Alfred Blumberg

Alfred Blumberg was a South African international lawn bowler who won a Commonwealth gold medal in the years after the Second World War. At the 1950 British Empire Games, the name under which the Commonwealth Games were then held, he took gold in the rinks event, the fours format of lawn bowls, playing alongside Herbert Currer, Harry Atkinson and Norman Snowy Walker. The English Wikipedia entry on him is a short stub and records nothing else about his life, such as his birth or death dates, his club or any other competition, so this description is limited to what that article supports. His place in the atlas rests on that single championship result, which made him a member of a South African fours team that won the title.