BOWLS, PLAYERS. HOURS AND MILES
(P.A.) CHRISTCHURCH, Jan. 17. For what It is worth, ‘ 668,800 bowls will be played during section play in the fours at the New Zealand howling championships and 1672 players involved will have spent 40,128 hours walking up and down the greens or longer if they start burning the ends. Playing eight games of 25 ends each, and with an average weight of 311 b for each bowl, something like 970 tons of bowls will be lifted and sent down in the same period. These figures are vouched for by a tournament official who exercised his arithmetic between games. He also estimated that players would cover 6966 miles on the green alone, exclusive of the distance they covered in travelling to and from the greens.
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Gisborne Herald, Volume LXXVII, Issue 23154, 17 January 1950, Page 2
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