Bowling Notes

Free Lance, Volume IV, Issue 194, 19 March 1904, Page 16

Bowling Notes

By Wrong Bias.

EVERYBODY will be sorry to hear that that most popular of bowlers and prince of good fellows, Neil McLean, has met with an accident which will probably disable him from playing bowls any more this season. He was bikinr along Willis-street on Friday morning last, when a large dog ran suddenly in front of his wheel abreast of the Empire Hotel, and brought Neil down heavily, damaging both hands and hurting one knee-cap. That is why Wellington was minus Neil's services in to** match against Newtown the same afternoon. The play-off on the Victoria green between the Wellington and Newt-own Clubs, for possession of the District Champion Pennant, was the great event of Saturday. It was four rinks a-side, and both clubs were determined to win. The result was decisive. Wellington won. on every rink, and put up an aggregate of 91 points against Newtown's 56. And yet it was good play all round. Ballinger's rink, pitted against Prince's, scored most heavily for Wellington — 24 to 10. In the first head, Newtown was lying 2 when Ballinger, with his last bowl, drove the jack into the ditch, and scored 5. It was a procession after that. Bell's rink put up 27 against Brightwell's 15. Bell took the lead on the seventh head, and went on steadily increasing it. At the fifth head, Churchward and Price were even, and, although Churchward went ahead after that, they were never further apart than seven, points, and the final was 19 to 14. Wylie played a beautiful lead for Price. Lockie made' a wonderful recovery against D'Emden. The latter led from the start, and for eleven heads was 12 to 4, and for 14 heads 14 to 9. After that, Lockie came up under the whip, and won by 21 to 17. This shows the progress 1 of the match at the sth, 7th, 11th, 14th, and 21st heads : —

The victors were received with cheers on returning: to the Wellington green, where the Champion Flag of the North Island and the Champion District Pennant were both flying from the flagstaff. Kelburne, the youngest city club, opens its season to-morrow (Saturday), and will have three rinks available for play. The celerity with which it has organised and got ready is the best testimony that real live men are in charge. There are about sixty members on the roll now, and there will be fully eighty before the season ends. Though last, Kelburne will be by no means least. The Antipodeans and the Britannias had a lively "go" for the Oddfellows' Pins at Newtown on Saturday. Britannia challenged in a very defiant tone of voice, with White, Godber, Kershaw, and Powell, to back the challenge up. But, the Antipodean warriors (Murdoch, Clarke, Guise, and J. Brackemridge, jun.) were too good by 22 to 14 for General Baden-Powell and Co. Cr. Murdoch was in capital form as lead. Up at Thorndon on Saturday Scotland knocked out the World in a sevenrink match by 139 to 1$& The teams were well matched all tirough. Thus for Scotland, Leighton beat Freeman 22-14, Barry beat Longton, 20-19, McKerrow beat Jones 24-20, Ross beat Rose 21-19, Sievwright beat Heywood 18-15, Wiggins, sen., beat W. Nathan 19 to 17. Hogben was the only winning cosmopolite with 19 to Mowlem's 15. By the way, when did Fred Mowlem become a Scotchman? Petone was occupied on Saturday with a four-rink match against Victoria, and only lost it by 7 points. Gilmour got 26 to Bary's 12, but F. Reid, Johnston, and Fraser went down before Brackenridge. Martin, and! Mack. Jack Laughton's conversion to bowls is quite complete. All the ardour he used to put into wing-forward play for Melrose when the boys were "on the ball," he now devotes to trundling bowls at Newtown. John makes a start usually before breakfast, and is always on the evening shift as well. As for Roberts, the Soccer game isn't in it with bowls.

