BOWLING

Hawera Star, Volume XLVI, 5 March 1927, Page 12

BOWLING

THE RINK CHAMPIONSHIP. Rink howls is more .popular among the rank and file of bqwlers (says the Referee) from the fact that really good four-bowlers are scarce. That the fourbowl game is the champagne of bowls is readily admitted. A man who cannot plav the four-hall game well can never, in my opinion, be classed as a good player at all. Many rink players are simply boosted booms, supplied with material that it would be difficult to lose with. They are the whitehaired boys in their clubs, but if you want to find their real merit as bowlers put four bonds into their hands and take them out on to a good rink. Every known ,shot must he played bv the fourbowler, but the boomed skipper can scratch along and ride to victory on the shoulders of three good men —tor which he gets all the kudos. Keen as mustard 1 Look at those brown fellows from all the corners _ of ; New South Males! You would think I their live® were in the* balance. This “old man’s game!” Go up to that hefty son of the soil and tell him he is playing an old man’s game. If he didn’t hand you a Billy Grime swing to the solar plexus, lie would present you with a retort courteous that Jim Wall had lent him 'on one of many visits to the country. “We can only boil it- down to the final at Citv on Saturday morning. 1 would love to take the l-eadei through all those close and exciting games that, were “just won” and “just lost.’’ Suffice it to say that many and many a game was played throughout the week that could give “10 on” to that final.”