POST SECTION PLAY

Wairarapa Times-Age, 9 January 1940, Page 6

POST SECTION PLAY

• SINGLES CHAMPIONSHIP N.Z. BOWLING TOURNEY. SOME FINE GAMES WITNESSED. (By Telegraph—Press Association.) WELLINGTON, This Day. With the elimination of 234 players in the singles championship on the opening clay of the New Zealand Centennial bowling tournament the remaining fifty-four —nine "two-lifers’ and forty-five "one-lifers" —competed this morning in the post-section play. The weather is overcast and calm, providing ideal conditions. At the Wellington green where the "two-lifers" are playing, there is a large gallery and some fine bowling was seen. The results are as follow: — FIRST ROUND. At the Wellington green Austin (Cromwell) beat Spearman (Sydenham) 22/14; Rolls (Featherston) beat A. Macdonald (Balmacewan) 20/13; Griffiths (Grey Lynn) beat Nash (Palmerston North) 19/18; Whittaker (Onehunga) beat Gray (Kelburn) 26/19; Deare (Carlton) beat Munro (Thorndon) 24/10. At Victoria green: McMurchy (Grey Lynn) beat Stephenson (Nelson) 25/15; Mitchell (Blenheim) beat Fox (Barrington) 24/13; Firth (Glen Eden) beat Stirling (Wellington) 16/11; Bull (Levin) beat McCormick (Hawera) 16/14; Johnson (Port Ahuriri) beat Wilson (Petone) 24/17; Ewing (Stratford) beat Taylor (Rawhiti) 18/17. At Hataitai: Whittle (Grey Lynn) beat Best (Otago) 19/8; Dickson (Thorndon) beat Hey (Opawa) 19/8; J. R. Smith (Kelburn) beat Kay (Shirley) 24/13; Mason (Paritutu) beat Hampton (Sumner) 19/18. At Kelburn: Buchan (Balmacewan) beat Adams (Phoenix) 18/15: Downland (St Kilda) beat Silbery (Petone) 19/18; Hawkins (Frankton Railway) beat Ingram (Victoria) 18/13; McWhannel (Hataitai) beat Haworth (Canterbury) 19/14; R. Nicholas (Blenheim) beat Dyett (Karori) 17/16; Brighting (Hataitai) beat Ritchie (Opunake) 20/10. At Thorndon: Squire (Hawera) beat Seccombe (Taihape) 18/12; Reid (Kaituna) beat Ryan (Taihape) 19/12; Madsen (Opawa) beat Giles (United, Christchurch) 20/17; Bond (Frankton Railway) beat Chambers (Sumner) 18/16; Carswell. (Taieri) beat M. Sunde (Glen Eden) 22/7; St John (Maitai) beat Russell (St Heliers) 30/10. SECOND ROUND. Wellington green: Rolls beat Griffiths 24/12; Deare beat Whittaker 17/15; Spearman beat Macdonald 21/8; Gray beat Nash 19/9; Austin a bye. At Hataitai: Whittle beat Dickson 18/14; Smith beat Mason 18/16. At Victoria: McMurchy beat Mitchell 18/15; Johnson beat Firth 22/15; Bull beat Ewing 22/11. At Kelburn: Dowland beat Buchan 19/4; Hawkins beat McWhannell 21/14; Brighting beat Nicholas 18/9. At Thorndon: Squire beat Reid 23/17; Bond beat Madsen 24/13; Carswell beat St John 20/11. Results of the concluding singles play on Monday are reported on Page 9. '