BOWLING.

Hawera & Normanby Star, Volume LXII, Issue LXII, 18 May 1912, Page 9

BOWLING.

Late papers show that play is still going on though the season is drawing to a close. . . In its club championship competition the Timaru Glut) has introduced somewhat of a uovelty, the semi-finals and finals being decided by the best two out of three games. This tends to neutralise the element of luck. \ For the interclub champion or champions match South Australia this year substituted a State championship, which duly came off at Easter. H. L. Morris proved to be the winner.

Scores this season have, with few exceptions, not been good. With the improvement in the course owing to the cold weather checking the grass, an improvement should be shown. New Plymouth expect a visit from a Hawera team on June 3. So far it seems difficult to get one away. Keen enthusiasm is being shown by lady members. The last two ladies'days have seen the links almost uncomfortably crowded with players. In these circumstances it is more than ever essentialthat players should observe the rules and etiquette of the game. New members should provide themselves with a cony of the rules and study them. The New Zealand Ladies' Championship Meeting will take place in Nelson during the last week iv August. The Manawatu and Napier ladies' annual open tournaments %vill be held about the middle of September, the actual dates being still uncertain. At the 1911 annual meeting of the New Zealand Ladies' Golf Union it was decided to olay bogey matches in accordance with the code of bogey rules which was drawn up by the English Midland Golf Association, and approved of by the .Rules of Golf Committee. The code reads thus:—A "bogey" competition is a series of stroke competitions in which play is against a fixed score at each hole of the stipulated round or rounds, and the win: ncr is the competitor who is most successful in the aggregate of these competitions. The rules for stroke compefcitions t shall apply with following exceptions: — Any hole for which a competitor makes no return bhall be regarded as a loss. The marker shall only be responsible for the marking of the correct number of strokes at each hole at which a competitor makes a scor^ either equal to or less than the fixed score. Any breach of rules which entails the penalty of disqualification jshall only disqualify the competitor from the hole at which the breach of rules occurred, but a competitor shall not be exempted from the "general disqualification imposed by stroke, rules 2 (1), 4 (2), and £ (1 and 2).