What is Pusillanimity To the Editor of the "Nowni-Cina Dany News"
Sm—Whatever can Catescor ye thinking about when he quotes Bartlett's reference to the "pusil-Janimity" of the Chamberlain Govern ment? Haven't we been told already that the correct name for it is "realism?
Or does he think that only bomb Joutrage victims realize the realism Jack Cane, Lawn Bowls:
The Views of a Heretic To the Editor of the "Nowrit-Cuwa Dancy News"
SmI quite agree with Saxowictt on his idea of lawn bowls, What the many addicts to this sport find in rolling about pieces of wood beyond my imagination. Frankly," 1 not think it is. the lawn or the balls which attract their sporting spirit but the prospect of seeing who can empty the most bottles.
No doubt the supporters. of this platitudinous "sport" will bring forth Drake and the Armada and a quantity of other matter. in defence of their alibi, nevertheless the game will still be lawn bowls, Ham Shanghai, June 7.
Why Is It So Popular?
To the Editor of the "Nowru-Cuina Dany News"
Sin—I will not apologize for the lateness of this. reply to. Sanowiett who enquired through your corre Pondence columns of June 8 why the fame of lawn' bowls is so popular when it i dull to watch, terrible to play, and a game for "stocks" only, as am sure Sanowicit will op: preciate that too much exertion is Not food for a strained heart. Although Tam well able to play lawn bowls, writing is rather fatiguing and really against doctor's orders, Lawn bowls is. getting an ever~ Increasing number "of followers in Shanghai because.. " just a moment Saxowien while Y "give the old heart a chance, lls worrying me quite obit... thats beller "sy where was 1." " oh yess. " because the Feeent hostilities, in' and around this "burgh, have played havoc with the health' of so many of us that it isa question of lawn bowls or a bath chair at Brighton, Brighton, alas, is fut of the question, So lawn bowls wins.
'One attraction of Jawn bowls, when you are ill enough to play the' gam is the mystery. of, the bowls, know to the "decrepits" as woods, " Why don't they Tun straight like. billiard balls or golf balls, or is it that our eyesight too is going and that do. run straight?" Perhaps. Sanowici would help by giving us an unbiass 4 and healthy opinion on this point, But as" SaNpwicn" suggests, the real excitement and attraction of the game lies inthe "cooling system." And here T am cing to let him right into the secret. "He may have envied Us wallding—sorry: toltering-—up and down the greens with a glass In each liliand but that Is only to fool the on-Tookers; bicarbonate' of soda in. one lass anda stiff tonic for the heart the other. The strongest drink served in the bar is a. well-known cough mixture, diluted. 'The bar boys fore all qualified in first aid, a medlcal officer is In altendance—but par-Jdon tne, I am feeling grosuy again, another ame' of bowls Ix indicated, Shanghai, June 8.
Real Gentleman's Game To the Editor of the "Nontit-Cinxa Dany News"
Sin—In reply to Saxowren and his two supporters, Ham and AveiicreD, T bey to point out that they don't know what they are talking about. Lawn Bowls is a very ancient game, being played long before football or any rough sport of a similar nature. Tadmit it is mostly played by elderly people, but it is a real gentleman's Jgame, You don't hear of any broken heads, Jegs and arms in lawn bowls, whereas in such games as football, rugby, one often hears of a lot of Pro Lawx Bowts [Shanghai, June 10.
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