AN IRISH BOWLER

Timaru Herald, Volume CXLIV, Issue 21051, 1 June 1938, Page 10

AN IRISH BOWLER

HIS “TEN COMMANDMENTS” Dr. John Rusk, 8.A., M. 8., of Belfast, Ireland, president of the Irish Bowling Association in 1912, and winner of the Irish singles handicap a few years ago, besides being a good bowler, also had his full share of Irish wit and humour. He was the author of the following “Ten Commandments for Bowlers” : (1) Thou shalt not put any game before bowls. (2) Thou shalt not make unto thee any golf club, tennis racquet, or image of anything that may win thine affection awaj' from bowls. (3) Thou shalt not use any unseemly language about the skip, nor take his name in vain, for thy skip will will verily punish him that taketh his name in vain. (4) Remember the Saturdays of the bowling season, and keep them wholly for bowls. (5) Honour thy president and thy secretary, that thy place may be secure in the matches played for the club. (6) Thou shalt not kill the reputation of an> bowler, no matter how poor a player he is. (7) Thou shalt not prove unfaithful to the dear old game of bowls by following other games, no matter how seductive their charms seem to be. (8) Thou shalt not steal from any bowler any little name he has earned in the bowling world, for that is as dear to him as his life. (9) Thou shalt not covet a brother’s bowls, neither his bowling jacket, nor anything that is characteristic of thy brother bowler. (10) Thou shalt not bear false witness against a brother bowler, no matter how stainless his record, but shall speak the truth of him in love so that the world may be able to say: “See how these bowlers love one another”