Jack Griffiths (bowls)

Griffiths bowled for the Port Talbot Municipal club^[1] and was the rinks (fours) champion at the Welsh National Bowls Championships in 1937, 1939 and 1941, with Len Hill, J. Miles and J. B. Davies.^[2] He made his first international appearnce for Wales in 1933.^[3]

In 1955 he was the President of the Welsh Bowls Association and lived at 31 Abbey Road in Port Talbot.^[4]

He also teamed up with Len Hill in the pairs and after two final appearances in 1943 and 1950, he finally won the pairs title with Hill at the 1957 Welsh Nationals. The same year he was part of the rinks (fours) team with Evan Jones, Danny Prosser and Len Hill that won the 1957 National Bowls Championships.^[5]

The 1957 fours success led to his selection for the British Commonwealth and Empire Games qualification tournament in Cardiff,^[6] which they subsequently won, although he was forced to withdraw from the pairs due to him not being able to take part in more than one event at the Games.^[7]

He represented the Welsh team^[8] at the 1958 British Empire and Commonwealth Games in Cardiff, Wales, where he competed in the fours/rinks event,^[9] and helped Wales finish in seventh place with Evan Jones, Danny Prosser and Len Hill.^[10]