BOWLING

Evening Star, Issue 19805, 2 March 1928, Page 6

BOWLING

CHAMPION OF CHAMPIONS The singles championship of the Dunedin Centre began at 9.30 this morning on the Dunedin green. The grass was a little damp at the outset, then it dried, but at 11 o’clock a mist made the green somewhat slow. Mr A. J. Sullivan (vice-president of the centre) controlled the management, and Mr J. G. Whitelaw was the umpire. The games were of twenty-one heads, with a time limit of an hour and a-half. Results of the morning’s play:— FIRST ROUND.

D. Cormack (Kaituna) 22, J. Barclay (Fairfield) 11. C. Tyrrell (Roslyn) 21, P. Edwards (St. Kilda) Id. 4 J. L. Smith (Mornington) 17, A. M’Donald (Balmacewen) 16. H. Telford (Otago) 19, L. Miller (Green island) 13. A. Ross (Caledonian) 22, D. M. Pastier (St. Clair) 14. A. Ellis (Kaikorai) 21, E. Harm way (Dunedin) 15. W. Carswell (Taieri) 15, A. I. Robertson (Anderson’s Bay) 14. J. Tonkin (North-east Valley) 31, C. Rawlinson (Leith) 12. C. Braithwaite (Port Chalmers) 16, A. Thomson (Caversham) 11. Cormack led throughout after Barclay lied made a single in the first head. Nineteen heads were played.—• Tyrrell scored in eleven heads and Edwards in nine. No <f pots.”—Smith and M'Donald had a ding-dong go throughout—6 all at the seventh head and M'Donald 12 to 11 at the fourteenth.—Telford scored on twelve heads and Miller on eight. Tollcrd got a 4 on the third head.—Pastier was 9-7 on the seventh head, but Ross bad the advantage (14-13) at the fourteenth head, and thereafter Ross put in ] 3,1, 2, I, whilst Pastier made a’ single.—Ellis won by superiority in drawing. He was dead on it. A 3 in the bftb head gave Ellis the load, of which he was never deprived. Harraway’s contributions were 2,1, 1,3, 2,2, 2 ] 1; Ellis’s scores were 1,1, 3,1, 3, 3,3, 1,2, 1, 2.—Carswell began with three singles j then a 2 to Robcitsoii, a single to Carswell, a single to Robertson, and a single to Carswell, making the Taieri man 5-3 after the seventh head. Then Robertson scored three singles and a 2, but Carswell replied with a series of four singles. Robertson then got a 4 and two singles, and at the eighteenth bead was 14 to Carswell’s 9, but tbc Taieri man’s steadiness and experience stood to him in the crisis, and with a series of 1, L 1 he pulled through by 1 point.—ionkin went away steadily alter the iourtii head, his scores including three 4 s.— Braithwaite led by 6-4 at the seventh head and by 11-8 at the fourteenth.

—Second Round. —

Harm way 15, Robertson 10 Smith 21, Telford 8. Tvrrcll 19, Connack 14. Barclay 18, Brnithwaite 1.2. Pastier 19, Miller 13. M'Donald 22, Edwards 15. Thomson 17, Rawlinsou 11. Carswell 21. Tonkin 8.

Ross 22, Ellis 16. The mist developed into light ram in this round, and it was a ease of hurling them up. Robertson gave up, owing to tho wet, after the thirteenth head,—Smith led Telford from the Start, being 4 up at the seventh head and 17-4 at the fourteenth.—Tyrrell opened with a 3, and was leading by 19-5 at the sixteenth head, when Cormack came to light with 3,1, 2,3, hut too late.—The game between Barclay and Braithwaito was even till Barclay got a 4 on the tenth head.—Millet opened with a 3, but the score was 5 all at tho seventh head. Commencing with the tenth head, Fastier put in a series of seven—l, 2,1, 3, 3,1, I—making tho St. Clair man 18-7 after the sixteenth head. Thereafter a single to Fastier and three 2’s to Miller.—McDonald’s score was four 3’s and four 2’s, and the two singles; Edwards's best contributions were four 2’s.—Thomson led by 6-4 at the seventh head, and by 14-6 at tho fourteenth.— Carswell got busy early with 3,2, 4,2, whilst Tonkin put in throe singles, making the score 11-3 in Carswell’s favor at the seventh head, and by the fourteenth it was 17-s—Ellis led Ross by 5-4 at the seventh head, but it was 12 all at tho fourteenth. Thereafter Ellis made a 3 and a 1, whilst Ross 4,3, 2, 1. As a result of the morning’s play Edwards, Miller, Robertson, and Rawlinson were put out. As the rain appeared to bo set in at lunch time the management of the singles championship postponed the third round fill 2.30, and then, as the conditions had improved, play was resumed.