Bowling Notes

Free Lance, Volume V, Issue 233, 17 December 1904, Page 17

Bowling Notes

By Wrong Bias.

THK bocond round of the senior pennant matches came off on Saturday last, but the only one that oould be considered a real good "go" was the struggle between Petone and Newtown It took place on the Thonndon green, amd Prince's rink won the match for Newtown by putting up the great score of 31 to Johnstone and Go. s 6. That surplus oi 25 made up for other deficiencies and left a winning surpJus of 11 the team totals being 80 tor Newtown, against 75 for Petone. Brightwell was the only other Newtown skip who was a top sawyer He scored 23 against Gilmour's 19In the lemanung miks, Petone cairied off the honours. Wilmshurst assisted by Renai, Jenkins and Castle, put up 31 against the 17 of Xhunbell, Campbell. Wise, amd Price Ridler Mai-sden, McLean, and Coles hoisted the flag of victory with 19 against the 15 of Roberts, Worboys, Undeiwood, and Hendry. Hendi y must hare come on fast lately to displace linden wood. * • • Poor Thorndon sang small m the duet with Victoria out at Newtown Braokenndge scoied 23 to Lonetan s 12 and on the neighbouung rmk Hueston u^ed the chalk very freely againfct J M King, the score being 24 to lU. The soiums went badly against the old forward. Baiy had a close tussle with Daw Ro>s, * and just managed to secuie a win m the last two heads— lB-I.J. Snaddon and Sievwnght played a veiy exciting game, the former merely winning on the last head. Thorndon was lvm-r two. when Snaddon, with his last bowl, trailed the jack a foot, a.nd lay 3. Totals B>s-3. * • * Wellington enjoyed a picnic with Karon, on the V.ctona peen the game ending M7 to 47. Woo Wdhe Tustin put up a weaiv 7 against Vjootler's unmerciful 29. Gibbes took 31 against Bennett's 14, and McGlas hail compiled 30 fa. Lloyd's 14 uhi-P veteran White house was content witu 25 against TlsdaU's 12, which was no sae bad Joking apart, Karon is doing veiy well and before the season is over may make some of the middle-aged clubs sit up with a violent start. Tow aids the end it was not neailv so lopsided as it reads. On the tenth head, Gibbes was 20, Ben'iet 2. Jf'om that on Bennett slapned on 12 to Gibbos's 11. McGlashan also staited oft at a great bat, scoring 6, 2. 3, in three consecutive heads Halt ot Lloyd's score was gatheied m the last three heads Mayer and Hueston intend having a shot at the Diamond Buckles Their gauntlet's down, and the match comes off on Satuidav, on the Wellington green. * * * Victona, wluch pulled off the South Island championship at Chnstchuich two veais ago, intends to have another shot for it next month Bary and the three Brackerandges aie on the iob. The Wellington Club al<o is likely to be heaid fiom. Donald McLean is on the green, with new bowls of a light, bav coloui— legulai dandies, in fact, for kissing the kitty Jimmv Russell has got a companion pair, with the device of his clan emblazoned upon them The immediate lesult is that he put down Balliageir m full rink on Saturday by 2/ to 15 In the club rinks (Victoria), the fust round has ended thusly (best two out of three games) Hueston beat Mackay Brackenndtre beat Martin, Mack beat Scott Bary beat Redstone, Varooe beat Keith Anderson beat MacMorran , Townsend's and Snaddon's rinks had bves. In the Victoria pairs, the following have survived the first round — Eckerslev and Dennent, Trevor and Baggett, Norwood and Mitchell. Pateison and Kirker, Hueston and Thompson, Redstone and Finn, Brackenpdge and Marks Ba.rv and Johnson, Avery and Parto- Mack and Callaghan. In 1 Smeles (Victona), the victors in the lust round are —Post, Mackav, Mayer, Johnson, Kirker Bagsett, Redstone, Callaghan. R. Dixon, Snaddon, G Godber, Thompson, Anderson, Jon i Brackenridge, Hueston, and Varcoe. There are also sixteen byes.

The annual ruik match between the Ragmen— Wholesale!*, vei^us Retaileis —came off last week, on the Wellington mound and, foi the- sixth successive yeai, George Pine's new smtb will adorn the limbs of the wui ehousemoii It was a good s,tiugglc, and tlio teams n-eie well matched Flmdeis, the two McEldowneys and Chui elm aid w ore the wholo^alois, and the c,m« of lotajl tiade was champianod by K J. mi, Chris Smith, A. Vcitch, and 1 Busli Churcliw.u-d's party won by 3.) to dl Chris Smith pl.ivod a gicat game fo> lub side. Tn the whole of the tlnrtv heads he didn't play a single bad bowl The aroma of Sargood's, cigars still l<ngers about the green.

We have received from the Tourist Department its "Itinerary of Travel m New Zealand," bi ought light up * o date It fit-, the pocket neatly, and 't you are travelling anywhere for vow holidays, you will constantly need it. Mr." Frank Grady, of "The Shop For Piesents," is showing a splendid stock this Christmas, and has made a specialty of English lever watches, of the best makes. All watches are guaianteed and discount allowed for cash at "The Shop for Watches."

