Bowling - Being The Practice Of The Ancient And Royal Game Of Bowls

Text extracted from opening pages of book: BOWLING BEING THE PRACTICE OF THE ANCIENT & ROYAL GAME OF BOWLS BY JAMES A. MANSON ( JACK HIGH) WITH EIGHT DIAGRAMS IN THE TEXT A. 6? G. BLACK LTD. 4, 5 ff 6 SOHO SQUARE, LONDON, W. 1 1923 CONTENTS CHAPTER I THE WEARING OF THE GREEN PAGE Bowls as a Christmas Sport A Contractor Essential The Ideal Green The DItchboard Inquiry Solway Turf Drawbacks of Small Greens Weeds The Kew Lawns Worms Darwin's View Daniel Leslie's Treatment Climate and Greens - Scythe, Lawn-mower, and Roller Tricky Greens How Bias may be Nullified The Old English Bowl The Crown-Green Game The Groundman One Green One Man The Greenkeeper in Winter Tippling, Tipping, and Tobacco The Ranger, or Green Rota Loan of Rinks, or Green The Golden Rule .., . CHAPTER II THE FLOWING BOWL Bools and the Man The Stone AgeThe Age of Wood Excelite What is a Bowl ? What is Bias ? Loading with Load Messrs. Barclay & Perkins's Tudor Bowls Lignum Vit& The Making of a Bowl The Turner's Art The Eyes, or Ivories The Testing-Room Varnished Veining of the Wood Weight of the Bowls Bowls in Ronuk - Too Narrow Bias The English B. A. and Bias What is a Standard Bowl's Bias ? The Proper Bias Undersized Bowls . . 24 vi CONTENTS CHAPTER III THE RUDIMENTS PAGE BUYING BOWLS SWEAR WORDS THROWING THE JACK Winning the Toss Defects of the Scots Law The English Practice That an Unstraightened Jack Is Playable Various Names for the Jack BIAS IN ACTION Forehand and Backhand Play Visualise the Track of your Bowl Wrong Bias Cultivate Play on Both Hands STYLE AND ATTITUDE Different Attitudes Considered DE LIVERING THE BOWL Throwing and Dumping The Right Mode of Delivery Playing on a Soft Green How to Hold the Bowl BeUp and Take Green 34 CHAPTER IV THE RINK GAME The Word Rink The Quartet of Players He who Must be Obeyed-Discipline and Combination THE LEADER THE SECOND PLAYER Card of the Match THE THIRD MAN THE SKIP Knowledge of Human Nature The Unsuitable Man What Do you See ? Discreet Praise of his Men The Noisy Skip The Policy of Firing Carrying the Jack The Question of Guarding Watch the Measure Win Well and Lose Well Touchers Spat upon Honoris Causa Ditchers The Live Jack The English Practice Preferable The Captain -.... 59 CHAPTER V THE POINTS GAME AND FIXED JACK Playing - with the Head Infinite Variety in Bowls THE GAME OF POINTS Preparation of the Green Rules of the Competition DRAWING Disposition of the CONTENTS vii Plan GUARDING Arranging the Ground TRAIL ING The Prepared Green DRIVING To En courage Proficiency in Drawing FIXED JACK Plan of the Green Duties of the Starter The Marker and the Score The Carried Jack Line Bowls Method of Play 78 CHAPTER VI THE LAWS OF BOWLS The Twenty Laws of the Game I. Rinks, or Divisions of the Green II. Bowls: Size and Bias III. Size of the Jack IV. Conditions of a Game V. Rink, or Team of Players VI. Skips, or Drivers VII. The Mat VIII. Throwing the Jack IX. Movement of the Jack and of Bowls X. Jack, or Bowl Re bounding XL Jack, or Bowl Burned XII. Touchers XIII. Ditchers XIV. Possession of the Rink XV. Result of Head XVI. Changing Bowls XVIL Objects on the Green XVIII. Leav ing the Green XIX. Single-handed Games XX. Onlookers ....... 94 APPENDIX International Results . . * JI 3 INDEX * * # 17 DIAGRAMS PAGB THE UNSTRAIGHTENED JACK 43 BIAS ACTING NORMALLY ...... 48 WRONG BIAS ...., ., . 49 HEAD SET FOR DRAWING . . . . . .81 HEAD ARRANGED FOR GUARDING, . - 83 HEAD PREPARED FOR TRAILING * w .85 HEAD MADE READY FOR DRIVING ... 86 FIXED JACK: GREEN SET FOR TWELVE JACKS, 90-91 viil CHAPTER I THE WEARING OF THE GREEN Bowls as a Christmas Sport A Contractor Essential The Ideal Green The Ditchboard Inquiry Solway Turf Drawbacks of Small Greens Weeds The Kew Lawns Worms Darwin's View Daniel Leslie's Treatment Climate and Greens Scythe, Lawn-mower, and Roller Tricky Greens How Bias may be Nullified The Old English Bowl The Crown-Green Game The Groundman One Green One Man The Greenkeeper in Winter Tippling, Tipping, and