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Manawatu Standard, Volume XLVII, Issue 9, 8 December 1926, Page 7

Municipal bowling . greens (except for Palmerston North) are few and far between in New Zealand, but at Home they are numerous, and according to Mr J. K. Ross, of the Onehunga Club, who recently returned from England, there is now a general tendency to establish more of these greens. Mr Ross informed “Trundler,” of the Auckland Star, that at Hastings, no doubt encouraged by tire large floating population of holiday-makers, there were no less than five corporation greens. People pay Is for a game, and this includes bowls and “slips,” or goloshes. Like every visitor to the Old Country, he was much struck by the jpoor pavilions and the beautiful greens. There /were one or two nice pavilions in Scotbut ill England they were of an inferior description. The greens, however, With their thick growths of Cumberland turf, were a picture. Mr Ross noticed an extreme reluctance to keep the'turf short, so that all the greens were heavy, although the long turf apparently saved tire greens, for there were no bare patches. Regarding the Britishers’ play, he iB reluctant to express an opinion, except to remark that wherever he went he saw no driving whatever. The late Louis Waxman’s (Melbourne) “Advice to Skips” included these:—“Never play your men on a bad hand because it looks easy,” and “When there is one hand that ‘draws’ and one that does not, stick to the drawing hand.” Many a skip, to his own undoing, was led by appearances to direct his men to play shots which —on the day—were impossible. The advice given by the Melbourne player is well worth bearing in mind by thoughtful skips. Put briefly, it means—“ Stick to the drawing hand | so long as it is open, no matter how easy the other looks.”