BOWLING TOURNEY

Wairarapa Times-Age, 9 January 1941, Page 6

BOWLING TOURNEY

DOMINION CHAMPIONSHIPS I i ENTRIES RECORD FOR SOUTH i ISLAND. PLAY IN THE SINGLES ■By TeleKraph—Pre.-s Association.' CHRISTCHURCH. January 8. From the Bay of Islands to Invercar-

gill. from Hokitika to Napier, bowlers ; in their hundreds started play today in I the New Zealand bowling championi ships which are being held in Christj church over the next fortnight. The ■ entries, totalling 856. are a record for : the South Island, and have only once ' before been bettered in New Zealand, j at .Auckland in 1939. when they totali led 1000. The tournament opened with play ; in the singles. The pairs will start oh j Friday and on Monday the fours will i begin. The finals will be held over ' the last week of the tournament. All last year’s winners are defending their titles and many former chami pions are competing. After the prot longed spell of dry. hot weather in I Christchurch the greens are fas’, and i arc drawing well. At the end of play 66 players were ; left in and their elimination games will ■be continued throughout tomorrow. As usual there were many surprises. , chief among them being the eliinina- ; tion of last year’s winner, G. Dearc • Carlton. .Auckland!. Deare lost his first life in the fourth round, when he was beaten after a great game by a Cashmere player. A. E. H. Christie. 16-14. In the last round of the day he went down to another local player. J. M. Giles (United). 17-8, Squire, who has been among the last j few on several occasions, was beaten i also bv J. W, Thomas <Rosh’ti. Dun-; 'edin), ‘27-lti. ■ | _ POST SECTIONAL PLAY i j ! LAST YEAR'S WINNER BEATEN. COMPETITORS IN FINALS, — (By Telegraph—Press Association. I CHRISTCHURCH, This Day. i In hot, sunny weather post sectional - | games in the New Zealand bowling i championship singles were continued today with fields whittled down by eliminations yesterday. G. Deare (Carlton. Auckland) last year’s winner was eliminated in sectional play but several well known players who came J through to the finals included A. E. H.; j Christie •Cashmere). J. Veitch iDune-j Idin). R. E. Austin (Cromwell). J. R. I '.Smith (Elmwood). J. M. Giles iUni-J I tod). J. Aingor (Christchurch). W. Ure i I (Auckland). C. Spearman iR.S.A.L R. j Alaworth i Canterbury i. and J. S. Mar-i ■ ton (Auckland). Seventeen North Is-1 Hand players were left in this morning. with forty-nine from the South Island, i including twenty players frqm Christ-; church clubs.