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Charles Clawson was an Irish Lawn bowls international who competed in the 1934 British Empire Games. [1] [2]
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Charles Clawson was an Irish Lawn bowls international who competed in the 1934 British Empire Games. [1] [2]
At the 1934 British Empire Games he won the silver medal in the rinks (fours) event with Cecil Curran, George Watson and Percy Watson. [3] [4] [5]
He bowled for the Shaftesbury Bowls Club in Belfast and was the Honorary Treasurer of the Irish Bowls Association from 1933-1954. [1] [6] The pairs cup at the Irish National Bowls Championships is named after him.
He was twice National pairs champion with Cecil Curran in 1932 and 1939. [7]
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