“Nice Weather, But Not For Bowls”

Northern Advocate, 30 January 1939, Page 12

“Nice Weather, But Not For Bowls”

“It’s very nice weather, but I don’t think we’ll be playing bowls today,’’ was the good-humoured comment by the president of the Whangarei Bowling Club, Mr. J. H. Marwick, this morning. Several pools of water on the greens and steady rain precluded all possibility of play in the club’s annual full-rinks tournament for the Campbell Rose Bowl. Play was to have commenced this morning, and concluded on Wednesday, but Whangarei’s wet Anniversary

Day decreed otherwise. i >, Numerous Visitors Bowlers from as far away as Stratford, Taranaki, and from a number of Waikato and Auckland clubs, as well as from throughout Northland, assembled in Whangarei during the week-end, it being anticipated tHat 160 players would be participating in the tourney. ■ The majority of the visitors spent this morning in their various hotels gazing despondently at the raindrops. Cheerful Under Adversity Under circumstances calculated to break a bowler’s heart, the group in the Whangarei Club’s pavilion was cheerful enough. By 10 o’clock they had given up all hope of play for the day and, with Mr. Marwick as host, settled down to while away a few hours playing cards. They were at least confident that there would be no rain tomorrow. Among the visitors seen were the skip of the rink at present holding the Rose Bowl, Mr. W. D. Kelly, Balmoral, Auckland, and the Mayor of Cambridge, Mr. James. Mr Marwick stated this afternoon that play in the tournament would commence at 8.30 to-morrow morning.