BOY BOWLERS.

Auckland Star, Volume LXI, Issue 74, 28 March 1930, Page 6

BOY BOWLERS.

I am a bowler who hae passed middle age' ■ and it grieves and annoys me, tpsee li'pyfe' playing on the greens. Wty are they not. playing games more suited to their physical requirements ? Instead of playing cricket or tennis they are invading a field suitable for men who now require a game demanding only v a minimum of exertion and yet providing that social element which, sweetens life. The Canadian bowlers stressed this -idea. . These' boys | can contribute nothing to that" sociability—,'"" they are, or ought to be, one or two generations ~> behind the rest of the players and thus-have-, ; a different outlook upon life and speak;almost rM a different language.- They introduce an,atnios-. phere of strenuous rivalry into'the game and "-;« this detracts -from the pleasure of playing' , . and makes the winning rather than the. playing 7, of tlfe game the end striven for. -I would .. advocate- that the centre set an.age limit ; bfj"' say, forty-five or fifty, with exception in ■ of young men suffering froni some physical'' inability which prevents them'playing cricket' or tennis. A boy who wishes to join a howling club because he is too lazy to play other games-', should continue to play marbles' with-otneri I '' of his mental development. BE UP. K.