BOWLING MATCH.

Mount Ida Chronicle, Volume XVIII, Issue 958, 5 April 1888, Page 3

BOWLING MATCH.

One of the most remarkable games ever played oil the Naseby bowling green came off on Wednesday in the presence of several distinguished visitors, the players being a chosen fewcomprising the premier rink of the club, who pitted themselves against a rink chosen from the juniors. The Premier Sink consisted of Bab Johns ting (skip), and Messrs Wilson, Browne and Clements. The Juniors were represented by Mr Brackenbridge (skip), and Messrs M'Carthy, Harper and Hosie. From tha very first the Premiers seated themselves on a lofty pedestal and looked down on the Juniors with almost withering scorn. Seated on that pedestal, it was not hard to see written on the happy countenances of the chosen few the deep-rooted contempt with which they regarded the young players. One could almost hear the air around brtathing the fiery indignation which Bpoke so eloquently of the incipient wrath and prospective triumph " shouts " smouldering within. The toes being won by Skip Brackenbridge, be Bent his opponents to the bass, which, we may remark, ia anything but a liquid. The Joknsting from the outset seemed completely at sea both as regards the season of the year and also the game he was playing. If the time had been the middle of July, if the locus in quo bad been the Hawkdan dam, and if the game had been curling, Bab's skipping would have been unexceptional. As things, were, however, the bowls of the Premiers took to " hogging " and " shaughing " with a persistency worthy of a better cause, and seemed to prefer any position on the green with the exception of that particular place whereon lay " the jack." The aversion of these bowls for a close contact with the jack was only exceeded by the contempt exhibited by the owners for their opponents. Pride, we a*e told, is the sure forerunner of a fall, and as the game proceeded the courage of the Premiers seemed to ooze out inch by inch. IVom start to finish they were unable to see even the dust raised by the heels of their opponents, and returned to their several domiciles, via the Royal Park, sadder, if not wiser men. History Bays that the erstwhile triumphant Premiers bore with becoming humility the undignified process of shelling out the needful, in order to slake the thirst of their victorious opponents. At the conclusion of the game the scores were Juniors 21, Premiers 9.