HINTS FOR BOWLS PLAYERS

Hawke's Bay Tribune, Volume XXII, Issue 205, 13 August 1932, Page 1 (Supplement)

HINTS FOR BOWLS PLAYERS

LEARN ALL THE WHILE. TAKE YOUR TIME AND CONCENTRATE. Many lessons can be learned by simply moving along the banks and mentally noting the different styles, drawbacks, advantages, in grip, delivery, and the effect on grip on delivery, etc., etc. Short steps and long steps, their relation to strength and the length of the head, the inconsistent leads who fail to throw the kitty two lengths alike, and the third men who “butt in’’ when they should be silent, all make food for reflection. And among the medley, here is a lesson, all may learn. Some folk spurn advice, knowing all there is to know. I commend these to the scrap heap. Never get too old to learn, or too superior to take a hint, often picked up from the veriest novices. Did you ever study closely the importance of the following: Personally, I get “annqyed with myself’’ at times, for not sending a bowl up “all the way’’ of r.’i even keel, without showing its optics. Y'ou know, of course, or should that a bowl sent on its crra»d

without the vestige of a wobble will travel farther, and do its work better, than one not so delivered. "nine of Concentration. The mistake so many players make is this: They go off half-cock. I would say: Stand on your chosen spot on the mat, take' your full time, and always bo at “the ready,” not holding the bowl out in front until you are certain you “have” it. It’s part of concentration.

Particularly avoid the' bad habit of looking at the jack end before you have studied the track that leads to it, putting the cart before the horse. In actual practice I mean this: Your bowl lias to negotiate several stages before it reaches its objective. Get it over the first twenty feet nicely and smoothly and it will do the rest itself at the business end. It is at the mat end where trouble begins.— Sydney “Referee.”