BOWLING.

Gisborne Times, Volume XXV, Issue 2139, 23 July 1907, Page 3

BOWLING.

Italians have an exciting way jf playing bowls, states Mr. T. Ballinger, pf Wellington, who had an opportunity of watching them play on their native soil not long ago. Instead of having a bias on the ball they have it on the ground, rolled earth, which is bare of grass. They bowl in the ordinary way of drawing shots, but when it comes to driving they aim the missiles hard down, in an endeavor to lob on the point desired. Mr. Ballinger saw the players making splendid shots in this way, and the excitement was intense. This was the only time during his stay in Italy that he greatly regretted a lack of knowledge of the language.

Press Association. PALMERSTON, last night, A representative meeting of bowlers resolved, —“That the time ■ ha.nr.v arrived when there shall bo one Bowling Association for the colony: that a conference should be held at au early date between representatives of-the- North -Island-and -New' Zealand Bowling Associations to consider the forming of one association ' an 1 the establishment of rules governing play, the question of reducing • prize money, the methods of conducting the annual tournament, appointment of joint secretaries and executives for the North and South Island, and holding annual tdurnaments alternately in the North and South Island