Harold Murray (bowls)
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| Nationality |  Australia | ||||||||||||||
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| Sport | Lawn bowls | ||||||||||||||
| Club | Hamilton BC, NSW | ||||||||||||||
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Harold Frank Murray was an Australian lawn bowls international who competed in the 1938 British Empire Games.[1]
Bowls career
[edit]He bowled for the Hamilton Bowls Club, New South Wales.[2]
At the 1938 British Empire Games he won the bronze medal in the rinks (fours) event with Aub Murray, Charlie McNeill and Tom Kinder.[3][4][5]
He was the 1938 Australian National Bowls Championships rinks (fours) winner when bowling with McNeill, Murray and Kinder. In addition Harold Murray won the 1934 national rinks title.[6]
The fours team were known as the Big Four in Australia because they also won four state titles.[7]
References
[edit]- ^ "Athletes and Results". Commonwealth Games Federation.
- ^ "Australian Men's Representative Caps" (PDF). Bowls Australia.
- ^ "COMMONWEALTH GAMES MEDALLISTS - BOWLS". GRB Athletics.
- ^ "Profile". Bowls Tawa.
- ^ Hawkes/Lindley, Ken/Gerard (1974). the Encyclopaedia of Bowls. Robert Hale and Company. ISBN 0-7091-3658-7.
- ^ Bolsover, Godfrey (1959). Who's Who and Encyclopaedia of Bowls. Rowland Publishers Ltd (Pre isbn).
- ^ "McNeill, Charles Arthur Henry (1888–1974) by Louella McCarthy". Australian Dictionary of Biography.