NEW ZEALAND AT BOWLS.

Wairarapa Age, Volume XXX, Issue 8481, 9 July 1907, Page 3

NEW ZEALAND AT BOWLS.

(Prom Our London Correspondent.)" LONDON, May 23. A rink of the New Zealand team accomplished an excellent performance at the Streatam Constitutional Club's green on Saturday. On the previous day they defeated a rink of the London" County Bowling Club at the Crystal Palace, of which Mr W. G. Grace was the skip. At Streatham the result proved a tie at the customary final twenty-first end. Another head was played, when the home side added two to their score. The New Zealanders' play was marked by that ease and grace of delivery which forms a distinctive feature of the bowling of their colony, and also that excellence in drawing in relation to which the manager of the New South Wales team, which recently toured New Zealand, declared that bowlers had elevated their play to a'science. In at Streatham -thejNew Zealanders engaged were Messrs A. Lewison, H.O. Manz, W. Barnett, and G. Prince, who were opposed to Messrs S. Fortescue, A. Salusbury, F. Leighton and D. Williams. At the Crystal Palace, yesterday, the fourth annual bowling tournament, open to the world, was opened, and will be continued until Saturday. There were nearly ninety entrants, including players representing England, Scotland, Wales, New South Wales, South Australia, Western Australia, New Zealand and Tasmania. Included in those who qualified for the second round were:—Mr W. G. Grace; the Hon. R. D. McKenzie, Western Australia; Messrs <3. Prince and W. Barnett, New Zealand; F. C. Pessan, New South Wales; L. Collins, Tasmania; R. Morris, Scotland; and J. Pollock, Wales.