John Bettles
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| Nationality | British (English) | ||||||||||||||
| Born | 30 March 1907 Raunds, Northamptonshire, England | ||||||||||||||
| Died | 30 April 1983 (aged 76) Raunds, Northamptonshire, England | ||||||||||||||
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| Club | Raunds Methodists BC Northamptonshire | ||||||||||||||
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John Harris Bettles (1907–1983) was an England international lawn bowler.[1][2]
Bowls career
[edit]He won a gold medal for the England team[3] in the fours at the 1958 British Empire and Commonwealth Games in Cardiff with Norman King, John Scadgell and Walter Phillips.[4][5][6]
Personal life
[edit]He took up bowls in 1931 and was shoe and boot operative by trade.[7]
References
[edit]- ↑ "Profile". Bowls tawa.
- ↑ "Athletes and results". Commonwealth Games Federation.
- ↑ "England's Bowls Team for Empire Games". Nottingham Evening News. 13 February 1958. p. 6. Retrieved 9 October 2025 – via British Newspaper Archive.
- ↑ "Splendid tribute to bowler". Peterborough Evening Telegraph. 13 February 1958. Retrieved 28 August 2024 – via British Newspaper Archive.
- ↑ "COMMONWEALTH GAMES MEDALLISTS - BOWLS". GBR Athletics.
- ↑ ""Empire Games Results." Times, 26 July 1958, p. 3". The Times. Times Digital Archives. 26 July 1958. p. 3.
- ↑ Hawkes/Lindley, Ken/Gerard (1974). the Encyclopaedia of Bowls. Robert Hale and Company. ISBN 0-7091-3658-7.
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