Bowling Notes

Free Lance, Volume V, Issue 230, 26 November 1904, Page 16

Bowling Notes

By Wrong Bias.

I NOTICE from a Sydney paper that over there they have been trying what they call an American notion in bowls. That is to say foui rinks being selected, each m turn had to play the other three, each go being confined to thirty minutes. , ton. » • was needed to tie. Li another match of the same series Burns Blake, Drummond, and' &. JmTdefeated C. Smith, Birch, Lawson, and Bush by 26 to 12. Sample's rink beat Haybittle's by 10. Councillor John Luke has taken seriously to bowls up at Newtown this season. He had been a subscribing SSmber for years, but has only just caught the infection for "Tossing the kitty." # The* iunior pennant games on Saturday were interesting, but might easily be made more so if they were doublerink events instead of only single rinks. It brings the new material on. Wellington and Thorndon. tried conclusions up at Newtown, Davy skipping for the former, and Wiggins, jun., the latter. It was a close affair the 3 got by Wellington m the nrst head being the only score of that magnitude. Davy reached the post with 17 to Wiggins' 16. Teams Hildreth, Stewart, Birch, Davy. v. Chitty, Letham, Matthews, and Wiggins. On the Wellington green, Warren, Mcllwraith, Ramsay, and Laughton did battle for Newtown, and put Braokenridge, jun., Parton, Ewmg, and Mitchell, of the Victoria Club, away by 28 to 17. Petone and Karon's little caper came off on the Victoria green. Renai, Ridler, Kingdon, and McArthur for Petone made every post a winning-post, and kept Campbell, Spiers, Partridge, and Shalders, of Beautiful Karon, in chancery to the tune of 30 to 17. • ♦ • In ordinary rink games, Webb and Churchward had an animated struggle on Saturday. The teams were strong, and Webbs put up 26 to Tom's 16. There was a good deal of driving. Bell and Moult were opposing skips, and the Wanganui veteran went down by 16 to 25. • • * At Newtown, there was a well-match-ed struggle between Amoor© (no relation of Othello's), Barnes, Kinniburgh, and Wise, who notched 21 against Bland, Shore, Richards, and Danks 3 20. Waddell and J. P. Campbell (late of Wordsworth-street) are bravely holding up their end of the stick up at Kelburne. On Saturday, in full rinks, Campbell skipped' against M. G. Young for 17 to 10 and Waddell kept Jameson under the whip by 19 to 10. • • * The leading event on the heights of Mount Victoria was MacMorran's dishing of Braokenridge- r 2B to 14. Mac knocked them up in big lots, too. With the Christmas vacation at hand, he will have to be treated with profound respect. Practice is telling. Arthur Dixon's rink event against Anderson, however, was the greatest Victorian sensation since the memorable afternoon when Anderson wore the kilts. Arthur, who was in charge of Hampton, Kelly, and Kershaw, was dead on the job, and went on piling

them up against Henry, Higgins, Kibblewlnte, and Anderson, until he knocked off at 35 to 8. It is supposed that he has been taking private lessens and Home wrinkles from Harry Albert Price. The winners' score- compused a bix, five, four, and 3 th.ees. Anderson had to be content with six singles and a brace. Stevens (late of the Carterton Club) made mincemeat of White although the latter had the services of Boyes as No. 3.— 28-16. Keith and Hueston had a big We up to the fourteenth head— l 2 all But after the tea, adjournment Keith tell to pieces, only scoring one point, while frueston put on 11.-23-13. Again that fatal 13. Maok had a pairs game with Eckersley. The long and the short of it. Ihe little man on top as usual — 18-11. * • * Coles is still the "star" performer for singles out at Petone. Wyhe tried to eclipse him on Saturday, and only failed by one point-22 to 21 These Wyhes—both at Newtown and Petone make you sit right up. "* • • Roberts, Sexton, Wylie, and Brightwell, of Newtown, sallied out to Petone on Wednesday afternoon, in quest or those Hill Pins, and did such dreadful execution that it would not be surprising if Petone took the needle instead. Wilmshurst, Colquitt, Henry, and Gilmour only scored m five heads, for a total of 7, while Bnghtwell and' Co. slapped on 39. In the diamond game series, Brunskill and Bell have wrested; the Buckles from Drummond and Hamilton, with a score of 17 to 12. The Bush Ferns have been moving round. Osboro, Lawson, Brunskill, and BeTry won them from J. Smith Knapp, Flinders, and Remington, and then in turn went down in defending them against Drummond, Thompson, Veitch, and Plimmer, who scored 22 to 16. There is to be a Pairs Tournament at New Plymouth on December 27. Intending visitors had better book their accommodation well ahead.

