Bowling Notes

Free Lance, Volume IV, Issue 181, 19 December 1903, Page 5

Bowling Notes

By "Wrong Bias.

THK bowl-testing nightmare no longer distuibs the slumbers of tlie Auckland bowlers. As the mountain wouldn't come to Mahomet, Mahomet has gone to the mountain In othei words, the NBA have sent then standard bowl to Auckland, and have ai ranged to test bowls on the spot. Sir Joseph Waid foimally opened the State bowling gieen at Rotoiua the ■othei day. I suppose they will mix hot watei with their whisky un there. By the \\&\. Onehunga, Rotorua, and Cambridge are said to be about to join the Association. I suppose Karofi, Kelburne and the Hutt will soon be following suit Wellington had an easy two-to-one %\in o\c»r Petone in the- Pennant series, at New town, on Saturday afternoon. Still, Petone's play was by no means indiffeient The best Petone nnk was the one that stood up against Sample, and gave that \eteran a good iuii, finishing 16 to Wellington's 19. Bibington nlayed a skilful drawing game as thud man, nevi being far away, and Lawrie, as sk v>, although not so consistent, got in some capital shots I undei stand Laune and Babmgton will be in the nnk witli ■which Petone is going to have a shot t the Edwin Feathers Reid, who skipped against Churchward and came home with 10 to 34, Mas not in luck's way nor inform either. Marsden was about the best of his team. Caiter got 13 to McGlashan's 22, and Gilmoui put up 12 to Gooder's 30. But, the Petone men aie no longer raw colts They are coming on all right, and some o" them make pietty play. New tow n administered a severe dress-mg-down to Victoria on the Wellington green 99 to oO in a foili-rink mateh — what will James from Scotland say when he heais of it ? It w as D'Emden's and Lambeit's riaks that did most of the damage. D'Emden's 3o against Page's 6 suggests that the Victorians must have been rathei paralysed, while Lambert's 31 to Vaicoe's'll leads as if the complaint had proved contagious. Hucston is none the woise foi his lecent illness, as he bowled over Puce by 19 to 18 Baiy did not allow sentiment for his old club to weaken his hand, for, with little Mack's polite aid, he kept ahead of Pnnce, Undeiwood, and Co by 20 to 10. Pnnce still walks a bit lame, but in bowling foim he is getting back to the redoubtable Pnnce of yore. On the Wellington gieen, they aie through uith the first lound of Senior Bowls matches (best two out of three games), and the suivivors aie Drummond. who beat Hustwiok, Bell beat Knapp, Riley beat Hodgson, Geddis beat Gibbes, E. J. Hill beat Berry, Churchwaid beat Whitehouse, Reich beat France, Read beat Hume, C. Hill beat Daw son. Remington beat Hamilton, Sample beat Flinders. In the Sargood's Cup contest (first round), the winners are Neil McLean Daw. Sample, Whitehouse, Gibbes, L. Blundell, Rejch, Still, McGlashan, Roskruge, and Lockie. In the full-rink contests, foi piesident's and vice-piesident's prizes, Sample's rink has gone down before Mentiplay's, with a scbre of 17 to 21 (game finished in the dark at 8 30 p m ), and Balhnger's nnk (C Smith, Mailer, Berry, and Balhnger) got bumped out heavily by Chuichward's (Mitford, Haslam D. McLean, and Churchward), at 16 to 30. S. Clark- Johnson was in great foim on Saturday. Came through his rink match against Crichton with 32 to 7 chalked up. Every time a cocoanut! Roberts, of Newtown, is coming into line as a Newtown skip. 24 to Meynck's 12 in full rink is "no that bad, ye ken." It was an interesting and ding-dong game that was skipped by Haworth and Swiney respectiv ely— 2o to 18. The Civil Service is in high feather just now up Thoindon way. Challenged the rest of the club (five rinks aside) and got home, hard piessed, with 110 to 96. The glory icsts with the Treasuiy Department. McManaway, Conhn and Sproule, skipped by Heywood, simply knocked the stuffing out of Parsons, Wiggins, Barry, and Webb, by 37 to 6. Verily, the schoolmaster was abroad that day.

McKerrow , assisted by Ficoman, Letham, and McKldownev made a big effoit to straighten tilings out but his 31 to Archibald, Phmmci, J. M King, and Hiekson's 11, although good enough, didn't balance the iedgei The surprise feature of the match was David Nathan's hist appearance as a Civil Servant It is supposed he must have joined the Daiiy Dcpaitment At any rate, he notched 23 against President Macintosh's 1(?. Longton and Wright fought out to a tie r.t 19 all, and Sievwi'ght bowled out his bnther Scot, Daw Ross, by 24 to 20. The bowling fever has bioken out m the Hutt. Mi John Duthie is doing his best to spread the infection. A game on his capital lawn lenders one an easy victim to the complaint T 1 c four rinks contesting the honour of lcprcsenting the Wellington Club at the Auckland tourname it ha\e so far arrived at the following results — McLean's rink 5 wins, 1 lo^s , 132 points scoied, 88 scored against Loclne's rinks, 3 w ins 2 losses , 95 scored, 83 scored against. Bdhrger's link 2 wins, 4 losses 88 scored, 118 sooied against. Bell's rink 1 4 losses 1 76 scored, 102 scored against.