BOWLING

Evening Post, Volume CXV, Issue 15, 19 January 1933, Page 5

BOWLING

DOMINION TOURNEY

PAIRS CHAMPIONSHIP

GOES TO HAWERA

The -wind dropped yesterday afternoon for the final of the pairs championship and the eliminating games in the rinks championship, and conditions favoured the excellent play seen. H. S. Maslin and M. J. Squire (s) of Hawera won the pairs iinal, in which they met last year's pairs champions, IV. -Bremner and C. E. Hardley, of West End, Auckland. Play in the semi-finals of the pairs, though interesting, was not exciting. Bremner and fiardley had a comparatively easy win over Deas and Franks (Featherston). On the seventh head they were 10 to 4. Then Franks put on a 4 and a 1, bringing his score to 10 to 11 on the eleventh head,, his best position during the game. Hardley- then got 1, 4, 2, 1, making him 19. Franks then scored 3, making him 13 to 19. On the eighteenth head Hardley got a 2, and the match ended in his favour, 24 to 14, on the twentieth ! head. Franks's driving lost him points. Maslin and Squire (Hawera) led off with 1, 2, 3, against Stone and Gordon (Seatoun). Then Gordon put on 2 and 1. Squire put on 1, and Gordon 2. Squire got 4 and 3 in the next two heads, and stood. 14 to son the ninth head. On the thirteenth head lie had increased his lead ■tol9to 6. Gordon then got 2, 1, 1, 1, and 4, bringing his score up to 15 to 19 on the eighteenth .head, and scored another on the twentieth, but left his effort too late, Squire winning 20 to 17. THE FINAL. There was much good play in the final match in the pairs competition, staged on the Wellington lower green. The two finalists wero H. S. Maslin and M. J. Squire (Hawera) and W. Bremner and C. E. Hardley (West End, Auckland), the latter being the winning pair last year. Squire won by 20 to 15. A large number of spectators watched with great interest the stern-ly-contested game. Prior to play beginning, Mr. W-. A. Scott, of Dunedin, the association's official tester, ran the competitors' bowls dowii the chute arid found them to be in order. The northwest wind was mainly responsible for many short bowls. The outstanding feature of the game was the excellent drawing work of Maslin. and Squire. Squire's bowls, which he used so' skilfully, are veritable ■ boomerangs. His uncanny manipulation' of them'commanded the wondering admiration of the onlookers. It ■was aptly remarked that he showed how easy it was to "loop the' loop." Squire's weak feature was his driving. He hardly ever attained his object, and undoubtedly the score against him would have been several points less had he kept to dra.wing. Maslin played many fine bowls, "and was superior to Bremner, although the lattir gave a very good account of himself. Hardley fought _ doggedly, but did pot reproduce his earlier championship .form. This is'the first time that Dominion v honours have gone to the Hawera club. In this connection it is interesting to note .that this year's winner of the singles championship (W. Parkhouse, Wellington) learnt his bowls at the Hawera club, of which he -was a member for nearly two years.

Squire scored three-shots in the first lead, after good play by Masliu:and Bremner. Hardley missed an inviting target. Squire ran up to 10-5 on the eighth head. Maslin and Squire had shown'fine form, in several heads. The sixth head, being killed, ivas replayed. It was 10-all on the tenth head; Hardley having collected four. Bremner's

three counted. It had been a measure for six, but Squire got rid of two. Squire, on the eleventh head, scored two, and afterwards was never less than three in front. He was 17-11 at the fifteenth hea'a. Bremner's drawing play improved in the latter stage. At the start of the game he threw to short ends, but lost any advantage sought on two or three occasions through the kitty being too short. Later he went for long ends, but could not shako the opposition. The sixteenth head was killed by Hardley, who got two on the replay. The score on the twentieth head was Squire 19-15. Hardley killed the twenty-first head in the endeavour to get five on the replay, but Squire got one instead and ran out victor. Hardley drove when Squire was lying two, to which' Squire added another* Hardley's two drives just missed making any change. Mr. H. G. Mayer, president of the New Zealand Association, congratulated Maslin and Squire on their meritorious win. Cheers were given for the winners and losers, and after musical honours had been accorded them, and the winners had replied, personal congratulations followed.