PUKEKOHE BOWLERS AT DUNEDIN

Pukekohe & Waiuku Times, Volume 7, Issue 348, 25 January 1918, Page 3

PUKEKOHE BOWLERS AT DUNEDIN

Messrs J. Boulston, D. Boulston, and G. Armstrong, who had been representing the Pukekohe Bowling Club at the Dominion tournament held in Dunedin, returned home on Saturday, Mr C. M. Wright, the fourth member of the party, branching off at Christehurch to visit relations at Cheviot. On enquiry we learn that they had a most enjoyable holiday and advantage of the trip was taken to visit the chief centres of population whilst they also passed en route through some of the best known agricultural and pastoral lands in the Dominion. Although much interested and impressed with all they saw they have returned home with a strong conviction that Auckland as a town and Pukekohe as a farming centre have very little to fear from their rivals. Whilst their performance in the tournament was not so successful as they would have wished they managed to put up a good fight and in the majority ef the games the margin of defeat was so narrow that one point often decided a game against them. Actually they scored more points in the various games than their opponents in the aggregate. Although d sappointed at their failure in the tournament the splendid time they had, the many friends they made and the acquaintantships formed more than compensates them for their loss. They found that the Pukekohe Bowling Club was practically unknown but they say that as a result of the trip the club is now favourably known and many promises were given by fellow bowlers to visit Pukekohe and district when a seasonable opportunity occurs.

As to the play the team w >n five pairs and four full rink games a;.d in these, especially in the full rink games, some close and exciting fi ii hes were witnoied. In all nine games were played to decide the winner of each section, three games bei g played each day. On the opening day the Pukekohe representatives lost al their games one after tiein* on the 21st head and the other two by one point in each game This practically settled their chance of victo y, as the Section was fiaally won by Gray, of Welington, with the fine record of 7 wins.

A game that merits specal mention was the one played against Smart, of S«r»lford,. n the Dunertiu Green (the concluding day of the <■ otioo play) and thf: Otago Daily T men in de.-cr bng the p!-*y commented as follow- : "S - far as the Dun<din Grenn is concerned the only game that stood out < s exceptional v. a-) th 11 between •'-"niKrt «nd Armstrong At one time the score was 12 to 1 in Smart's favour. Armstrong however made a wonderful recovery and rapidly a'cumula'ed 3 sixes and a (5) five which gave hitn a sub fctantial lead and to a large extent enabled him to win b, W ' a whacking big ►core) t. ■!''. Prior to this Smart had won live guinea in succession but met bin Wa erloo n Armstrong."