Bristol Evening Post (KC) 21-Aug-08
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A proud day for cancer sufferer Taylor
RETIRED scaffolder Alan Taylor defied the odds to reach the final of the Bowls England national over-55 singles championship at Worthing yesterday. The 65-year-old, who lives in Longwell Green and plays for Bristol's G B Britton club, has had a rollercoaster season after being diagnosed with kidney cancer in March. Although Taylor was disappointed to lose the final to Surrey's Graham Skinner, it was a miracle he was competing at all. From June, he won eight rounds on a regional basis to qualify for the stages at Worthing, where he hit top form to reach the semi-finals with 21-11 wins over competitors from Essex and Norfolk. A 21-13 win over Southampton's David Deighton saw him through to the final, where Skinner found a tricky rink better than the Bristolian and won 21-13.
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Alan Taylor has not let Kidney Cancer win!
"A man of my experience should have found the rink better," said Taylor. "It was difficult to put two bowls together – but I'm cross with myself, because no-one ever remembers the runner-up." When his cancer was diagnosed, Taylor refused to have an immediate operation, because he was booked to go on a four-week holiday to Mexico the following day. "I had surgery at the Bristol Royal Infirmary as soon as I got back," he said. "I'm now on chemotherapy, and have a valve just under my sleeve that pumps stuff into my heart – but I refused to give up my bowls." When the specialist at the hospital realised how important the national over-55 championships were to Alan, he agreed to interrupt his treatment for a few days so that he could go to Worthing. In the preliminary round of the singles, which gets under way in earnest today, Street's Chris Frost and Barnwood's Lee Williamson both came unstuck, but Mike Jackson, from Swindon Westlecot, defeated Derbyshire's Martyn Allsopp 21-13.
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