BOWLING

Sun (Auckland), Volume I, Issue 278, 14 February 1928, Page 13

BOWLING

TAURANGA TOURNEY OPENING OF PLAY (From, Our Own Correspondent) TAURANGA, To-day. The ninth annual tournament of the Tauranga Bowling Club was opened this morning by the president, Mr. Geo. Henderson; in fine but hot weather. The green was good, despite the long dry spell. Eighteen teams are competing in two sec-tions. Besults of the first round are as follow, skip’s name mentioned last in each instance: Hamilton East. (Zaney, Hitchcock, Horton, Chapman), 28, v. Poverty Bay (Blackburn, McGibbon, Moore, 'Wilkinson), 17; Mount Eden (Delamore, Battersby, Vivian and Gruer), 26. v. West End (Andrews, Knaggs, Colt.hu rst and Potter), 9; Devonport (Melville, King. Moncur and Pascoe), 27, v. Tauranga South (Boyd, Ward, Pilcher. Watson), 13; Te Puke (Jamieson, Budd, Alexander, Palmer), 19, v. Hamilton (Leek, Gowen. Roberts and House), 18; Tauranga (Phillips, Ivory, G. Crowley and E. Crowley), a bye. Section ll.—Gisborne (Bright, Corson, Robertson and Sinclair), 15, -v. West End (G. T. Hardley, C. E. Hardley, G. Hosking and G. F. Hosking), 13; Tauranga ''Hammond, Sharp, Wollams and Cronin), 20. v. Te Awamutu (Henderson, Dunckley, Wilson and Mclnnis), 15,; Ponsonby (Carbiner, Let ham. Chapman and Parsons), 22, v. Whakatane (Hellyar, Shaw, Ramson and Sloane), IS; Hamilton (Meredith, Varney, Jones anch Pilkington), 26, V. Frankton ( Maud, Baker, Crashaw, Fraser and Smith), 21; Mount Albert (Maxwell, Mason, Hosking and Alley), a bye.