiie twenty-first produced an unfortunate incident. When the skips each had t. bowl to play, Foster lay one. Marks drove, clearing out several bowls and laj two. Foster's third player, overlooking the fact that his skip still had a bowl to play, shifted some of the bowls, so that Foster was unable to play his second bowl. In the extra head following the tie, Marks got a single." Benefield v. Thomson.—The third round scoring was fairly even up to the twelfth head. After the fourteenth head, the scores read: Thomson 15, Uenefield 9. Benefield was one down when the last head was commenced. However he got three out of it, and finished two up.

Sineaton v. Rennie.—This was a particularly hard-fought game, and ended with an unfortunate incident. Throughout the game the scoring was fairly level, and at the end of the twentieth head the scores were: Smeaton 19, Rennie 18. In the last head one of Reunie's bowls was pushed into the ditch, and lay a few inches outside the boundary. Smeaton drove the jack, which reached the ditch, touched a bowl lying in the next rink, anu bounced back into the confines of Smeaton's rink, giving him a single.

Bremner v. W- Wylie.—After Bremner had opened with a single, Wylie got going, and succeeded in keeping in the lead until the fifteenth head. Bvemner then got the upper hand, and finished in a strong position.

Foster v. H. P. Dobbs. Dobbs, hero of the section play, lost his second life at the hands of the Caledonian skip. There was tall scoring in the early stages of the game, the scores after the ninth head reading: Dobbs 14, Foster 13.

Carswell v. Thomson.—The Taieri skip, who had suffered defeat in the second round, encountered'another tough proposition when he met the well-known Carlton skip. At the "seventeenth head Thomson got four, Which gave him a lead of one. Thomson got a single on the next, but Carswell won the last three heads, finishing with a margin of four. Wylie v. Carswell.—ln the fourth round Carswell met his Waterloo at the hands of the well-known Newtown skip, who had the two Brackenridges in his rink. His defeat' by such an overwhelming majority was the sensation of the tournament, and at the end'of the trame he was one of the first to congratulate the winner on the great game Jib hud played. After opening with a single on the first head, Carswell did not wore again until the seventh. Then he had another long lapse until the foul.

teenth, when he scored six singles in succession, bringing his total to eight. Meanwhile Wylie had piled up an unassailable score. The second head gave him six, and he made good use of this advantage. At various stages of the game the scores were: Sixth head, Wylio 14, Carswell 1; thirteenth head, Wylie 22, Carswell 2; twentieth head Wylie 25, Carswell 8. '

. Chegwin v. Spiller (pairs).-—This was an exceedingly close game, in which Chegwin's steadiness won him the victory. Chegwin scored singles on each of the first four heads, and on the fifth Spiller replied with a four. Chegwin scored two more singles on the fifth" and sixth, and Spiller replied with two twos on the eighth and ninth. Oil the twlefth head Chegwin had compiled 11 and Spillor 12. Chegwin, however, foiged ahead on the next five, making his total 18, but Spiller with a six on the eighteenth equalised, and lie scored a two and a single on two subsequent heads, thus gaining him a lead o£ three. Chegwin managed to place his four on the last head,"thus gaining the game by a point.

Lowry v. Raphael (pairs).—ln a Rood pame, but one in which Lowry led all the way, Raphael opened his scoring on the fifth head with a two, his opponent's total then standing at four. On the twlefth head Raphael had compiled 8 to his opponent's 14. and on the fifteenth 12 to Lowry's 17. Raphael scored sineles on the seventeenth and eighteenth heads, and Lowry a single on the nineteenth and two on the twentieth.