The Auckland bowlers haven't had enough tournament this year. They aie busy getting up another for Easter. Rinks are to be ranged in sections, and play to a finish just as they did under the NOlN 01 them Association's ausp.ces. There will also be pairs and singles * • * In pioyosmg the toast of ' The New Zealand Bowling Association" at a iecent gathering of bowlers in, Dunedin, Mr. Hislop said he did not think there was the slightest hope of the amalgamation of the two associations in New Zealand, but he would like to see a board of delegates from the New Zealand Association and one from the Northern Association meet, and arrange a common set of rules, so that all bowlers could play on equal terms. In the North Island things were conducted much better than they were in the South. * * * J. J. Dingle, J. Thornes, A. H Brookes, and W. Lyons (s) of the Auckland Club, won the full-rink tourney at the Rotorua Carnival. Their record was Games played, 9; won, 8, lost, 1. The game lost was a tie on the 21st head. They scoied 239 points against 139 by their opponents. None of the player's are sweet on the State bowling green at Rotoma They say it never will be worth much until the Government are prepared to spend more money oxi its up-keep. John Young, the veteran president of the New South Wales Association, has been shaking up the people at Home about the visit they owe the colonies. He has written expressing surprise at their want of enterprise, and telling them no more visits from the Commonwealth or New Zealand need be expected until the British Lion faces the Kanearoo and the Moa under the Southern Cross. Young's letter is to be laid before a conference of bowlers.

The regularity with winch Sir Isaac Pitman and) Sons have to forward certificates to the pupils attending Miss _ Carr and Mrs. Gunnion's School -of Shorthand and Typewriting, is a very high recommendation of the teaching capabilities of those ladies. The results of the last quarter's examination, are just to hand, when some twenty pupils received certificates varying from theory to 130 words per minute. The successful pupils were — Speed Misses Jean Robertson and Amy Birch, 130 words per minute , Misses Olive Ellison, Lottie Carmichael, Edith Ohittey, Edith Hornby, Bessie Stevens, and Winnie Low, 120 words per mmute; Misses Sophie Morrell, Beatrice Ferguson, and Bella Ross, 110 words per mmute, Miss Rita Bentley, 80 words per minute ; Misses Amy Howden, Hilda Mimfie, and 1 Agnes McCarrisin, 70 words- per minute. Theory : Misses Nina Williams. Annie Paisley, Florence Green, Ethel Kidd, and Renie Rees. * ' • The Monaghan Estate,, at Karori, is beine subdivided, and will be offered at auction aa Tuesday, 29th instant, by Messrs. William H. Turnbull and Co., at their auction rooms, 3. Panamastreet. This block has long been in the eye of the public, who have waited for years for the opening up of this most desirable residential locality. There are some sixty sections, which are all pegged out and flagged to facilitate the inspection bv intending purchasers. Most of the sections are flat, and well watered, a good long frontage being to the main Karori Road. At the back of the estate the land gradually rises, and exposes to the view some splendid scenery in bush-clad hills and valleys and fine open country. * » * Karori is proverbially healthy, and is one of the most favoured of Wellington's suburbs. The upset prices are being marked low, and the terms are such as to enable anyone to purchase. Large sections and plenty of air space has been the rule in the cutting up of this property. A large number of people visited the land last Saturday and Sunday, and expressed themselves well pleased with the size of the sections and the general subdivision. * * * On Friday evening (11th instant), at the weekly rehearsal of St. Anne's (Newtown), church choir. Father Ainsworth, on behalf of the choir, presented Mr. F. L. Dean, the conductor with a handsomely carved music-stand, of a unique design. It was made by Messrs. Jupp, from drawings supplied by Mr. J. P. Willis. Father Ainsworth praised both the conductor and the organist, Mr. S. Cimino, jun. "* * » We are in receipt of a copy of the first number of a new Chnstchurch publication, of twelve pages, called the "New Zealand Co-operative News," devoted, as its title indicates, to co-opera-tion, which says: — "Human society is a brotherhood, not a collection of warring atoms" ; "True workers are fellow workers, not rivals." In its advocacy, the "News" emphasises the utility to the workers of setting up their own stores, and manufacturing their own articles, thus preserving the profits for their own use.

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