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]

Tom Chambers
Personal information
Nationality Canada
Sport
SportLawn bowls
Medal record
Men's Lawn bowls
Representing Scotland
British Empire Games
Bronze medal – third place 1930 HamiltonRinks/Fours

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
  1. "Athletes and Results". Commonwealth Games Federation.
  2. "Profile". Bowls Tawa.
  3. "COMMONWEALTH GAMES MEDALLISTS - BOWLS". GRB Athletics.
  4. Bolsover, Godfrey (1959). Who's Who and Encyclopaedia of Bowls. Rowland Publishers Ltd (Pre isbn).
  5. Hawkes/Lindley, Ken/Gerard (1974). the Encyclopaedia of Bowls. Robert Hale and Company. ISBN 0-7091-3658-7.
  6. "George W. Ferguson and Scotland's 1930 British Empire Games Team". Sports Heritage. 28 May 2014.


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