BOWLING NOTES.

Taihape Daily Times, 7 February 1919, Page 4

BOWLING NOTES.

(By B. Uppe.)' HUEN CUP MATCH. The Huntcrville men turned up bright and early yesterday morning, and after., having their natural cravings appeased at Shanley’s and visiting the Otaihape Club, took their way to the bowling green, where a scratch team gave them a go for nine heads. Thereof the scratch lot done them bad —ls to 4—it gave them the weight of the green, and proved invaluable to them.

The game started promptly to time, and the finish left the visitors only a few minutes to spare before their train was due to leave. Scores were:

Huntcrville. —E. G. Evans, W. Wilson, A. Gordon, and G. Clark (skip.) 24.

Taihape —J. Evans, McKenzie, Clark and Wright son. (skip.) 22.

The first two heads went to Taihape, who scored a single in each 2—o. Then Huntcrville Sold •' khe Jack for the next four heads, scoring 3,1, 2,5, 2—ll. On the seventh head Hnuterville was in good position when the skips went down, but Wrightson saved the situation and scored two. 4—ll. Huntcrville scored again in the eighth head. 4—12. On the ninth head Wrightson again came to light and saved the situation, scoring two. 6 —12. Fourth head the Huntcrville skip did some saving and scored one. (3—13. Eleventh head, Huntcrville, I—ls. In the twelfth head Clark (Taihape) got in a good shot, but his namesake cut him out and lay two. 6—17. The next head again fell tb"the good play of the visiting skip, scoring one. 6 —IS. Things were now looking bad for Taihape and they made a desperate effort to die hard and held the kilty for th enevt four head, evening up the score to 14/18. Then the Huntcrville men came again and scored four in the eighteenth head. 14—22. Two more in the nineteenth head. 14 —24. On the twentieth head Taihape scored three, and followed on with a good five in the last head —two down. 22 —24.

On the conclusion of the game the Taihiape president formally handed over the cup to the winners.- He made the best of a bad job, but he must have felt pretty much the same as the Gorman admiral when he surrendered the High Fleet. Of course, its easy for a victor to say pleasant things, and he did.. The Taihape team seemed to bSTtle hard all through the game, but they were evidently uncomfortable and not in their usual positions. A team composed of skips is not necessarily a good team. You

-".n’t make a good plum pudding of all raisins and currants. You need some dough in it to make a palatable duff. To appoint one man as sole selector is putting too much on that man ’s shoulders, however, honestly conscientious he may be, he is only human. Even President Wilson, with his fourteen points, fails to square the circle.