EASTER RINKS

Evening Post, Volume CXXIII, Issue 85, 12 April 1937, Page 4

EASTER RINKS

WIN FOR LYALL BAY

The honour of winning the last major bowling event of the. season went to the Lyall Bay Club on Saturday afternoon, a rink from that club claiming supremacy in the Wellington Bowling Centre's Easter rinks after a series of successes in the postponed post-section play. The Kelburn green was in excellent condition, for the games and the weather was perfect, being calm and warm.

The finalists wei*e Warner, O'Gorman, P. Skoglund, and T. T. Skoglund (Wellington); King, Marshall, McLean, and Noad (Lyall Bay).

Lyall Bay opened rvith two but Wellington made one on the second end. Noad got two counters in on the next to lead 4-1. The Wellington players looked unhatray when another brace of Lyall Bay bowls made the score 6-1, but the; next two ends brought 2, 4, to reverse the score to 7-6. Good draw play by the Wellington men, including a toucher from the skip's hand, added two more, and the eighth end provided'a single that Noad could not displace. Still another single gave Wellington a fivepoint lead, but Noad reduced it by two on the next end. Skoglund pulled up with another single, but Noad played a good shot on'the twelfth to counteract it. His'team, worked well on the next end to secure a one-point lead with four aiid had some gbod bowls on the jack on the fourteenth until P.' Skoglund came down on it. However, Lyall Bay held two to lead 15-12, and put in. three, on the ,tiext end. The Wellington players pulled themselves together on the sixteenth, T T. Skoglund drawing two to ; a single to count three. Noad replied with a similar number on the next end to recover his six-point lead. Wellington had two on the next end, put Noad wicked in with his last and moved the jack for a single, and added a pair on the nineteenth. Wellington had two practically on the jack on the next end, but Noad slipped between for shot and then drew close with his second. T. T. Skoglund played a splendid drive to cut both out and claimed two, and' the last end began with Wellington seven points down. The first three bowls were wide, but King, the Lyall Bay lead, placed a good one. P. Skoglund got in closer but McLean claimed the point with a toucher.' T. T. Skoglund knocked some outside wood out and removed some more with his second to score a point. The game ended: Lyall Bay 24; Wellington 18.