Bowling Notes

Free Lance, Volume VI, Issue 281, 18 November 1905, Page 11

Bowling Notes

By Wrong Bias.

THE bowlers are paying no compliments to the weather. On the contrary, their language on that subject is painful and_frequent amd free. Even Captain Edwin would have wept if he had seen them on Saturday afternoon, m the bravery of light flannels and summer hats, starting to work hope fully on the green while the ram-clouds piped up all hands aloft for another downpour. The ram won the match .all right. Newtown and Victoria were the only clubs where any play worth speaking of came off. At the Wellington and Thorndon and Kelburne dubs' greens only half-a-dozen heads had been trundfled when th© celestial ho=.e was turned on, and although some hard cases struggled on for a while with wet jackets, the majority either got to work on euchre and crib, or else gob under shelter to gaze ruefully at the rain and make rude remarks about the climate. At the Victoria, green, the Tharndon champions — Longton, Conlin, Sievwright, and Ross (skip) — had come out for the Edwin Feathers, and nothing lees than a deluge would defeat their grim determination. So Mayer, Maitdn, and the two Brackenridiges braced themselves up to defend the coveted trophies, even though rheumatics might rack them for a month to come. It was the first Feathers match, of the season. The Victorians started off with 2, and kept pegging away until oa the ninth head) they were 13 to 4. In the next seven, heads Davy Ross got a Thorndon move on, and with sixteen heads gone had got into double figures with lo to 15. In the remaining five heads Victoria added four points, and Thorndon three, the holders thus defeating the challengers by 19 to 13. It is Karon's go next. "DaddY Anderson made hus first appearance on the green on Saturday for this season, and received a hearty welcome. He has now quite recovered from his late accident. The Bu-y-Mackay game on Saturday had a peculiar ending. On the twentieth head Bary was 21 to Mackays 16, and mow Bary is wondering how he came to let Mao get 6 on the last bead. Mack and Read (of the Gothic) had an interesting tussle — the .long and the short of it. Little Billee, however, with the aid of a six on the eighteentn head, proved too cunning for has burly opponent. Marcus Marks has been promoted He skipped last Saturday, and! handled his team with a Baden-Powell aii. Beat the veteran Varcoe by three points. His trick in wrist play — h tip from Kaiser Wilhelm when Marcus was at Berlin — is much admired. Four rinks have been formed to compete for the honour of representing the Victoria Club at the January tournament. Each will play the others m turn and the best two rinks will be the reps. Here they are : — Aveiry, Trevor, Varcoe, Bary (skip); MacMorran, Scott, John Braokenridge, Brackenridge, sen. (skip); Mayei, Keith, Mackj Hueston (skip); Martin, Fosette, Hemingway, Snaddibn (skip). • • « Newtown dodged l the weather Dy making a very early start, and reached the 1 twenty-one heads' limit without getting wet through. Three full-rink matches were completed Nancarrow dished D'Emden by 19 to 13, and Wise gave his old skip (Prince) a dusting with a point to the good, 20 to 19. Frank knows all the tricks of the game now, bless you. Campbell beat Haworth by 17 to 10. . » • Vedtch met a surprise packet on his first visit to the Wordsworth-street, pajvilion, on. his return from Sydney last week. There it stood, in bold black characters, in Alick Lawson c* most fetching style : "The World's Championships — New Zealandeis Abroad: — Football: England 0 v. New Zealand 22. Bowling: Sydney 0 v. Veitch 23." Now, Mr. Veitoh is a modest man, and he hastened to confess it wasn't really so gorgeous as all that. Hewa^ in the winning team all right, but the other side didn't go to pieces. He saw Charlie Willestom — one of Wellington's pioneers in bowls— on the

Mr. W. J. Napier, solicitor, of the firm of Napier and Smith, looking particularly cheerful and full o± vim, flew in from the North the other day. He has planned to take the bounding billow for it in a few weeks 5 time. He has never yet been Home, and now i*> his opportunity. He has company busjness to look after in the world's hub, aaid also has to meet the terrible Lords of the jt^ivy Council. Hope Willie will keep his eyes open, and let us know whether Sir Robert Stout is right or no. • • • Nattrass and Co., of the Avenue, Lower Hutt, have embarked oin the cycle business in that town. In a neat trade circular, they set out their pricelists, with illustrations of the "Samoa" cycles. The firm build their own machines, and are recommended as specially capable builders of motor cycles. The illustrated trade booklet has Jaeen printed in high-class style at the Free Lanob office.

City green. Age may have stiffened his joints, but it hasn't taken all the ■juvenile chirpine&s out of the one-time City Father. He lives at the North Shore, and on fine days you may see him in frook coat and glossy edk hat tripping along to give the jack a turn. • • " In the "rep." series at the Wellington green, Gooder and Ballingex's rinks made a close thing of it an Tuesday evening. Gooder started off with four, but Ballinger soon got within a point, and when the game was about half through tne scores were level. On the nineteenth head, Goode,v was a point behind, but on the twentieth he made even. Oni the final head, Knapp (playing third for Ballinger) placed a bowl on the jack, and Andy Hamilton, after one attempt to whick it out, sent down a drive, and made «i dead head of it. In the play off, Lotuiis Blundell drew the shot for Gooder, and kept it, m spite of alj attempts to shift him. Goodler's rinn thus won a very closely contested game. The interrupted match between Churchward^ and Gooder's rinks was completed on Wednesday afternoon. With fifteen heads go-rue, Goodier was six points down, and! in the next six heads, although he did not get on

terms, he reduced th© lead by three points, finishing up 17 to 20. It was a very willing game. That seven, in one head at an early stage of the game was a killer. Gooder, by accidteoxt, drove his only bowl off th© field. But for that mishap there might have been another tale to tell. In the prize singles, Bush has knocked. Bell out of Sargood's Cup, and several other worthies have come a cropper. The Karori Club is en tei prising. With a membership of from 55 to 60, it has put up a fine double-decker pavilion, and the opening of the green and pavilion takes place on Saturday afternoon, 25th inst. Captain Edwin permitting, of course. There are some very promising colts out at Karon, and one of these days there may b© & boil-over where 'tis least expected. Ask Willie Tustin. The Wellington Club is strong in junior talent this season, and the Junior Bowls will be closely contested. Dr. Gilmer looks a likely winner, and hus brother the- dentist, as well as Liddle, Stanley Brown, and 1 Andrew Wyhe, all have a say in it. Andrew is cominig on fast, and no longer looks round for his caddy when asked to deliver his shot.