ON THE GREEN

Sun (Auckland), Volume III, Issue 832, 28 November 1929, Page 13

ON THE GREEN

Bowls and Bowlers

(By j ACi The pleading ceremony on Saturday ; of perpetuating the memory of a good j bowler, the late Mr. George Hosking of the Papatoeto© Club, by the erection of an honours board in the club’s pavilion ] was not without its significance. The j late Air. Hosking, like many others-who ' have gone before him. was a player ! who enjoyed every minute of the game. } Ho played number three in li. Parker- j Hill s fine team, and won the pairs | • harnpionship of his club coupled with his skip’s assistance. It was the ambition of Mr. Hosking to show his ap- J preciatiun of his enjoyment of the! gam© in a tangible form by the erection of an honours board, but unfortunately he was not spaxed to do this, and it was left to Mrs. Hosking to give respect to his wishes by the erection of one to his memory. The little ceremony was a fine tribute to his memory, and the able eulogistic remarks by the Rev. T. H. Roseveare, who was intimately associated with Mr. Hosking ior the past six years, were thoroughly appreciated. The matter of assisting clubs r>y endowments and gifts in appreciation of toe good fellowship on the green and the keen pleasure afforded by the game is not a recent innovation. Many have helped and are willing to help. A recent notable example was last year when the Island Bay Club (Wellington) received the handsome bequest of £I,OOO by one of its members, who similarly appreciated the game and wished to share the pleasure with others following him, while there are many others who have given able assistance to the game that has given them pleasure. And there are still more who would further assist if they knew how to give that assistance. The cessful business n*lan, was enthusiastic \ in his prase of the game, and stated that he was seeking a way to help the sport along by placing £SOO or £6OO with the Public Trustee with the’object of endowing his club perpetually with the interest from that amount. At the present time he did not see how it could be done. He had approached his club with a proposal to place the interest money for the annual purchase of a veterans’ prize, not being aware that prizes of such value were not permissible under the rules of the i Dominion Bowling Association. He is now seeking a way to assist the sport in a manner to his liking. The game cn the green has many friends, each in their own way willing to assist its advancement. What is lacking most, however, are ideas by which that assistance can be applied. In a game played at the Remuera tournament 'on Tuesday between two teams—one skipped by Irvine Clarke of "West End, and the other by J. Bailey, of the Auckland Club—the latter quartet found themselves with three shots down on a head, despite the fact that they had a shot within one-sixteenth of an inch from the jack. The three winning shots were obviously touchers. Surely the happening is a rare occurrence and showed at the same time the high standard of play evidenced at the tournament. , * * * During the past week, E. H. Fountain, the champion bowler of the Dominion for the season 1916, was in Auckland when he had a game on the venerable club’s green. His play, after several years’ spell from the sport, clearly showed that he had lost none of the ability which gave him the supreme honour for that season. He rolls a bowl with easy precision devoid of mannerisms, although at the same time with a well-studied delivery. At the commencement of the season he joined the Wellington Club. When he won the blue ribbon title he was a member of the Roslyn Club, Dunedin. * * * David Todd, late secretary of the Khandallah Club, Wellington, is now permanently resident in Auckland. He is joining up with the sport as a member of the Auckland Club. * * * The Dominion Road and Carlton Clubs have placed on their list of fixtures a handicap pairs competition, which has found full favour with the members there, giving all players, irrespective of their ability, an equal chance in the competition. The system for play necessitates all players being handicapped according to their ability to play the game, and the points given in the grading being added on to the twenty-one heads. Thus a brace of young players may have as many as fifteen or sixteen points’ advantage over an opposing pair, who are on the scratch mark, making the tussle for the concluding honours a very interesting one for all the participants concerned.

