The Archive · 1937

Sporting Interests

A member of the Shanghai, Coun

try, Race, French, Golf and Lawn Bowls Clubs his main sporting interest was lawn bowls a game at which he excelled and won many trophies, He won the singles in 1927; partnered with R. J. Bowerman, he won the pairs in 1928/29; layed No. 3 for C. W. Porter's winning Country Club Rink in 1934, and No. 3 to A. A. Malcolm in the interport match against Hongkong in 1928, at Shanghai when the Colony "won by the odd shot, 20-19, Mr. Wright's eldest son Jack, who is now in his third year at Faraday House, Electrical Training College, was in 1994 chosen to represent Britain in the shoot against Canada, out of the whole of the Cadet Corps. His younger son is still at school,

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