INDOOR BOWLING

Sun (Auckland), Volume IV, Issue 1066, 2 September 1930, Page 14

INDOOR BOWLING

CHAMPIONSHIP SINGLES START NEXT WEEK FINALS OF PAIRS TOURNEY A tots.l of 60 entries has been received for the Auckland Friendly Societies Indoor Bowling - Association’s champion singles tourney, which will be held in the Ponsonby Brill Hall, Dudley Street, near the Three Lamps, on Saturday, September 13 and 20, starting each day at 1.30. There will be four sections of 15, and those qualify for inter-section play who score equal to lowest section winner, provided they score not less than equal to ten wins. Following is the draw: Section A.—Mrs. Boles, Simms, Singer, G. Veart, Queenin, Francis, Campling, Sangster, F. Williams, Simmonds, Smith, Inglis, F. Simpson, H. Bolton, Geo. Jarrett. Section B.—Mrs. Rout, Withers, A. Drew, Oxley, Revell, Ward, Mrs. Kingdori, Caddy, Sullivan, Swanson, Dailey, Jenkin, Lucas, Hurley, Reisterer. Section C. —Miss Brown, Mrs. Gelding, Scott, Phillips, Platt, Cameron, Gilliam, Brodie, A. Williams, G. Day, White, Bleakley, Speir. Preston, Buckley. Section D.—Miss Williamson, Mrs. McMahon, J. McPherson, W r . Drew, W. Rowland, Baker, Wilson. Copeland, Jeffrey, Holdsworth, King, Beer, Harris, Hare, Mansell. As 28 rinks will be required, members are reminded to bring all their greens and large-sized jacks. FINAL OF CHAMPION PAIRS The final games of the pairs tourney were played last Saturday afternoon in the Ponsonby Drill Hall, and resulted as follows: — Round Six.—R. Brodie and H. J. Baker <. two-lifers) 6, v. G. Jefferey and H. Campling 4. Final game: Brodie and Baker 7, v. A. Williams and F. Sullivan 1. R. Brodie and H. J. Baker, the winners of this tourney, who take the handsome travelling rugs donated by the Onehunga "Woollen Mills, put up a splendid performance in going through the intersection play without a loss; in fact, they lost only one game in the whole series of 17 games, which must rank as a very line performance. The semi-final game was chiefly notable for the very fine leading of R. Brodie. His opponent. G. Jaffrey. played quite a good game, but in this game the veteran •was unbeatable. This made things harder for Campling, who, having more to do than his opponent, had his style somewhat cramped and on the sixth head the fact of kitty wicking the wrong way rather spoiled his chances. Baker, the •winning skip, a quiet type of player, was right at the top of his form throughout and never gave either of his opponents

a chance to recover from the advantage he received from his lead's splendid play. In the final game, both leads started off with touchers, and then it was “beat as you go" until the skips started moving* things. With his last bowl Baker forced kitty back to his own wood for 3, but Sullivan, blocked for drawing, pushed his own wood into the shot. o—l. On the second head Brodie drew touchers, but Williams forced kitty back to his own for 2. Baker’s first wicked into the shot, which Sullivan cut out, but Baker then drew the absolute on kitty and covered up. and it was not disturbed. I—l. Head 3.—Brodie ran a bit over the head, but Williams drew three beauties, only to see Baker, with his first, make a sensational draw right round them for his bowl to fall over into shot. His next forced out two opponents for another shot, while Sullivan got wooded with his first three bowls, but his last sprung kitty just a shade too far off the mat, and two points went against him. 3—l. Head 4.—Brodie’s first went off the mat. but Wiliams’s first was a toucher. Brodie got a nice second and later pushed it into shot, one among several opponents Baker covered up. while Sullivan played position bowls, but his forcing shot found the port, leaving Baker shot. 4 1

Head s. —Brodie overran it but Williams got his usual toucher. Brodie then got two seconds, but Williams’s last trailed kitty to an opponent s wood. Both Skips failedto alter, until Sullivan sprung kitty for shot. Baker then drew right on kitty, to be beaten by Sullivan, who ■was beaten again by Baker, while Sullivan’s last fell a few inches short. s—l. Head 6.—Brodie lost his first bowl, but •Williams got touchers with his first. tw° howls and an ovation for his plucky fight Brodie. with his third, drew kitty for shot, Williams just falling short. Bakers first was short, but Sullivan got a nice second shot, only to be drawn off by Baker for two. Sullivan rubbed round both of these without altering, and Baker drew a third. Sullivan's run got Partly timbered, but he cut one out, while .Baker overran the head, but Sullivan s last, a forcing shot, got kitty too cleanly and it went off. Two more points against h, Head”7^-Brodie was short, but Williams was shorter (his only With his third, however, Williams got the usual toucher. Baker s first did not alter things and Sullivan drew a second, hut Baker played into head for shot. Sullivan tried to take it out, a port and Baker covered up. Sullivan s last got a wick into shot, but hl ® °P P ?”" ent’s bowl also was touching, and it became a dead head The game thus ended in a win for R. Brodie and H. J. Baker by 7 to 1 from A. Williams and F. SulliV3 Th® outstanding feature of this same was the remarkable consistency of the ■winning skip and the losing lead.