The Auckland Club is the first in the field to find its champion rink, which will go forward into the Centre’s Champion Fours Tournament, to be commenced on January 29. Colin

Muston heads the combination, comprising W. Ure, H. Allan, P. Moir. The team is the same as least season, when it brought the honours of the tournament to the parent club for the first occasion, with the exception of P. Moir, who supplants J. Bailey, who lias a team of his own out to wrest the honours of representation from lus erstwhile skip. In the first game, Muston’s team was pitted against a very strong combination, including P. Aldred, D. Campbell, P. Scantlebury and M. Walker. They, however, managed to record a win by one point margin, despite the fact that three members of the opposing team were champions of the venerable club. Other good teams in the competition for the honour of representing the club in the tournament include H. S. Gilles, T. Fraser, E. A. Craig and the veteran champion skip. Gregory Osmond, also Wyatt, Whittle, Baxter, A. J. Parker. Osmond s team is playing well together, and displayed excellent form on Saturday, when it notched a very healthy win against Bailey s combination. H S. Gilles, who played three for Osmond on Saturday, hails fro™ the Carlton Club, with which he has been associated closely and continually over tho past twenty years. Durin o that

'K HIGH.) J | ! time he occupied the position of secre- ; j tary prior to W. E. Arey’s regime, and : i was also associated on the adminis- ' trative side of the club besides, being ; a player who’s ability to play on the ! ] green had won great respect. j J. H. Baxter, figuring prominently as j 1 number three in the fine play of | j Parker’s team, is also a new member j 'of the venerable club. He hails from j Helensville, where he occupied the ! | position of president for a term in j j that popular little club. Both the j | aforementioned players are a. decided i acquistion to the Auckland Club. * * * j Tho Centre’s Open Singles Tournament to bo played on December 9 closed with a minimum number of entrants yesterday, despite the fact that the fixture was popularly clamoured for by a large number of players in Auckland. The singles game, unlike in Australia, where it finds full favour as a stern test of bowling ability* for participants, is not popular in the Queen City, the bulk of the players seeming to prefer the more sociable atmosphere of the full rink games as a test of bowling. However, the inauguration of the tournament this season will test the feeling of the great body of players as to whether it is possible to find similar favour with the full rink game now that it has been introduced for the first time. Certainly, the poor entry of players into the event should not be pronounced as a permanent indication of whether open singles tournaments will be popular in future. There is no doubt that the event will give many players who have not the opportunity to contest their singles competition in their own respective clubs a chance to test their standard of play in the broader fields of open competition. President W. H. Tongue, of the j Rocky Nook Club promises a thoroughly enjoyable day at his club’s oned;tv tuornament on December 19. He states that the green is running excellently and true. There is still room for a few entries on that day. Next week’s tournaments include Henderson, Hillsboro, Mount Albert, Epsom and Papatoetoe. PUKEKOHE RINKS The Pukekohe Bov ling Club will be represented by the following rinks in a match against West End at Pukekolie on Saturday for the Anzac Cup. Anzac Cup.—Bilkey, Pollock, Short, Hosking; Perkins, Fitness, Crosbie, Moncrief; Hewitt, Snell, Munro, Sumner. Inter-club.—lngpen, Estall, Jamieson, Keith; Payne, Dell, Bockett, Raynes; Grandison, O’Loughlen, Thompson, Rusher. CAMBRIDGE TOURNEY From Our Own Correspondent CAMBRIDGE, Today. One of the largest meetings in the history of the Cambridge Bowling Club was held in the club’s pavilion on Tuesday evening to consider the provision of green accommodation for the record number of entries being received for the annual Easter tournament and to consider a notice of motion limiting the number of local teams to one in each of the six sections. At the time of the meeting eleven local teams had already been received. It was stated that by playing a bye the existing greens would only accommodate 54 teams, and the secretary reported that already 61 entries had been received for this popular annual rinks tourney. The meeting was very divided as to the matter of eliminating local teams. The mover of the motion, that the previous resolu-' tion accepting any number of local teams be rescinded, Mr. H. H. McCathie, argued that one local team in each section was sufficient. They should consider the visitors and the town first. Other members spoke in favour of accepting all teams this year and increasing the accommodation by obtaining the permission of the Domain Croquet Club to use its greens, as was done a couple of years ago. After a protracted discussion is was decided all Cambridge teams be accepted and that the tournament be extended to accommodate 72 teams, by accepting the offer of the croquet club to allow the use of its greens. As early as possible the bowling club’s executive will now have to concentrate in getting the croquet greens in order for Easter. An opinion was expressed at the meeting that in future there should bo some limit on the entries.

