"The Drake. The Spanish Armada Drake. He was playing bowls on Plymouth Hoe when they told him that the Armada was in sight. 'There is time to finish the game,' he replied. That's what Drake thought of bowls." P. G. Wodehouse (1926)
Certainly the most famous game of lawn bowls every played, the 19th July 1588 contest was by no means the first such, certainly not the last.
