BOWLING MATTERS

Wanganui Chronicle, 24 June 1948, Page 5

BOWLING MATTERS

CLUB WITH SAWDUST GREEN REJECTED (P.A.) Auckland, June 23. Tlie executive, plus the secretary, was appointed as a special sub-com-mittee of the New Zealand Bowling Council at the annual meeting today to revise the laws of the game, rules and conditions of the constitution of the association and other matters. The revisions will be produced to the next annual meeting ot the council.

A remit from the Dunedin centre, that the council be asked to give urgent consideration to a request for a centre blazer of dark blue to be used as an alternative where club colours were unavailable, was varied to permit the adoption by centres of such blazers as a necessary temporary measure.

Councillors, particularly of the South Island, explained the great difficulty now experienced by bowlers in procuring blazers in club colours. Strong disapproval was expressed of the action of the Gore Bowling Club of advertising an open tournament in January, 1948, outside the confines of the Southland centre and without permission of the council. The action, Mr. Walsh said, constituted a flagrant breach of the rules and required action, although it was perhaps doubtful whether the extreme penalty of disqualification ought to be imposed. After discussion the council approved the despatch of a letter warning the Gore club of the possible heavy consequences of such an irregular action.

“These people, in future, will not be handled; they will be manhandled,” said Mr. Walsh during the discussion on five cases of teams which defaulted during the last national tournament at Dunedin The cases were brought forward to the council from the Dunedin executive committee, and a recommendation in each case of informing the offenders of the serious view taken of the action was upheld. Considerable discussion preceded a decision to defer the application of the Coalgate (Canterbury) club for affiliation, the club possessing a sawdust intsead of a lawn green. The Christchurch delegates, who warmly supported Coalgate’s application, said a point of importance was the quality of the sawdust green. This had beqn proved to he of high quality, comparable with the best of lawn greens.

Dr. R. E. Austin, Otago CentralSouth Otago, urged the council to consider the difficulties of small country clubs which were unable to bear the expense of maintaining lawn greens.

A motion that Ccalgatc be affiliated was defeated by 13 votes to 8, by an amendment that the council should enquire before the half-yearly meeting whether affiliation of sawdust green clubs would affect the council's own affiliation with the International Bowling Board.