TIME-HONOURED RELICS OF BOWLING GAME
A MONG the bowling treasures that the Auckland Club has stored up through its long life is a pair of bowls which were presented to the club by Mr. Harry King, away back in 1903. An inscription on the box containing the ancient implements of the game on the green reads: “These bowls were used many years ago on the Southampton green, which was founded prior to the year 1300.” The ancient bowls are small and wide, with no discs which adorn the modern bowling implements. In appearance they are wider and much smaller, though heavy for their size. They appear to be made of a very heavy wood, and it is problematical whether that timber is Lignum Vitae as now used. One’s curiosity is naturally aroused as to the early use of the bowls, and speculation fires the imagination into picturing some swaggering buccaneer, snuffhabited dandy, or an armoured soldier telling over many frothing tankards of ale of the excellent feats he had performed with the woods.
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Sun (Auckland), Volume III, Issue 845, 13 December 1929, Page 12
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173TIME-HONOURED RELICS OF BOWLING GAME Sun (Auckland), Volume III, Issue 845, 13 December 1929, Page 12
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