BOWLING.

Gisborne Times, Volume XXVII, Issue 2295, 9 January 1909, Page 3

BOWLING.

GISBORNE CLUB

A rink match of special interest was played on the green of the Gisborne Club yesterday afternoon, when tlie team selected to represent the I uranganui Club at the Napier tournament. Hird7 Sawyer, Gaudin and J. J. Martin (skip) met si Gisborne Club team consisting of W. Pettie, Mclntosh, Ponsford, and R. G. Crawford (skip). Mclntosh and Ponsford wero playing as substitutes for Eure and F. .Martin, -who, with W. Pettie and Crawford, are to represent the Gisborne Club at Napier. The visitors had hard luck at first, for the Gisborne Club players gained II points before they began to score. Thenceforward the game became more even. The Turanganui team scored on several heads and at the twentieth were only two behind their opponents. On the final hea'd, when the Gisborne team was lying two, Martin drove with the object of. making a dead head. He failed, and, foreover, left the home team lying three, so that the Gisborne Club representatives won the game by five points—2l to 16. TURANGANUI CLUB. At the Turanganui Club’s green yesterday afternoon two more games in tlie Bennett Cup singles were played,- the results being: J. Stormont (21) beat M. G. Nasmith. (16). This was a splendid game throughout, and though Nasmith drew away at the start—ll to 2, this score was no criterion of the play. On the 13th head Nasmith still had a lead of 9, but a ding-dong “go” resulted in Stormofit- turning the tables in the last few heads, and winning by 5 points. J. Stormont (21) beat J. P. Williams (15). Stormont got in a commanding lead in the first ten he/ads, and though Williams recovered a lot of leeway in the remainder of the game, he" was unable to make matters even.