RECRUITING HEALTH

Dominion, Volume 26, Issue 102, 24 January 1933, Page 10

RECRUITING HEALTH

Irish Bowls Player

VISIT TO NEW ZEALAND Dr. John Rusk, 8.A., M. 8., of Belfast, Ireland, arrived in Wellington by the Maunganui yesterday from Sydney. He is on a health recruiting trip, and is first going on to Dunedin to fulfil a promise to an old friend made in 1919, when he paid a visit to New Zealand soon after the war. On that occasion he visited Napier, and attended the opening of the new bowling green. After spending a week, in Dunedin, and another in Christchurch, Dr. Rusk will spend a third week in Wellington before leaving again for Sydney and Melbourne, Where he intends making a prolonged stay. Dr. Rusk is an enthusiastic bowler, and although not in the best of health at the time, won the Irish singles handicap last year, as well as winning the singles championship of his own club. He was president of the Irish Bowling Association in 1912. ■ ■ ■ In the course of a short visit to Wellington bowling green yesterday he met Mr. L. 8. Cumming, of Sydney, who met Dr. Rusk on Castle Hill green, Belfast. when the Australian bowlers toured Great Britain a few years back. Dr. Rusk played against the Australian team in the test match. Dr. Rusk was the author of the following bowlers’ ten commandments: — (1) Thou shalt not put any game before bowls. . (2) Thou shalt not make unto thee any golf club, tennis racket, or image of anything that may win thine affection away from bowls. (3) Thou shalt not use any unseemly language about the skip, nor take his name in vain, for thy skip will verily punish him that taketh his name in vain. (4) Remember the Saturdays of the bowling season, and keep them wholly for bowls.

(5) Honour thy president and thy secretary, that thy place may be seeure in the matches played for the club. (6) Thou shalt not kill the reputation of any bowler, no matter how poor a player he is. (7) Thou shalt not prove unfaithful to the dear old game of bowls by following other games, no matter how seductive their charms seem to be. (8) Thou shalt not steal from any bowler any little name lie has earned in the bowling world, for that is dear to him as his life. (9) Thou shalt not covet a brother's bowls, neither his liowling jacket, nor anything that is characteristic of thy brother bowler. (10) Thou shalt. not bear false witness against a brother bowler, no matter how stainless his record, but shall speak the truth of him In love so that the world may be able to say, “See how these bowlers love one another.”