WHEN BOWLS WAS ILLEGAL.
One of tiro most popular of summer outdoor games is bowls. It is interesting to recall that there was a time when it was unlawful to trundle "woods" along the sward. Early kings tried to stamp it out, because they considered that it would interfere with the regular practice of archery, w'-Vh was necessary if wars were to lie won. Open-air bowls was not so popular as indoor ' iwl«. played with pins instead of the ja<-k. Bowling alleys were numerous. They became such public nuisances, by reason of the gambling and dissipation carried on in connection with thei-, that they were prohibited in the fifteenth and sixteenth centuries. Bowls figures largely in history. Charles I. was an enthusiast. We find Shakespeare thus referring to it in "Richard IT.": — Queen: "What sport shall we devise here in this garden, to drive away the heavy thoughts o' care?" Lady: "Madam, we'll piny at bowls." "Mieeli: "Twill make me think the world is full o' ruts, and that my fortune μ-uns against the Bias."
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Auckland Star, Volume LXVI, Issue 58, 9 March 1935, Page 7 (Supplement)
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