BOWLING.

Manawatu Herald, Volume XLIV, Issue 2385, 28 January 1922, Page 3

BOWLING.

Considerable interest is being shown in the Nye Ferns competitions, this season, and challenges are very frequent. This week two games have been played, on Thursday and last evening, the results being as* follows : Challengers. Holders. Healey Betty Heasman Huntley Walker F. Whibley r Bryant (s) 14 Roore (s) 21 Christie Betty Admore Huntley Nye F. Whibley McColl (s) 18 Roore (s) 17 The match played last evening had a very close finish, the rinks being 17 all on the twenty-first head, and on the twenty-second head McCall’s team snored a single. A further challenge is now on the board, and will be played on Monday evening. The challenging rink comprises Pearson, Ross, Smith, D. Whibley (s). PICKWICK ON THE BOWLING GREEN. We are reminded by the passing of Mr Crouch that a man may not be prominent in the eyes of the general public and yet be a useful influence and a far-reaching one

(writes the Sydney correspondent, of the Melbourne Argus). The late Mr Crouch was known to bowlers throughout Australia and New Zealand as “Pickwick,” his physique instantaneously suggesting . the Dickens character. He filled the part without acting it. He was the genial one always, unruffled, ever "beaming through spectacles at the world that he seemed to appreciate. A retired business man, lie made a. success of enjoyment of leisure. Parliament, saw him for a term, but the atmosphere did not suit him. Inter-State bowlers who came to Sydney looked round (lie green for “Pickwick,” and were keyed up on good-fellowship by his cheery salutation and wave of cigar. He will be remembered fur and wide, but not with grief, for lie was not the man who would have it so. He was just a natural gloom-lifter, and in that way may have done more useful work than a geuius.