Robert Slater (bowls)
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| Nationality | British (English) | ||||||||||||||
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| Sport | Lawn bowls | ||||||||||||||
| Club | Callenders BC | ||||||||||||||
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Robert Slater was an English international lawn bowls player who competed in the 1934 British Empire Games.[1][2][3]
Bowls career
[edit]At the 1934 British Empire Games he won the gold medal in the rinks/fours event with Ernie Gudgeon, Percy Tomlinson and Fred Biggin.[4][5][6]
He was the 1933[7] and 1934[8] pairs champion with Billy Buckell at the National Championships representing Callenders Bowling Club, Kent [9] and was also twice Kent County champion.
References
[edit]- ^ "Athletes and Results". Commonwealth Games Federation.
- ^ "Profile". Bowls Tawa.
- ^ Bolsover, Godfrey (1959). Who's Who and Encyclopaedia of Bowls. Rowland Publishers Ltd (Pre isbn).
- ^ "England win rinks bowling title". The Scotsman. 11 August 1934. Retrieved 26 August 2024 – via British Newspaper Archive.
- ^ "COMMONWEALTH GAMES MEDALLISTS - BOWLS". GRB Athletics.
- ^ Hawkes/Lindley, Ken/Gerard (1974). the Encyclopaedia of Bowls. Robert Hale and Company. ISBN 0-7091-3658-7.
- ^ "Favourites win Bowls Pairs". Daily News (London). 18 August 1933. Retrieved 22 August 2024 – via British Newspaper Archive.
- ^ "Callenders". Coventry Evening Telegraph. 17 August 1934. Retrieved 22 August 2024 – via British Newspaper Archive.
- ^ "Past Records". Bowls England.