Bowling Notes

Free Lance, Volume VI, Issue 282, 25 November 1905, Page 16

Bowling Notes

VICTORIA'S feathered warriors, skipped by the Dannie Brackenridge, had no special difficulty 1 defending the Edwin plumes against WilHe Tustin and! his band! of Kaxo'braves. In fact, Jamie made the pace unnecessarily warm. He waded into aotaon with two fives, and didn't pause for breath until he had 16 to 2 for five heads. , After this Karori recovered' from its fright, and slapped on eight points while Victoria stood still. Then the procession resumed its course. Another five to Victoria on the 19th head brought the score 33 to 16, and on the last head James went nap, and scored the possible eight — 41 to 19. Victoria lay 6 when Tustin, went up to the head. He tried' to. trail the jack to his own back timber, but missed it each time. The teams were : Mayer, Martin, and the two Brackenridges for Victoria, and Uoydl, Tasdall, Bennett, and Tustin for Karori. It 6 Kelburne's turn next Saturday. Victoria, in the person of Norwood and Snaddon, also hold the Diamond Buckles. Wise and Prince went out after them on Tuesday evening, but shot their last bolt with the score against them — 15 to 11. It was a capital game, though. It was a case of 11 all on the last head but one. In the final. Prince swept the jack into the ditch, thus forfeiting two pointte, and Snaddon scored the other two. Take note, bowlers all, that the Karori Club open their green and also their fine new pavilion to-morrow (Saturday) afternoon, and have issued a cordial invitation to everyone who feels interested to join them in celebrating the event. The new pavilion is rigfit up to date, for an electric light installation has been put in. And the green is in fine playing condition,. • • • The rank matches for rep. honours are progressing as well as the weather will let them on the Wellington green. So far, of the seven rinks Bell's is the only one that hasn't yet tasted defeat. Good old Peter Drummond is leading and Brunskill and Harry Smith are in the other places. They have taken down Ball-mger's, Berry's, and, McKee's rinks. Churohwaird'& rink was severely handled by Moulfs, which won comfortably by 13 to 22. On the 19th head, Churchward tried for five — as bis opponent was six ahead — butt only managed to fake out his own shot, and go dlown four more points. Moulfs rink also triumphed over Berry's by one point. The latter was late in getting a move on. With ten heads gone he was only 3to 13. On the last head he wanted two to tie, and bagged one of them. On the other hand, Moults rink have sustained defeats at the hands of Ballinger's and Gooder's. Goode'has one defeat, and] Ballinger three. • • ♦ The Kelburne juniors were too good for the Karori ditto on the Wellington lower green on Saturday. But then, the gusts of wind that played acro'is the sward put fine play out of the question, and left the decision too largely to chance. De Oastro, who handled his Kelburne highlanders very well indeed, chalked up 32 against the Karori team's 12, Skip ShaJders merely shrugged his shoulder®, and Sid. Shortt thought they had been knocked down too cheaply. However, Time brings its revenges. • » • Orewes is cruising around among the Newtown skips. There axe no Hies on this particular parson. Brightwell had to play eyes out to beat him on Saturday, and then only got home two points ahead — 26 to 24. And Underwood was Brightie's chief mate. On the other side, Barnes's opening was a Scotch gambit. • • • At Thorndon Longton is in heavy training for Dunedin. J. T. King got severely shaken up on Saturday. What do you think of 9 to 33 in full rink? Wiggins> junior, is justifying the -hopes h.e raised ait the end of last season, and will soon be a foremost Thorndon skip. In his last match he took charge of veterans like Geo. Leslie, Heywood, and Hickson, and Sievwright just managed) to win — 27 to 26.

McKerrow, although, seconded by "The Colonel" with Bisley hints, went down before a gent, with the uncommon name of W. Smith, by 19 .> 24. W. Smith — yes, somehow I fanc^ I've heard it before. Chitty, of the "Pay Out" Department, has joined the Thorndonites Chitty is a recognised authority oa contracts, and his contract with bkip Jack King, Holmes, and Blanch&nl panned out all right, for their score against Exlev. Hatch, Conhn, anl Seaton was 22 to 20. •. • ♦ Up at Kelburne, the Campbell Crescents still sparkle on, the hats of Jameson and Hamerton. Johnston aaid Campbell gave them a rum the other day, but just missed. boore, LJ toll. \ In the Wellington! Club's singlehanded prize matches, Moult, Bell J. A Plimmer, Brown, Gedcbs, McKee, Bush and Crease have come saie.v through the first round of the Senaor Bowls match, and' 23 others had byes On ■'the Sargood's Cup contest the winners in the fir=t round were • Webb, Osborne, Ballanger, Bush, Brown,, Berry, Hill, HamUton Evans, Blake, Knapp, L. Blundell, Churchward Still, and Geddis. There was a first-class ding-dong same for the Hamerton, badges on tHe Victoria green the other day. Bary skipped the challenging rink, and won by eight points. Snaddon was n charge of the holders. The Mayor of Miramar was in great form on Saturday. Knocked out that little nugget, Billee Mack, by 23 lo 13. Hueston and Keith have had another set to. In the Victoria Club * rink match last week, Huestom, won by a few points, and in the pairs match Keith got home by 2. Hueston, however was amply revenged on Saturday, beating "Jacky" by 28 to 15. Have you noticed it as a funny circumstance that whenever Arthur Dixon skips against Bary, he fairly pulverises the Roseneath schoolmaster? Saturday's win was the third' time this season — 28 to 16. The two Cornishmen had a big fight on Mount Victoria on Saturday. Katto, at one stage 6 to Varcoe's 13, played a good up-hill game, finishing only one point behind— l 7 to 18. Hemingway, with the aid l of a 5 and 6, ran over Mackay — 29 to 16. Anderson and Redstone were neck-and-neck to the 14th head — 14 all — but "Daddy" never smiled again — 24 to 14. The green was too keen for Trevor. He oould only get 7 against Norwood's 19. Very low scoring.

