Harold Murray
Personal information
Nationality Australia
Sport
SportLawn bowls
ClubHamilton BC, NSW
Medal record
Men's Lawn bowls
Representing  Australia
Commonwealth Games
Bronze medal – third place 1938 Sydneyrinks (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]

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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