SUNDRY SPORTS.

Stratford Evening Post, Volume XXXVII, Issue 100, 30 December 1913, Page 3

SUNDRY SPORTS.

BOWLING.

(By P. Steward.) At 'the Wanganui bowling tournament, Gordon (Wanganui) won in Section A, Sutcliffe (Marton) in Section I). Foy (Hawera) in Section C, and Abbot in Section 1). The finals are being played to-day. The Stratford players were not very successful, judging hy detailed results to hand. At tho: end of the fourth round Masters' rink had secured two wins in Section A, while McMillan at the same stage in Section 15 had none to his credit. : llawera sent five rinks to Waverley on Boxing Day and suffered defeat hy 7 points—Waverley 121, llawera 11/. One of the local rinks w«i>n by'4o to 14.

RIFLE SHOOTING. The drawing for competitions for the Taranaki Rifie Club's Challenge Shield are as follows : —Eltham, Stratford, Tahoi-a,' Ihglewood, New Plymouth. Each team will compete with Kaponga, at their range, until that team is defeated, when the winning team's range will become the deciding ground, until that team is in turn defeated. Other rifle clubs have notified that they intend to enter teams very shortly. '■■'". ' : The New Plymouth Defence Rifle Club will hold an invitation competition at the Rewa Rew-a range on Friday, January.2, commencing at 9 a.m.; ranges 300, 500, 600; 800, 900 and 1000;yards, ten shots at each range. Captain Wallingford, chief musketr, instructor for the Auckland district, who for years was champion shot in the British Army, and whose record has only been beaten by one point, at tended a rifle meeting held in Cambridge recently. He demonstrated his ability with the revolver by rapid ly firing five shots at loyds, and th bullet marks .all touched each other His record with the rifle is 33 bull's eyes at 500yds, in a minute, and In. holds the record with a machine gur. of 900 rounds in a like period, while the average machine gunner's bes: rata is about -160 rounds.

LAWN TENNIS. NEW ZEALAND CHAMPIONSHIPS J JPer Press Association.! Auckland, December 29. 'iFine displays of lawn tennis wei 'witnessed...at the Eden ''and Epson Clubs' courts to-day, in the semi-Jiiiai. of the New Zealand champ.Onsh.ips Tile; match of the day was that hi HWeen F. M.'Bl Fisher a ! nd'Wallace 1 ' .ill the singl!cs\-''Wallace won," 7—o ' Ea,cfi playej 'galncs, ! but 'th total tally of strokes 'shows that Wa< lace won lob" and Fisher 110. Dickie, Wallace's partner in th doubles game, won agafnst Dr. Mc Cutche.ou after the latter had two set. ; . a,,-:* V> I -iitl I H I. T : I ,< in:n i HI. ',- tin ,th<Pmixed " doubles'", senu-fitiaTs •Diithie a'tid CowrieJwej'e.bea -ten jby Sw«»sto)i and Miss Gray <—pW&&S 1 ami Mill's 'Steefe, woii' easily from Fri&er'and Miss Cuinmrng!, .. n a H '*t-snifT.oV.' ■"■» «-i)iiO'iß» In the men's double's dllivier and, &6ss went down, to Dr. McCutcneoii and Abhott in' the ' s.emi-inial. .The final of"Mie"ladies' doubles went Lo .Misses Cray and JJairdj after a !;l'<mi contest with Miss' Barstoyy . and „M.rs Seoit-Wafsdn, the former winning V-:}, ; '■" '.7/

In the ladies' singles Miss'F. Baird bent Miss Steele, 6—l, 6—2.

CRICKET. VICTORIA. V. SOUTH AUSTRALIA, i Br Electric Telegraph—Copyright [United Press Association.] -Melbourne", December 29. South Australia, who had made 128 runs' for live wickets in their seconc innings'' wlfeii stumps were "drawn or Saturday, completed the innings aI 2Hi (Steele 81, Kirkwood 58). llydei took for 61 runs, M"ajt;; thews three fo.r -16, Cannon three foi 08, and Armstrong one for 23. When stumps were drawn the Victorians had scored 115 runs for three wickets in their second innings (Win'-" ser -17, Park 65 not out, Armstrong 30 not out).

M.C.C. v. SOUTH AFRICA; (Received 9.5 a.m.) Johannesburg, December 29. EngTaJJSPin the first innings made 103. Rhodes, cand b Blanckenburg ... 152 Tennyson, Ib'w Cox, ... ... 13 Douglas, c Taylor, b Blanckenburg 3 Wprtlley, b. Newberry ... ... 0 Mead, c Beaumont, b Blancken- ' „ 102 Bird, c Ward, b Newberry ... 1 Strudwick, c Cox, b Blanckenburg ... ... ••• 11 Smith, H)W,i) Cox ... ... 9 Barnes' ... ... ••• 0 Extras ... 23 South Africa in the second venture had map '177 for 4 wickets when drawn. Taylor, c Rhodes, b Barnes ... 40 Zuich, c Relf, I) Barnes ... 34 f Strudwick, b Relf ... 5 Hartigan, lbw b Barnes ... 2 Xourse, not oiit ' ... ... 52 Hands, not out ... ... 40