BOWLING.

Manawatu Herald, Volume XL, Issue 1791, 19 February 1918, Page 2

BOWLING.

To-morrow afternoon five rinks from the local club will visit Feikliug. Tiie cars will leave the green at 12.30 o’clock, and players are requested to he well up to as play in Beil ding is to commence not later than 2 p.m. The following are the teams: —Large, Keay, Crawley, Xyc (s); M. H. Walker, Farr, E. Walker, F. D. Whibley (s); Healey, Cronquest, McColl, Woods (sj Stewart, Bryant, Mandl, D. WJiibley (s); P. G, Jackson, Howe, Spring, Dimmer (s). All arrangements as to the cars in which the players are to travel have been made, and particulars are posted up at the greeu.

At a meeting of the committee of the Club last night, two new members were elected, Messrs Rev. Raine and W. Howe.

Otaki is sending two rinks to Foxton on the afternoon of Saturday, March 2nd. All members wishing to play against the visitors are requested to put their names on the list at the green, and the rinks to play will be selected from these names.

The following are the results of recent ladder games: —Hawke 1G beat Large 15, and Healey 19 beat Barr 11.

Of all the 118 contests for the Dixon Cup, no other was played under the conditions which prevailed on Saturday afternoon, when the holders—P. Snoad, L, Pirani, T, L. Mills, G. Harford (s) —sustained a challenge by IS to 15 from a Woodville link: Tanner, M. Pickering, O’Gorman, Chas. Nicholson (s). The, whole game practically was played in Hie rain, all the players using unhrcllas throughout. Excepting for losing the first head, Harford led the score all the way through, the score being 5 to 4 on the 7(h head, 12 to 8 on (he 13th head, and 15 to 11 on the 17th, On the 20lh head Nicholson got in 3, and in the final head, when .he needed only 4 to tie, he was lying 3 with a shot to go. Harford drew a good second, however, and the visitors went down by 3.

The Dixon Cup was presenled in 1908 by Mr Shep. Dixon, of Palmerston, and niore recently Mr Tucker, of Palmerston, presented four gold badges lo go with the trophy. The popularity of the competition may lie gathered from the fact that 118 games have been played, the clubs participating, with their wins (shown in parenthesis) being Palmerston (37), Feilding (37), Masterton (11), Terrace End (7), Dannevirke (7), Otaki ((>), Pahialua (5), Shannon (3), Marton (2), Foxton (2), Woodville (1). J. Bai'tholomew’s Feilding rink holds the record of consecutive wins with 9, Tasker (P.N.) 7, the FruishSaywell combine 7, Saywell’s previous rink G, and N. H. Nash hud 5 wins when Harford look the Cup back to Feilding this season.