Bowling

Evening Post, Volume CXVI, Issue 145, 16 December 1933, Page 24

Bowling

By "Mumbir Tw«. M

BLAME THE TEA

WHEN TEAMS CRASH

OLD BOWLER'S "DISCOVERY"

The afternoon tea interval has been lost. Often a side that has been going well and piling on the points goes to pieces after partaking of afternoon tea, and not unnaturally but withal jocosely a ways blames the tea for it, usually alleging that it was "loaded" The true explanation no doubt is that the players lose their green and their touch as a result of going away for refreshment. A fortnight ago, when a Seatoun team skipped by Wyatt was playing against a Petone team skipped by beddon, the Petoneites scored only 2 points after tea. On a previous Saturday, also against Wyatt, a Xewtown team did even worse, not scoring a point after the tea adjournment/ Wyatt's teams won both games by a big margin. In connection with this subject the "Auckland Star" says that an old bowler considers he has made a great discovery. The old gentleman says that if only a cup of tea and a, 'biscuit were taken at the tea adjournment, there would not be so many collapses, but when some of the bowlers go in for cheese and sandwiches as well as jam roll and pastry, when it is provided by the clubs where the wives of the members aro the caterers, it affects their digestion and incidentally; their eyesight. The result is that they cannot judge distanaes so well. Tennis players are careful of their food be« fore a match, and bowlers have something to learn from the'tennis people; more especially about eating in the middle of a game. The veteran said he did not want mature bowlers to | commence slimming, but to have a good feed after the game was over.