TOURNAMENT BOWLING

Rotorua Morning Post, Volume 1, Issue 79, 24 November 1931, Page 6

TOURNAMENT BOWLING

ROTORUA CLUB'S PROGRAMME COPIED FOR SYDNEY CARNIVAL. COMPLIMENT TO ORIGINATORS. It has always been recognised that the arrangements and programme made by the Rotorua Bowling Club in connection with their annual tournament were very eomplete and yet simple. Visitors from Australia and other lands have repeatedly made efforts to secure a programme to take away with them in order to introduce the system into their own clubs, and therefore it is a feather in the cap of the local club that practically similar arrangements are being made by the committee in charge of the "Bridge Carnival," which will be held in Sydney during the week's carnival to mark the opening of the Sydney Harbour bridge next year. Writing in the Sydney Referee, Mr. Harrison ("Boomerang"), who has charge of the Bowlers' Page, says: — "The system adopted for playing Champion Rink matches in the Bridge Carnival is a very exeellent one, and new to Australians, except those who have played at Rotorua, and elsewhere in New Zealand. Each rink will have a number and say your ring number on a particular green is 8. In the first game you may meet No. 6, and the hook handed you will read No. 8 plays 6 on rink 4. In the second round you' simply look at your hook, and it will read: No. 8 plays 2 on rink 3. No. 4 plays 5 on rink 9. So that there is no necessity to ask anybody any questions, but walk right away to meet your next opponents." So far as the writer is aware, the programme as at present set out was devised in the first place by the late Mr. D. Gardner, assisted by his sons. Pr'or to the present style, it was usual to give the teams a letter of the alphabet, and the ai*rangement was very difficult to make a neat and easily legible card. It was quite apparent to the printers that it would be easier to them and also to the players if the teams were given a number, and when a try-out page was submitted to the match committee of the day, about 1906 or 1907, the' style was adopted. Since that time, various additions and elaborations have. been made. The winners and runners-up of the prev:ous tournaments were collected by Mr. G. Hunt, who managed to find rnost of the personnel of the teams, and visiting players eventually completed these pages, which are added to each year. Some few years ago the printers, the "Rotorua Chronicle" staff," made the suggestion of a distinctive colour for the score cards in each section in ihe tournament, with a similar coloured score board, and this again has been a great convenience to the offic'als cari*ying out their duties of keeping a record as play progresses. The suggestion that miniature scoring boards should be printed at the back of the programme book, in order that players might keep a eomplete record for themselves, was made by Mr. G. Tuek, who is now resident in Auckland.