{{Short description|British lawn bowler}} {{Use dmy dates|date=October 2025}} {{Use British English|date=October 2025}} {{Infobox sportsperson | name = Danny Prosser | image = | caption = | nationality = British (Welsh) | sport = Bowls | event = | club = Port Talbot Municipal | birth_date = | birth_place = Wales | death_date = | death_place = | height = | weight = | pb = }}
'''Danny Prosser''' is a former Welsh lawn bowler who competed at the Commonwealth Games.
== Biography == Prosser bowled for the Port Talbot Municipal club<ref>{{cite news |url=https://www.britishnewspaperarchive.co.uk/viewer/bl/0003431/19570802/198/0015 |title=Sporting Chatter |work=Neath Guardian |p=15 |date=2 August 1957 |via=British Newspaper Archive|url-access=subscription |access-date=17 October 2025}}</ref> and was part of the rinks (fours) team with Evan Jones, Jack Griffiths and Len Hill that won the 1957 Welsh National Bowls Championships.<ref>{{cite news |url=https://www.britishnewspaperarchive.co.uk/viewer/bl/0003431/19570830/081/0008 |title=Sporting Chatter |work=Neath Guardian |p=8 |date=30 August 1957 |via=British Newspaper Archive|url-access=subscription |access-date=17 October 2025}}</ref><ref name=WBA>{{cite web|url=https://www.welshbowls.co.uk/WBAHandbookFinalProof.pdf|title=WBA Handbook|publisher=Welsh Bowls|access-date=17 October 2025}}</ref><ref name=GB>{{cite book|last=Bolsover|first=Godfrey|title=Who's Who and Encyclopaedia of Bowls |year=1959 |page=456 |publisher=Rowland Publishers Ltd (Pre isbn)}}</ref>
The 1957 success led to their selection for the British Commonwealth and Empire Games qualification tournament in Cardiff,<ref>{{cite news |url=https://www.britishnewspaperarchive.co.uk/viewer/bl/0002846/19571227/003/0003 |title=Sportsmen's Dilemma |work=Glamorgan Gazette |p=3 |date=27 December 1957 |via=British Newspaper Archive|url-access=subscription |access-date=17 October 2025}}</ref> which they subsequently won.<ref>{{cite news |url=https://www.britishnewspaperarchive.co.uk/viewer/bl/0000104/19580528/183/0010 |title=Games place for Bernie |work=Western Mail |p=10 |date= 28 May 1958 |via=British Newspaper Archive|url-access=subscription |access-date=17 October 2025}}</ref>
He represented the Welsh team<ref>{{cite web|url=https://thecgf.com/results/games/3034/71/all |title=Wales Cardiff 1958 |website=Commonwealth Games Federation |access-date=17 October 2025 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20211115055851/https://thecgf.com/results/games/3034/71/all |archive-date=2021-11-15}}</ref> at the 1958 British Empire and Commonwealth Games in Cardiff, Wales, where he competed in the fours/rinks event,<ref>{{cite book|last=Hawkes/Lindley |first=Ken/Gerard |title=Encyclopaedia of Bowls |year=1974 |pages=31 |publisher=Robert Hale and Company |isbn=0-7091-3658-7}}</ref> and helped Wales finish in seventh place with Evan Jones, Jack Griffiths and Len Hill.<ref>{{cite book|last=Sullivan|first=Patrick|title=Guinness Bowls Records|year=1986|p=82|publisher=Guinness Superlatives Ltd|isbn=0-85112-414-3}}</ref>
In 1962 he was once again part of the Port Talbot Municipal rinks team that won the Welsh National Championship.<ref name=WBA/><ref name=GB/> In 1966 he represented his club against the touring Barbarians team.<ref>{{cite news |url=https://www.britishnewspaperarchive.co.uk/viewer/bl/0003137/19660610/118/0013 |title=Bryn Thomas's sporting chatter |work=Port Talbot Guardian |p=13 |date=10 June 1966 |via=British Newspaper Archive|url-access=subscription |access-date=17 October 2025}}</ref>
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