THE SKIP JUMPED

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

THE SKIP JUMPED

A New Zealand bowler wrote as iollowsvto the bowls writer-of the Sydney "Referee" (Mr. R. T. Harrison)j whoa« help and advice have often been asked by i and freely given to Dominion bowlers, and ■whom wo hope to see at the Dominion tournament, here in January:—Can you say what should be done in regard to the following, or if there is any rule to deal with itf At the twentieth head our rink was six down, and we got them, making all square. In the last head I (No. 3) managed to rest out by a very small margin the: opposing shot bowl, which was left delicately balanced on its edge. We all changed over except the opposing- skip, who to my amazement made several jumps, causing the bowl to fall over for shot. We lost. Asking him if he did not think his. jumping had any effect, he y replicd: "No; the bowl was falling all the time!" Reply: In Australia it would possibly; bo TCgarded as "deliberate interference," and the whole eight awarded to the other side on appeal to the umpire. Viewed from any angle, it is not sporting oven to walk round a leaning bowl, and thus giving "assistance" tor wards its falling in. You never find them waltzing round a bowl that ii leaning outwards.

"Number Two" desires to acknow* ledge with thanks and cordially to re» ciprocato Xmas and New Year greetings from Mr. H. Rowley, president of the New Zealand Bowling Association, Dunedin. A former member of the Karon Club V. Webloy, is now a resident of Christcliurcli, n'ncl is playing for the Christchurch Clnb, and is doing well in the pennants. Ho has been made a skip for the last two matches and has won both of them. At the last meeting or' the executive of the council of the N.Z.B.A. au application -was received from Manawatu for a North Island tournament to be held at Easter at Palmerston North. It was decided that the opinion of .North Island members of the council should be obtained before a definite decision. is reached. Provided the present boundaries ar« not altered, the East Coast Centre has been granted permission to change its. name to the Hawke's Bay Centre. Mr. E. Falconer, a member of th» council of the New Zealand Bowling Association, who has been seriously ill for some time, has made a good r»

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