BOWLING.

Gisborne Times, Volume XXVII, Issue 2534, 22 June 1909, Page 2

BOWLING.

; <liy “Toucher.’’) L am glad<£os made' by i.the. Match. Gonjmijtts# iffco ;ge|| their matches completed. ~; I t; j y.as.totbfi regretted that Thursday last .proved an, uncongenial • day- for bowls, and interfered iwijh dhP/PastimcH ‘However* un-> i der ;dhm ft > jiva(s % . -r-'.ii <>;! i L;m: 1 t.-i vi

worthy lor the teams conCrtrhed their games in the Martin medals. Quite hh innovation to • matcli panics ' Ava'srtheeompetiti'On’rof three -men aside-j -. two rinks urtying one man sjiort.. However, this 4 : am> f ’proved asi exciting as , the others’’ H expoct next Thursday will see the' next round completed,, and ; .should the weather continue favorable, 'the competition•ivilf'ieiisily be■ ooiripiletcd'before the- season closes. - *. T J Quite an innovation to Gisborne is the' game of carpet bowls, introduced . by. /the Y.M.C.A. The game is very simple, , solely..Qf, rolling a. straight bowl to a ri xe a' pin oi' iapk.There being no bias oiy, trip bowls, or 'any/likelihood of carrying "tne jack, the game is robbed of its chief interest, thy game only requiring 'a y player to ''AliceTget the-,; strength, of ~ file...carpet hand he. is always* near- the jack. ' HoW>everthere are the* running-throligh . shots and tlio lucky wicks to fall back ! uffirfj and it is . here ,that a, rink, bowler • Sriayj shiiie. The" 'bowling-' alley 'is to be opened next Monday evening,' when rinks have been -invited 'from .the Gis■bornie and Turaqganui Clubs., The latter' blub has chosen-its four —Williams; ;Hird, Nasmith, junr., and Sawyer. A number of players from eacli ; 'club ! have* : announced their intention of being present! on the opening night. •' "■" " Mt G. A. Chainnan, this year’s cliam--pion of Chatswood (Sydney) Bowling Club, has been a most consistent singlehanded. playey_for. many years. The distinction held by him at present has 'been his for four consecutive years. Mr Chapman’s sideboard fairly groans under the weight of his bowling trophies. Two-years'ago- he. appropriated the Sin-gle-handed'Championship of the State, arid, with a club fellow—that great old bowler, Mr T. T. Forsyth-—Mr Chapman won the Pair supremacy of New South Wales. This 'year 'lie lias again appropriated they State Individual Premiership. Eleven thousand six hundred and fifty-two players, at Id each,, were, according* to an official statement, registered upon the seven public howling greens of Glasgow in a recent week. The sum realised amounted to over £4B. ;/ The London correspondent of the v“! New Zealand Herald,” writing on %:fay 7th, states: “The High Commissioner for New Zealand, the Agent-. General for Victoria, the Agent-Gene-ral for West Australia, Mr A. M. Myers (Auckland), arid Mr P. A. Vaile were to have taken part in the opening of the green of the Streatham Constitutional Bowling Club on Saturday, /but owing to the weather' being unfavorable, the event was postponed until Empire Day. Mr J. Horsburgli, a for-, mer president of the New Zealand Bowling Association, now of London, has given to the collection of “woods,” which are .to be presented to MajorGeneral Crutcliley, Lieutenant-Gover-nor of Chelsea Hospital, for the-use of the old veterans, a pair of howls with which he played in New. Zealand. The bowls ares to be handed over by Sir John Heron-Haxwell, Bart., on the occasion of the annual full-dress parade of all ranks from the Governor (Field-Marshal Sir George White, the defender of Ladysmith) to the solitary drummer. Mr Horsburgh’s woods' will be used by a . veteran, James Morris, who fought throughout the last Maori War. This old warrior expresses his delight over such a kindly consideration, and lie promises that who thinks ho is going -to beat him will get' the ‘■Maori yell!” The season has now just opened, and a record one ■is certain. What will give eclat to the play will be the presence of as many colonists as possible. New Zealanders, coming along will greatly oblige by notifying their arrival to tlio boil, secretary Anglo-Colonial Bowling Club, at its headquarters,.'Anderton’s Hotel, Fleetstreet.”

■ At the last annual dinner of tho English Bowling Association it was stated that the number of affiliated clubs bad in one year grown from 110 to 140. Mr Barries (hori. sec. of the' 'Streatham 8.C.) said, he hoped to soo a thoroughly representative team of /British bowlers go out to Australia-ana New Zealand. Mr Bush (ex-president of Wellington, B.C/): pleaded (says my source of information) eloquently for a visit to the Dominion, and assured Iris audience that New Zealand would give, England’s borders a hiost cordial welcome. ' ‘ * ' 1

Writing on April 21, the London correspondent of the “Australasian”.says: “At a meeting of the -AnglorColonial, Bowling Club, held this week at Ander- : ton’s Hotel, Fleet-street, a letter was read from Mr A/ j;. j White house, lion, secretary of. the Now Soittli Wales Association, in relation to the proposed team for Australasia. -' Mr Fortescue, the president, stated that not only had everything possible been done, but, with the,/ season, now opening, great opportunities wriuld be presented of pursiiing the matter. So far as his own club was-concerned, the Streatham ConZstitutional, Mr Fortescue said that /there was every probability of a full rink-. goi ng-out; ineluding-tlie president of the club, Mr J. Gray, formerly of Queenslaridi V -Copies . pi/ -Mr . Whitehouse’s letter will be. widely circulated, land progress reported to the writer tfrom time to time. : Mr Df /B;/ Mac./ 'bride,‘ president bf the : Chiswick " andWe.s.t London club, called upon Mr White,' Secretary/; to; the '’New'; South Wales Agent-General, recently-,.. arid- ekpressed' a hope not only that Australia Neivi Zealand bowlers would visit the " Chiswick ; greCri, ; hut' that) one or two rinks would before long be led by liis ielub, ,fprV,'tlip use of visiting players; ari; Wbll as-■‘those ! lesidferit-'liefel ideiitified with- Australasia. Mr’ White" furriished isoirie.. .valuable information .upon trip point of hp}v best to get into touch with all 'coilColfned hr Hie matter. ' Mr Macbride is Taking'. U~ leadiiig/part in ;fhb !fprtheoniirig ’howling 1 ' /prigeaiiTi in ’ ‘the Rriyal’ ' 'Agribrilfu’ral “ Hall, ... in’ -which ' Cdlbriiril 'bowling l .is to ritid'/iirielusion.” ~ .. /- • ■ 1 'i.-IU % ■ f V: re ■i j i >!=== ,== A f t l