“MODERNIST” ON PLAYING AREAS
Bowls
The better the green, the better the players, is an admitted axiom in bowling circles. Those who have played on the indoor rinks in Christchurch realise the manifest imperfections of even the best of our grass-covered bowling areas and the onward parade of bowls as a highly skilled, scientific, competitive game, demands something better in the way of playing surfaces.
Given the right kind of' surface on the ground, everyone knows that good bowls can be played without grass at all, and we advance the opinion that it will not be long before we have special bowling areas which will not require cutting at all? The Bays to Come
Within the next decade, bowls will have shed entirely its present thin pastime skin and have developed into a purely competitive sport.- ;■ Grading of players will bo universal, arid .the day of the specialist will have arrived. Something will be done to. standardise the bowls themselves and also the bowling arenas. Who has- considered the difference it would make if all bowls were alike, size, weight bias? Much will be done to eliminate the luck of the game and extend and' develop the skilled, scientific aspect.
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Northern Advocate, 15 December 1937, Page 2
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