QUOITS.

Wanganui Chronicle, Volume XLIX, Issue 12628, 16 October 1905, Page 2

QUOITS.

Saturday afternoon saw a goodly company of enthusisastic quoitists meet on Rotunda Hill, to open the season's play by a match between teams captained respectively by Messrs. Thomson and Infield. Two rounds were played, and a number of good games resulted, the former player's side winning by tho handsome majority of 89 points. Among the players were a number of raw recruits, who will require some training ero they develop into good marksmen. After the rounds were ended a singlehanded game was entered upon by four first-class players, which lasted over an hour, and which was marked by excellent play by all four. It was no easy matter '"'to get- your finger in the pie" with eight quoits often times lying within a circle of 12 inches. The games resulted as under:—Thomson 21, with 2 pairs and 2 ringers; Trantvetter, 14, with 1 pair and 1 ringer (left when Thomson stood at 18); Ruscoe, 13, with 2 pairs and 1 ringer; and Paterson, though playing well, only scored 3. Altogether the club has a good prospect of a successful campaign before it. Its strength may be reckoned from 30 to 40, and among these a team of 12 oould be picked able^to meet and, vanquish any team in New Zealand outside ol: Otago and Southland. An interclub match with Opaki is contemplated early, and a tournament will be started iii November, probably. Subjoined "afo tho scores-:— ;, ' -

FIRST ROUND. ; Thomson (A team) 21 v. Infield (B team) 18, Ruscoe 21 v. G. Paterson 14, Owen 18 v. Bosselman 21, Eason 21 v. Bellamy 18, Milne 21 v. Prideaux 8, Brown. 21 v. Dustiri.-2, McMurray 21 v. Rowley ll; total, A'team 144, B taam 83. SECOND ROUND. Thomson (A team) 21 v. G. Paterson (B team) 17, Ruscoe 21 v. Bosselman 15, Owen 21 v. P. Thomson 19, Masto 21 v. Prideaux 11, Milne 21 v. Dustin 0, Brown 9 v. Infield 21, McMurray 21 v. Rowley 14; total, A team 135, B team 97. Grand totals, A team 279, B team 190.