TEAMS FOR SATURDAY

MARINE PENNANTS ALSO The following teams will represent their respective clubs in the various inter-club bowling games to be played on Saturday: Remuera v. Auckland.—At Auckland: Egerton, Lusher, Castle, S. Kissling; Evans, Gannaway, Spooner, Wight: Rainger, Styak, W. Hill, Coe; Brownlie, Dempsey, Smith, Russell; Brown, Bull, A. M. Bell, Irvine; Ache son, M. Reid, Vickerman, Young; Mahony, Oriyiiston, Lawrence, F. M. Shortt; De Boisierre, Wake, J. C. Kissling, Vugler; Whitaker, Wright, Brookes, Wooller; Walker, Bowles, Somerfield, Newton; O’Leary, Rathbone, Ridings, Graham. At Remuera: Fisher, Annandale, Scott, J. Hill; Jackson, Dransfield, Mahon, Paterson; Shannon, Alexander, Dixon, Saxton; Douglas, Tancred, Gavey, Norton; Robertson. Tudhope, G. H. Kissling, Daniels; Edmiston. Brook, Johnson, Long; Wells, Cutfield, Burch er, Mingins; Sutherland, Baker, Ellerbeck, Sheath; Symes, Hatch, T. A. Ashton, Sanderson; Choyce, Clark, 70. D. Ashton, H. R. J. Short; Hertzlett, Scherer, Ivenderdine, MacFarlane, McNaughton, Keary, Jacks, Harbutt; Burnett, Loosemore, W. Bell, Mellars. Auckland v. Remuera.—At Auckland: Plummer. De Renzy, K. S. Macky, Fletcher: Treacy, Inglis, Hodgson, Craig; Smith, Robertson, Newell, Harvey; Mills, Woodham, Williams, H. R. Allan; Jury, Frost, Clarkson, Gilles; .Taffrey, Forrest, Fletcher, Whittle; Myers, Forder, McCrea, McKinley; Coakley, White. Keesing. Brackebush; Messer, Jas. Carlaw, Prime, Nicholson, Matthews, Paterson, Kirk, Fraser; Israel, Carr, Daniel, Parker. At Remuera: Dadley, Wilson, Matheson, Walker; Newbegin, Waters, Dicketts, Osmond; Wyatt, Commons, Mason. Davidson: Hampton, Hardy, G J. Mackay, Woolley; Beaumont, Parlow. Aldred, Bailey; Simpson, Munro, McDougaU, Hardie-Neil; Alexander, Rawlinson, Hinton, Price; Ward, John Carlaw*, Ansell, Moir; Armitage, Tyler, Hewitson, Ure; Hamann, Banister, C. Allan. Duncan: Tidman, McEldowney, Devereux, Lyell: Esani, Susman, TV. J. Campbell, Graham; Blades, Morton, Hacket, Bourke. St. Heliers v. Papakura.—At Fapakura: Barnes, Miller, Lovegrove. Keys; Tyndall, Cottrell, Philip, Jackson. At St Heliers: Reid. Bradshaw, Smith, Garrard; Ingles, Stevens, Twiname, McMahon. Ponsonbv v. Edendale.—At Edendale: Lincoln, Elleray, Miller, Matthew’s; Bishop. Stevenson, Calder, F. Carbines; R. Carbines, Buckle, Fanch, Payne; McKeown, Oates, Butland, Farrow*. Rock v Nook v. Mount Albert.—At Mount Albert: Oughton, Berry, Loram, W. H. Jenkin; Sidler, Miller, J. Yeo, Roylance: Sadler, Yeo. senr., P. Smith, Kayes; Harrison, Cadwallader, White, Randall; Mayhill, Chambers, Edwards, Pearce; Baxter, Lewis, Farley, Finch. At Rocky Nook: T. Jones, Matthew's, Bain, Wakerley; Findlay, Pearson, Blakey, Keatley; Cullen. J. Jenkin, Lamb, Bouskili; R. Laing, Kent, Alder, Eagleton; M.

