Bowls Coaching Advocated

Press, Volume CV, Issue 31003, 8 March 1966, Page 19

Bowls Coaching Advocated

t.Vcw Zealand Press Association) WELLINGTON. One of the world’s leading bowls coaches, Australia’s Gordon Sargeant, yesterday advocated the introduction of professional coaches in New Zealand.

“There must be a need for them in this country.” Sargeant said in Wellington. “People consider it necessary to seek the assistance of professional coaches when they take up tennis and golf. Why not when they take up bowls? “I believe that in view of the age so many people start playing bowls they need a

coach in this sport more than they do in any other.” Lessons Mandatory One New South Wales club went as far as to prohibit new players on its greens till they had taken five coaching lessons. Mr Sargeant said. Mr Sargeant travels as in-structor-coach with an unofficial party of 108 Australian bowlers. He described Australia’s consent to the barring of coaches from the world championships in Sydney in October as "a sop to the International Bowling Board.” “What so many people forget is that we don’t get paid for playing—only for teaching,” Sargeant said. Sargeant, who saw the New Zealanders at the Perth Empire Games, expects New Zealand to do well at the world championships. “Your standard is very high,” he said.