BOWLING.

Hawera Star, Volume XLVI, 17 April 1926, Page 10

BOWLING.

The season has definitely and officially dosed, for the Park Club, the closing ceremony for the season being held last Wedensday. The committee intend* to at one© get to work to eradicate some weeds which have appeared, to top dress and where necessary do some patching. The green lias played well, but it is confidently expeteecl that even a better surface will be secured for next year. Hawera Club have not yet definitely closed, and will do so shortly, but no doubt members are loth to lose the present very pleasant and congenial spell of sunshine and' balmv weather. It certainly is very suitable for bowls. The season opened badly as far ns regards weather, and for a considerable: time was very .patchy. Actually the best part of the season lias been Die later end. Easter, with its tourney, was surprisingly good, and despite a threatening opening, morning on the Friday, was .altogether a great spell for this time of the year. Bowlers will look back with pleasure to the events of the season and think with regret that even, the best seasons come to an end. \

THE GREEN KEEPER

GOOD ADVICE

Praise a gardener and you are liis friciul for life. Impress on him that his roses, his narcissi, his sweet peas, and his lawns are the finest you have ever seen. Give him to understand that he is the one gardener whose methods of horticulture meet with vour entire approval and lie will beam and retail your praise to anyone who will care' to listen. So it is with a bowling green keeper. Praise of his green never fails to keep him in a constant state of excitement —a state that- makes -it imperative that this praise should be immediately broadcasted. And, mark you, this apparent self-advertisement, is not ' that of _ the seeker after cheap praise; rather it is the longing that a thoroughly good tradesman lias to hear an appreoiavive opinion of a thoroughly good job [conscientiously done. Note the greenJ keeper, how he. sidles up to a spectator and opens up a controversy on hi*s green. And by all the careful building up of the sod, and mowing, and rolling of the sward, it is his green. The conversation generally opens with a remark anent the weather. It may be bad ; it may be good, but whatever dts state it cannot affect- his green. Then comes the assertion that “She’s not playing -badly—much better, in fact, than ‘she’ was in the morning.” Then fellow a few 'remarks about trouble with weeds, worms, and players who will drop their howls with a surface-destroy-ing thump, always culminating with ‘.‘You know, the bowlers here to-day have told; me this 'is the best green they’ve played on this year.” “Jack” has heard this observation on no fewer than eight greens this season, and although in thorough sympathy with greenkeepers, he is inclined t* think that bowlers as a class are rather prone to paint the lily.