NORTHERN BOWLING ASSOCIATION.

Press, Volume LXV, Issue 13336, 30 January 1909, Page 10

NORTHERN BOWLING ASSOCIATION.

(press association telegram.) WELLINGTON, January 29. ft movement is afoot to revise tho methods of tho Northern Bowling Association. In the first place it is suggested that competitors should pay an entrance fee sufficiently largo to recoup tho cost of their entertainment by the Clubs of the City in which the tournament is held. But that is not tho chief point. Big and little clubs oombino in insisting that they should not bo limited in their representation at the tournament, and the question is being freely argued as to the best means of getting over the difficulty. One suggestion is that the North Island should he divided into centres on the lines of the Wellington Centre—that each year there should bo a centre tournament, with unlimited-entries, and that the two winning teams from each centre should compete at one of the centres for the championship of the island. Tho subject is being discussed among bowlers in considerable detail, and has already come before the Wellington Club, which will hold o. special meeting on Monday night to give final expressions to its views. Tho directors have already had the question under consideration, and will, it it understood, bring forward a proposal that the two club rinks at the centre -tournament which score the greatest number of wins shall represent the club at the Association's tournament. It is not certain, however, that this will meet with genera! acceptance, as many members are in' favour of tho "open door" policy pursued by the New Zealand Association, and an interestinff discussion is anticipated.