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by Kevin V. Brown
For a game that's been banned and buried,
lawn bowling is doing just fine, thanks.
Ihe bowl used in lawn bowling
is shaped like the earth round at the
center and squashed at the top and
bottom. When rolled, it follows a long
but uneven path.
The history of lawn bowling itself is
strangely similar.
Fanatics . claim the game has been
around almost as long as the earth, and
even the dubious admit that, next to
archery, it's probably the oldest sport
still played. But its course has been un
even, with periods of passionate popular
ity followed by attempts to suppress it
completely.
Ardent bowlers boas.t that Sir Francis
Drake insisted on finishing a game of
bowls before sailing out to battle the
Spanish Armada, and that John Calvin
invited John Knox to join him on the
green for a match before they discussed
less earthly joys.
While English nobility popularized it,
English commoners vulgarized it ac
cording to the nobility. The commoners
built greens near taverns and, worse,
they bet upon the outcome. So King
Henry VIII condemned the game pub
licly but played it privately (and bet
upon the outcome). By King Charles I's
time, so many nobles had. lost their for
tunes wagering on the game that it fell
into general disrepute.
But lawn bowling survived and came
to America with the Pilgrims, and a
more patriotic endorsement than that
hasn't been found for any game! Today
the game is growing in popularity, with
more than 100 clubs registered with the
American Lawn Bowling Association.
Next Wednesday the Association will
sponsor its annual National Open at
Seattle, Wash. And once again American
commoners will play the game made
popular by English kings.
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