SHOOTING AT BISLEY

Press, Volume LXXXIV, Issue 25550, 19 July 1948, Page 7

SHOOTING AT BISLEY

AUSTRALIAN WINS KING’S PRIZE PRESENTATION BY LORD MONTGOMERY (Rec. 9.30 p.m.) LONDON. July 17. Pavey won the King’s Prize at Bisley, with 283 points. He is the first Australian to win the prize since 1907. Pavey and Chief Petty Officer M. L. A. Johnson, of the Royal Navy, were the leaders, with 217 points each, at the end of the 900 yards first shoot. The Chief of the Imperial General Staff (Field-Marshal Viscount Montgomery), presenting the King’s Prize, said he did not believe that the day of the rifle was over, or that future wars would be fought by pushing a button. Admittedly; they must push on with atomic weapon development, but that was the normal evolution of weapons already known. The last war had proved that the rifle was still an essential factor in the infantryman’s fighting equipment. There had been no development since, to show that this was still not so. Rifle clubs still played an essential part in the evolution of fighting weapons for the foot soldier. Their older ’members should do all they could to persuade younger people to ioin the clubs. . , „

Tlie Australian rifle team, with 1050 points, won the MacKinnon Trophy in an international match at Bisley yesterday. England was second with 1046, Ireland, Scotland. Wales, Channel Islands. and Canada also competed. The Australian. R. Parker, with 575 out of a possible 605, won the Dominion of Canada Rifle Association challenge tronhy. He also won the National Rifle Association bronze medal for the highest score in the first stage of the King’s Prize. Great Britain won the Kolanore Cup with 1118 points. Canada (ITI2 points) was second, and Australia (1107 points) third. RESULTS OF COUNTY CRICKET LONDON, July 16. County cricket matches resulted as follows: Derbyshire.—First innings 207 (Cook four for 30): second innings 210 (Lambert four for 20). Gloucestershire — first innings 202: second Innings 128 (Pone four for 24). Derbyshire won by 87 runs. Hampshire—First innings 248 (Butler four for 39): second innings seven for 177 declared. Nottinghamshirefirst innings 247 (Harris 76. Bailey six for 52): second innings, four for 180. Nottinghamshire won by six wickets. ' Northamptonshire First innings ’nine for 445 declared (Brookes 106. i Oldfield 103). Kent—first innings 71 : (Nutter five for 34). and followed on •for 174 (Nutter seven for 52). Northi amptonshire won by an innings and 200 runs. ■ . Essex—First innings 213 f Avery 80: James Langridge four for 36): second tinnings eight for 117. Sussex —first innings 224. The match was drawn. ' Yorkshire—First innings 339 (Sellers ■ 91), second innings three for 131 de- ' dared. Glamorganshire—first innings 243 (Parkhouse 103); second innings, none’ for 63. The match was drawn. Warwickshire—Firs* innings four for 306 declared (Ord 126): second innings two for 116 declared. Scotland .—first innings 187: second innings three for 160. The match was drawn.

European Boxing Title.— Peter Kane, the former world fly-weight boxing champion, failed to regain the European bantam-weight title from the Italian Guido Ferracin, at Manchester. Kane threw in the towel at the end of the fifth round. He cashed his head when he collided with Ferracin in the second round, and the blood blinded him.—London, July 16.