Bowling Notes

Free Lance, Volume V, Issue 254, 13 May 1905, Page 16

Bowling Notes

By Wrong Bias.

WE are almost at the end of the season,. Another week at the furthest and the curtain will be rung down till October next. New town and Victoria close up after to-morrow , and Wellington wi ll probably follow sujfc after next week. • • ♦ The only event of any consequence last Saturday was the match on the Victoria green between the World 1 and the Colonials, sax rinks and one pajr on each side. The cosmopolitans wooi a hard-fought fight by 144 to 106. Canine Jamie Brackenradge, sen , with 26 to Scott's 8, made the best performance for the World, and) Bracken - ndge, jun., with 9 to Mack's 21, in the pairs go, sustained the next' greatest defeat to Scott's on the Colonial side. Mack scored in seven oonseoutave heads. The closest fight was between Keuth (19) and Townsend (16). The former extinguished. Fred's colonial light with two threes on the last two heads. It was a cruel disappointment. Hueston and Arthur Dixon were the only successful Coloniial skips. The former put up 21 to Snaddon's 17. and Arthur scored 24 to Andersons 16. Varcoe, for the World, .beat Mayei by 21 to 15, and White for the Woild, defeated Ford fey 2,4 to 13. The season closes on Saturday with a match between teams chosen by the president and vice^-president respectiveily. A match for the Danks Feathers came off at Newtown on Saturday. Alpe, Itamsay, Dmnbell and Kiirnuiburgh , who were tlhe challengers, made a gaan© struggle to get the plumage, but they just fell short by a point (23—22). A. Moore, Crewes, Scott, and Powell therefore still fly the feathers. Of the scratch games, the best fullmnk event was Harry Price's defeat of his old skip, Prmce, by 33 to 20. Haworth, Sexton, and D'Emdem weie joined with Price, and Barnee, Webbi, and J. J. Roberts fought under the Prince. The closest rink game on the Wellington green was fought out by teams skipped by Balhngeir and Webb respectively Webb and Co. all overshot the mark m the first head 1 , and let tlhemr opponents score the possible (8), which was a very good start. But Webb plugged away until the last head produced a tie at 27 aO'l. In 6he play off, Bal linger won by a couple erf pamfe. At Thorndon, Ross bowled out Rose m full rink bv 29 to 16, and Longtoai gave McKerrow a good diressing-down — 2j to 12. Hickson. the old hiaikl, knocked out rasing talent (Blanohard) bv 23 to 10. W. F. Barraud stuck fast on the fatal 13, while Sievwright pegged merrily on to 29. The- most even game was the one foueht out by Clark(24') against Petne (23). Congratulations to Sievwnght upon winning the silver cup presented by President Rose. It was won in a rink tourney by C. Barraud, Wiggins, jun., J. T. King, and Sievwnghfc. In playing off amongst themselves, Wiggins and Sievwnght beat thie other two and then opposed each other in a singlehanded match. Sievwmght proved the victor bv 15 to 14, and! thus; squaredl accounts with Wiggins, who had previously beaten him for the Grace Cup. A. W. Blanohard has carried off tlhe Thorndon Singles (more power to his elbow), and Hatch and J. T. King won the pairs — a good pain* too.

Mr. F. J. Oakes is a capital choirmaster. That was made quite evident at the Hiawatha Musical Society's concert in the Sydiney^street Hall, on Wednesday night. He was the conductor. It is the third time the Society La* come before the public, and each stage has been marked by progress. The programme was pretty well balanced between vocal and instrumental numbers. Best of the choral piece-* were The "Soldbers' Chorus," from "Faust" (which was encored), the "Tannhauser" chorus "Hajl, Bright Abode" (the march bv the orchestra bedng also good), tihe bridal chorus from "Lohengrin," and an ancient madiriga.l by Arkadelt. Some of the otheir performances were faulty by reason of uncertain attack and unsteadiness.

The oiohesitjia al»o gave a veij rair account ot itself. It was good m the Wagner mu^ic, made ann excellent im.presfe.ion with the intermezzo "Petite Caline," and tJie melody for strings, and didwtell in the familiar overture to Semi i amide."' Its weakest assay was the romance, "'Saint d' Amour." The flute solo by Mr. A. McDonald wa- admirably dove. the tone being sweet and clear. Mr. F. Jenness gaive a solo on the- Fiench horn very nicely, and the quartette for trombones. (Pilgrims' Chorus from 'Taainhauser") leflected ciedit upon the performeis, Messrs. H. Oakes, F. Pioctor, E Audi ews, and W. Retime. * • * There were only two singers, but both of them were exceptionally good. Miss Amy Hyde, whom it us always a ple-dNure to hear, sang in French Gounod's delightful serenade, her voice ringing out with bell-like clearness m the upper register. She was warmly encored, and gave Masoagni's "Aye. Maria" with admirable expression. Ma-. R. Duff, who sang "A Dream of Paradise," has a sonorous bass voice, flexible and of rich even quality. He. too, was encored, and then, was heard in "The Yeoman's Wedding; Song," which was interpreted with finte effect. Muss I. O'ReiHy was piano accompanist, and) Mr. J. Woodward was leader of the orclhestra. « *• * The Savage Club have a first-class programme 1 compiled for their concert m the Town Hall on Wednesday next m aid of the Consumptives' Home. It will be their debut before the public, and will convince them what large resources of Savage talent there are m the Empire City.

