BOWLING TOURNEY.

Stratford Evening Post, Volume XXXII, Issue 26, 13 January 1912, Page 5

BOWLING TOURNEY.

THE NORTHERN ASSOCIATION’S M FETING. NEWTOWN WINS CHAMPIONSHIP. (Per Press Association.) Wellington, January 12. _ The Northern Bowling Association’s tournament was continued to-day in tine weather. The green was in good order, and fast play resulted. A large number of spectators attended the Wellington Chib’s green, where the seme final and final of the championship were played. In the lormer the following two teams met:— - Wellington.—Neilson, Simm, Allen, and Still (skip). Ponsonby.—Casey, Gardner, Sneddon, and Walker (skip). A well contested game resulted in a win for Wellington by 18 to 17. The final took place in the afternoon,’ the banks round the green being with spectators. "Wylie's Newtown team, which had been lucky enough to draw a bye in the semi-final, was opposed to Still’s Wellington four. Newtown men lost tho first head, but then got 1,3, and 2, being 6—l on the fourth head, where Still failed to get two out of Wylie’s. At the fifth head Wylie was lying a shot, but Still nearly ran it off with his last bowl and annexed a useful three. At the next end Wylie failed. Still was lying a line four, and everyone expected such a fine drive as the Newtown skip to smash tho head. Instead he tried an exceeding fine draw, hat was too wide. Still netted four out of it, and went to the front amidst cheering, the card reading B — 6. At the next head tho Newtown team wore lying four, when Still, with his last howl, had a run at the jack and burnt the head. Then Wylie, with two against him, gob a beauty dead on tho shot bowl, and scoured' a single. He go another in the following head, Still narrowly missing in his attempt to run it off. Tho ninth head was a disastrous one foi; the Wellington men. Wylie had a bowl on the jack and the two were almost touching. Allan failed in his attempt to slip • them, Pollock getting his behind. Still .sent up a. fast ono’to clear off the three lying shot, but instead took the jack and running his only back bowl and his own off tho green. As a result, Wylie notchod six, and the hopes of the Wellington supporters sank. Newtown got another on tho eleventh head, but after that Still put forth a gallant effort to make up lost ground. At the twelfth head all wore very wide indeed, and it was the worst head of tho match, hut Still scored two out of it. At the next end Wylie had two fine shots lying, but a _ runner by his opponent flicked the jack on to his third bowl. Wylie made a fine try to lift it . off, but failed. On the fourteenth head, Wylie’s No. 2 had a good one on the jack, but Allen vested it out. Pollock came up and shifted the jack to Simm’s bowl, and Wylie was unable to improve matters. The next head Wylio was lying t\yq. when Still drove, but took his third out, and three points went to Newtown’s score. On tho seventeenth head the veteran iSirain put up two splendid bowls., amid cries of “Well done, Willie,” ,but Pollock, got in .with a beauty. Still just failed’ to run it off, but was ; c*lb&6 enough to rock the bowl. lAt the eighteenth head neither drew dead to the jack, and no one could shift it. Wylie playing for position, and Still unsuccessfully endeavouring to trail the jack for five. With the score at 21—To against him, Still was now in a difficult position, hut was | playing ~a groat game. The nineteenth was easily the best bead of the game, all the bowls being grouped round the jack, 1 Still drawing to within an inch of the jack with his last. On the twentieth, lie bagged two in a very wide head and wanted three to tie on the final head. Neilse;i drew two good ones, but Warwick beat him with one dead on the jack. Biinm was too strong with both, and Duff drew the second. Pollock then drew to the jack dead, but Allen ran the bowl out. Wylie played for position, and Still’s one hope was a burnt head. Ho struck a short one with his first and took out the lying shot with his second. Wylie was loft with the shot, and throwing his last bowl scored a point and won the match by four. CONSOLATION MATCHES.

Four rounds of the consolation prize were played. In the semi-final, Prince (Newtown) 13 heat Mason (Pihama) 11. and McGregor (Carlton) 13 boat Webb (Wellington) 10. The final will be played to-morrow between Prince and McGregor. The final will also lie played between Walker’s. Ponsonby rink—CasV 7, Gardner, Sneddon, and Walker (s) —ancT the winners of the Hemingway (Victoria) and Gordon (St. Johns) match, in the Last Try competition.