BOWLERS’ ENDURANCE.

Manawatu Standard, Volume LVI, Issue 43, 20 January 1936, Page 6

BOWLERS’ ENDURANCE.

A STATISTICAL REVELATION. WALKING AND WEIGHT-LIFTING: “What does this bowling mean? It has often been debated whether it is a game or a pastime, but, after the Dominion tournament, I would be inclined to regard it as an endurance test,” commented Mr. T. W. Heath, president of the New South Wales Bowling Association, at the welcome extended to the Australian players by the Manawatu Centre on the Palmerston North Club’s green to-day. Having a flair for statistics, Mr Heath said, he had computed that a bowler competing in the singles would walk nine miles and lift two ton two cwt; in the pairs lie would walk six and a half miles and lift one ton four cwt; and in the rinks, 24 miles, and lift two ton 12cwt. However, if he took part in all three divisions, lie would walk 391 miles and lift five ton eighteen cwt. Doubtless if a bowler was asked to do a task like that for his wife, he would refuse point blank. (Laughter.) Enlarging further upon potentialities of the situation, Mr Heath said he estimated that the lead would throw the jack GBO times, and that 966 heads and 2875 bowls would he played. Probably the skip ' would speak: 2000 words of praise and 4000 other’s, while unkind thoughts would number between,Booo and 9000.