Bowls
an ancient British game, still extremely popular. It is played on a smooth, level piece of greensward, generally about 40 yards long, and sursur rounded by a trench or ditch about six BOWSPRIT inches in depth. A small white ball called the jack is placed at one end of the green , and the object of the players, who range themselves in sides at the other, is so to roll their bowls that they may lie as near as possible to the jack. Each bowl is biassed by being made slightly conical so as to take a curvilinear direction; and, in making the proper allowance for this bias, and so regulating the cast of the ball, consist the skill and attraction of the game. The side which owns the greatest number of bowls next the jack, each bowl so placed constituting a point, carries off the victory.