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Otago Witness, Issue 2516, 4 June 1902, Page 53

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The Dunedin Club closed their green on Saturday afternoon, being the last of the local clubs to do so. The closing was marked by the usual match, President v. V ice-president. The weather was charming, but the ground was cold and damp.

So ended the bowling season of 1901-2, and a most unsatisfactory one it has, been as regard? weather in this part of .the colony.

In the various association matches which Lave been played, I should imagine, writing from memory, that the Kaituna Club have scored the most wins, and I am almost morally certain that the Caledonians have the fewest to their credit. Perpetual illluck dogged them right through the season, and I am sorry to have to say of this club that this year they come out at the small end of the horn. Let us hope that they will have better luck next time.

Messrs James Rattray and Son, merchants, Bond street, Dunedin, have handed to me for perusal the "Bowlers' Handbook for Scotland," the official guide for the year 1902. It is a handsome volume of 350 pages, and contains a vast amount of information, including remarks on the constitution and rules of the Scottish Bowling Absociation, the laws of the game, the official list of bowling clubs in Scotland, the date of their establishment, the nearest railway station to theii greens,- the names of the presidents and officers for the year 1901, the amount of each club's subscription, its special prize competitions, the names of the le-ading prizewinners, and the result of the matches played with other clubs, with the total scores for and against. It also contains the list of ,he different district booking associations in Scotland, w ith the names of the office-bearer? and the various competitions carried out under their auspices, and in some cases the names of the winner?. A short history of the inception of the Scottish Bowling Association is al?o given, and a review of the play of the year 1901, together with a collection of bowling songs ; and last, and .o my mind the most interesting of all, a number of photographs of the leading bowlers in Scotland, with a great number of views of the different greens in Scotland. Altogether it is a most interesting book, and well worth studying. Messrs Rattray and Son inform me it was sent out to them by Messrs Mackie and Co., distillers, Glasgow, who are the proprietors of the White Horse whisky, and that firm have requested the Messrs Rattray to present the handbook to the Dunedin Bowling Club, which 1 have no doubt will in due time be done.