BOWLING.

Stratford Evening Post, Volume XXXIV, Issue 36, 5 October 1912, Page 6

BOWLING.

At a meeting of the committee of the Stratford Bowling Club held last night, it was decided to write to the Stratford Tradesmen’s Association asking them if they would receive a deputation from the Bowling Club to

discuss the advisability of introducing tire Daylight Saving Movement m Stratford. Other local sports bodies will be asked to join in. The Hawera Bowling Club open their season on the 9th of this month. A .hearty invitation, has been extended by the. southern' club to all members of the'local club “to be present bn tbs occasion. The largest howl alhnyed by tin Scottish, English, and New Zoalam. Bowling Association’s rules js 16* inches in circumference, or a -Mot, inches in diameter. The maxunnm weight is 3ilbs. Any less erne or weight may he played. The average we : ght of howl used is 211) 120/. Quite a considerable trade is now done m the mannfactnro of ladies’ howls, the

size most in demand ny tnc iau being 4-jin. diameter. . From recent flies toMiand it is lea,rued that the Now South Wales howlers at Homo had reached their last, week in Scotland. Beginning at Glasgow on June 29th, they had played 19 matches to date. Thirteen of these had been won, five lost, and om (against Perthshire) had be abandoned owing to a thunderstorm coming on. On the fifteenth head Perthshire had a lead of 6 shots 61 to 58. The matches were lost to Ti tweed. Paisley, Hawick, Stirling, and Helens burgh. The Australians were t< cross to Belfast early in August, tr

meet the “Bhoys.” _ During the course of has speedwhen proposing the toast -of l« Australian Bowlers” at Perth Sn Thomas Dewar said:— “They had boor cheered right along the I; no, and the? had been carried away upon the win? of melody, upon the sweet music the pipes, and helpings of haggis and other, indigestible things. (Laughter). Theft they asked them to go om and play bowls. (Laughter.) Some o' their entertainments may have beei severe in their simplicity, and some o.; in +,heir grandeur, bin

them gorgeous m b— r . ’ here in this ancient city of Perth the, would take second place to no place —(applause)—in the warmth and sin cerity of their true heather-mixture ‘Highland welcome. (Applause). He ex pressed the sentiment of all presen ■when he said : •‘Will ye no come hadagain 1” ” (Applause). ! • l; ' ■■