BOWLING.
GISBORNE CLUB. An interesting match took place on the Gisborne Club’s green between the rink which is to represent the club at the Northern Bowling- - at Wellington, and a challenging rink skipped by I. S. Simson. The latter won by a single point on an extra head, so that the finish could not have been closer. The players and scores were as follows: W. Pettie, Paltridge, T. A. Crawford. Simson (skip) 20 beat Robertson, Craig Eure, Ponsford (dkip) 19. For the first half of the game the scoring was' fairly even. At the eleventh head Simson had put up 12 points and Pons, ford 10. The former scored on the next five heads, adding six points to his total. On the seventeenth head Ponsford got in a couple. Simson replied by scoring a single on the eighteenth, and Ponsford made one each on the nineteenth and twentieth, after one head had been “burned.” Requiring five to tie on the twenty-first head, Ponsford succeeded in putting them up, making the score 19 all. On the extra head ’ Simson; won the game by obtaining a single.
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Gisborne Times, Volume XXVII, Issue 2694, 27 December 1909, Page 6
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185BOWLING. Gisborne Times, Volume XXVII, Issue 2694, 27 December 1909, Page 6
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