Bowling.

Free Lance, Volume II, Issue 73, 23 November 1901, Page 19

Bowling.

The bow lei s of Wellington did not gne\e so much as you might imagine o\ei Maturda\ afternoon's dounpoui There is wonderful consolation m solo whist \e ken And there aie lthei means tae" of lifting up a duel's heait vigdin^t ' advcrsit-v Tom Ballinger has picked uo some, bowling wrinkles on his travels. For instance, he mea.ns to introduce the fixed jack game, at which Dingle of Auckland won a .silver cup at the Cr\«tal Palace competition, against 13."> v>la\ers Top score 18 out of a possible 72 Judging b\ the prize sooie you will not need to be told it's a bit of a teasei The jack is placed m the oentre of three concentric circles, and ■sou pla\ two bowls each end and play once in each of six links— 24 bowls in all. The scoring is three points innermost circle, two points next carcle, and one point outermost circle. It is good fun and a fixed jack tourney never lasts long There are good entries for the various club matches of the Wellington Club — 41 in for the Senior Bowls, 48 for Subscription Pairs 39 for Sargood's Cup, 11 for Junior Bowls, and 14 rinks in for President's and Vice-President's Combined Rink Match. Much grumbling, bv the wav of insufficient time to worry through each round of matches Trevor Gould is one of the new skips of Thorndon, and is now reckoned one of the best George Wright is also in the forefront, and will bump up against some of the old Dons tins season Morns Fox ls winning a leputation for himself a*, a dab hand at leading As soon as he picks up the jack he makes a mental actuarial calculation of bias wind humidity, light, and pitch, and keeps on getting there e\ery time Tbev say that McManawav although only played as second man showed the best form m Thordon's match tor the Feathers against Victoria, Two new clubs just starting into existence up North — Whangarei and Mount Roskill (an Auckland suburb) Fredd^ Reeves has been skipping with gieat success, and opening the eyes of the ■* eteran brigade by his insinuating draws, and his tleadh drives. Fne teams will contest the honour of representing the Wellington Club at the big Association tournament in January Berry, Bell. Mentiplav Balhnger look well on paper, but it is just possible they might strike a snag in Veitch, Phmmer, Churchward, and Sample McGlashan has also got a team in hand and the slogan is sounding Thorndon has adopted a different method of choosing it* representatives. The members are to select the twelve best b\ ballot, and from this twelve the Match* Committee will then pick the eight representatives Ralph and Webb are a, strong pair up at Thorndon and it takes a poweiful head of steam to get ahead of them on the score list. Mackellar Wix has bared his claymore for the combat. A challenge that he hung out up Wordsworth-street waj, announcing that the Four Doubleyous" Waddell, Whitehouse Wilson and Wix nere spoiling for a fight, has been promptly taken up by the Four Bees— Brunskill. Boves. Berry, and Bell— and any day now there may be wigs upon the green It is understood a few Dees are also in training, but they are waiting for a big big D to take command When Balhnger was at Home he called in at Glesga upon Thomas Taylor, the bi2ccst manufacturer of bowls in the.

world. Ho found the fdctor\ working night and day to o\ ertake the deluge of orders that weie pounng m Lockie was is gredit feather one afternoon last week. A Melbourne adept turned up m coinpam with a local friend, and thirsted for a game Lockie and Jemmy Russell were not above taking a lesson. Do \ou happen to know Andrew Campbell?" asked Lockie, cautiously, b\ way oir getting the strength of his inal. as they started to skip the first head. "Rather '" *>aid the Melbourne bowloi often played him always licked him " Lockie looked pale, but stiffened his lip, and resolved if he was to be under dog there should be a struggle for it at all events. An hour later Lookie and Russell shook hands with <-trone; emotion Score Wellington 29, Melbourne 13 Andrew Campbell was avenged