Ralph Hodges

Ralph F. Hodges was a Rhodesian international lawn bowler, a player of the precision sport in which biased bowls are rolled toward a small target ball called the jack. He represented Rhodesia, which appears in the Commonwealth Games record under the name Southern Rhodesia in the early 1950s, and his best known result came at the 1954 British Empire and Commonwealth Games in Vancouver, Canada. There he won the gold medal in the singles event, the individual lawn bowls competition at that edition of the Games, which made him a Commonwealth Games champion. The source article gives no birth date or later career details, so this entry records only what is stated: his nationality, his sport and the 1954 singles title.