Tom Chambers (bowls)
Thomas M Chambers was a Canadian international lawn bowls player who competed in the 1930 British Empire Games for Scotland.[1] [2]
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Bowls career
At the 1930 British Empire Games he won the bronze medal in the rinks (fours) event with David Fraser, John Orr and William Campbell.[3] [4] [5]
Bizarrely, he won the medal for Scotland despite being Canadian because John Kennedy, a member of the Scottish rinks team, had died in the United States en route to Canada. The other teams agreed that Chambers could be a substitute even though he was not Scottish.[6]
References
- "Athletes and Results". Commonwealth Games Federation.
- "Profile". Bowls Tawa.
- "COMMONWEALTH GAMES MEDALLISTS - BOWLS". GRB Athletics.
- Bolsover, Godfrey (1959). Who's Who and Encyclopaedia of Bowls. Rowland Publishers Ltd (Pre isbn).
- Hawkes/Lindley, Ken/Gerard (1974). the Encyclopaedia of Bowls. Robert Hale and Company. ISBN 0-7091-3658-7.
- "George W. Ferguson and Scotland's 1930 British Empire Games Team". Sports Heritage.
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