TOURING BOWLERS.

Hauraki Plains Gazette, Volume XXXX, Issue 5372, 9 January 1929, Page 3

TOURING BOWLERS.

QUESTION OF EXPENSES. SHOULD CLUBS PAY LEVY? In the course of his remarks at the Wellington Club’s pavilion at the conclusion of the test games of bowls against t!he Australian team on Saturday, Professor Maxwell Walker said that as arranged now it was almost inevitable that the tr.avellling tqam must for the simple reason that it could not always be triily representative of the playing strength. This contention had been born out by the trip of .the New Zealanders to Melbourne a year ago, and now again by the* visit of the Australians to New Zealand. The present visjting team was, he, thought, the strongest combination that had ever come to New Zealand, and they had played some great bowls, but in their case many of the players were wealthy men who could afford to which may not bej the case with other players who had the Qualifications of representative players. Why should bowlers not do the same us was done in other sports cricket, tennis, football, 'qtc.—and, make an effort to pay the expense of the very best men. Whenever this question was raised —and he understood it had been raised at the Wellington Centre by Mr E. J. Hill—there came the parrot cry of professionalism. There was no such, cry raised against the practice as applied! to the other, sports, which recognised that they could only get their representative men away by financing them. A levy of a shilling per member on each club throughout the Dominion would raise sufficient money to send a soundly representative team to Australia every other year. He did not wish to stress the matter, but simply mentioned it as, well worth thinking over..