Charles Cordaiy

Charles Melbourne Cordaiy (1892 to 1983) was an Australian lawn bowls international who competed in the 1950 British Empire Games, the multi-sport event now known as the Commonwealth Games. At those Games he won the silver medal in the fours event, bowling with James Cobley, John Cobley and Len Knight. The same four players had already won the 1949 Australian National Bowls Championships rinks (fours) title, representing the Parkes Bowls Club in New South Wales, so the Empire Games result came from a combination that had proved itself at national level the year before. He was in his late fifties when he took the silver medal, a reminder that lawn bowls is a sport in which players commonly compete at a high level well into later life.