Lawn Bowls at the 1974 British Commonwealth Games

Lawn bowls
at the 1974 British Commonwealth Games
VenueChristchurch
Dates24 January – 02 February 1974

The lawn bowls competition at the 1974 British Commonwealth Games took place in Christchurch, Scotland from 24 January until 2 February 1974.[1]David Bryant won his third successive Commonwealth Games singles gold medal and his fourth gold medal in total despite missing the chance of competing in 1966.
Host country New Zealand won the fours (their seventh gold medal since the games began in 1930).

Results

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Men's Singles - Round Robin

Pos Player P W L F A Pts
1 England David Bryant 13 11 2 267 147 22
2 Australia Clive White 13 10 3 269 197 20
3 Scotland Willie Wood 13 9 4 257 191 18
4 New Zealand Percy Jones 13 9 4 260 215 18
5 Wales Maldwn Evans 13 9 4 232 213 18
6 Kenya Denis Gosden 13 7 6 212 212 14
7 Northern Ireland Roy Fulton 13 6 7 220 210 12
8 Hong Kong Omar Dallah 13 6 7 232 251 12
9 Malawi Harry Lakin 13 6 7 213 239 12
10 Fiji Sydney Snowsil 13 6 7 209 266 10
11 Guernsey Roy De Feu 13 4 9 200 241 8
12 Canada Neal Salkeld 13 3 10 195 262 6
13 Samoa James S Williams 13 3 10 201 259 6
14 Papua New Guinea Oswald Dent 13 3 10 180 264 6

Men's Pairs - Round Robin

Pos Player P W D L F A Pts
1 Scotland John ‘Jack’ Christie & Alex McIntosh 13 11 1 1 294 202 23
2 England John C Evans & Peter Line 13 11 0 2 366 185 22
3 New Zealand Bob McDonald & Phil Skoglund 13 10 1 2 297 201 21
4 Wales John Thomson & Ellis Stanbury 13 9 1 3 296 228 19
5 Fiji Sean Patton & Peter Underhill 13 9 1 3 299 238 19
6 Australia Peter Rheuben & John Dobbie 13 8 0 5 323 214 16
7 Papua New Guinea Gary Forbes & Alan Ramsbotham 13 5 0 8 297 252 10
8 Northern Ireland William Pimley & William Tate 13 5 0 8 243 264 10
9 Hong Kong CC ‘Saco’ Delgado & Eric Liddell 13 5 0 8 231 285 10
10 Samoa Ioapo Iosia & John Suhren 13 4 0 9 181 358 8
11 Malawi Peter Cross & Alexander ‘Sandy’ Ross 13 3 0 10 235 289 6
12 Kenya Harry Smith & Reuben Rose 13 3 0 10 227 285 6
13 Guernsey Donald Ingrouille & Cyril Smith 13 3 0 10 173 364 6
14 Canada James Macauley & Edward Franklin 13 2 0 11 188 353 4

Men's Fours - Round Robin

Pos Player P W D L F A Pts
1 New Zealand Peter ‘Kerry’ Clark, David Baldwin, John ‘Jack’ Somerville, Gordon Jolly 12 10 0 2 308 171 20
2 Australia Robert King, Errol Bungey, Errol Stewart, Keith Poole 12 9 0 3 297 196 18
3 Scotland John Marshall, Morgan Moffat, William Scott, John McRae 12 8 1 3 271 188 17
4 Wales Russell John Evans, David Richards, Gareth Humphreys, Ian Sutherland 12 7 1 4 257 205 15
5 England David Crocker, Robert Robertson, Harry Taylor, Harry Hayward 12 7 0 5 261 211 14
6 Papua New Guinea Barrie Baxter, Robert Henderson, Charles Carter, Harley Triggs 12 6 1 5 234 228 13
7 Fiji Peter Fong, George Thaggard, Ram Harakh, Peter Oates 12 6 0 6 224 268 12
8 Hong Kong Osman Adem, Abdul Kitchell, George Souza Sr., Roberto da Silva 12 5 0 7 205 269 10
9 Zambia J Fridenthal John Cadogan, John Stalker, Ray Pears 12 4 0 8 209 248 8
10 Northern Ireland Gerard Sloan, James Craig, James Donnelly, James Dennison 12 4 0 8 206 262 8
11 Samoa Falevi Ierupa’ala Petana, Sione Lino, Si’imoa Tolova’a, Leta’a Sulu Devoe 12 4 0 8 185 294 8
12 Kenya Cliff de Rungay, Charles Gibbons, John Eatly, Ronald Hedges 12 3 1 8 207 286 7
13 Canada George Robbins, Graham Jarvis, John Miller, Ronnie Jones 12 3 0 9 220 250 6

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