Menlo Park resident Tom Dodd calls lawn bowling a game of finesse. “I haven’t played enough — not enough to really get finesse. I like to be competitive; I like to win.

An odd argument over lawn bowls etiquette at a North Coast club allegedly ended with one man tackling a fellow bowler, who responded with a flurry of punches, a court has heard. Neale James ...

In the 14th century lawn bowling, a sport in which players roll large balls towards a smaller one (the “jack”), was so popular that it kept soldiers from their archery practice.