Sydney Drysdale, spelled Sidney in the article, lived from 1904 to 1969 and was an English international lawn bowls competitor. Born in Heaton, Newcastle upon Tyne, he started a haulage contracting firm in 1933 and moved to Whitley Bay, where he took up bowls at the Whitley and Monkseaton Bowling Club after an injury ended a promising football career. He reached the semi-final of the 1953 English national singles, was picked to skip England in 1954 and stayed an international until 1965. In 1962 he skipped the English fours, with David Bryant, Tom Fleming and Les Watson, to the first England gold medal in lawn bowls at the British Empire and Commonwealth Games in Perth, and was given the Freedom of the Borough of Whitley Bay. Spectators nicknamed him the crab for the way he ran behind his bowls.
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international lawn bowls competitor for England
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international lawn bowls competitor for England
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at the British Empire and Commonwealth Games in 1962
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