NEW YEAR PAIRS

Evening Post, Volume CXXVII, Issue 3, 5 January 1939, Page 13

NEW YEAR PAIRS

The many bowlers who visited the Thorndon Bowling Club's green yesterday to see the final games of the Wellington Centre's New Year pairs competition enjoyed a real feast of good bowls. It'•was a calm, summer day, and the green, was in excellent order. There were many beautifully played ends. In the game between Adams (Karori) and Lawrie (Island Bay) ten out of the twelve bowls played lay within a yard of the jack. There were several interesting episodes. Two bowls were played with the wrong,bias in one game. In another one skip inadvertently used his opponent's' bowls two or three .times instead of his qwn, drawing the shot dead with the wrong b°\vl in; one head. There was a dramatic period in the Wellings-Adams game, when Wellings suddenly began to recover lost ground at a rapid rate. Another remarkable reversal of fortune was in the first game of the day between J. Conder (Lyall Bay) and J. Fairway (Wellington). Fairway was 13-2 on the seventh end, but he added only two singles whilst Conder ran out to win by 22-15. A telling instance where the score does not always denote the actual character of the play was in the semi-final game between H. L. P. Dyett and W. Gilbert (Karori) and D. McD,onald and V. Recce (Island Bay),. Both Dyett and Gilbert played superb bowls. The : Island Bay pair put up decent bowls, judged by

