Geoffrey Kelly (born 10 June 1921) is an Australian international

lawn bowler Bowls, also known as lawn bowls or lawn bowling, is a sport in which the objective is to roll biased balls so that they stop close to a smaller ball called a "jack" or "kitty". It is played on a bowling green, which may be flat (for "flat-gre ...

Bowls career

Kelly competed in the first

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in 1966 and won a

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in the

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with

Bert Palm Albert Palm (1915 – 1982) was an Australian international Bowls, lawn bowler. When he played he was known as Bert Palm. Bowls career Palm took part in the Lawn Bowls at the 1950 British Empire Games. He competed in the first World Bowls ...

at the event. He also won a gold medal in the team event (Leonard Trophy). Kelly won the 1965 fours title at the

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when bowling for the Coogee Bowls Club.

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{{DEFAULTSORT:Kelly, Geoff 1921 births Possibly living people Australian male bowls players Bowls World Champions Place of birth missing