BOWLING

Sun (Auckland), Volume IV, Issue 965, 7 May 1930, Page 13

BOWLING

ROTORUA CLUB CHAMPIONSHIP CONTESTS From Our Otcn Correspondent ROTORUA, Tuesday. A number of games in the championship competitions of the Rotorua Bowling Club were decided on Saturday. r .ahere was one more round to be played in the champion pairs, but one game only had any bearing on the final result, that being the one between Fowkes and Lindsay in section It was hotly contested to the eleventh end, where each had eight points on the board. With a fiver and a couple, Fowkes established a substantial lead. Lindsay got a couple of singles, but Fowkes went away again with 1,3, 1 ill succession, thereby increasing his lead to ten, with only three ends to go. Lindsay finished well with three scores, but insufficient to cover the difference. Fowkes will now meet Miller and Kelly in the final. There were several close finishes in the championship singles games. Christopher and Butt were level on the twelfth end, with nine points each, but the former was more consistent in the second half, and won by two points. There was a ding-dong battle between Fitzgerald and Webber, the latter leading after the ninth end to the twentieth. Requiring two to win, Fitzgerald was successful in getting them on tho twenty-first.

Tyson and McDowell kept together after the fourteenth end. During this timo Tyson had been making up leeway, for McDowell rattled on ten points in the first four ends. At the sixteenth each had scored 13 points. From this to the finish it was anybody’s game, but Tyson got the required point on the twenty-first, thus registering a meritorious win after such a handicap. Jones and Hesketli also waited on each other. Either could have won from the nineteenth, when the difference was three in Jones’ favour. Hesketli got a couple on the twentieth, but could not go on with it. Wash ran away from Jones at first, being 16 to 3on the eleventh end. Undismayed, Jones kept pegigng away, putting on 2,1, 1,2, 1,3, 2 in succession, which brought him within one of his opponent on the eighteenth. Then disaster came, for ‘Wash came to light with a quartette and a pair. The other games were won easily. Details:

Hamilton, Fowkes, 20, v. McGuffog, Lindsay, 15. y Christopher, 17, v. Butt, 15; Fitzgerald 15, v. Webber, 14; Tyson, 17, v. McDowell, 16; Jones, 18, v. Hesketh, 16; Wash, 22, v. Jones, 15; Fitzgerald, 24, v. Manson, 16; Manson, 20, v. Webber 14; McDowell, 21, v. Taylor, 9.