BOWLING.

Manawatu Herald, Volume XLVIII, Issue 3012, 18 March 1926, Page 3

BOWLING.

NYE FERNS MATCH.

Yesterday afternoon a further niatch for the Nye Ferns was played between the holders (Bryant’s rink) and a challenging four skipped by Huntley. The scores were decidedly one-sided until the afternoon tea adjournment, when the figures were 15 —9 in favour of Bryant. Up till this time the holders were playing better bowls than the challenging rink, but as often happens, the resumption after the interval saw a turn in the tide, and the challengers began to even up the figures. The completion of the eighteenth head saw honours even — fifteen all. On the nineteenth the challengers measured two, and a single on the twentieth gave them a lead of three points. The holders lay well for a tie when the skips went to play, but the finish showed only a single for the holders, leaving the challengers victorious by two points. Healey, Downes, Woods, Huntley (s) 18, v. Mattar, Pearson, Nye, Bryant (s) IC. A challenge has been posted by Winstanley. CENTRE CHAMPION PAIRS. FEILDING AND TERRACE END FINALISTS. Beautiful sunshine and an absence of wind, with keen greens, made conditions ideal yesterday for the Manawatu Bowling Centre’s champion pairs tourney. Several of the games were keenly fought out, and some great bowling was witnessed in the early stages of the semi-final game between Feilding and Manawatu, although the former crowded in the points in the final heads. The finalists are the Feikling and Ten-ace End representatives, and the championship is to be decided, possibly next Saturday, on the Feilding green. Results are appended:—

FIRST ROUND. Palmerston North: Wilson and Needham (s) defeated Pahiatua: Jennings and Ransom (s) 22 —17. Manawatu: Holdaway and Eckersley (s) defeated Woodville: Horne and Mules (s) 21—15.

Feilding: Ross and Herdman (s) defeated Takaro: Morgan and Tantrum (s) 22 —16. Eketahuna and Foxton, who had been partnered by Terrace End and Northern respectively, did not enter the lists, so that these latter clubs, together with Dannevirke, Shannon and Levin, entered the second round without opposition.. " SECOND ROUND.

Northern: Bryan and Morshead defeated Palmerston North: Wilson and Needham, 22 —17. Terrace End: Allen and Davidson defeated Dannevirke: Carston and Cars ton, 28 —19.

Manawatu defeated Shannon: Murray aud Gagliardi 2G—7. Feilding defeated Levin: Pink and Monks, 27 —11. SEMI-FINALS.

Feilding defeated Manawatu 27—14.

Terrace End defeated Northern, 30—13.