BOWLING GREEN 



872 



BOWSER 



Queen. What port shall we devise here In 



this garden, 

 To drive away the heavy thought of 



care? 



Lady. Madam, we'll play at bowls. 

 Queen. 'Twill make me think 



The world Is full of rubs, and that 

 my fortune runs against the bias. 



To start the game the first player of one 

 side, called the lead, stands with one foot on 

 a rubber mat and throws the jack twenty-five 

 yards or more. He then throws his first bowl 

 as directed by his skip, or captain. His first 

 opponent follows, then the second man of his 

 own side, and so on, the skips throwing last. 

 Each player endeavors to place his own bowl 

 in a good position, or to dislodge an oppo- 

 nent's bowl or the jack, or to guard a previ- 

 ously thrown bowl of his own team. In a 

 match game each player throws two bowls, 

 but in a friendly game four. Then the rink 

 which owns the bowl resting nearest the jack 

 scores one. Twenty-one points are a match. 

 Sometimes a point is given for each bowl 

 nearer the jack than the nearest of the oppo- 

 nent's bowls. When one end has been played 

 the mat is moved beyond and the latter thrown 

 out in the opposite direction for the next end. 



Scotch and English rules differ as to the 

 treatment of bowls or a jack knocked into the 

 ditch. The Scotch, too, have a game of points 

 which is entirely distinct from the regular 

 game except that it is played with the same 

 objects on the same greens. 



Lawn bowling is better known in Canada 

 than in the United States. In Great Britain 

 there are many clubs. One in Southampton 

 was founded in 1299 and has played on the 

 same green for centuries. Bowlers from Can- 

 ada and Great Britain have met in interna- 

 tional matches in both countries, and Aus- 

 tralian and New Zealand players have visited 

 England. w.c. 



For other recreations see lists of titles at 

 end of articles AMUSEMENTS and GAMES AND 

 PLATS. Consult Spaldlng's Guide to Bowling. 



BOWLING GREEN, KT., an important ship- 

 ping point and horse market, with a population 

 of 9,175 in 1910, which had increased to 9,597 

 in 1914. It is the county seat of Warren 

 County, and is situated in the northwestern 

 part of the state, at the head of navigation 

 of the Barren River and on the Louisville fe 

 Nashville Railroad, which was constructed to 

 the city in 159. Louisville is 114 miles north- 

 east and Nashville is seventy-two miles south. 

 The city was founded about 1805, was incor- 



porated in 1810 and named for the character 

 of the land, sloping and green. The area is 

 nearly two and a half square miles. 



Locally, Bowling Green is known as the 

 PARK CITY. It is located in a fertile agricul- 

 tural region, which produces alfalfa, tobacco, 

 grains, vegetables and fruits. Extensive quar- 

 ries of building stone (oolite) and rock asphalt 

 are found in the vicinity. Buildings of note 

 are the Federal building, erected in 1914 at 

 a cost of $160,000, and the courthouse. The 

 most important industrial establishment is a 

 dressmaking house which employs 300 seam- 

 stresses and makes apparel to order. The 

 state normal school is located here ; and Ogden 

 College, Patten College, the Bowling Green 

 Business College, a library and a good system 

 of public schools offer unusual educational 

 advantages. L.G.D. 



BOWMANVILLE, bo'manvil, ONT., a town 

 in Durham County, situated on Lake Onta- 

 rio, forty-two miles northeast of Toronto. It 

 is on the main lines of the Canadian Pacific, 

 the Canadian Northern and the Grand Trunk 

 railways, and is the terminus of the Toronto 

 & Eastern Electric Railway. The harbor is 

 deep and will accommodate the largest steam- 

 ers on the lakes; the water commerce is con- 

 siderable. Bowmanville is the center of a rich 

 agricultural district, noted for apples and dairy 

 products, and it is also an important manu- 

 facturing center. The largest establishment, 

 which produces tires and other rubber goods, 

 has about 750 employees, and a piano and organ 

 factory employs about 200. Foundries, a glove 

 factory, a flour and barley mill and canning 

 works are also worthy of mention. Popula- 

 tion in 1911, 2,814; in 1916, about 4,000. 



BOWSER, bou' zer, WILLIAM JOHN (1867- 

 ), a Canadian barrister and legislator, long 

 one of the leading Conservatives in British 

 Columbia and in 1915-1916 premier of the prov- 

 ince. After his graduation from Dalhousie 

 University he practiced law for a year in New 

 Brunswick, his native province, but in 1891 

 removed to Vancouver, B. C., which remains 

 his home. He was an unsuccessful candidate 

 for the Dominion House of Commons in 1896, 

 and for the provincial assembly in 1898, but 

 was elected to the latter in 1903. Sir Richard 

 McBride in 1907 appointed him Attorney-Gen- 

 eral and Commissioner of Fisheries. In 1909 

 to 1910 and again in 1915 he temporarily per- 

 formed the duties of Minister of Finance and 

 Minister of Agriculture, in addition to his 

 other offices. In December, 1915, on the res- 



