Jack Lewis

Jack H. Lewis is a former Welsh lawn bowler who represented Wales at the Commonwealth Games. He bowled for the Rhymney Royal Bowls Club and in 1956 won the Welsh National Bowls Championships pairs title with his partner Wilf John. That success took the pair into the qualifying tournament in Cardiff for the British Commonwealth and Empire Games, which they won in unusual circumstances: the favourites Jack Griffiths and Len Hill withdrew because they had already qualified in the fours, and their opponents from the Melyn club, Morgan and Hinders, then withdrew after their club president William Hughes collapsed and died in the clubhouse while Lewis and John were behind. Lewis then represented the Welsh team at the 1958 British Empire and Commonwealth Games in Cardiff, where he played in the pairs event and Wales finished in ninth place.