Willie Adrain
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| Birth name | William Adrain | |||||||||||||||||
| Nationality | Scottish | |||||||||||||||||
| Born | 26 January 1926 Dreghorn, Scotland | |||||||||||||||||
| Died | 19 November 1997 (aged 71) Dreghorn, Scotland | |||||||||||||||||
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| Club | Dreghorn BC and Ayrshire | |||||||||||||||||
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William Adrain (26 January 1926 – 19 November 1997) was a Scottish international lawn bowler.[1]
Bowls career
[edit]He started playing bowls aged 12 after being introduced to the sport by his father who was a bowls greenkeeper and his brother also called Willie was a Scottish international.[2]
He competed in the first World Bowls Championship in Kyeemagh, New South Wales, Australia in 1966 [3] and won a bronze medal in the fours with Willie Dyet, Bert Thomson and Harry Reston at the event.[4] He also won a silver medal in the team event (Leonard Trophy).[5]
He also won the 1963 Scottish National Bowls Championships singles title.[6]
Personal life
[edit]His father James was the greenkeeper at the Dreghorn Bowling Club and introduced him to bowls when he was aged 12. His own son George Adrain was a commonwealth and two times world champion.[7]
References
[edit]- ^ "Profile". Bowls tawa.
- ^ Bell, Harry E (1976). 3rd World Bowls Championship, South Africa 1976. J.G.Ince & Son Ltd.
- ^ Ampol Petroleum Ltd (1966). First World Bowls Championship Pre ISBN. Public Relations Dept, Ampol Petroleum Ltd, Sydney, Australia.
- ^ "World Bowls Champions". Burnside Bowling Club.
- ^ Hawkes/Lindley, Ken/Gerard (1974). the Encyclopaedia of Bowls. Robert Hale and Company. ISBN 0-7091-3658-7.
- ^ "Bowling". Wishaw Press. 9 August 1963. p. 16. Retrieved 17 April 2021 – via The British Newspaper Archive.
- ^ Hawkes/Lindley, Ken/Gerard (1974). the Encyclopaedia of Bowls. Robert Hale and Company. ISBN 0-7091-3658-7.