Joe Marsh (bowls)
Joe A Marsh is a South African international lawn bowler.[1]
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Medal record
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Bowls career
He was the Transvaal and Southern Transvaal bowls champion and was the South African National Bowls Championships runner-up in 1970.[2]
He won a silver medal in the triples at the 1972 World Outdoor Bowls Championship in Worthing with Edgar Davey and Doug Watson.[3] [4] He also won a silver medal in the team event (Leonard Trophy).
Personal life
He was a gold refining official by trade and took up bowls in 1948.[2]
gollark: The whole "borrowed from X" thing is really the crux of the issue - it just pulls words from other languages, but oh look now you need this grammar too.
gollark: `life` → `lives` also.
gollark: Oxen, too.
gollark: Especially with people insisting it's either "octopi" or "octopoda", which are both wrong.
gollark: You know what's a mess? English plurals.
References
- "Profile". Bowls tawa.
- Hawkes/Lindley, Ken/Gerard (1974). the Encyclopaedia of Bowls. Robert Hale and Company. ISBN 0-7091-3658-7.
- "World Bowls Champions". Burnside Bowling Club.
- Newby, Donald (1991). Bowls Yearbook 91. Telegraph Publications. ISBN 0-330-31664-8.
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