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. The suggested revival of pennant matches within the Dunedin. Centre has not been kindly received in some quarters, but on the whole -it _ has excited but languid interest. 'Seen players are at present chiefly - concerned with making their arragements. for the Oamaru or In- ' jteroargill tournaments. Easter falling so ■late this year, there is a decided prei ferenee^ shown, for the White City fixture, ■c it is thought that weather conditions are likely to be more favourable. I am inolined to believe that if the records for a number of years were available, it would be found Invercargill would not suffer in any comparison. But I have got away from the question of pennant matches. Opponents contend that this style of play may suit the smaller olubs_ well enough, but in the clubs where tfiere are, Bay, about SO members who are fairly equal in point of merit the idea of 18 or 20 of these representing the club in pennant matches, throughout .the season -woujdr bo sure to cause trouble. Those not playing in the A Grade, would not consent to , be placed -in the B. Grade, as, that wouki.be admitting their- inferiority as players.. ' This objection might, perhaps, be . overcome by allowing dubs to nominate more than one team in each grade. It. is too late to. undertake pennant- matches thjs season,- and it will therefore- be possible to obtain, an expression of ■ opinion from the various clubs at their, annual meetings. It may lead to a keener interest being taken 1 - in. the election of delegates to the centre to voice the opinions of the clubs on this and other matters. I learn from Mjr J. Ham, of Invercargill, that the Dominion .team to visit Australia is just about complete, and I am promised a complete list by Wednesday. J. -G. Bentley r who skipped the champion pair aij .the recent tournament, is the latest addition. It is c. great pity that W. Carffwell v cannot be. persuaded to make the trip. There was a little uncertainty about Bishop, of Ohiistchurch, but that fine player will 'be found with the rest on the Maheno at the end of March. The team is to be known as the "Dominion" team, the uidform being white, with navy 1>lu« .badge, hatband. and cummerbund. The fern leaf and "N.Z." will be worked on the band andi badge in white »lk. All details wilL be completed by the end -of the present week. It ia' probable that Auckland will be represented by G. X Osmond, who was over with the last team. On their own green on Saturday NorthEast Valley put the Dunedin players ; through their facings, but Jost o» the ' aggregate by 6 points. ' Barnes was )n , jare form, and put down. Durie by 17 j points ; while Duttn won by • 4 pointer 1 against W. H. Smith. Harraway" (DunI edin) had a lead of * points over Robertson. On the" Dunedin green' Wilson more' than held hie own when opposed to Gale, but 'Gillies ran away from* Booth, w&<* Only scored at six ends. Wyatt.had an advantage of 9 points over Frame in a very interesting game. ,■ Palmerston gave the Duhedin players who paid a visit to. the green on Saturday a cordial welcome and a good beating. , The Dunedin players could not get hold ' of the green, which, of course, was not I quite so smooth running as their own. They complain, to*,' of % their attention being distracted from their own game bywatching two lady members of the Palmerston Club playing a really good and keen game. This excuse is «s old as Adam, but it will serve as well as any other. Galloway ran away from M'Laren, wno. after scoring 2 at the fourth head, did not have a look m again .until - the Our- j teenth head. He sored- at five heads only. Short got in ,6 at the sixth, head on Clark, and finished 1 down. ,orow was 7-down to Dr Hislop and Hunter 5 down,, to Lefevre. ' . „ „ , I » Playing nine rmkß aside ibe, game between Cav.ersham and - Otago Clubs on Saturday proved interesting. and~ provided an exciting finish. Caversham scored 70 to Otago's 94 on their own green, bHt put up 117 to Otago'a 88 on the Otagogxeen, Cavereham thus winning by. 5 Six rinks from the Phoenix Club visited Waimate last Thursday, and met their Waterloo, the inland team winning by 33 point* against- the- seniors, and two points against the colts. Champion Goldstone put up 33 against Swmdioy's 13: Cochrane scored 23 to J. Bee's 14, and. Morgan 23 against' Herron's 16. Coltman and Wad-^ deli tied at 18 each, while Akhurst went under to- M^Gibbon, 19-22. The weather was delightful, and according to Mr-Wad-dell (President N.Z.B/A.) the green" was equal to, if not superior to, any in the South' Island. The Waimate laaie* tumedout in large numbers, and afternoon tea was dispensed. - Three rinks from tha Lawrence Bowling Club journeyed to Stirling on Wednesday i morning to ' play their pennant fixtures

c- with the Kaitangata and Stirling clubs is The day was an ideal one, and most ena.' joyable games resulted. In the match d against Kaitangata Lawrence suffered dey feat by nine points, the scores beinp 71-62. r- In the firat t part of the same Lawrence had h a substantial lead, but by excellent play d the Kaitangata men gradually forged ahead, and won. J. Hislop beat Darlon by a 29 to 15, and D. Alexander put down D. h, L. Christie, by 24 to 23.. Campbell's .rink '. , was the only successful .one, defeating Cap-, s ' tain Rutherford,'a by 2*.' to 18. [- j Lawrence defeated Stirling by 64 to 45.. 's . Oft this occasion Campbell defeated A» ;, Hislop by 26 to 11, and Darton beat J. s Smith by 23 to 11. For v Stirling J. E&son c defeated D. L. Christie by 23 to 15. c According to the Tuapeka Tunes the Kai-. a tangata Club now ieadsr for the South' g Otago Centra's pennant; The players from c Coalopolis have won against Balelutha, Stirit ling v Milton, and Lawrence, and bad a bye s against Clinton. | My Invercargill correspondent writes :— ' i» "The Southland Bowling Club asserted its c superiority in unmistakable fashion last ■s Wednesday,, when five rinks from Te" Rangi paid a. visit to the southern green. It must be borne in mind that the visitors were t mostly players young at the game, but the c fact that on the previous Wednesday they 1 " had defeated ' Gore by 17 pointa, while Ihe j Southland players had only done so by ; 15 points, led some of them to imagine that they might oome out ' successful in a contest against our senior club. One rink out of the five waa victorious, D. S. Thompson, an old Southland player, was the skip, and A. Raesidef, had charge of tha i team against him. It was an interesting fight— the only one interesting*^ -all through, and Thomson may justly claim the ohief credit for success. Findlav went down by 10 points against Leggat, 25-15 ; R. Erekine. t beat J. Lock by a like majority, 28-18;; s ' A. E. Smith romped away from Harper to i, the tune "of 33-9; while J. C. Howie, who t in his matches for Te Rangi has an unt interrupted run of wins during the season, j , was- lost to «ight in his game against R. .. Taylor. The latter got in two sevens in 0 ! successive scores Tunning from five to 19, - and he kept going merrily with an oo- », casional. breathing space until the 21st end s showed the /-totals 42-11. Altogether it 1 was a bad time for the men of the east." r —■———■■—