BOWLING.

Gisborne Times, Volume X, Issue 1055, 24 November 1903, Page 3

BOWLING.

Writing from London a correspondent of the Australasian (Melbourne) says : At a meeting of the English Bowling Association held recently at the Cannon street Hotel, London, under tho presidency of Mr Stephen Fortescue, chairman of the London County Bowling Club, it was decided to announce, through the Australasian, to the bowlers of the Commonwealth and New Zealand, the hope that the association would receive their support in a new movement now about to bo undertaken, This, it was pointod out, relates to tbe fact that bowls, as pastime, having now found inclusion as one of tbe Olympian games competed for internationally every five years, it was the resolve of the association to at onco set to work and endeavor to advance, in every possible way, the pastime under its new and most important phase, especially relative to the coming World’s Fair Exposition at St. Louis, Louisiana, when the next Olympian games take place. Tho chairman said that though his late endeavors to take out a team to Australia and New Zealand had not proved successful, yet ho hoped not only to form ono of the Mother Country team to take part in the Olympian games, but also see at St. Louis a contingent of Australian bowlors, and to find them, in ono match at least, joining the Motherland players in a' contost versus Canadians and Americans, as a match between tho bowlers of the Old and the New Worlds.

Mr W. Stonehower, hon. secretary, said

that they could assure the Australasian bowlers that in this new movement the English Bowling Association had the hearty support of the Scottish, Irish, and Welsh bowling men, aQd that nothing would give them more gratification than to find a fellow unity upon the subject amongst their compatriots of the pastime beneath the Southern Cress.