Abomah, the dusky giantess, is being exhibited at agricultural shows u. the South. Miiss Lenore Pulsford, of Wellington, took a p.ut las>t week in 'David Garnok," pioduced by the Palmeibto North amateurs.. V • • Madame Ga.Hi Mane, the famous singer, the original Carmen" and 'Mignon," has* ;just died in France, sixty-five yoais of age. • • * Mr Hariy Rickaids lias engaged foi his Australian theatres the 'Eight English Primroses," a troupe of young and handfcome dancers. • • • Vocal criticism from an Australia .1 paper — "Miss Maggie Stirling** sot to voce is veiy "clear." Sounds ais if the paper was talking about a new kind < f soup. • * • Miss Roland Watts-Phillips, the best "old woman" in Australasia (here with Willoughby and Geach last, I think), s engaged in writing personal leeollections of Irving. London County Council has decided that metropolitan theatres must keep all the lights burning during the performance of plays, as a help to the public in ease of game. • » • The hecklephone is a new instrument that will make more noise than a tiombone. The headquarters of the Salvation Army have already ordered sis thousand of the instruments. • • • Miss Ella Vern, who is identical with Miss Pnscilla Verne, widow of "Charlie" Hu^o, and who subsequent lv married a Westrahan, is Rory Bor^ AJice in a Chicago production, "The Land of Nod." . * • It is reported that a Christchurch syndicate is trying to arrange for a visit of Albert Chevalier to New Zealand at the time of the Exhibition. He will probably "knock 'cmi m the old Kent Road" if he comes this 'ere w'y. • • • Dunedm Amateurs put on. "Les Cloches de Corneville" in February. Interesting because Hiss Amy Murphy's sister, Dulcie, is to take Serpolette, and Frank Hendiy, for some time of this place, comes to light as the MarMustn't be forgotten that "The Spring Chicken" is naughty, according to Willie Stead, the Russian pacificator. Also, that J. C. Williamson has an army of people hard at it. Also, that J. C. begins a season in Wellington on December 19th. » • • General Cnmje and his Boer war show is stranded near New York, living in tents. The old dopper is suing the entrepreneur for £500. People got fearfully tired of seeing the British get licked every afternoon and evening , pit a "quarter," children half-piuce. • ♦ * Miss Nell. E. Stewart begins her foreign tour at 'Frisco on January 22nd. Possibly, th© rumour that throat trouble would finally place the popular actress aside is the usual jealous moonshine. Nell. E. keeps young too long to please some folks. • * •♦ Miss Jessie Maclachlan has been on the go for two years now, and reckou* to have travelled! sixty thousand miles, -with, halts when she feels like singing. Puts 1 in about three months in America starting at 'Frisco, and then turns the prow of her boat for hame and Glesga. • • • Clement Wragge, the storm fiend, hade farewell to Australasia for ever not long ago, because the Federal Goteminent wouldn't give him, as good a hillet as he deserved after all he had done for Queensland. Clement, like otcher great entertainers, cannot help coming back, and he will come with a fewag of lantern slides of his heavens as soon as he has sampled a star that was seen roaming about Kusrrachi, N.W.P., India. Mr. Rickards's latest importation, "Crimmins and Gore," at Sydlney Tivoli, comprise an extra tall lady and an extra short man. Each accentuates the difference by makenup and "business." The curtain rases on a pretty beach scene, with the two, grotesquely clad, gazing pensiveJy out to sea with their backs to the audience, beside a great noticeboard bearing the legend, "What are the wild waves saying?" The effect was so" ludicrous that the audience was convulsed without even having seen the faces of the comedians. The man, who occasionally stretches himself to his normal height — greater than the crouched stage height — proved to be a clever "Dutch" patter artist, and the lady is a good serio-comic and patter performer.

Fieclch Giaham, the comedian, is in Melbourne again, ais laugh-iai-ser foi Hariv Rickaids West/s Pictuiets pi ople and the Brosciaiis did h\ c and a-half weeks* a Auckland. The .suave and highly-cor-rect Mr. West assoite. that sixty-five thousand peoplf 1 paid foi admission to flic Hardlj a wondei that he conisiders >,e\\ Zoalanrl a nice couatiy-