ELDERLY BOWLERS’ DAY

Evening Star, Issue 19789, 13 February 1928, Page 3

ELDERLY BOWLERS’ DAY

A SUCCESSFUL GATHERING The weather was favorable for the annual gathering of elderly bowlers on Saturday afternoon on Dunedin Club’# green, and just upon a hundred r r eterans enjoyed themselves greatly. The Dunedin Club authorities had made the usual thorough preparations for the comfort of their visitors, and there is no question about the success of their efforts. This function, initiated and for many years run by Mr H. F. M. Mercer, ex-secretary of the club, was well supervised by his successor, Mr A. G. Melville, backed up by an efficient committee. A number of faces familiar at elderly bowlers’ day gatherings were seen. _ Mr George Levens, from Temuka (possibly the oldest present), was there; so were Messrs Bastings, Murdoch, and Mitchell (Mataura). A visitor from Sydney (Mr J. Mackintosh)looked on. Mr J. C. Stephens, president of Dunedin Club, mentioned that it was the fourteenth occasion on which the elderly bowlers had met, and alluded to the good work of its founder (Mr Mercer). Mr R. Hanning, secretary of the centre, spoke as representing that body. Mr George Levens (Temuka) and Mr A. Murdoch (Mataura) responded on behalf of the visitors. There was an abundance- of refreshments, and Mr Flint’s Orchestra played cheerful music.

Following are the names of the players, with the aggregate ages of the four playing,in each rink in parentheses:— Bastings, Adam, M'Kechnie, and Moore (316) 12 beat Rae, Gossage, Edwards, and Anderson (305) 8. Forrester, Knight, Mills, and M‘Hutcheson (300) lObeatMoroney, Adamson, Hayward, and Young (285) 7. Wilson, M'lnnes, Williamson, and Wilkinson (300) 16 beat Stewart, M‘Donald, Coats, and Mitchell (319) 11. M'Kelvie, Olds, Weir, and Partridge (300) 14 beat Callander, Harrison, Gillespie, and Pope (290) 10. Drennan, Farrant, Orchard, and Walmsley (295) 13 beat Tayles,, Mackay, Low, and Duke (313) 8. Cameron, King, Smith, and Gallaway (295) 21 beat. Stevenson, Watson, Godfred, and Young (297) 14. Levens, Marion, Nntman, and Mitchell (330) 18 beat Murdoch, Miller, Manson, and Ogg (310) 7. Lloyd, Bryce, Ingram, and Thorn (325) 21 beat Webb, Barnett, Mercer, tnd Kilgour (298) 15. T. G. Young, Cameron, Grindley, and i

R. R. MTntosh (297) 22 beat Smith, Graub, Dryden, and King (303) 13. Hubbard, Payne, Watson, and Coulter (310) 17 beat James Smith, Martin, Hungerford, and Tarlton (300) 9. Barclay, Calverley, Glen, and Gillies (295) 16 beat Bryant, Wilson, Ibbotson, and Cairns (297) 9 Howell, Menzies, Orr, and Fairbairn (296) 14 beat Gill, Page, Jack, and John Brown (294) 8. The aggregate ages of the ninety-six players was 7,270 years, a,n average ot over seventy-five years for each player. DUNEDIN CENTRE v. VICTORIA. The following will represent the Dunendin Centre in a match which it is proposed to play on the Caledonian green against tho visiting Victorian team on Thursday evening, at 6.30: Currie (Taieri). Dempster (Caversham), Cormack (Kaituna), G. Nelson (Dunedin); H. S. Reid (Kaituna), Piddington (St. Clair), Falconer (Otago), Hinchcliff (Caledonian); Walker (Anderson’s Bay), F. Anderson (Roslyn), W. T. Smcllie (Green Island), W. Anderson (Dunedin); Mullenger (West Harbor), Thomas (Roslyn), W. B. Allan (Taieri), S. Hutchison (Dunedin); Rigby (Dunedin), Omand (Ralmacewen). Aitehison (Caledonian), Tonkin (North-east Valley).