WOMEN IN GAMES.

Hawera Star, Volume XLVI, 22 April 1927, Page 7

WOMEN IN GAMES.

A NUISANCE TO BOWLEKS. PROTESTS IN ENGLISH CLUBS. LONDON, April 10. Mr. Alderman Eeakes has secured the banning of women from the Wells (Somerset) Bowling Club. Alderman Eeakes declared that bowls was an immodest game for women, in view of women’s modern dress. Women, he said, were an absolute nuisance, and continually encroached on men ’s prerogatives. The women’s champion;/ promised that women would play on separate rinks from the men, and play among themselves, but the chairman interjected that that would be contrary to human nature. The motion for the exclusion of women was carried by a large majority. Squabbles among the women of Merton Park Golf Club, London, ended yesterday in the King’s Bench Divis ion of the ' Supreme Court, when two women sued the club committee because men members, expressing their weariness with the continual bickering, decided to take charge of the women’s section owing to the bad reputation that the club was aequirng. Two women argued that the men had acted unconstitutionally, but the claim was dismissed with costs.