The daily morning journal and courier. [volume] (New Haven, Conn.) 1894-1907, 1902-10-20
e popularity of the sport in this cOun-

try.
Lawn bowling differs essentially from
indoor bowling. A lawn bowler declares
there can be no comparison between the
two, unless it is that the former is to
the latter what billiards is to pool. The
game is easy to learn, though. like bill
lizards. it takes a world Of ability to
play 1t well. The objective point is not
a tenpin, but small, white. china ball.
known as the jack. The bowls are
round wooden balls, very heavy, fat at
the poles and having one side a little
more convex than the other. This
causes the bowl to run on G. bias or to
curve when the momentum is exhaust
ed. The science of the game consists
in utilizing this bias to send the bowl
around any bowls that may lie between
it and the jack, the object being to let
the bowl rest as near the jack as posi-
bic.
The greens on which the game is
played are called Kinks, and the contest
ing teams are likewise termed Kinks.
The playing green should be 120 feet
long and 20 feet wide and the turf
should be of the finest grass obtainable.
close, compact and cut to the ground.
After placing the jack at one end of the
green the players bowl from the other,
every player being Obliged to stand on
a rubber mat while delivering his bowl.
The motion Of the arm is an underhand
swing, and. as the bowls are not only
heavy, but comparatively unwieldy,
great skill is necessary in gauging dis
lance and direction.
AS rule, the game is played by
Kinks of four men, each player having
two bowls. The captains of the Kinks
are called skips, and play last. The
other three players deliver bowls, each
side alternating. while the skips stand
near the jack to note the results of
every shot, and to advise their next
player regarding the speed and amount
of bias necessary to hold position or to
regain lost advantage. The jacks are
of course movable. and often a skilful
player will use his bowl to carry the
jack out of group of the enemy's
bowls into group of his own, an act
that always ELECTS the approving cry of
Bonnie, BONNET" from his pleased
captain.
After the contestants, including the
skips, have delivered their bowls close
inspection of the situation around the
| jack follows. The rink which has one
| or more bowls nearer to the little china
ball than is the nearest bowl of the OPP
posing side scores a point for every
such bowl. After the score is taken the
Jack is rolled to the other end of the
green and the game begins anew, to be
continued until one rink scores the stip-
ulated number Of points necessary to
win, usually twenty-one. Sometimes
the game is played by ends. 1t is an
end every time the opposing Kinks have
| used all their bowls and remove them
| from the vicinity of the jack to begin
| anew. The game may thus be counted
| by the number of points gained in a
stipulated number of ends.
| Anybody who has taken part in a
| game of bowls on green's softer and
more delightful than the finest velvet
will appreciate the enthusiasm the sport
arouses in its adopts. 1t calls out every
| mental and physical resource they have
at command. 1t is game Of strategy,
of generalship. Above all, it is a relax
alton. What the lawn bowler thinks Of
the merits of his favorite.pastime has
been aptly put by a POLITICALLY inclined
member of the San Francisco club who
| sings:
But from East to West Indies, from
North to South Poles,
You may safely assert there is no game
| like bowls.
So rouse up, We Scotsmen, and hand in
| your names;
IT'S the jolliest and best of the old Scot
fish games;
And whether the word rhymes with
fowls, foals or fools,
May we all have game soon at bowls,
| boals or bools-
New York Tribune.