SOME NOTES ABOUT BOWLS.

Otago Witness, Issue 2811, 26 August 1908, Page 58

SOME NOTES ABOUT BOWLS.

A CENTRE FOR NEW ZEALAND BOWLERS IN LONDON. (Fbom Oub Own Cobbespondent.) LONDON, July 3. New Zealand and Australian bowling enthusiasts who hold club memberships, and who come to London for holiday visits, are invited for the future to call upon the hon. secretary of the English Bowling Association (Mr Baines), whose address is 1 Gresham Buildings, "City. Individual bowlers from New Zealand and Australia come to London and expect to run up against their bowling friend* juite as a matter of course, just as they would do in

a New Zealand town; but London is not a New town, and so these lonely and homesick wanderers find when they have been here for a few weeks and have not " run up against " any of their bowling friends. Mr Baines therefore desires it to be known far and wide that he will gladly welcome any bowlers from New Zealand if they will call upon him; thus they will have the means of getting into touch with one another, and ix>ssibly, too, with some of the leading London clubs. The idea has been initiated in order that some cohesion may in future be possible when individual bowling enthusiasts come from New Zealand and Australia. They need not in future wander aimtesaly abc-ut trying to discover the whereabouts of one another. Mr F. J. Taster, of the Palmersfon North Bowling Club, took part on the winning side in a match between the Streatham Constitutional and Woodfield Clubs on Saturday, and put Aip an exceedingly fine drawing game; while on the preceding day he played over t.he Scottish turf rinks of the South London Club, npon which some New Zealand bowlers of late years won a brilliant victory over a side mostly comprised of internationalists. Next week Mr Tasker is to meet the Canadians, who arrive to-day, while also next week -he will probably engage in a s^ame with Dr W. G. Grace at the Crystal Palace. In relation to the projected tour of a. Motherland team to New Zealand before many months are over, Mr T. Bain-ss, hon. secretary of the English Bowling Association, states that the who 1 © matter is to be dealt with at the meeting of the International Board in Edinburgh next week.