SEMI-FINALS TODAY

Sun (Auckland), Volume III, Issue 879, 24 January 1930, Page 6

SEMI-FINALS TODAY

BOWLING AT DUNEDIN RESULTS OF SINGLES Press Association DUNEDIN, Thursday. The New Zealand Bowling Association could not have wished for better weather than it experienced today for the 10th day of the annual tournament. Games were played on the Dunedin green and good progress was made with the rinks competition, which was advanced to the sixth round, three games being played during the day. After a remarkable run of successes, winning 17 games in succession, D. M. Stuart (St. Kilda) was beaten by a rink from his own club skipped by G. Adess in the last game to be decided. The rinks competition has been reduced to three teams, Stuart, Adess and Veitch (West Harbour). The semi-final will be played tomorrow morning, when Stuart will meet Veitch, Adess getting the bye. The final will be started at two o’clock. Some progress has been made with the pairs competition, but several rounds have been held up on account of players being engaged in the rinks. The competition should approach finality tomorrow. In the singles competition only one game remains to be played. Vance (Sumner) met his first defeat at tlie hands of Lambeth (Balmacewen) in the 10th round, but in the lltli round he put Sanders (Kaituna) out of the competition. Vance will now meet Lambeth in the final. Stuart and Ardell (Hataitai), both of whom had an unbeaten record, met in the first game this morning and Stuart added another win to his previous fine record, bringing his list of unbroken successes to 16. He had a comfortable win by 6 points. Jenkin (Carlton) had all the best of matters against Adess in the early stages, but later Adess got a strong lead and won comfortably 22-13. The game between Watson (United) and Claridge (Caledonian) was one of varying fortunes, but in the end Claridge won by 23 points to 13. Veitch (West Harbour) had a close tussle with Foster (Caversham) and eventually got home by one point., the scores being 20—19. FIFTH ROUND In the fifth Veitch had a comfortable win against Ardell, who in tlie last seven heads scored only one point. Veitch winning 21—11. Stuart maintained his unbeaten record by defeating Thomson, who suffered his first loss. The final score was 20—19. Adess had a comfortable win against Claridge, 23—18. Stuart’s unbroken sequence of wins came to an end when his club-mate Adess beat him by 23 points to 13. After being 12 down to Thomson at the 12th head Veitch staged a remarkable recovery, and mainly through his deadly drawing, emerged the winner of his game by 27 points to 21. Although the game between Coltman (Carlton) and Nelson was fairly even until the completion of the 12th head, the latter gradually drew away from then on and finished up a winner by 17 points to 14. Jenkin (Carlton) scorer! a fairly easy win over Smellie, 22—13. Grant soon established a lead against Needham (West End) and went on to win comfortably, 20—12. Jenkin, playing against Preece, led by 17 points to 7 on the lltli head and won by 2 points. In the next round Burgess beat Grant by six points, thanks to superiority on tlie last three heads. In the ninth round of the singles Vance beat Foster 19—18, the being decided on the last head. Vance met with his first reverse in the 10th round, in which he was defeated by Lambeth by five points on the 20tii head, the scores being 16—11. Although on the completion of the seventh head Vance was 6 down in his game with Sanders, he: made a splendid recovery and won by 23 points to 15.