BOWLING.

Hawera Star, Volume XLVIII, 29 November 1924, Page 10

BOWLING.

The oluibsi all over the province- are having a good time and- conditions have been most favourable. The nuttiber of players is larger fhan ever. ‘/I understand,” says an English, writer, “that the International Board is determined to see that players observe the rule of maintaining one foot/ entirely off the mat when delivering* Also, players a,re to he requested by \ the Board to give up the habit of turning woods over as they lie at the jack head. Every wood touched under such conditions is it is technically disqualified—-and to oybiate the need of touching woods wbeh at rest it is suggested that the owner’s initial should be placed on the small disc as well as the ivory ‘eye.* It is also suggested that the International '» Board- should in future issue badges' fO qualified internationals, and that they-’ should be made of gold and embody the emblems of the four countries. To--day an international, ere he finishes his week’s games finds himself decorated with half, a dozen badges. County players, likewise,' • entirely spoil the appearance of their regulation. dress by adorning themselves with trumpery metal badges.” A couple of -pairs of shoes, one /soled with- a • new idea in rubber, having a roughened, gripping surface, and the other with a particular style of fibbing, produced at the last Wellington Centre. meeting, prompted one waggishly inblirted to remark upon keenbusiness and new agencies (writes “Number Two” in Wellington Post), ‘but as a matter of fact, the shoes were held- up as had examples, and not as the bowl-er’-s ideal. The complaint made Was that such soles were bound to harm the green, and various opinions, for and against, followed. Nothing, however, was decided about the matter, but individual clubs will, no doubt, argue the merits further. - Two wrinkled old bowlers who bad not seen one another for nearly forty years met under peculiar conditions at the week-end on -a suburban green (says the Auckland Star). They did not know one another, when one of them, as -a visitor, met his old friend at the scoring hoard on the green where he was -a member. They wefe playing number two, and ais scorers they were putting down the name# of the opposing teams on the blackboard. One said to the other that he once • knew a long-bearded farmer in a southern province of the same name as his opponent. “I used to have a longbearded bullock -driver working for me the same name as you,” replied, the other. This led to mutual recognition, and one remarked, “Who’Would have ever thought in the old days tve would meet under such peculiar circumstances, and that we would have made enough, to live quietly in our old age, and be able to play howls any after- ' noon!” There wta-s 'something very keen about the play of the two “oldtimers” -as with almost youthful vigour they played on to the jack, it being hard to -say which was the better bowler.