y Kiwi."< ■ ;,;•..-.■. ordinary standards, but they could riot cooe with the deadly opposition and ':% lost by 7-23. ..• - .V. : . -^v^'f In the semi-final game between G> Pinnock and W, Wellings; (Hataitaiji 4H s and J; Wyatt and T. Adams (Karori), it almost seemed on the ninth end -that ' J'it'M two Kaorir pairs (Adams and Gilbert) would fight out the final,, as Wellingf was down 4-12. : However, he preserv-.'^/^ ed his characteristic imperturbable:air, :;?| and calmly smoked his pipe. Stidden-v-%-;|l ly he began to pile up the score 'with^f%| 1, 4, 4, 4, then 2, and so on tur he; won: i 4 V§| by 26-16.- . ■: v - ■••....|i ■■'v#::-:.^;0 Undoubtedly Dyett and Gilbert;: dei?^f|| served their win by 20-11 against'PM^v£l|i nock and Wellings in: the -'final'cgameJ';.-^;! They had shown their prowessfby.go^vv^f ing .through the; tournament ; without ;! rv:;?$: a loss, winning eleven ganies in>alL--;,;;l Dyett has a strikingly; original but :^j^| "effective, style of delivery. -Plrinpck,* ;."^l!j who. had played good bowls through m^ the tburneyj kept pretty rwell ai>ace^-:^ with' Dyett in the final. The Karbri c Club also yesterday'won the Centra :p?fi* fours final: at the Hutt greea.. wilA^; :;^ G.. Crawford's rink; a • double events vi^ R. Thomson and A.< Needham/ of ;Ka-•'v ; , m rori, ■■.. won the New Year .pairs, llfe* V '-:B year and their- club mate^':W; :H.::; % Thorn and H. D. Field, annexed,■;;'the :,;■>!§ 1938 Centre champion of champions " pairs! " r 1 Auckland Christmas Tourney. The Auckland Centre's Christmas tourney in which 66 fours competed, *' was Won by M. Lawson, J. H. Keith, » l G. R. Basham. W. J. Short (Puke- - kohe), who beat R. J. Carbines. F. W. Gates, G. S. Glenister. R. S. Higginbotham (Ponsonby). Basham's father and brother belong to the Wellington Bowling Club. M. Walker, (Auckland) f beat R. T. Harrison's Australian rink in the fourth round of post-sectional ""s----play. Walker went out in the sixth round tb Higginbotham. ' * Queensland Party Due on Monday*, v \ The Queensland tourist bowlers* party will arrive at Wellington on Mon- ,* » day at (10.30 a.m. by the Awatea fromSydney. They play that afternoon on f" the Victoria Bowling Club's green and on Tuesday at the Wellington Bowling Club, departing for Lyttelton the same" % evening. From January 11 till January 27 they will be occupied in visit- r ing places of scenic interest and in, * * - playingbowls in the South Island. Arriving back at Wellington from Nelson on January 28, they will visit Paekakariki.that day as the guests of Sir l ( Charles and Lady Norwood, and play the Paekakariki Club in the afternoon.» The following afternoon they will visit r the Eastbourne Club", and on the morn- J t ing of January 30 they will leave fop J Palmerston North. The same day they > will play the Manawatu Centre, and the following day depart for the '; Chateau and other North Island., *, places. The party will sail from Auck- ' land on February 6 for Sydney. The team may be regarded asv stronger i , from a playing point of view than the '** 1937 one- Drawn from all over the State, most members of the team have not yet played together, so that it will t ' be some little time before they can ' produce; team work and accustom *^ themselves to faster greens, narrower ,-■* rinks,; and different grassed surfaces to those of Queensland." The leading skips ,"* with- either district, State, or interState records are R. A. Mason '(Annerley), A. R. Charles (Toowoomba), -r J. H. Coben (Mackay), F. Patteirson (Dalby), and A, Hasenkamp (Mackay). Mason skipped the Queensland champion pair of 1936. Hasenkamp won the State singles in 1930 and the Central Queensland singles of 193J8. Charles skipped the winning Queensland country pair in 1937. His lead on that occasion. (W. Miller) is with him in the visiting x 1 earn. The president of the * team is Mr. R. J. Morris, and Mr. F. C. Ker is the manager. Victoria Club. ' ' , Although the Victoria Club's green is practically a new one this season, after the thorough treatment it had during the autumn and winter, it is playing very well. The system of coring (140,000 holes were bored) has re- ~" suited in a softer surface and an im- > ." proved rooting of the grasses. It can be expected that the small inequalities which exist in one or two of the rinks ,; will roll out in due course. The club < > „ is looking forward with keen interest' . to the visit on Monday afternoon next' , , of the Queensland tourist bowlers* party. They are assured of a hearty » welcome. The improved green has had the effect of bringing the older play- s ' ers back to form, as is i shown in the '^ pennant games, where in section A the club has had three wins and one draw. The various competitions are in a for- '" ward state. These will be held up temporarily while three rinks, skipped ' bf Middleton, H. Watts, and S. Ingram respectively, are representing the club v at the Dominion tourney. A welcome innovation is the formation a library by W. J. Ross. A very successful progressive pairs tourney wfcs held on New Year's Day and was won by < Captain Dawson and C. Pritchard (s). Wellington Club. The following players are now left in the Wellington Club's singles competition:—E. Walker (with two lives), . and Brittain, Christie, C. J. Cqeper, Cronin, Ellerm, Hamilton, London, O'Donnell, O'Gorman, T. T. Skoglund* D. Spiller, Swiney, and Wyhe (wtth one life each). D. Spiller is the orujr one so far to reach the fifth roun& The following pairs (skips* namff only) are in the fourth round, with tvnp lives each:—Brittain and F. Ross. Til* ' one-lifers are G. Dawson, Edwards, Elias, Fairway, Fiddes, O'Donnell, D. J. O'Neill, Spiller, and Walker. Skoglund has one life each in the fourth and fifth rounds. Ellerm and O'Neill relieved last, \> year's champion pair, Ingram and :' Fairway, of one life, winning by 23-13. Fairway stayed on 13 from the 15th end. Victoria v. Queensland. The following will, form the Vie» toria Club's team to play the visiting Queensland team on the Victoria green next Monday afternoon:— M. Marks, L. Brooks, A, Thomson, Sir C. Norwood (s); E Jory, C. Kilgour, J. Thornley, S. Luke (s); G. Clark. T. Forsyth, W. Yardley," C. Pole (s); W. Flintoff, D. Parnell, F. Roffe, v W. Keech (s); J. Manning, R. Burbidge, R. Hinton, J. W. McDonald (s); J. Murphy, H. Combs, S. Roberts, H. ■ McKenzie (s). H The president of the Victoria BowJ. ■ ing Club (Mr. Colin Campbell) will ■ be manager of the home team. ■