BOWLING PRAISED

Wairarapa Times-Age, 22 July 1938, Page 9

BOWLING PRAISED

GAME’S MANY VIRTUES. Is there any game that is clothed in such s.weet serenity as bowls? asks a correspondent, writing in “The Times.” After occupying a favoured seat on the grandstand at Stamford Bridge for 30 years, witnessing all important matches between Chelsea Club and their visitors —and having one’s blood pressure sent up to dangerous heights—after having been at Wimbledon and seeing the fierce rivalry between popular players, and being alarmed at their utter exhaustion and despair, after hearing the weird and unearthly language of golfers, looking on at the crawling antics of performers in billiard-rooms, sharing in the embarrassments, painful arguments, and low cunning of many cardtables, one comes to the conclusion that the game of bowls is different. One finds a brotherly spirit, peace of mind, and a quiet resignation to all ups and downs. There is room for imagination in bowls; there is virtue in the game; one feels better, perhaps humbler, for participating in this prince of pastimes. There is beauty in bias. There is poetry in motion after exercising patience and acute observation. Happy moments come when one turns a “four down” into a “one up.”