BOWLS AND THE ARMADA
Those sad folk .who assert that Wellington • never declared Waterloo to have'been,won on the playing fields of Eton have oven denied that the Armada was beaten on a bowling green on Plymouth Hoe. To depriyo us of the tradition tha;t Drake finished his game when the Spanish fleet was in sight is to do violence to the faith of many a man who never played bowls,. and E. J. Linney rightly makes a good fight for it in "A History of the Game of Bowls." Ho produces evidence in support of this cherished legond, and many other facts of interest about this ancient gamo. The game of bowls was, of course, ancient when Drake played it. Another seaport shares with Plymouth a place in its history, -for the Old Green at Southampton, still in use today, is said to have been used for recreation as long ago as 1299, and a plan of Southampton dated 1611 shows mon playing bowls on it. Mr. Linney's book is an encyclopaedia of the game.
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Evening Post, Volume CXV, Issue 111, 13 May 1933, Page 17
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BOWLS AND THE ARMADA
Evening Post, Volume CXV, Issue 111, 13 May 1933, Page 17
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