A well-known comic opera belle has just been married to a Dunedin resident. » • » Genial Tod Callaway, who laised nianv a laugh at the Gaiety, is in the Dunedin Hospital, with a variety of troubles. Let's hope he'll make a speedy recovery. • ♦ • The ever-green Maggie Moore, whose fairy foim is so dear a sipht to colonial playgoers will tnp the light fantastic in pantomime at Liverpool during Christmas week. • * • The mantle of I>onald' Dinme has fallen on his son George. The latter has been weight-lifting in Westraha with astonishing success, and no rivals can lift worth a cent, bv comparison. • • • Mrs. Langtry was once about to become high society correspondent for "Life," London, but she wanted £800 a year, and the editor would only give her £400 So she went on the stage. and Lady Violet Greville got the job. • • • Madame Slaooffski, of operatic fame, is now gone the way of all operatic flesh. She is on the vaudeville stage in America. Nobody is writing operas now-a-days, because there is nobody to sing them, except a few enthusiasts in Italy. # A pronos of the wordy warfare between Julius Knieht and a Westrahan parson, Julius thus hits out in one paper •— " Let Mr. Wilson oeru.se his text once more, and take the latter portion of it to heart • 1 know and am persuaded of the Lord Jesus that nothing is unclean of itself save that to him who aooounteth anything to be unclean, to him it if unclean.'— Yours etc.. Julius Knight." • *■ * Sydney "Newsletter" passes on a curious story about Mel. B. Spurr by a friend of his. One day in Melbourne Mr. Spurr saidi at the breakfast table he had dreamt that he was to die at St. Kilda before the end of tne _/?*£: "What did you have for supper Mel £ said 1 one of the company, and the subject was brushed aside jokmelv. A week 1 niter Mr. Spurr said 1 to his manager, 'Tlemminig, I've had that diefun again, with the addition that it'«= to be on a Sunday afternoon " As everyone knows Mr.'Spurr died at St. Kilda the afternoon of Sunday. September 25th.

Recalled that Walter Baker, now the handsome hero of Blandholtian melodrama, twenty yeans ago chased a burglar four miles into the Australian bush, and captured him. He got £25 as a reward. He is still treading vice underfoot. • ♦ • A Hobart paper remarks that among the artistes at Dixs, Wellington aie Fanny Powers, Lizzie Kirk, Irene Franklin, etc. The paper is quite excusable, but it was little* Fanny Powers who merely imitated the gay Lizzie and the dainty Irene. Irene long since took to the legitimate, hut 'tis said Lizzie and Frank Leon, her clog-danc-ing consort, are on the way out from England to thus colony. • • * An inflamed dispute between actor and churchman has been raging in Western Australia, where the Rev. A. S. Wilson attacked the drama, first on general principles, and then, on moral grounds. Mr. Julius Knight made a spirited rejoinder, and discussion of a personal character took place with regard to stage morals which wasn't very elevating or enlightening. As usual, both parties still hold the same beliefs as before. • * • The long-protracted 1 cause' celehre — Slapoffski v. Musgrove — hasi art last been settled (says "Table Talk'"), and the principals have shaken hands and are fast friends again The settlement involves the abandonment bv Herr Slapoffiski of the fruits of the verdict which Madame Slaipoffski obtained in the Snnreme Court a-nd the return of Herr Slapoffski to the conductor's chair under the management of Mr. Oeor^e Musgrove The lawyers are tho^e who smile best because theiir «smil& lasts — fr>' t^e others "AH'^ well that pn^s well." Tag — "God bless Captain Cook and George Musgrove."