Say, stranger, 'pears hke New York has got stranded in Willis-street. People climbing over each othei to spend "their oeaits. for dollais' woith oi goods. Yankee Hustle SuJe has got the ear of the populace. Ye&, sir. Like>wuse, it appeals to their pockets,. Tell me, how do the Yankee hustlers do itr 1 Takes you right back to the days when they sold 1 dollars fot a dime bit. Yes. sir ! Wei! , let's* go and get a dune's worth of dollais. Yankee Hurtle Sale keeps right <ilong for some time. The Kopis Biewery Company, whose local wholesale agents are Messrs. L. Caselberg and 00., of 15, Hairts-street, note that their products are brewed ui the ordinary way from, the fiivevt Kentish 'hops and malt, but are rendered entuely free from alooho-1 by a peoret piooesis. The tonic and nourishing properties of then products are highly spoken of. Book at once if you want sefte for the grand popular co>noert nn the Town Hall on Saturday night. With the leading soloists of the Musical Festival giving the programme, and the prices omly two shilling's and one shilling, it is a sure t hi lif* that the Towm Hall will be filled to oven flowing on Saturday nigchit. Look at the programme set out elsewhere. It is a collection of re«l gems.

Mists Maud Baatty is due m 'Fnsoo in May. Paradoxically, May wiJl not go with her. * ♦ • Kipling's "Tine Main Who Wais," dramatised, lias been produced at a Hamburg theatre. * * * Our very own Walton Rivers will assist in stage-managing the pantomime "Sinbad," for W. Anderson, thus year. * * • Stated! that, upwaidls of £500 h<us been subscribed to the Geitie Campion fund!. I hope it may purchase renewed health foi the bi lght comedienne * • • Mksa Elsie Mooie, heie with a, J. C. Williamson combinatio:i, ha® been tryheir waies in the London market. No sale*. She us on her way back to the colonies and appreciation. * » * Solemnly averted, without a bluvk of the eyelids that Madame Maizalla, of the bird "turn,," gets £100 a week from Hamy Rickards,. It would be >o easy to add anotJiei nought. * * * A parcel of lithographs, the property of the late Mel. B. Spuni , valued at about £200, was bu lined in Melbourne the other day They were of no use to anyone else, and the match wa^> applied. * * * Geo. Guldens, of "Aie You a Mason," has been telling London interviewers that colonial audience^ are real race. In fact, by oompairifeon, the Home article is pretty poor stuff. I expect George is oomuiig back this way some day * * ■* Eddie Geacih, who, together with the brisk and burly George T\ lllouighbj , ran successful show* for a oouplei of yeans, has been reaped by J. C. Williamson, and is calling on Westraha, in a loud vouce, to roll ur> to the sihow w hen it conies along. * * * Fred Graham is to be one of the stars, of Walham Anderson's pantomime season in Meil bourne. Eflamie Ravensburg a beauty of the statuesque order, and a leading Drury L-ane artist, us oominig out from London to be principal "bov" of the same season. * * * At the Town Hall concert, on December 7th, there was a i otund lady, un> a cerise gown, and a cavalier, m evening dress and a black a'ld white tie. They were both intensely mus cal for I heard him ask her if her daughter pla\ed Chopin. She saad *-he believed Minnie did) plav it, but that sOie preferred euchre. * * ♦ Once w he'ii "Romeo and Juliet" was played at a oertann oolonnal theatre, a student of medlicine was so carried away wrhh Juliet's rendemncr of the lines "Poiisoi'i, I see hath been his timeless end " etc. acid at her errief at Romeo's fate that he electrified the audience by standing ud and shouting "Hold Ins head up. Juliet, while I run a^id fetch the stomach pump." » * * Says Kyrle Bellew 'In point of enthusiasm, an Australian aiudhence is unlike any other in the world. They are very fair there, and receive all alike, whether they be at the top or bottom o$ the profession. But it us aomditioiiia 1 after that as to whether they hke you. They receive you well, but vou must make yourself good. I never saw such a theatre-going people as tJlie Australians. " * * • Playgoers have often -hazarded guesses concerning tihe causes w Inch led to the long theatrical partnership which wafc broken when Sir Henry Irving and Miss Ellen Terry separated. The secret i« out at last. Intei-viewed 1 m her dressing-room at Swajnisea, lafet month, when) fresh f i om the dance with which "Much Ado About Nothing" ends, Miss Terry said, "It leaves me giddy Here am I, fifty-seven years of age," she wenit on laughingly, "and stall throwing myself about in this way. Do you know that my difficulty with Sir Henry living was that I could not convince him that I had grown too old for youthful pairte? He couldn't see it, and so, after twenty-two year®, we parted." * • • When Su- Heinry Irving ajid Mr Boot.h, the American tragedian, were acting together m London, at doubled prices, the stoxy goes that Mr. Hermann Vezin, meeting Mr. W S. Gilbert, asked him wihether he had been to thDis quite exoeptiionlal show. "No," saad M.i . Gilbert, "I have sometimes paid half-a-guineia to seie one bad actor, but I will mot pay a guinea to see two." Mr. Beerbohm Tree was playing Falistaff at the London Haymarket, and 1 the indispensable stuffing made: him pejrspire profusely. Mr. Gilbert, vfho was un the theatre, went behind tihe scenes to see the actor, who may well have beem expected to be congratulated on the excellence of his impersonation. "^Jf™ 7 well your skin acts," said Mr Gilbert.