BOWLING.
LADIES AS BOWLERS. Are ladies ever likely to make -good bowlers? A correspondent of the "Glasgow News” evidently believes they are not, and he bases this view on observations made in a well-known bowling enclosure of the South Side of the city, where a tournament open to the fair sex is to be held at an early date. The correspondent expresses himself as very much disappointed with che way the ladies have taken to the game. When the bowls are sept off on their journey to the other side of the green (sometimes on the wrong bias), the ladies do not follow them up, balancing themselves on one foot and then another, and striking w-eird attitudes. They do not shout with exultation on the occasions (very rare) w'hen the bow'l goes near the kitty, or roar instructions to their own side when the bowls (very frequently) are careering to another part of the green. On the contrary, there is a stiff formality and strange silence about the proceedings more suggestice of solemn duty than of pastime, and, moreover, the slightest Ml of rain is sufficient to send them in hot haste for the clubhouse.
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Gisborne Times, Volume XXVII, Issue 2642, 26 October 1909, Page 6
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195BOWLING. Gisborne Times, Volume XXVII, Issue 2642, 26 October 1909, Page 6
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