ENGLISH BOWLING NOTES.

Evening Post, Volume LXXVI, Issue 43, 19 August 1908, Page 9

ENGLISH BOWLING NOTES.

(From Our Own Correspondent.) LONDON, 3rd July. Mr. F. J. Tasker, of the Palmerston North Bowling Club, took part on the winning side in a match between the Streatham Constitutional and Woodfield /Clubs on Saturday, and put up an, exceedingly fine drawing game, while on the preceding day he played over the Scottish turf rinks of the South London Club, upon which some New Zealand bowlers of late years won a brilliant victory over a side mostly comprised of internationalists. Next week Mr. Tasker is to meet, the Canadians, who arrive today, while also next week he will probably engage in a gcime with Dr. W. G. Grace, at the Crystal Palace. An amusing sequel to the importation by Mr. Wakeman into New Zealland of some specimens of the Silloth Strand turf, from the shores of the Solway Firth, for acclimatisation experiments in the Dominion, is just an nounced. -Some notable bowling-green makers, who like to use "this turf for bowling grounds, evidently feared that there would be a great run on this particular turf, so they have been buying it up in large quantities — in tho event, presumably, of an anticipated wholesale shipment of it to New Zea-la-nd. Mr. Wakeman, however, not only took with him a supply of >turf , but also a considerable quantity of seed, so that in the probable event of New Zealanders ultimatelj playing over Cumberland [ grass — such as recently received high, praise from King Edward when bowling over a green thus laid, on Lord Cblebroke's estate — New Zealand will be able to supply herself, thanks~to the foresight and general aptitude of Mr. Wakeman, for news has been received from New Zpaland that the grass taken there from the Solway Firth is making excellent progress in its new surroundings. In relation to the projected tour of a Motherland team to New Zealand before many months are over, Mr. T. Baines, hon. secretary of the English BowlingAssociation, states that the wnole mat- ! ter is to be dealt with at the meeting of j the International Board, in Edinburgh', j next week.

A thirteen-year-old negress was the heroine of tho opening session of the conference of tho National Education (Association, which was recently held in Cleveland (America). The conference was attended by 20,000 delegates from all parts of the United States. Tho dusky maiden is the daughter of a negro letter-carrier named Bolden. She spelled correctly every one of 500 words submitted to her, writing 100 and spelling 400 orallyi winning from sixty children representing Cleveland, New Orleans, Erie, and Pittsburg. When the gold badge certifying that she was the champion child speller of the United States was pinned on hor Breast in the presence of the enormous audience, the Hippodrome' (writes a New York correspondent) was generous, the cheering suggesting that raeo prejudice is happily on the decline. Probably very few of tlie grown-up audience, ev-en those with a college education, could have emerged from the test with such flying colours. "Mis-spelled," one of tho test words, was, by an odd coincidence, the most frequently misspelled in tho li*b. "Divisible," "accommodate," "cemetery," "restaurant," and "professor" had their terrors for many. Stage fright was the occasion of several rounds of heartless laughter, especially as the competitors were obliged to pronounce us well us epell a number of jiaw-broakinj; i