Brian O'Byrne rolls his bowl toward the jack. Their lawn bowling rink has lights so they can play at night. Essex County Lawn Bowling Club has been around Watsessing Park since the early 1920's. They ...

California weather has long attracted out-of-state visitors looking to spend time outdoors. They flock to the golden coast to surf, bike and rock climb and, as it happens, “play bowls.” More than 300 ...

Few sports are more ancient than lawn bowling. It was played in 12th-Century England and by the time of Henry VIII had provoked such a riotous fever of ambling that even that riotous monarch put it ...

How many times have you driven down Wilshire Boulevard in Santa Monica and when you passed Douglas Park at 25th Street you saw people standing on the fenced in grassy area and wondered what in the ...

SANTA CRUZ — Four times a week, hidden away in San Lorenzo Park, people gather on the bowling green, ready to play a game of lawn bowling, a sport similar in vein to the Italian game of bocce. Sitting ...

Harold and Ellie Esch and Nora Dorman all have been part of national pairs champions for the Mount Dora Lawn Bowling Club. So when Herbert Wintsch and Michael Maneilly left for the U.S. Lawn Bowls ...

WHEN I ARRIVED at Jefferson Park Lawn Bowling Club on Beacon Hill, I was concerned to see there were gutters at the end of the square, low-cropped lawn that serves as the alleys for lawn bowling. I am ...

Lawn bowling: Isn’t that the same same thing as bocce? Not at all. Actually, they’re pretty similar, but don’t say that around avid players of either game. Yes, they’re both games played outdoors that ...

NEW BEDFORD – It’s been said that lawn bowling originated in ancient Egypt. The game has been played in England since the 13th century. In New Bedford it dates back to the late 1890s, brought here by ...