BOWLING

Manawatu Herald, Volume XLIV, Issue 2383, 24 January 1922, Page 3

BOWLING

DIXON CUP WON BY EKETAHUNA. At the Palmerston North Club’s green on Saturday an Eketaliuna rink played the holders (Palmerston North) for the ( Dixon Cup. The rinks were: —Eketahuna: Carruthers, Simpson, D. Duff and A. Dull (skip). Palmerston North: Welch, Stephenson, H. Seifert and W. E. Jones (skip). At the outset the teams kept together, but when Jones drove to save a head he left three to the visitors, and the home team never caught up on the challengers, who drew steadily away. On the last seven heads Palmerston North scored 10, whilst the Eketahuna rink obtained only 5. Notwithstanding the recovery made by the home rink, the game ended 25 —16 in favour of Eketahuna.

Foxton has/ the next challenge, and will play at Eketahuna on Saturday next.

To see groups of gentlemen, old or young, disporting themselves on the sward of a well kept bowling green is always a cheerful sight. And the picture is one very familiar to the community. It suggests leisure (says the Otago Daily Times), pleasant relaxation, and a sufficiency of health-giving exercise in the good fresh air. It has a twinkle of derision for the stuffy office and the hundred and one prison* houses wherein man is condemned to daily toil. It breathes of perennial youth and boyhood for all the sprinkling of greybeards among the players. Its savour is that of good humour and democracy. The staid professional man, the solemn stockbroker, the calculating merchant, the inscrutable storekeeper —these and all the rest- of them seem on the bowling green to throw off the mask that covers so many private cares and responsibilities and become simple companionable souls bent upon nothing but the game in hand.