BOWLING.

Taranaki Daily News, 3 April 1918, Page 8

BOWLING.

THE MANAWATU TOURNAMENT. MASON IN THE FINAL* (Special to News.) Palmorston N., Last Night. The best game of the tournament was that between Smart and Eraser (Wanganui) in the semi-final. Smart was five to the good at the seventeenth head, but Eraser's men kept going and the last head saw Eraser wanting two to tie. When the skips went down Smart was lying three, and the ease looked hopeless. Fraser, coming down on an open draw with his first bowl, just missed trailing the jack. Smart played for position. Fraser drew again, trailed the jack perfectly, and lay tw'o, evening ujp the scores- The extra head was very exciting. The Wanganui lead possessed the jack with 'his first shot and a -toucher with the next shot removed him, and so it went on, every shot telling until Eraser's number three lay the shot. The skip drew two perfect shots, which Smart, driving twice, failed to remove, -ind the game ended: Fraser 22, Smart 19. The final will probably rest between Mason (Pihama) and Fraser (Wanganui). Perry has seven 'heads to play against Mason, but appears hopelessly behind, having scored only 8 to 20.

TARANAKI PAIRS TOURNAMENT. Tho unfinished game between J. D. Sole and J. Wood was played yesterday afternoon at West End and resulted in a win for J. Wood, the scores being Wood 15 Sole 10.

Yesterday afternoon the final in the A section was played at Stratford between Rowe (Stratford) and Murray (Eltham). Evidently the play of previous days was telling on the Eltham skip as his play deteriorated and at no stage of the game did Rowe look like losing. The game, 21 heads, ended in a comfortable win for Jackson and Rowe, with 28 points to 11 totalled by Murray. The winners of the sections are as follows: Section A, Rowe (Stratford)} Sectio7i B, Branch (Inglewood); Section C, W. Sampson (Waitara). Hie semi-final and final will be played on the Stratford green to-morrow afternoon, play starting at one o'clock. Tho drawing is as follows: Branch meets Rowe. the winner plays Sampson. TE HIWI DEFEATS STRATFORD. At Stratford yesterday the tourning Te Hiwi (Wellington) rink met and defeated S. Porritt, J. Masters, W. McDonald, J. McMillan (s.) by 20 points to 7. \ ST. JOHN'S v. HAWEPvA. St. John's touring team were at Ha■wera on Monday, and very enjoyable games resulted in the home team winning. Scores 1 were (St. John's being mentioned first in eaeh case): Morning—Follett, Smart, E. Christie, Simpson. 8; Graham, Parkhouse, Adamson, Hodge, 13. Herd, Haase. Monihan, .Armstrong, 20; Patton, Thorpe, MeNiven, Tait, 12. Meuli, Astbury, Upton, Moffatt, 7; Payne. Keen, J. Syme, Parkinson, 18. Brass, Williams, Hewitson, H. Christie, 10; Anderson, Campbell, W. Robertson, Grant, 12. Allomes, Whiteman, Bell, Gellatly, 0; McLauchlin, Burreil, Curtis, Hollard, JB. St. John's, 51; Hawera 69. Afternoon—Allomes, Whiteman, Bell, Gellatly, 23; Graham, Black, Hodge, Partington, 20, Brass, Williams, Hewitson, Christie, 11; Anderson, MeNiven, J. Syme R. Tait, 23. Meuli, Astbury, Upton, Mofl'att, 22; Patton, McLauchlin, Curtis, Hollard, 13. Herd, Monihan, Haase, Armstrong, 21; Patterson, Adamson, Grant, W. Robertson, 19. Follett, Smart, E. Christie, .Simpson, 14; Thorpe, Keen, McLaren, Parkinson 23. Totals—St. John's 91, Hawera 98.