The Game of Lawn Bowls As Played Under the Code of Rules of the Scottish Bowling Association, of Glasgow, Scotland (Classic Reprint)

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The rapidity with which we Americans are rivaling our rriti.sh friends in their love of national sports and pastimes, especially in tlie arena of sports which men and women of leisure, and of education and rehnement 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 theB ritishers 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 respect or another. A bout the first thing we do, in this direction, when we adopt aB ritish game new to us, is to improve its playing code of rules through the medium of aN ational A ssociation. For more than a century past, English cricketers have submitted to the dictates of a single club the iM arylebone Club in the matter of its code of playing rules; while our American national game has, from its inception, been controlled by aN ational Association or a League. When we adopted theE nglish game of tennis we very soon placed aN ational Association at the head of it; and even the case of the latest fashionable fad in field sports, theS cottish game of Golf, though only just adopted, as it were, is now subject in its rules to the control of the United States National Golf A ssociation. The latest sport arrival from theB ritish I sles is another oldS cottish game, viz., the field form of theS cotch winter sport of Curling, the American name of which is Lawn Bowling. to distinguish it from the game of bowling on the alleys, the latter of which is now in the midst of a regular furore, as the game of games for indoor winter exercise. We could fill pages with historical reminiscences of the olden time game of Bowls on the Green, when the lower part of Broadway, near theB attery, wasN ew York City sce(Typographical errors above are due to OCR software and don't occur in the book.)