Harold Murray (bowls)

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Harold Murray
Personal information
NationalityFlag of Australia (converted).svg  Australia
Sport
SportLawn bowls
ClubHamilton BC, NSW
Medal record
Men's Lawn bowls
Representing Flag of Australia (converted).svg  Australia
Commonwealth Games
Bronze medal icon (B initial).svg 1938 Sydney rinks (fours)

Harold Frank Murray was an Australian lawn bowls international who competed in the 1938 British Empire Games. [1]

Bowls career

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]

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References

  1. "Athletes and Results". Commonwealth Games Federation.
  2. "Australian Men's Representative Caps" (PDF). Bowls Australia.
  3. "COMMONWEALTH GAMES MEDALLISTS - BOWLS". GRB Athletics.
  4. "Profile". Bowls Tawa.
  5. Hawkes/Lindley, Ken/Gerard (1974). the Encyclopaedia of Bowls. Robert Hale and Company. ISBN   0-7091-3658-7.
  6. Bolsover, Godfrey (1959). Who's Who and Encyclopaedia of Bowls. Rowland Publishers Ltd (Pre isbn).
  7. "McNeill, Charles Arthur Henry (1888–1974) by Louella McCarthy". Australian Dictionary of Biography.