This looks like a match at bocce to me, but I have little doubt that it is not the variety of bowling played by elderly Italians in New York, but some variety that would make aficionados sneer, like playing tennis on the wrong surface .... whatever rules you grew up with being the only proper way to play the game.
The Lumieres start with good camera placement to produce a motion picture composed of hundreds of impeccable individual photographs, unlike many of Edison's cameramen who were much more interested in... well, showing you everything, including the boring parts, because that's part of reality. The Lumieres keep thing moving, including by having some guy hobble across the field. It holds your attention for the entire movie.