BOWLING.

Auckland Star, Volume LIX, Issue 108, 9 May 1928, Page 13

BOWLING.

SHORTAGE OF .WINTER GREENS. AN ECHO FROM MELBOURNE. (By TRUNDLER.) With the week-end storm over, ideal Auckland winter weather has set in and bowlers can do with quite a lot of it, for a number of greens have been closed down for top-dressing, after being almost ruined for want of water in the summer. This will necessitate more visiting than usual, instead of members being able to play on their own green. Probably most room will be found at Remuera, Carlton, Epsom, Hillsboro' and Onehunga, the clubs who constructed their greens on the light volcanic soil 4hat is supposed to dry up as soon as it i* fine for a week on end. The experience of the past summer may be a useful hint in the construction of the new green for the parent club. A burglary was committed in one of the largest bowling pavilions in Auckland during the week-end. When the members assembled on Monday they found that nearly all the lockers had been burst open and everything that a burglar would dare to use had been abstracted. All clothmg of neutral colour had disappeared, although fortunately the conspicuous club "colours had saved the blazers. Apparently the occasional bottle stowed away in a locker was the chief attraction, for these were all gone and the thieves away with the few packs of cards that members use on wet days. It looks as it the pavilions will have to be made more secure, for this loss recalls a recent lire in a pavilion which may have followed a burglary. Bowlers have been vcrv unfortunate in Sydney in this respect lately. It will be remembered that one of the New Zealand party lost a pocket-book containing £14 during a match there last December, and the other day a sneak thief £ot away with £7 from one player and H2t fi 0111 another, in every case I abstracted from garments hung up in the pavilion. Victorians in New Zealand. The Melbourne bowling organ "Bowls'' concludes in its last issue a remarkable series of articles on the report of the \ ictorian tour of the Dominion, furnished by the manager of the party, Mr. Walter Lyon. Most of it is news, except the references to Auckland and the bare results of the matches, but the officials who arranged for their entertainment during their short stay here will be glad to know that their efforts were not wasted, for Mr. Lyon remarks that on their last evening they "were entertained with another delightful programme, which proved a glorious windup to a glorious time." Regarding their motor trip round the city during the late afternoon of the previous dav, Mr. Lyon refers in happy terms to the brief call at the Mount Eden green, where the South Australian team were playing the Auckland members of the partv who went to the Melbourne carnival, and play was stopperl, and the Victorians were given a rousing reception by the South Australians and the New Zealandcrs. Here, as was the case since the for a solitary moment that we were team arrived at Auckland, we never felt strangers." Those who determine to squeeze in a trip to the top of Mount Eden, whenever visitors are in Auckland for a short time, will be satisfied with the impression it apparently created, judging by the following remark: "Ascending Mount Eden, the party witnessed such a unique spectacle that no words can describe it, perhaps unparalleled .on this planet." ✓Bowling Terms. The president of the West Australian Bowling Association, writing under the pen-name of "Noah Little," was one of the best-known bowling critics in the Commonwealth long before he was placed in the highest otticc in his own State. He recently compiled some most amusing definitions of bowling terms, and although they do not apply to any readers of this column, most people will relish the thought that they fit other people admirably. Novice: One who confesses that he knows nothing whatever about bowls, and then gets angry bettuise you agree witli him. * * r ~ Average bowler: The man who is certain in his own mind that he is considerably above the average. Champion: Twenty-five per cent ability, 25 per cent practice, the balance luck. Selectors: Those who look after the other fellow's interests in order to further their own. The ideal skip: One who tells his men he'has an ideal team when he means it, and also when he doesn't. Rink: Four men, each of whom is convinced that he is carrying the other three. Umpire: One who knows If s about the game than the competitors. Bore: The bowler who persists in talking about his own ability, when you want to talk about yours. Enthusiast: The bowler who is perfectly sure of many things which he is completely mistaken about. Measure: An elastic device for taking away from those who have, and giving to those who have not. CARLTON GREEN. The Carlton Club wil open its winter screen of 13 rinks on Saturday afterrfbon. Bowlers who desire to make sure of a gaiue should communicate with the secretary, telephone 43-200.