KING'S PRIZE.

Auckland Star, Volume XLIV, Issue 178, 28 July 1913, Page 5

KING'S PRIZE.

WON BY A CANADIAN. AUSTRALIANS SCORE WELL. (By Cable.—Press Association.—Copyright.) LONDON, July 27. At the Bisley Rifle Meeting on Saturday, Private Hawkins (Canada) won the King's Prize, with a score of 330. Sergeant Fenby, with 329, took second place. Blacklow (Australia), with 323, was sixth, and Halliday (Australia), with 321, eighth. Macalister (Australia) scored 319, and Harrison (Australia) 318.

The four last-named Australians won a badge and £10 each.

Five other Australians, viz., Semmens, Cross, Green, Garrity, and Calliford won a badge and £5 each.

Instead of ten shots at the three last ranges, the King's Prize competitors had 15 shots at the 900 yds and 1000 yds ranges. Sergeant Ommund3en, firing 10 rounds in 30 seconds, was one point ahead of Fenby at tho end of the 900 yds. Ommundsen unaccountably missed the target with his seventh shot at the 1000 yds, and finished with 324. Meanwhile a crowd had gathered round Hawkins, who with his last shot required an inner to tie with Fenby, but scored a bull and took first place. Hawkin's scores at the various ranges were as follow: 100, 43, 46, 68, and 68. The winner is a Toronto lawyer. He has been shooting for six years. He is on his first visit to Bisley. He secured a place in the Canadian team a a substitute for an absent man. Throughout the match, the winner displayed the greatest sangfroid, smoking between the ranges, and chewing gum while firing. He had a great reception at the close, while the Canadians chaired him around the camp in time-honoured fashion. A. G. Fulton won the St George's vase with a score of 119. The Duchess of Wellington presented the prizes. The Australians were greatly cheered on receiving the Mackinnon Cup. On leaving Bisley, Colonel Dean, manager of the Australian team, thanked the Council of the Rifle Association for the courtesy shown the team. No Australian team was ever more popular, while the members speak in glowing terms of the good time they had in the Old Country.