BOWLING

Manawatu Standard, Volume LVIII, Issue 47, 24 January 1938, Page 12

BOWLING

DOMINION TOURNEY ENDS. WIN FOR ROSLYN PAIR. Per Press Association. DUNEDIN, Jan. 23. The Dominion bowling championships were brought to a conclusion on Saturday, when the pairs contest was decided. The weather was dull but fine, and the Caledonian "green played particularly well, rain the night before having robbed it of much of its fire. The championship was won by R. B. Clarke and C. E. Tyrrell (Roslyn), who played good bowls to dispose of H. Wilson and J. Sneddon (Liuwood), 19 to 18, in the quarter-finals, P. Delargey and P. Munn (Canterbury), 17 to 16, in the semi-finals, and J. R. Smith and H. B. Oakey (Elmwood) by the wide margin of 28 to 9 on the nineteenth green in the filial. Tyrrell played magnificent saving shots during the day, and demonstrated his fighting qualities on several occasions when he was faced with a considerable deficit. The game with Wilson in the quarter-final was exceedingly close, the pairs being 17-all at the nineteenth head, but Tyrrell secured a brace at the twentieth against Wilson’s single in the final head, and won by one point. In the earlier part of the semi-final with Munn, the game went against Tyrrell, who was three to his opponents’ 12 at the tenth head. Thereafter, however, Tyrrell was given better openings by his lead, accumlated points rapidly, and at the nineteenth head was on even terms with Munn, the scores standing at 15-all. A single to Munn on the twentieth and two to Tyrrell on the final head gave the latter the decision.

The final was unexpectedly one-sid-ed. Oakey and Smith being unable to counter the accurate play of Tyrrell and Clarke. At the end of the eighteenth head Tyrrell was leading by 22 to 9, and in a spectacular final head, in which after a succession of drives by the Elmwood nail* the only bowls left on the green belonged to the Rosl.Vn players, Tyrrell won the game bv 28 to 9.

The play-off for third place between H. Belcher and E. Longworth (St. Kilda) and Delargey and Munn resulted in a win for the latter by 17 to 15. Results:—• PAIRS CHAMPIONSHIP.

R. B. Clarke and C. E. Tyrrell (Roslyn) 19 v H. Wilson and J. Sneddon (Linwood) 18; P. Delargey and P. Munn (Canterbury) 19 v A. G. Iloneyman aiid A. J. Walker (Otago) 16. Semi-final.—Tyrrell 17 v Munn 16.

Final.—Tyrrell 28 v J. R. Smith and H. B. Oakey (Elmwood) 9 on the 19th.