Samuel Jones (20 January 1867 – 15 November 1944) was an English

bowls Bowls, also known as lawn bowls or lawn bowling, is a sport in which players try to roll their ball (called a bowl) closest to a smaller ball (known as a "jack" or sometimes a "kitty"). The bowls are shaped (biased), so that they follow a curve ...

international who competed at the

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Bowls career

He represented

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in the

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, in the pairs event and finished in fourth place with Ronald Weeks. In 1935 he won the Surrey county pairs title with C E Cramp bowling for Croydon Bowls Club.

Personal life

He was a plumber/builder by trade.

References

English male bowls players Bowls players at the 1938 British Empire Games 1867 births 1944 deaths Commonwealth Games bowls players for England {{UK-bowls-bio-stub