IN PRAISE OF BOWLS

Nelson Evening Mail, Volume LXVI, 21 June 1932, Page 5

IN PRAISE OF BOWLS

ABDOMINAL REJUVENATOR

“The beauty of bowls is that it can be made as much or as little of as one likes to make it; the old person can play it in slow motion, the young in quick molion,” writes Dr. John Fisher in the “Daily Express.” “Consider the health advantages'. There is the walking—generally considered to be one of the finest of exercises. There is an of fresh air to stimulate sleepy lungs. The bowler can, if he likes, sprint up the green to ‘show the youngster a thing or two.’ Note how a player will pause to twist his body from side to side as he anxiously views the progress of his ‘wood.’ No need now for the morning ‘jerks.’ The exercise of howls is, even and rhythmical—there are no jedky movements to endanger health or to ‘rick’ stiff and inelastic muscles. For two hours or more the arm-swinging and body-bending exercises proceed in a steady and unobtrusive manner. In the excitement of the game a man forgets that he is doing precisely those irksome things which the doctor ordered, and which have been neglected. Just as golf is the game for opening out the lungs and broadening the shoulders, so bowls is essentially the abdominal rejuveifdtor 1 .”