Albert Betts

Before joining the City of Birmingham Club, Albert Betts was a member of Aston Manor Gymnasium, and in 1910 won the Birmingham & District Championship. He was a member of the Birmingham City team that won the 1914 Adams Shield for the British Team Championship, having missed out the previous year when he was not fit for the final. Betts had competed in the 1912 Olympics at Stockholm and won a team bronze medal. At Antwerpen in 1920, however, the British team finished a disappointing fifth, and last. Betts never had another chance of competing at the Olympics, because he died less than two weeks after his 36th birthday in 1924.