WOMEN AND BOWLS.

Hawera Star, Volume XLVII, 30 July 1928, Page 12

WOMEN AND BOWLS.

ARE THEY DE TBOP? Being well known in two hemispheies for niv courtesy, 1 hope it will not bo misunderstood if I say'that I apjiveciate the refusal of the Wells .Bowling Chili (England) to admit women (writes a. London pressman). Without going so far as to uphold the charge of one Wells bowler —i.e.. that ladies are an absolute' nuisance on tlio green—T ask permission to maintain that howls is one of the games that is host played by men alone. There is a certain inevitability, a suggestion of fate, predetermination, and whatnot about a howl. In all other games the ball flies, and you groan or exult at once. But a bowl moves so slowly to its appointed end, governed as it weed by Mendelian laws, conditioned by envirbnmont. such as e. blade of grass that has sprung up since the morning or by a worm which has popped up for an airing. In the tense atmosphere which is created hv a slow-moving howl ladies (I submit) are de trap. String, silent men cannot watch the march of Fate in strengthy silence. They mutter, they twist, they perspire under the strain. They think of what skip will say to them "in the pavilion after the match, they think of their youthful days when inevitabilitv was not, and they become unmanned, and skin has to pull them together. Women know too much about masculine weakness already. In the host interests of both sexes I think mixed howling unwise.