BOWLING.

Auckland Star, Volume XL, Issue 35, 10 February 1909, Page 7

BOWLING.

The Ponsonby team, which wrested the Edwin Stars from Carlton last month, have so far proved too strong for the challenging teams sent after them, Auckland going down to the holders, and last Saturday a team from the /pennant green journeying Ponsonby-vvards to return defeated. The Edwin Stars have proved fickle lovers to their wearers, and it will be interesting to see for how long a term the doughtiness of the western men will overcame the propensity these trophies have to shoot. The battle between the Ponsonby and Auckland representatives last Saturday resulted in a victory for the Ponsonby teams on both greens, the struggle in the aggregate being close and desperate on the western green, ending in a win for the home team by the narrow margin of two points. At Auckland the visitors put up the same figures as did the visitors- on the Ponsonby ground, but with the difference that on the Grafton green the home men lay a dozen points worse when the numbers were totted up. The match was, however, a generally well contested one, as the fourteen points margin notched by Ponsonby on the aggregate play fairly indicates. In une First Year's Players' match Philip's team of Ponsonby men also scored too much for Morgan's quartet, so that Ponsonby had a day out one way and another. The match between Carlton and Devonport was an exposition of what is neees- t sary sometimes by way of margin on one green to save defeat • on the other. At Devonport the lo<»l men defeated their visitors substantially on all but one

-green, ; and s forty-one .points up rested, felt fithey ,~ lad Vdbne<' welly and «waited\t_e home-coming of their brothere .with .becoming .complacency. But !\>rbest is a fickle jade, and the sorr . rowful return: of the-twin, team with sixty; points against: their scutcheon was , most" too horrible.' ■ Garlton !was i than avenged, forhaving tempted the , water. . sfi-t>> >• . ■■ i •; EPSOM. V. PONSONBY. , tU- 3^18 following; teams will represent the spsom Club against Porisdnny in an. Inter- : clnb match on Safurdav: % i At.Ponsonby green: Scott, Adams Har- » n J ,-9 '^ kl P); JDalton,. .Walker' Key, kins (£&?)' Wl : l S? lt .,?opng, Mason, WatAt the Epsom green: Roberts Rapson, ' H°pWds; Foubister (skip); Browne, Ha yi Clark, McGowan (skip); Kendall, Brookea, ' Owen, Williams (skip). Emergencies: t Thorp, Burton, <Jrlerson.-' i The following 'teams have been selected j to represent the. Pdnsonbv -Club- ~ At Epsom Green: W;. Oldham, B. White. 1 P. M. Dewar A. N. Snedden (skip); T. ! Craig, T. Wo'cherllti J: Buchanan, J. Veale . (Bkip)j F. Shaw,W. J. Itees, J. W. Swales, D. Crabtree (skip). , , ! At Ponsonby^green: M. ;F,airs A. Le ' Quesne, W. Smith, G. Webb (skip); E. ; Eoney, B. Oswald, D; J. -Wright, A. Parsons (skip); A. Gouk, W. Darby, J. Court, ; J. Stlchbury (skip).