SHREWD BOWLS TACTIC

Dominion, Volume 25, Issue 168, 12 April 1932, Page 7

SHREWD BOWLS TACTIC

Incident in Tournament MANOEUVRING THE JACK (By “Armada.”) There is plenty of scope for tactics in bowls—and pretty shrewd tactics at that. This is evident from a yarn which reached me last week, in which the central figure Is Maxwell Walker, of Auckland. It is typical of the man, a great bowler and a skip who never /acknowledges defeat until the last bowl has gone -down.' It was in a tournament, and Walker's rink was five, down with the last head to go, further progress in the tourney depending on the winning of this game. He bad a little confab with his team, and his directions to them were that no matter what be said while directing play at the head they were to put every shot well behind the jack. The players did so, Maxwell Walker keeping up the part by gently barracking his men as to whether they were driving. But there was method In his madness. It is fairly big odds against getting five in a single head, especially in the last one, anti it was a case of all or nothing. Having arranged his play so that all his bowls were at the back, leaving Lis opponents to draw to the jack, he risked his all on being able to carry the jack through to his own bowls with one of his two. Fortunately the opposing bowls were fairly open, and the jack was not obscured. Walker went down, sent up one shot which trailed the jack right through to lie six and win, much to the delight of those in the know.