BOWLING.

Waikato Times, Volume 112, Issue 18803, 26 November 1932, Page 9

BOWLING.

NOTES AND COMMENTS. QUESTION OF SUNDAY PLAY. (By “Toucher.’’) With the approach of the South Auckland Centre Christmas rinks tournament clubs will have to get their teams together in Hie next few weeks. The preliminary arrangements for the tournament, which will extend over three days from December 26, are well forward, and indications point to good entries being forthcoming. This is an event which is one of the features of the year so far as bowling in this district is concerned. Playing in the ladder pairs competition on the Whitiora green during the week Veats and Willey accounted for Davis and Swain with the score 17— 13, while C. Lowry and Choat defeated Boyes and Lock, 18—9. Bowlers, generally, will regret to hear that Mr J. Troup, veteran member of the Frankton Club, _ and club patron, is an inmate of a private hospital. One and all will join in wishing him a speedy recovery. ' Good entries have been received for all events in the Frankton Club competitions, which have commenced. The club has ten new members - for the present season. The advent of ladies into the Christchurch clubs lias had a mixed reception, hut they are undoubtedly here to slay, and it is forecasted that not many seasons will elapse before they are as strongly entrenched as their sisters- in .Otago. They have displayed commendable enterprise in raising funds for minor improvements in the appointments of at least- one club. A continuity of this spirit should quickly dispel any male prejudice, writes “Jack" in the Christchuroh Press.

The question of Sunday sport crops up from time to time, and is usually hotly debated by those who view lt from different angles, says “Boomerang," in the Sydney Referee. Recently Ibe Killara Club, Sydney, wrote the association protesting against a kindred club, Cronulla, running a Sunday competition. It is no new departure to play bowls on Sunday, and I am aware that I tread upt>n thin ice when I advocate its continuance, under certain conditions. These conditions would have to be followed with absolutely no departure, however. It is said that if bowls is played on Sundays, Why not other sport. This js where Hie trouble begins, and the question arise? whether it would be to the interests of Ihe community generally to cut out all sport, and so leave all on equal footing, or allow an open go. Now Hie reason why I, and many others, would allow howls and not football, cricket and such games on the Sabbath Is this: The latter lias the effect of bringing a crowd, and is a bad example to the rising generation. Bowls Is played In perfect quiet, in secluded enclosures, and is as harmless as hiking. There are angles that have to be viewed _ with calm contemplation, and one is: how far can you trust a club in the matter of Sunday bowls? In other words; can the adherents play without requiring liquid refreshment, which mean?, access to the bar, and consequent breaking of the law? The association would have to consider this view, in the light of its good name. A point being debated at the present moment Is whether this Is- a "domestic" matter, outside the jurisdiction of the association. I don’t think it is.