TEEN AGE BOWLER Youth Causes Concern

Press, Volume CVI, Issue 31262, 7 January 1967, Page 15

TEEN AGE BOWLER Youth Causes Concern

(By Our Bowls Exporter) WELLINGTON. Unwittingly, the former New Zealand pairs and fours champion, M. Marinovich, has thrust his 16-year-old son, Trevor, into the bowling limelight at the national tournament in Welling” ton.

The boy earned applause from impartial spectators for his brilliant leading in the ninth round of the pairs at Berhampore on Thursday. But there were others (the elderly group) who were askance, and later that night,

most voluble that p 16-year-old should be playiag so well in a national tournament.

What fires there were, were stoked yesterday morning when Marinovich announced that bis son would not lead for him in the fours. Rumours flew quickly. It was thought by some that the New Zealand Bowling Council had asked that the boy should not be allowed to continue.

However, it was found that Trevor, as a member of a club, was entitled to play and nowhere in bowling rules is there an age restriction. Mark Marinovich, the father of the teen-ager, told “The Press” that his son had never entered for the fours and he could not understand why there was any fuss. He had wanted only to play in the pairs.

Rain cancelled all play yesterday. There were pools of water on the Berhampore green where the ninth and tenth rounds of the pairs and the quarter-finals of the singles were to be played. Hoping, that the weather will improve today, the tournament committee has arranged for the same programme, but a full day’s play is unlikely. Although it has not been stated officially, it is understood that some committee members are in favour of using Sunday as a playing day if the schedule falls further behind.

As in cricket, however. Sun. day play has its detractors, and in the case of a bowling tournament if one player cannot, or will not play on Sundays, the plan might have to be abandoned.