Strange Version Of Bowls
W. S. Gilbert once wrote about the plight of the man who was compelled to play billiards with a twisted cue on a cloth untrue with elliptical billiard balls. But that is nothing to the problems associated with the game of crown bowls, a version of bowls which is still played in the North of England, particularly in Lancashire. The green rises from all sides to a crown in the centre, the rise being anything from six inches to a foot, To make things more difficult the surface undulates, and the degree of undulation may vary for different greens. The woods have bias, just as in the more common game of bowls, but the jack is not an exact sphere. Crown bowls can be played in any direction, even * from corner to corner, with the result that lines of different games may cross each other.
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New Zealand Listener, Volume 4, Issue 84, 31 January 1941, Page 10
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149Strange Version Of Bowls New Zealand Listener, Volume 4, Issue 84, 31 January 1941, Page 10
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