BOWLING.

Manawatu Standard, Volume LIII, Issue 13, 13 December 1932, Page 5

BOWLING.

DOMINION TOURNAMENT. REDUCED ENTRIES. WELLINGTON, Dec. 13. Entries for the annual tournament of the New Zealand Bowling Association closed on Saturday, and on the whole show a small decrease on last year’s figures. For the Dominion events the figures are as follow: —Rinks, 100, against 102 last year; pairs, 156, a decrease of 18, and singles, 141, a decrease of 53. The decrease is mainly in South Island entries, no doubt due to the economic crisis. Fuily two-thirds of the entries for the rinks are from the North Island, which include 44 from Wellington, but only 10 from Auckland, and 14 from other centres. One entry for the rinks event has been received from Australia, but as an Australian mail is due to-day, which left Sydney before entries closed, it is possible there may be one or two more rink's from the other side. Messrs S. Little, Melbourne; R. L. Armstrong, Sydney; R. Rogerson, Perth; and W. J. Beisley, Fremantle, have entered for the singles, and two or three will also enter the pairs. The singles championship will be played on Monday and Tuesday, January 9 and 10, on the two-life system; the pairs on the two following days, a tliree-bowl event with five games of section play; and the rinks commence on Friday, January 13. In the last event there will be four days of section play, two games of 25 heads per day. Post-section play will be on the two-life system, with three games of 21 heads each per day.