BOWLING

Feilding Star, Volume 4, Issue 675, 6 January 1926, Page 8

BOWLING

THE BRITISH VISITORS. The touring team of howlers from Britain will pass through Feilding by the 0.28 train from Wanganui to-morrow morning'. They will receive a. welcome from Feilding howlers. During to-morrow afternoon :1 party of ladies accompanying Hie team will he motored over from Palmerston, and will partake °f fj 1 hospitality of our ladies on Ihe Feilding green. THE BRITISH IN WA SCANT! , country duns deeeatf.d The mem begs ol the British bowliiv team played their first match m Wanganui yesterday altcrnoon on l ie Wanganui Bowling Club’s green and scored a popular victory. Thu visitors were opposed by eight Wanganui country club’s rinks. A gunt <t a of interest was taken in the match, there being a large assemblage ol spectators. The ;wciaihe;r was perfect, while the green was in first class condition-. DETAILS OF THE GAMES Following fare the results, the British rinks being nieirtiohed lifsf in each ease:

Brodie, Baird, Inglis. Minlo 19 v. Drury, Oliver, Scarl'e, Boyd 10. Stephen, Hunter, Homing, Lawson 90 v. Gale, Drew, Stevens, Farrier (Bulls) 20. Aitveo, Hawkins, Dean, i Wifghl 37 v, Howie, Huntley. Stevens. Towers 10.

Bavnos, Watson, Quick, Clarke, 13 v . Verfy, Janns, Dallisoh, Palmer 2b. McAulav, Husband, Prison, Mair 2b v. Marsflen, Willis, Bates, Nixon 15.

.Millar, Burton, Mathiesnn, Alai colm 2b, v. Purhel, Neumann, Shine Parkes (Alarton) IS. St. J.eger, Harding, AfeDougall Tli..mas 16 v. Do f.atour. Neagle James, Fookcs 32. Alobbs, Whittaker, Edney, Wade 22 v. Richardson, AieWilliains, Ertton Herd 21.

Totals.-- British 177 points, Wanganui Country Clubs 162. The British team thus won by U> points on the aggregate scores. ADEPTS AT DR AAV INO THE. SHOT

Any doubts regarding Hie ability of the visitors wore dispelled when tliov had played the first few heads. It could he noticed at once that they were players who could draw the shot, even under the most adverse circumstances, and this was the outstanding feature of their play. In a few respects the methods ol th.? British players in action differ somewhat from the practice of New Zealanders. For men . of mature, rears 'their, activity oil the green is remarkable and the sight of a, skip, o'r No. 3, (or vice-skip as lie is called bv the tourists) sprinting in pursuit of a bowl as it went up the green proved somewhat amiisipg. The No. 3 in the team stands alongside his skip, white the other two members play. This •eliminates instructions from the skip to his main support regarding the. method of dealing with the head and tends to provide a more satisfactory solution of the mode n 1 attack. INTER ESTIXG OBSER VATIONS Composition howls lorm the main stock of the British players’ howling kit. It appears that wooden, bowls were discarded because it was considered the composition article would better survive the climatic conditions Different dialects were noticeable among the visitors, and there were several sayings which were strangely unfamiliar to the howler of Wanganui. The rinks composed of Scotsmen were a strong attraction on this account.

Instead of saving “too strong,” they said “a wee bit, just.” General terms were “ends” instead ol heads, and “shots,” instead of points. 'Die British howlers wear grey flannel trousers instead of. cream or white.