Jack Christie was a Scottish international lawn bowler, born on 17 July 1925 and died in Edinburgh on 2 January 2007 at the age of 81. He took up bowling at the age of eighteen, joined the Northern Bowling Club of Edinburgh in 1956 and went on to win the club championship eight times. He made his international debut in 1965 and was capped seventy times for Scotland, remaining a Scottish international until 1974. His greatest moment came at the 1974 British Commonwealth Games in Christchurch, New Zealand, where he partnered Alex McIntosh in the pairs event and won the gold medal for Scotland.
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