BOWLING.

Stratford Evening Post, Volume XXXIV, Issue 54, 28 October 1912, Page 2

BOWLING.

/ • A writer in the Sydney Morning Herald, commenting on the advance the game of bowls has made of late years in New Zealand, says: The peregrinations of the leisured traveller through the home of Nature’s most fantastic handiwork will probably lead him through the more remote towns and villages, innocent, perhaps, of cricket pitches and tennis courts, but almost invariably the proud possessors of a bowling green. And if perchance the traveller be a bowler, or, better still, three or four of him, the hand of welcome is ever ready. The craft of the biassed wood has a freemasonry of its own. Much kindness will follow this discovery, and back of it all is a burning desire to test the foreign calibre on the local sward. The spirit of hospitality, unbounded in every other direction, grants no quarter on the green itself, and the wanderer may count himself a lucky wight, or a skilful one, if he depart without the “father of a hiding.” Be it early morning, noon, or evening, a warm opposition will speedily be produced to accommodate the invader, and give him a strenuous run. One marvels at the slender notice necessary to 1 assemble one or more rinks, a« may he required, of the best talent the town can boast. Bowls, in very truth, is one of the component parts of the New Zealand atmosphere.