William Downes Jones

William Downes Jones, also known as Willie Jones, was a Scottish international lawn bowler who competed at the British Empire and Commonwealth Games, now the Commonwealth Games. He was a member of the Ardrossan Bowling Club, first represented Scotland at international level in 1950 and lived in Ardrossan, where he worked as a shoemaker. At county level he represented Ayrshire and won the singles championship in 1947 and 1950. In 1957 he won the Roseberry Trophy, the Scottish National Bowls Championships in singles. He was selected for the Scottish team at the 1958 British Empire and Commonwealth Games in Cardiff, Wales, where he played the singles event and just missed a medal by finishing fourth. He came from a bowling family: his brother played at district level and his father Dick Jones was still bowling at 78.