Bowlers streak to record
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Streakers, heavy rain and fogs didn’t stop six men from setting what they claimed was a new world record for lawn bowls at the weekend in the tiny town of Bangalow on the New South Wales north coast.
Playing in two three-man teams, the six men bowled for 34 hours and 25 minutes. They broke the old record, quoted in the Guinness Book of Records as being set by a London team, by 10 hrs and five min.
The president of Bangalow Bowling Club, (Mr Neville ■ Lavelle) said the men, all 1 novices of the sport, started | playing at 8 a.m. on Saturday and things went ■smoothly for the rest of the iday- but that night it started (to rain heavily.
: By 5 a.m. it was very (foggy and quiet and everyone was getting sleepy, when out of the fog came jtwo naked people — a man and a woman — who ran (across the green and van'ished back into the fog, Mr Lavelle said.
; “I think that’s what kept (the boys awake for the rest (of the day”, he said.
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Press, Volume CXVI, Issue 34156, 18 May 1976, Page 8
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187Bowlers streak to record Press, Volume CXVI, Issue 34156, 18 May 1976, Page 8
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