BOWLERS AMAZED

Hokitika Guardian, 24 December 1930, Page 2

BOWLERS AMAZED

WHIRLWIND ON GREEN 1 . GAME UPSET AT HEATHCOTE. CHRISTCHURCH, December 23. To see bowls rooled from one rink to another by the lorcc of the whirlwind, and blazers, hats and bowl bags carried in the air from one end of the green to the other, was the extraordinary experience of bowlers engaged in pennant matches between the Heathcote and Elmwood clubs on the Heathcote green on Saturday afternoon. On one rink a bowl lay exactly in line with the pegs dividing the adjoining rink. It was the last head and the scores were even. A player was about to put the measure on the bowl to decide the result of the game when the whirlwind came over the green. The bowl was blown back into the head of the rink to which it belonged, and the wind then curled round them across to the other rink. At the same time, .the score board and mat.belonging to one rink were tossed on to the green, and hats, blazers and bowl bags were picked up by the gust and carried in the air to the other end of the green. The whirlwind departed as suddenly as it had come, and the surprised bowlers settled the fate of the game in another head. "It sounds a fishy one,” said Mr L. ,T. Lohrey, a member of the Elmwood Club, who related the story, "hut every player of the four rinks can vouch for it. It was a remnrkable Incident and a similar one has probably never occurred before and may never occur again.”