Bowling Notes

Free Lance, Volume IV, Issue 176, 14 November 1903, Page 19

Bowling Notes

By Wroiig Bias.

THE M C C Bow-ling Championship Of Australia matches were to start at Melbourne on Monday w-eek, November 2, on the M.C.C. green Altogether there were eightylight entnes, including players from Calcutta, Wi, lST.g i-W. Ballarat, Portland, Eaglehawk, Hamilton, ami most of the Melbourne clubs. Accordine to the "Australasian," several leading New Zealand bowlers had also signified their intention of competing. 1 expect they would hail frae Dunedin. * *. * Mentiplay did noitbehe his name on Saturday. He ' started , .by putting down Staples, Law son, Be^ry, and Bruaskill by 28 tdf 16, aftd then had time left to take down BalLinger and Co. by 22 to 17. Too bad of the "Times" to set down Capt. Edwin, ' Purvis, W. Gray and Lotkie for the alarming score oi I in their Saturday match against Architect HisWs little trbupe of Ledger, Davy, and Sharp. As 'a" matter of fact, Lockie's vets, dished the man from Dunedan by 26 to 18. If Boyes threw out his manly chest a trifle more than usual on Saturday night it was quit© excusable. With the German Consul leading, Stewart as No 2 and good old Geo. Evans dirawmg heads all the timfc, he skipped home with 19 to his credit, while Haslam, Burton, Goode>r, and that reliable flayer, Sample, had to be content witlh 12. Boyes is irrepressible, and don t you forget it. The Twa MoEldowneys let themselves go at Thorndon, on Saturday afternoon. Brother Jacob skipped against Inspect-or-General Hogben, and brought hie naotv out on top by 23 to 17. Other Brother J. A. C, tackled the senior Wigeins-. in full rink, amd mad© a dead heat of it at 22. "Faugh-a-ballalgh ! which m the Irish language means "Scots wha hae," or something to that effect. Tl-evor Gould was in his best "Equitable" frame- of mind at 4.30 on Saturday. The chalk on the scoring board spelt out 17' against Wee Geordie s 13— that fatal ~13 once more. Buckle, Chitty (everyone knows Chitty on Contracts"), and Brown assisted Trevor, and such old hands a£ Leslie, Duuock, and Barraud did their level best to save Scotland from another Floddera Field. Ballinger's team of Auckland tournament champions has burst up. . Norrie Bell has formed another combination with himself as skip, Gooder as third man Ted Hill as leader, and Brunskill as No." 2. Meanwhile, Balknger is { chasing round for a 1 fresh team._ Mayer, Menelaus, .Andeirson, an( l MacMorran have established a strong ben upon, the Hamerton Badges, up ait Mount Victoria. Kershaw, Tattle, Mack, and Shaddon tried to lift them on Satuiday, but got no nearer than Id to 21. President Mackay dressed down Librarian Rowe, in full rink, by 20 to 13. Have you noticed how often the defeated team in these rink matches are found roosting on the 13 mark ? Shirtcliffe and Arthur Drxon, along with Crease and Trevor, will not dispute the "uncannmess" of the 13. Arthur was third man, and Shirtchffe was skip when they got stranded there on Saturday, while Kibblewhite, Guise, Scott ,and Barry sailed prosperously on to 37. Avery tried hard to get into double figures 'in his rink match against Patterson, but it wasn't has day out — 23 to 9. The most closely contested New town match "on Saturday was Pow ell's fullrink ganre against Astill. It was steady going all the time. Thoindon was out o<n the war-path on Saturday for those Edwm Feathers, which, since the close of last season, have decorated the Newt own hats of Sexton, Blyth. Bnghtwell and Price. The braves who put on the war-paint w-ere J M King, Rose, Ross and Sievw right, and they tore the feathers from the brows of New town by 24 to 14. There are two parties) of filibusters up at Woids worth-street getting ready to measure strength in order to decide who shall issue the next chalLenge. W Riley, who is game enough any day to take all kinds of risks in. season or out of season stood up pluckilv on Saturday last to J. D. Perrett. but the

Auckland man is an artist in drawing heads, and the pictuic he lett on tno slate this time was 23 to 1.5 Mitfoid, Hustwick, and Peter Drummoml helped to mix the colours, and John Smith, Mallard, and G. Wilson took their fair shaie of Rileys risks. Our old fnend, W Lambert, who ton years a^o was one of the leading playeis of the Wellington Club, and who subsequently assisted to rock the cradle of the Thorndon Club, is this year president of the Auckland Club, and threw quite a neat little speech off his chest at the opening on Saturday last. Amongst other things, 'he hoped that lnter-cLub matches would figuie prominently during the season as they alw ays tended to promote that grand object of the game — goo df el lowship . Capt. Edwin is always ready to gave the game of bowls a friendly lift. He has presented a set of star badges for club competition in Auckland, just as years ago he started the Edwin Feathers going in Wellington. Noiwood's holiday has done him good. He must have been playing on some foreign turf while he was away. At any rate, he just managed to get home by one point on Saturday. Those Busih Ferns are a capital device for bringing young bow lers rapidly to the fiont. It is a sine qua non that each competing link must include two colts who started to kiss kitty since 1901. Two Wellington Club rinks and two Victoria) ditto, loaded up with hopes that were as pathetic as they were youthful, went up to Palmerston through Monday's rain to play bowls. But Captain Edwin, owing to Kelbuirne pressure, was quite inexorable, am.dtlh.ey played euchre instead . also, afternoon tea.