BOWLING.

Taranaki Daily News, 22 January 1920, Page 5

BOWLING.

DOMINION TOURNAMENT. THE FINAL MATCHES. By Telegraph.—Press Association. Christchurch, Last Night The Dominion bowling tourney was concluded to-day, when Harraway (Dunedin) beat Caughey (Kefturn), 19 to 10, in the semi-final, and Harraway beat Henderson (Lyttelton) by 22 to 14 in the final of the singles competition. In the final Harraway had a comfortable lead from half-way through the game and at the conclusion of the eighteenth head the score was 20—l.'i in Harraway's favor, but Henderson secured the Bhot in the next head. On a long head in the twentieth Harraway got two and Henderson abandoned the contest.

WELLINGTON TOURNAMENT. Wellington, Last Night. The final game of the Wellington Bowling Centre's New Vear tournament, postponed until after the New Zealand tourney, was played to-day. Result:— Ponsonby (Bray, Kummer, Wilson, Walker), 26: Te Hiwi (Innes, Warwick, Wylie, E. J. Hill), ,18. Speaking at the bowlers' smoke concert in Christchurch last week, Professor Maxwell Walker (Auckland) said that bowling had become the national game of New Zealand. Bowlers were a very cosmopolitan crowd who met on the green "on the level." Rega-ding the suggestion to eliminate the singles and doubles events, and to confine the annual tournaments to rinks, the speaker said that while th_e rinks game was his favorite, he thought it would be a calamity to' cut the' singles out of the championship gatherings. The doubles could probably be eliminated with advantage. It was a matter of interest in most sports and pastimes to find the champion of the year, and for that reason he strongly deprecated doing away with the singles championship. Professor Walter remarked on the pleasures experienced by young bowlers in meeting veterans at the annual gatherings, and paid a very high tribute to Mr. Carswell, the renowned Taieri skip, who, he stated, was one of the finest, bowlers New Zealand had ever had, and who so well deserved al! the honors he had gained.