Helpful reader comes to Robin’s rescue
Further to the letter in issue 23 from Robin Dunn regarding his club’s scoreboards, I did exactly what he was asking about to my own club’s scoreboards several years back. I stuck the relevant self- adhesive numbers and ‘+’ signs to the back of our scoreboard numbers as follows: to the back of numbers
0 to 4: 0 / +10, 1 / +20 etc; to the back of numbers 0 to 9: 0 / 1, 1 / 2, 2 / 3 etc. These characters were purchased from a local sign-makers to the character type, size and colour we required. It may also be worthwhile checking with those companies that supply honoursboard lettering.
Steve Arnold, Datchworth
Thanks for these suggestions, Steve. Hopefully, you will have helped to answer Robin’s query from the previous issue. Once again, knowledgable Nationwide Bowler readers come to the rescue!
the head in the hope that it is to be the one that is the winner in a vital match.
Cries of ‘hurry’ and ‘well-bowled’ ring out over the otherwise tranquil gardens surrounding the bowling greens of Beach House Park and the slap of high-fives indicates the joy shown by team members when one of their number plays a very telling bowl at a crucial time in the match.
As in all sports, in the end there are winners and losers, but when the last bowl comes to rest and the match result is decided, there still exists a friendship among the opposing teams that can only be found in a sport that draws young and old of both sexes together in a way that no other sport can experience.
Roy Clark, via email
Hear, hear! Well said, Roy. This is yet another example of the fact that bowls should be considered anything
but ‘an old man’s game’ these days. Paxton’s win a pleasure to watch
As an avid viewer of championship bowls, I was in my element recently with the televised broadcast of the Co-operative Funeralcare Scottish International Open. What made this tournament a particularly enjoyable watch was the superb triumph of qualifier Robert Paxton. I found it heartening to see a rank outsider win, while I also think it illustrated the current strength in depth of the game in general that an outsider like Paxton could overcome established stars such as Mervyn King and Greg Harlow. It made for compulsive viewing, which I hope will persuade the BBC to broadcast even more of the sport in the future. Well done, Robert.
Graeme Wells, Cambuslang
Couldn't have said it better myself. Robert Paxton was a hugely-deserving winner of the tournament and it was great to again see some top-drawer bowls on the Beeb. With schedules tight, it is to the enormous credit of the WBT that such considerable coverage was afforded to the tournament and here's hoping it got the viewing figures it deserved.
Nomadic club says ‘thank you’
I am writing to you on behalf of Townsend Hook Bowls Club, which has been on the bowls scene for 85 years. We have had to move venues in the last two years because our old green was sold for housing. We have been nomadic for those two years, while our new green and clubhouse has been built, and all the clubs we have played have shown us great support and we wish to say a very big thank you to them all.
Jim McDermott, via email
We are more than happy to pass on your thanks, Mr McDermott. It’s wholly reassuring to see that the community spirit the game engenders is still alive and well on the bowls scene.
Bowls is a game for all the ages
For anyone who has not been to the national championships in Worthing and has a perception of bowls as a sport for the aging members of society, it would come as quite a shock to see young and old alike sprinting over 30 or so metres to beat their bowl to
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