BOWLS

Hawke's Bay Tribune, Volume XXII, Issue 175, 9 July 1932, Page 8 (Supplement)

BOWLS

BEAUTY OF THE GAME. “The beauty of bowls is that it can be made as much or as little of as one likes to make it; the old person can play it in slow motion, the young in quick motion,’’ writes Dr. John Fisher in the “Daily Express.’’ “Consider the health advantages. There is the walking—generally considered to be one of the finest of exercises. There is an abundance of fresh air to stimulate sleepy lungs. The bowler can, if he likes, sprint up the green to show the youngster a thing or two. Note how a player will pause to twist his body from side to side as he anxiously views the progress of his ‘wood.’ No need now for morning “Jerks.” ' The exercise of bowls is even and rhythmical—there are no Jerky movements to endanger health or to ‘crick’ stiff and inelastic muscles. For two hours or more the arm-swing and body-bending exercises proceed in a steady and unobstrusive manner. In the excitement of the game a man forgets that he is doing precisely those irksome things which the doctor ordered, and which have been neglected. Just as golf is the game for opening out the lungs and broadening the shoulders, so bowls is essentially the abdominal rejuvenator.