SPORTS AND PASTIMES.

Gisborne Times, Volume XXVII, Issue 2678, 7 December 1909, Page 7

SPORTS AND PASTIMES.

BOWLING.

GISBORNE CLUB

A matoli in the competition for the Euro Gold'Stars took place on the grdi of the Gisborne Bowling Club yesterday afternoon, when VV. Pottie s rinlc, the holders of the trophies, met a challenging rink skipped by J. J* Martin. The latter won after a decidedly well contested game. The rinks and scores were as follows 17- • Zachariah, Kyane, Ambridgq, J. Martin (skip) 24 beat Redstone, Hookey, Coleman, W. Pettie (skip) 19. • The game opened auspiciously tor Martin, who put up a couple on each of the. first three heaths. Pettie got in two on the fifth head, but Martin by scoring three points on the sixth head and-two on the seventh, showed thirteen to Pettio’s two. Pettie’s rink played the uphill .game with most commendable pluck. They got in four bowls on the eighth head, and followed up by scoring a single on each of the next three, so that om the eleventh head their score stood nine points to their opponents’ thirteen. Martin scored a couple on the twelfth head. Pettie responded by putting up the same number 011 the thirteenth, and a single on each of the two .. succeeding heads, so that the score stood 15 to 13 on the fifteenth head. The play on the 16tli was sensational. When Pettie had played his second bowl he was lying two. Martin with his : last shot, took out both, and lay five, thus gaining a lead of seven points. He increased that lead by a single on the following head. Pettie giot in two on the next, the eighteenth, but Martin, by scoring three on the nineteenth, raised his total to 24 against 15. On the twentieth Pettie made three, and 011 the final head one, and thus suffered defeat by five points. The play of both teams was exceedingly good, and the game provided one of the best exhibitions of bowls witnessed on the green this season. On, Thursday the winners of yesterday’s match will have to defend the trophies against another rink—jjiirton, Mackintosh. Hennessy, and Eure (skip). A meeting of the Committee of the Club is to be held to-morrow evening to consider matters in connection witii the opening of the new pavilion and other, business. TURANGANUI CLUB. At the Turanganui Club’s green yesterday afternoon, in a practice game between rinks. skipped by Greig and Nasmith, junr., wliat may be deemed a record for the district in small scoring was put up, for up to the 12th head, with the exception of a two, all the points scored were singles, the board showing 7 to 6. In the other games played were the following matches':— —Bennett Cup.— W. Ratcliffe 20 beat W. Bruce 15. Up to the seventh head Ratcliffe had it his own way, being 10 to 1. On. the next- seven heads, however, Bruce made a splendid recovery, and was only one down on the 17th head, If—ls. Ratcliffe. however, was not to be denied, for on the .remaining heads he put up five to his opponent’s one, and. thus won by five points. —Challenge Walking Stick. — W. Ratcliffe (holder) 9 beat M. G. Nasmith junr (challenger) 3. —Ratcliffe scored a pair on the first head, Nasmith replying with a single. On the 3rd head Nasmith lay two, hut Ratcliffe managed t-o trail the jack and lay four ; 6 —l. One the 4th head Nasmith got in a single, and another on. the stli head. Requiring three to tie on the, 6th (last) head, Nasmith drew his first two bowls near the jack. Ratcliffe, with his third, trailed the jack near the ditoli. Nasmith essayed a deadhead with his next two bowls, but failed, and Ratcliffe drew three, and thus won by six points., J. I). Jeune has now challenged the holder of the stick. —Handicap Pairs. —

This evening tlie first round l in the Handicap Pairs will be completed, when th game between W. Hay and W. McWhirter (skip) and V. Hooper and J • P. Williams "(skip), which was commenced the other evening, will be finished. Tlie second round lias been drawn as follows:

,6. Morse and A. Sawyer (skip) scratch v. winner Williams-McWhirter match. H. O. Anderson and M. A. Neill (skip) 3 points v. It. Thelwall and J. J. Martin (skip) scratch. W. H. Douglas and B. Hird (skip) scratch v. 11. J. Finn and P. E. Hallhm (skip) 2 points. W. McPherson and J. D. Jeune (skip)—bye. . The round is to be completed by Boxing Dav or forfeited.