BOWLING.

Taranaki Central Press, Volume IV, Issue 364, 19 February 1937, Page 2

BOWLING.

Resulcs of recent play in Avon A club competitions are: A singles: Dv'jer lost to Dickinson; Kerswill lost to Dickinson; Mills lost to Dickinson: Dwy r lost to J. Weston; Kerswill lost to J. Weston; Bowie lost to Adams; Skog lend lost te Bowie; F. Weston lost to

Adams; Bullman lost to Skoglund: Hucker lost to Adams; Bowie lost to F. Weston. B singles: Kidd lost to Guthrie; Dwyer lost to Guthrie; Ruscoe lost to Howard; Howard lost to Kidd: Young lost to Kidd; Loose lost to Ruscoe; Young lost to Dwyer.

Rogers Cup: Waite lost to Speechlay; Speechlay lost to Young; Bird lost to Kidd: Waite lost to Young; Lacey lost to Loos ; Bird lost to Loose. Handicap pairs: J. Weston and Hale lost to Guthrie and Howard; Lonsdale and Whyte lost to F. Weston and Hughes.

Olympic Games. ' Every four years the arrangements for the Olympic Games pre on a bigger tcale than ever before and Japan, now preparing to play host to the athletes of the v.'orld at Tokio for the 1910 Olympic Games will not be outdone. No time has been lost in setting in motion the machinery to handle the preparations, and an elaborate scheme on a huge scale is being devited to make the first games ever held in the East the greatest ever. Approximately 10.000,000 yen is to be allotted for construction work on the stadium grounds and has already been approved by the Olympic Invitation Committee. - A number of pictorial plans have been drawn. -It is confidently believed that Japan 'will have completed ail lierarrangements for the Games two years from now, According to the plans the Olynjpie grounds will be located in the outer gardens of the Meiji Shrine, one” of Japan’s largest sports centres. For tuch events as horsemanship satisfactory grounds ar? to be sought elsewhere in the city of Tokio. The Olympic village, to accommodate 2.000 persons, be built in the suburbs. For the track and field events the present Metjf stadium it» to be enlarged so .that it will seat 120,000 people, the largest accommodation ever made for a crowd in the history of the Games For swimming the pres nt beautiful Meiji Shrine pool will be en larged to accommodate 30,000 spec tators. and pitches and tracks for hockey, football, and cycle races are to be laid out on the former site of the , rifle range at Aoyama, Tokio. with a seating capacity for 50,000.