Bowling Notes

Free Lance, Volume III, Issue 136, 7 February 1903, Page 21

Bowling Notes

By Wrong Bias.

Have you heard that they are talking of proceeding against one of the local skips for ' furious driving ?' Who is it Can't you guess? The social given by Mr. and Mrs. F. Grady, on, Wednesday night, at their residence, Woolcombe-street, in honour of the successful local bowlers at recent tournaments, was a great treat. Mr. and Mrs. Grady's reputation for generous hospitality is well-known m Wellington, and it goes ciuite without, saying that the hundred or so bowlers who were present at tha® "social" thoroughly enjoyed themselves. Capital idea that to bring, the champion clubs of North and South (Palmeirston North and Victoria) into eonn>etiituoMi for tihe New Zealand championship. Look out for a big crowd at the Wellington green on the 25th instant. Fine opportunity thisi to make tTm championship match a fixture, matches to be played at Wellington and Ohnstehurch respectively. Cursory remarks were a bit. frequent TV-hen. th e ram set in cm Saturda V afternoon, and shut down all the local matches. Wellington is the only club which provides consola^tioin for such disappointments. The match for Dank's Feathers, up at Newtown, on Saturday, was not affected by the dank weather. They start on the kitty veiry eiarly up at Newtown, and generally axe well on the job w'liile bowlers elsewhere are still at the luncheon table. On this occasion, Webb s team tightened their clutch on those feathers by dishing D'Emden and Co. by 25 to 20. A junior team 1 , skipped by Secretary Shore, wiped the floor with Sid. Lambert amd his. party of veterans. Score 25 to 15. Sid. was understood to say more in sorrow than in anger, f at he did not mind playing four antagonists now and then, but to cope with seven was a bit too steep for him. The match for the Edwin Feathers, between Neil McLeans challenging team. (Wellington) and Sievwright's befeathered team (Thorndon) was interrupted, after five heads, by the celestial watering pot. Thorndon's 10 points to Wellington's 3 does not seem to indicate that the moulting season is at hand. Up at Wordsworth-street, Wixs team have an engagement to play Plimmer's for the president's prize. Bell's team will straggle with the winners in tihe final go. The Wellington Club Senior Bowls contest is full of interest. Reich, Bell, Ballmger, and Hill or Churchward, are still left on tihe battlefield. All the rest are hors de combat. Petone played up well against the five Victoria rinks that paid Woolopohs a visit on Saturday afternoon — 94 to 133 is not so dusty for our youngest club lusipite of the rain, the Victorians had a jolly time. My jocular friend "Ditcher," who does' the "Bowling Spasms" for the "Observer," in noticing the win of the Vic-

toria team, at Chmtchuich, and its other lecords, says "this club hails from the side of a precipice far above the haunts of men, called Mount. Victoria. Evidently, tine "Ditcher" scaled that precipice at the last tournament, what time Old Sol was on the job. More tit-bits by "The Ditcher" — "Churchward is a very keen exponent at the gentle game — never speaks a word while his match is in progress— is iust wound up to last the 21 heads, and them, collates." After this, Churchward may be excused for collapsing— just in astonishment. Tins about hits the situation • — "Braekenndge beat' the canny McLaren in the final. 'Mac' is one of the hardest nuts to crack in the New Zealand bowling w arid. He is one of those lads that follow the bowl up till it stops and examines every head before delivering his shot." The Southerners have not yet recovered from Churchwards puns at the bowling dinner at Chnstohurch. Some of them, however, are reported to be convalescent . A writer up North refers to Whataupoko (the cheerful "What Ho's", of Gisborne.) as a club with one rink and ten members. All the same, it is not easily snuffed out. Brackenridge, jun., is shaping well to succeed Dad as skip. In a pairs match, on Saturday, with Hamerton to lead, he bowled over Hatch and Rowe by 30 to 19. Up at New tow n, Wise was not w-se enough for ex-champion Bnghtwell — 12 to 30 in a full-rink match. Bary (also m full link) must ha,ve had a day off to compile only 12 against Hendry and Co.'s 2.5. Mr. R. A. Adams, builder, of the Wellington Bowling Club, has presented a cup for competition by the membeas. It lias been christened the "Waterloo Cup," and will be a trophy for the points' game. Already there are a large number of entries.

Mr. Grouhand, the father of the little boy who was manned by a tram a. week or t\\ o ago, begs us to correct an error appearing m a recent Lance. Lady Sairgood, who made a present ot to to the unfortunate lad, did not, as reported, offer him an alternative of 10s a week for ten weeks. We hear that Mr. A. D. Bayfield, of Star Club boating fame, and lately m charge of Messrs. Harcouit and Co. s rent department, has joined the firm ot Messrs. Aiken and Co., as town salesman. The New Zealand Clothing Factory, Lambton Quay, call special attention to their hat advertisement. The company can supply any description ot hat required. The styles are right, and the prices are right. Messrs. C. M. Banks and Co., m another column, announce that they have opened a college for business training in Welington, under the name of "Bank s Commercial College." The services of Mr. John S. Barton, A.1.A.V., have been obtained as director, and his extensive knowledge of commercial education, combined with many years of practical business and banking, eminently qualifies him for the position. The college" will also have the benefit of the practical experience of Mr. Claude M. Banks, who keeps m touch with all modern business methods, and has given special attention to loose leaf accountbooks and cards, and also to vertical filing, which are completely revolutionising business methods in America and Great Britain.