RECRUITING HEALTH.

Waikato Times, Volume 113, Issue 18855, 27 January 1933, Page 5

RECRUITING HEALTH.

IRISH BOWLS PLAYER. VISIT TO NEW ZEALAND. Dr. John Rusk, 8.A., M. 8., of Belfast, Ireland, arrived in Wellington by the Maunganui from Sydney. He is on a health recruiting trip, and is first going on lo Dunedin to fulfil a promise to an old friend made in 1919, when lie paid a visit lo New Zealand soon after the war. After spending a week in Dunedin, and another in Christchurch, Dr. Rusk will spend a third week in Wellington before leaving again for Sydney and Melbourne, where he intends making a prolonged slay. Dr. Rusk is an enthusiastic, howler, and although not in the best of health at the time, won the Irish singles handicap last year, as well as winning the singles championship of his own club. He was president of the Irish Bowling Association in 1912. In a short visit to Wellington bowling green he met Mr L. S. Gumming, of Sydney, who met Dr Rusk on Castle Hill green, Belfast, when the Australian bowlers toured Great Britain a few years back. Dr Rusk played lagainst the Australian team in the lest match. Bowlers’ Ten Commandments. Dr Rusk was the author of the following howlers’ ten commandmen Is :■ —- (1) Thou shat not put any game before howls. (2) Thou shall not make unto thee any golf club, lennis rac'quet, or image of anything that may win thine affection away from howls. (3) Thou shall not use any unseemly language about the skip, nor lake his name in vain, for the skip will verily punish him that lakctli his name in vain. (4) Remember the Saturdays of the howling season, and keep them wholly for howls. (5) Honour thy president and thy secretary, (lint, thy place may be secure in tlie matches played for the club. (6) Thou shall not kill the reputation of any bowler, no matter how poor a player he is. (7) Thou shall, not prove unfaithful to the dear old game of - bowls by following oilier 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 dear to him as his life. (9) Tli on shall not covet, a brother’s howls, neither his bowling jacket, nor anything that is characterislie of thy brother bowler. (10) Thou shall not hear false witness against a brother howler, no matter how stainless his record, blit shall speak the truth of him in lovo so that. Hie world may he able lo say, “Bee how these bowlers lovo one another.”