Article: downtime; Get the bowl rolling; Learn the basics of lawn bowling

The Lake Park Lawn Bowling Club needs a little young blood. Of its 60 members, many are retired and hoping to pass on the sport to a new generation.

"It's a great game, and it's very challenging," said club president Bill Harrington. "The secret is that the ball is weighted. You go to all extremes to score."

Lawn bowling has rules, regulations and specificities that are easily learned along the way, but here are the basics:

Jack it up Within the large green are several long rinks. A small white ball the "jack" is tossed from one end of the rink to the other and becomes the target for the bowls, a player's oblong, weighted balls. The bowls vary slightly in size and decoration, with one round ...

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