John Bettles
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Nationality | England | |||||||||||||
Born | Raunds, Northamptonshire | March 30, 1907|||||||||||||
Died | Raunds, Northamptonshire | April 30, 1983|||||||||||||
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Club | Irthlingborough BC Northamptonshire | |||||||||||||
Medal record
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John Harris Bettles (1907–1983) was an England international lawn bowler.[1][2]
Bowls career[]
He won a gold medal in the fours at the 1958 British Empire and Commonwealth Games in Cardiff with Norman King, John Scadgell and Walter Phillips.[3][4]
Personal life[]
He took up bowls in 1931 and was shoe and boot operative by trade.[5]
References[]
- ^ "Profile". Bowls tawa.
- ^ "Athletes and results". Commonwealth Games Federation.
- ^ "COMMONWEALTH GAMES MEDALLISTS - BOWLS". GBR Athletics.
- ^ ""Empire Games Results." Times, 26 July 1958, p. 3". Times Digital Archives.
- ^ Hawkes/Lindley, Ken/Gerard (1974). the Encyclopaedia of Bowls. Robert Hale and Company. ISBN 0-7091-3658-7.
Categories:
- 1907 births
- 1983 deaths
- English male bowls players
- Commonwealth Games medallists in lawn bowls
- Commonwealth Games gold medallists for England
- Bowls players at the 1958 British Empire and Commonwealth Games
- British bowls biography stubs