BOWLING

Wairarapa Times-Age, 30 November 1942, Page 2

BOWLING

WAIRARAPA V. MANAWATU TOURNEY WON BY LOCAL TEAM. A SUCCESSFUL GATHERING. Eight representative teams from the Manawatu Centre, under the leadership of their president, Mr J. A. Nash, journeyed to Masterton on Saturday on their annual visit. The tourney was held on the Masterton and Park greens. The visitors were welcomed at the Park by Mr H. M. Smith, Centre secretary, and at Masterton by Mr. Geo. Hayne, Centre president, and Mi' H. B. Thomas, president of the Masterton Club. Feeling reference was made to the death of Mr Dunderdale, patron of these, intercentre visits, and a brief period of silence was observed as a mark cjf respect to his memory. ’The Manawatu bowlers rendered songs of greeting, which were fully appreciated. The results are as follows (Wairarapa players being mentioned first in each case): —Morning games, at) the Park: H. Dixon, Anstice, Wallis, F. Dixon (s), Park, lost to Cole, Drury, Voitre, Hancock (s), Hokowhitu, 13/23; Davies, Newton, Moore, O’Donnell (s), Park, lost to F. Spackman, Vowell, Grinlinton, J. Spackman (Woodville), 15/26; Heath, Coe, Whale, Carr (s), Park, lost to Mclndoe, Wimsett, Colquhoun, Nash (s), Palmerston North, 16/22; Jones, O’Neale, Rolls, Thompson (s), Featherston, lost to Cooksley, Woskett, Hearsey, Lovelock (s), Manawatu, 17/20. At the Masterton Club’s green: W. Russell, Lane, Beecroft, W. Reid (s), Masterton, beat Allen, Simms, Kells, Howe (s), Terrace End, 21/16; Hyde, Hendry, Freeman, Finlayson (s), Masterton, lost to Kenyon, Jamieson, Lovell, Bly (s), Woodville, 11/21; Holdsworth, Bannister, H .Thompson, E. Reid (s), Masterton, drew with Field, Morgan, A. Smith, Ball (s), Takaro, 18/18; Newbold, Kilmister, Curtis, Martin (s), Carterton, beat Boagey, Tolley, Smith, Hodd .(s), Pahiatua, 22/17. Wairarapa, 2J games, 133 points; Manawatu, 51 games, 163 points.

Afternoon, at the Park: Smith, Kilmister, Barber, Barr (s), Carterton, lost to Boagey, Toley, Smith, Hodd (s), Pahiatua, 11/19; P. Smith, G. Brown, Bell, H. Smith (s), Park, beat Kenyon, Jamieson, Lovell, Bly (s), Woodville, 19/17; Wiltshire, Spackman, Jenkins, Shearer (s), Park, beat Allen, Simms, Kells, Howe (s), Terrace End, 18/14; Moore, Reader, Leigh, Carstens (s), Park, beat Field, Morgan, Ball, Smith (s), Takaro, 24/12. At the Masterton Club’s green: Mills, Downes, Chapman, Hayne (s), Masterton, beat Mclndoe, Wimsett, Colquhoun, Nash (s), Palmerston North, 20/18; James, O’Neale, Thompson, Rolls (s), Featherston, beat Cole, Drury, Hancock, Voitre (s), Hokowhitu, 32/19; Haycraft, Bannister, Roberts, Morton (s), Masterton, lost to Cooksley, Woskett, Hearsey, Lovelock (s), Manawatu, 13/23; Thomas, Kerslake, Finlayson, E. Reid (s), Masterton, beat F. Spackman, Vowell, Grinlinton, J. Spackman (s), Woodville, 1918. Wairarapa: 6 games, 156 points; total, 81 games, 289 points. Manawatu: 2 games, 140 points; total, .71- games, 303 points.

The visitors were entertained at lunch, whilst the morning and afternoon tea arrangements were in the capable hands of Mrs Carswell at the Park, and Mesdames Geo. Hayne and G. Beecroft at the • Masterton green. The tourney was considered an outstanding success, and the visitors were enthusiastic in their references to the hospitality of the Wairarapa bowlers.