Tho gamo of bowls is over 700 years old, and early kings tried to stamp it out, because thoy thought it would interfere with tho . .regular practice ot arcliory, which was necessary if wara wdre to bo won. Open-air bmvis wero not 60 popular as indoor bowi6, plaj™ with pins instead of the iack. Howling 'alloys wero numerous, and beennio sucii public nuisances, on account _ or the gambling and dissipation carried oil ill connection with thorn, "that wro prohibited in the fifteenth, and eiitopn-ta oonturioa.
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Dominion, Volume 14, Issue 42, 13 November 1920, Page 9
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85Page 9 Advertisements Column 2 Dominion, Volume 14, Issue 42, 13 November 1920, Page 9
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