BOWLING.

Hokitika Guardian, 12 November 1925, Page 2

BOWLING.

WOOD OR COMPOSITION. LONDON, November 3. Mr W. F. Wade, an English bowler, who lias been asking for advice rollrenting the kind of bowls the British team should use in the forthcoming Australian and New Zealand tour, is answered by an Australian bowler now -laying in London. "Opinions differ, in Australia, just as they do here.” says this writer. “My own preference is for wood. As a small-listed man they .-nit me better. There was an unexplainable deadweight or (len-ity in composition bowls, which caused me to drop them on the point of delivery, and, further, my experience wa- that the rniniio did not inn nearly so generously on a (lead green. Mr Wade is altogether misled iu his statement that the use of composition howls in Australia is almost universal. In my own chili not more than three or four members use them, and I should say that not more than ten per cent, of Australians favour them. In my own State, few of the best players bate been converted to composition, and I do know that one of the most skilful howlers in Australia who had a pecuniary interest in selling composition howls, stuck to his woods.

" I do think the narrow-running surface of one of the composition makes appeal to many, as they did to me ; lull it was tin' shape. and as I can get the manufacturers of wood to make lignum vitae mi the same lines. 1 intend to take hack a set of lignum, which have proved to me the host all-rounder.”

Mr Melbourne Orchard agrees that the days of the lignum vitae howl are by no means numbered iu Australia and New Zealand. II M.r AY ado, he says, had raised the matter of differing bins in the Dominions lie would have hit upon a very thorny subject.