 Bowra was a useful batsman who was employed by John Frederick Sackville, 3rd Duke of Dorset as a gamekeeper.He is believed to have been an outstanding fielder in close positions as a great many catches were credited to him.The Duke of Dorset was a great admirer of his play and the sources have recorded, perhaps as an anecdote, that Dorset used to sit on the railing round the Sevenoaks Vine ground to watch him bat, often exclaiming