John Bettles Explained

John Bettles
Birth Date:	30 March 1907
Birth Place:	Raunds, Northamptonshire
Death Place:	Raunds, Northamptonshire
Club:	Irthlingborough BC Northamptonshire

John Harris Bettles (1907–1983) was an England international lawn bowler.^{[1] [2]}

Bowls career

He won a gold medal in the fours at the 1958 British Empire and Commonwealth Games in Cardiff with Norman King, John Scadgell and Walter Phillips.^{[3] [4]}

Personal life

He took up bowls in 1931 and was shoe and boot operative by trade.^[5]

Notes and References

1. Web site: Profile. Bowls tawa.
2. Web site: Athletes and results. Commonwealth Games Federation.
3. Web site: COMMONWEALTH GAMES MEDALLISTS - BOWLS. GBR Athletics.
4. Web site: "Empire Games Results." Times, 26 July 1958, p. 3. Times Digital Archives.
5. Book: Hawkes/Lindley, Ken/Gerard. the Encyclopaedia of Bowls. 1974. Robert Hale and Company. 0-7091-3658-7.