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Guide for beginners and experienced players, providing information about lawn bowls and its history. Gives advice on exercises, techniques and strategies for successful play. The authors are experienced bowlers and coaches who have won many awards for bowling at local, national and international levels. Includes index.
Excerpt from The Game of Lawn Bowls as Played Under the Code of Rules of the Scottish Bowling Association, of Glasgow, Scotland The rapidity with which we Americans are rivaling our British friends in their love of national sports and pastimes, especially in the arena of sports which men and women of leisure, and of education and refinement can take part, alike as participants as well as spectators, is remarkable. The fact is we are just "rushing things" in our determined efforts to outdo the Britishers in their great specialty of field sports; and our success has been decidedly gratifying up to date. Moreover, everything in the line of sports, which we "Yanks" take up, we improve upon in on...
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Excerpt from The Game of Bowling on the Green, or Lawn Bowls From the above derivations one can readily see how closely allied are the words ball and bowl, and how easy it is to change the game of ball to that of bowls, the one more or less in the air, the other on the ground. From the times Of the ancient Greeks and Egyptians up to the present day the game Of bowls has undergone many changes, and it remains to be seen in the future what further changes may be wrought. Space will not permit Of going into details as to how the game is played in the various countries who play it as this book is intended to give the reader an idea of the game as played to - day. Scotland is largely responsible ...
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Excerpt from The Game of Lawn Bowls as Played Under the Code of Rules of the Scottish Bowling Association, of Glasgow, Scotland The rapidity with which we Americans are rivaling our British friends in their love of national sports and pastimes, especially in the arena of sports which men and women of leisure, and'of education and refinement can take part, alike as participants as well as spectators, is remarkable. The fact is. We are just rushing things in our determined efforts to outdo the Britishers in their great Specialty of field Sports; and our success has been decidedly gratifying up to date. Moreover, everything in the line of sports, which we Yanks take up, we improve upon in one r...
Excerpt from The Game of Bowling on the Green, or Lawn Bowls Spalding's Athletic Library is devoted to all athletic sports and pastimes, indoor and outdoor, and is the recognized American cyclopedia of sport. Each book is complete in itself; and those sports which are governed by National Associations always designate Spalding's Athletic Library as the official publication. This gives to each book the official authority to contain the rules. Each year the books are brought up-to-date, with the latest rules, new ideas, new pictures, and valuable information, thus making the series the most valuable of its kind in the world. The price, 10 cents per copy, places them in the reach of all, and no...
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