WON KING'S PRIZE

Press, Volume LXVI, Issue 19985, 21 July 1930, Page 11

WON KING'S PRIZE

YOUNG WOMAN'S SUCCESS. FIRST TIME IN BISLEY'S HISTORY. SCENES OP ENTHUSIASM WITNESSED. (tJHITJCD PBSBB ASSOCIATION —BT *LZC?VC . TBUSUEAPH COPTBIOOT.) (Received July 20th, 5.5 p.m.) LONDON. July 19. Miss Marjorie Foster won the King's Prize with a score of 280. She i$ the first woman to win this' trophy, After winning the prizo she said: 4< l am a teetotaller, but to-day I think J'll have a glass of champagne." This concession she made to mark her triumph over many of the Empire's best rifle Bhots, She is doing her share in adding to women's laurels in the year which has seen Miss Amy Johnson'® llight to Australia and Miss Winifred Brown's victory in the King's Cup air race. Miss Fpster, who is 33 years of age, served in the Women's Legion as an ambulance driver during the war. She is a familiar figure clad in rough tweeds and with close-cropped hair under a beret, at Bisley, where she ha* competed for the past seven yegrs. Not even the excitement of many chattering women watching her fln&J shoot at 1000 yards affected Miss Foster's imperturbability, She was equally calm, waving her hand in reply to terrific cheering, when boigtefl i.» the famous King's prizeman'* chair, &nd carried shoulder-high round the- C&mpi a band playing "See the Copqueripg Hero Comes," while cavalrymen cleared a way. Miss Poster says that she aid net know it was such a close thing. She was merely having a eomfprt&ble after, noon's shoot. She did not Jxaw that she bad won pntil Jellicoe cam® to congratulate her. Miss Foster's Achiavemonk She scored ten bulls at IQOO of which seven were consecutive and her last qhot was a boll. Lieutenant JScclee, of the Saafortn Highlanders, was runner-up with 37p. He had a great chance of oeating Miss Foster. He needed a bull for the shot, but only scored an outer, giving" him 06 out of a possible 75 for tk6 match, against the winner's 68. Lieutenant Andrew?, a 'Londoner, ana Quartermaster Parker, of the Army Service Corps, tied for third place with 878. The King has telegrapUe* Ms beamest congratulations, and described Miss Foster'« achievement «s the most wonderful in the history rifle shooting. The new gold medal' list was not permitted to go home to her chicken farm at Frimley Green on her motor-cycle, as usual, as the firsengine was turned out, and sho WW taken back in triumph on the tender, [The King's Prize last year was wo* by Colonel B- M. Blair, Canadian StsjvI forth Highlander?, with a score of ?BJ* 11038 the winner was Lanee-Corporai A, C. Hale, late King Edward'* School, 0.T.Q,, Birmingham, with ft KOT9 Of 283.] ___