BOWLING.

Rangitikei Advocate and Manawatu Argus, Volume XXXI, Issue 8700, 8 January 1907, Page 4

BOWLING.

Press Association. Mastbbton, January 7. The North Island Bowling Association’s Club Champions Four Tournament opened on the Masterton Club’s green this morning: In the absence o£ the president of the Masterton Club in New Plymouth, Mr Pragnell, vice-president, briefly welcomed the visitors and declared the tournament open. He apologised for the absence of Messrs F. W.’ Hayhittle, president of the North Island Bowling Association, F. .T. Barlow and E. T. Wheeler, president and secretary respec--tively of the N.Z.I Bowling Association. It was announced during the day that a special prize, consisting of trophies valued at £8 Bs, would be given for the club having the least number of points scored against them during the tournament. Play commenced about 9.30 o’clock, 10 rinks being engaged, Greenmeadows and Patea having byes. The (games all through were very interesting, but the fact that the players were not accustomed to the greens was soon evident in the play. The best game of ?he day was that between Ponsonby and Gisborne. These teams were level (24 all) on the last heads, and had to play an extra head, which was won by Ponsonby by one point Liter an exciting game: Karori made a poor stand against Te Ban, who scored 31 to their opponents’ 9. Greytown were unable to accustom themselves to the green, and went down before Dannevirke by 26 points to 13. The Wellington Club could not settle down in their play, and were easily beaten by Stratford by II points. The NewtownNapier match was decided by one point on the twentieth head, Newtown leading by two points, but on the twenty-first head Napier secured three points and thus won by one point. In the second and third rounds a number of the games were evenly contested and exciting, and decided on the last head or so. In the second round Dannevirke had a runaway victory and beat the Hutt by 42 to 17 Greenmeadows and Pahiatua brought off a surprise by beating Ponsonby and Gisborne respectively. Results of first round; —Victoria, Martin, Brodie, Townsend, Norwood (skip) 29 beat Pahiatua, Hughes, Mitchell, Mcßratney, Eanson (skip) 19. Carterton, Bish, Ramsay, Baillie, Fisher (skip) beat the Hutt, Hibbard, Barlow, Trevethick, Hendry (skip) 17. Petone, Southgate, Cooper, Coles. Wylie (skip) 28 beat Upper Plain, W, Pragnell, Cresswell, Dupre, Coradme (skip) 20. Ponsonby, Robinson McLeod, Mclntosh, Swails (skip) 25 beat Gisborne, Martin, Nicholson, Gaudin Ponsford (skip) 24. Napier, Holt, Rev. Hayward, Smith, Bull (skip) 18 beat Newtown, Alpe, Meyrick, Ramsay, Laughton 17. Feilding, Thomson, Stewart, Sandilands, Say well (skip) 29 beat Masterton, Perry, Eigg, Cochrane, Whittaker (skip) 19. Te Rau, Pettie, Harris, Hennesy, Massey (skip) 31 beat Karori, Cook, Spiers, Lloyd, Cooper (skip) 9. Carlton, Laurie, Curtis, Wrathall, Kilgour (skip) 18 beatEltham, Jenkins, Hyde, Carmen, Sill (skip) 13. Stratford, Osmond, Betts, Curtis, Smart (skip) 25 beat Wellington, Brown, Gall, Churchward, McLean (skip) 14. Dannevirke. Barlett, Clarke, Potts, Harkins (skip) 26 beat Greytown, Furlong, Rev. Brown, Nicholls, McFarlane (skip) 13. Greenmeadows, Currie, Simmons Smith, Kennedy (skip) and Patea, Gieshnan, E. W. Gibson, J. Gibson, Williams (skip) byes. Second round— Greenmeadows, 22 beat Ponsonby 19, Pahiatua 28 beat Gisborne 13, Upper Plain 26 beat Victoria 20, Dannevirke 42 beat Hutt 17, Petone 25 beat Carterton 22, Wellington 16 beat Newtown 14, , Stratford 31 beat Eltbam 17, Masterton 31 beat Patea 12, Terau 23 beat Carlton 19, Feilding 28 beat Karori 16, and Napier and Greytown byes. Third round i Greenmeadows 26 beat Greytown 14, Victoria 34 beat Carterton 9, Dannevirke 24 beat Petone 19, Gisborne 21 boat Upper Plain 18, Wellington 33 beat Eltham 11, Masterton 18 beat Napier 16, Terau 23 beat Stratford 10, Karori 20 beat Patea 19, Carlton 24 beat Feilding 19, Newtown a bye, Hutt a bye, Pahiatua 22 beat Ponsonby 19.