BOWLING TOURNEY

Evening Post, Volume CXXV, Issue 38, 15 February 1938, Page 6

BOWLING TOURNEY

MANAGEMENT CRITICISED

UMPIRING AND TIME LIMITS

(By Telegraph—Press Association.)

CHRISTCHURCH, February 14,

Criticism of the management of the recent Dominion bowling tournament at Dunedin was made at a meeting this evening of the Christchurch Bowling Centre. The complaints were that there was irregularity in the imposition of time limits, probably due to bad umpiring, and that some players were kept too long without a game before playing in the final. The question of time limits was raised by Mr. H. Wilson, who said that when he^ was playing in the quarterfinal a time extension was allowed when, it should not have been. Extra time of half an hour was allowed, and this might have materially affected the result of the game. The president, Mr. S. F. Barnett, said that there was certainly some laxity at the tournament. There was no inspection of bowls and there was the time-limit trouble. Delegates to the New Zealand association should certainly point these out. In fact, they had pointed them out. At Dunedin the umpires did not know the rule concerning the quarter of an hour extension, said one delegate. The secretary, Mr. H. B. Oakey, said that in all Dominion tournaments many of the umpires were not conversant with the rules. Better results j might be obtained if the umpires were paid. It was a serious thing for anyone to lose a game through bad management. The case of Smith and Oakey, Canterbury, at the Dominion tournament was mentioned by Mr. A. F. Ollinson, who said that in the final of the pairs these two players sat on the bank for two days and were not allowed to rollup. This was a grave injustice. No pair- or rink which had had to rest had any chance with a team playing all day long. The two players had been penalised very badly indeed. Mr. Oakey said the president of the Dunedin association had approached him on Friday morning and said that he would arrange a match for the two players on the Saturday, but on the Friday night the president said that they could not have a game as one of the members of the executive objected, but the pair could roll a few heads. It was left to Mr. Oakey to refer the time limit question: to the New Zealand Bowling Association. v