Denis C<une\, who was a Fuller star for a long period, is just now at Bendlgo ' • F. H. Cowen oompoNcd hus highly popular sang, "The Bettei Land " while travelling m a railu.iv train. « * * Hariy Quealy, of Pollard fame, will soon be out on* his own. He is thinking of taking a company to South Afnoa. Mrs. Gower Bums (who sang in Wellington on Good Friday night), Mis, Lloyd Hassell, Miss Katie Young, Hen Max Hoppe, and Mi . Percy Denton have been on a concert tour of the North Island Sydney is suffering a surfeit of circus The Fitzgea-alds and Wnths are both on the job, and fighting for ■supremacy Their posters cover pretty •well the 'whole city, and the harboufront as well Dan Fitzgerald, who believes in printer's ink, seems to have bought the advertising columns of the papers. , . . Miss Maud Jeffries isn't about to retire into a domestic life after all. Her contract with Mr. J. C. Wilbamsoui does not expire befoie January next, and until it does, she hasi no intention of lea vine the stnere. Afterwaids it may be that she will rest for a few months, but any talk of abandoning her profession altogether is quite nremature. * * * Miss Nance O'Neill opens her toui of the colonies at Melbourne on June 17th next. She will have as "leading man" Mr. Charlcis Dalton, an American actor of note, whom Mr. Williamson w shed 1 to brine over a year 01 two back. Mr. McKee Rank in is sHI with Miss O'Neill The new repertoire will include "The Fires of St John," "Judith, ' "Magda," and "Queen Elizabeth." * « * Miss Tittell Brune is extending her Shakespearian role/a. She has already made Juliet hei own, and during the pieseiit Melbourne season she is to play Portia, m "The Merchant of Venice," with most probably Mr. A. E. Greenaway ais the Shylook. Later on Mlss Brune w ill appear as Katharine in 'The Taming of the Shrew," wbioh was so successfully revived in London a few months ago. * * * With "The Gondoliers," which the Gilbert and Sullivan Company have been busily lehearsinig in spare intervals since they left Wellington, they will complete their repertoire of the seven most popular comic operas of the series. It is not intended either to add more of the w orks of Gilbert and Sullivan, or to go outside that work and! produce the works of any othei authors 01 composers. The Bnsbaiie season of Miss Nellie Stewart and hei company has been abandoned, at any rate for the present, bv Mr. George Musgrove. His dates at His Majesty's Theatre have been secured by Mr. J C. Williamson, whose intention it is to give theatre-goers there an opportunity of seeing the Knierht-Jeffiies Company once again befoie its present existence terminates in New Zealand at the begmrunp of next year. * * * The "tuirn" of the four Gibson Gals in 'The Skirt Dancer," at the Sydney Criterion. i& one of thie brightest things on the programme. Although the^e sprightly dancers are known as the Gibson Girls that is not their real name. Three of them are the Gellately Sisters, and the other Mrs H. P. Coeiill, widow of Comedian Harry Cos<nll who dlied in America some time ago. The Gellately Sisters are sisters of Rene Gellately, the well-known toe-danoer, who was with Bland Holt for some rears. The cleveT dancer married Hamilton Hill, the baritone, who was under engagement to Mr. Harry Riokards. * • * "Never played to a finer audience in my hfe," declared Mr. Maok when he stepped off the stage at the end of his first night's performance at Her Majesty's, Melbourne. "They told me over in the States that you people out here in Australia were cold and 1 oritioal. and gave a man as little enoouraigement as you could. It sounded diflfarenib tonaght, didn't if Why, those people in front never massed a line of the whole show. And laugh! Sometimes they began to laugrh almost before the ioke was off mv lips. I never want to play before anybody better, and let me tell you this, "Tom Moore," though written bv an American for Americans, never went better over there than it did here this evening. I'll put some of those croakers who filled me uip with gloom on, the richt track when- I get back to them." After the Melbourne season Mr. Mack to Sydney and then to Brisbane. Adelaide, and Perth in that order.