Harold Murray (bowls)

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

Harold Murray
Personal information
Nationality Australia
Sport
SportLawn bowls
ClubHamilton BC, NSW
Medal record
Men's Lawn bowls
Representing  Australia
Commonwealth Games
1938 Sydneyrinks (fours)

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]

gollark: The *point* of having either is that other people will exchange them for things you want.
gollark: Not infinitely, but a few times maybe? But for both of them, the actual value-if-we-didn't-have-preexisting-notions-of-value-tied-to-them is mostly irrelevant.
gollark: But gold isn't that different, I mean.
gollark: Yep!
gollark: Gold is not *that* useful practically, being just a shiny metal which doesn't tarnish and has quite high conductivity.

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.
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