Arthur Saunders (bowls)
Appearance
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Nationality | South Africa | |||||||||||
Born | 1913 | |||||||||||
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Sport | lawn bowls | |||||||||||
Club | East London Railway BC | |||||||||||
Medal record
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Arthur W Saunders (1913 - date of death unknown), was a South African international lawn bowler.[1]
Bowls career
[edit]He won a bronze medal in the singles at the 1954 British Empire and Commonwealth Games in Vancouver.[2][3][4]
He won the 1953 singles at the National Championships bowling for the East London Railway Bowls Club.[5]
Personal life
[edit]He was a company manager by trade.
References
[edit]- ^ "Athletes and Results". Commonwealth Games Federation.
- ^ "profile". Bowls tawa.
- ^ "Commonwealth Games Medallists". GBR Athletics.
- ^ "British Players win and lose on opening day at Empire Games". Coventry Evening Telegraph. 31 July 1954. Retrieved 28 August 2024 – via British Newspaper Archive.
- ^ Bolsover, Godfrey (1959). Who's Who and Encyclopaedia of Bowls. Rowland Publishers Ltd (Pre isbn).
Categories:
- 1913 births
- Bowls players at the 1954 British Empire and Commonwealth Games
- South African male bowls players
- Commonwealth Games bronze medallists for South Africa
- Commonwealth Games medallists in lawn bowls
- Medallists at the 1954 British Empire and Commonwealth Games
- Bowls biography stubs
- South African sportspeople stubs