Young. Hudson, Tongue, Milner; J. j Kaves. H. Turner. Grlbble, Williams. Te Papa pa v. Mangere.—At Mangere: W. Marks, McGorum, Simpson, U. Mark.-; Crichton. Dawson. TI. G. Speight. Moon. \ At Te Fa papa: Thursby, Donnell, Wat- , son. Pilkington; Burridge, Sissons, Moore, j Johnson. Papakura v. St. Heliers.—At St. Heliers: Rutter, Meikle. Palmer, Hammond; Corn- i ford, Agmen Smith, F. G. Smith. Leighton. At Papakura: Pa ton. Shields, li. MoEntee. Bates; lvirton, Lound. Dickey, W. McEntee. Against Papatoetoe, at Papatoetoe: Mogford. Dunekley, McCall. Goddard. At Papakura: Thornton, Hobson, O'Connell, Hope. Otahuhu v. Devonport.—At Devonport: Madigan, Pinkey, Kveritt. Morton: Hickson, ' Ogi 1 vie. S. Harper, Sinclair; Trevena, Whitmore, Murdoch, Williams: Downev, K. B. Todd. Pearce, Venables: May, McNarey, Carson, Fearnley. At Otahuhu: Moss, Carter, Ferguson, Bailey: O’Connell, Nixon, Lippiatt, J. Harper; McAnulty, Gorrie,~Cook, Tomes: Franks, Crawford, Sykes, Parton; Thomasen, Doherty, Gardiner, Taylor. Devonport v. Otahuhu. —At Otahuhu; A. T. Griffiths, George, Wall-work. Morgan: J. G. Buchanan, Martinson, Broughton, Ellisdon; Fulljames, Foster, Blackie, Palmer; Flynn. McCallum, Goldsworthy, Sullivan. At Devonport: Langton, Fraer, King, Elvy; Clarke. Frater, Ba<h. Cox; Conn el. Wrigley. Stapleton, Warren; Ching, Richards, McLeod, Layzell; Markham, Coleman, McDonald, Melville. MARINE PENNANT GAMES The following teams will represent their various clubs in the marine pennant matches on Saturday:— Devonport v. Stanley Bay.—At Stanley Bay: Blair. Lacy. Trevithick, Anderson; Pitts, junr., J. Davis, Andrew, Lowe; Naylor, Atkin. McLaren, Blackburn. At Devonport: Spicer, Newman, Bartley, Watson; Jackman, \ aile, Miller, Newbegin; Elmsley, Scotland, Gold water, Mason. . . c „, . Stanley v. Devonport.—At Stanley: Dawson, Lock. Cliesney. Hall; Clarke, Gentles, S. Reid, Cox; Hindman. R. C. Reid, Wrigley, Smith. At Devonport: Sainty, Purser, Bray, D. M. Jones; Kennedy, Whitley, Hooker, Johnson; Weller, Ross, White. McMaster. At Stanley, first-year players: Anderson, Baker, Langridge, Cusworth. PUKEKOHE AND AUCKLAND Five rinks from the Pukekohe Bowling Club commenced a match yesterday against the Auckland Bowling Club on the Auckland green. The weather was dull in the morning, but. a full round of games was played. Heavy rain fell after lunch and the match had to be abandoned. Mr. E. A. Craig, president of the Auckland Club, extended a hearty welcome to the visitors prior to the commencement of play. Following are the results. Pukekohe skips being mentioned first in each instance:—Fitness 15, v. Steele IS; Armstrong 25, v. Osmond 14; Blake 21, v. Mason 14: Roulston 15. v. Muston 26: Bockett 25, v. Campbell 15. Totals: — Pukekohe, 101; Auckland, 88.