FAME AS A SHOT

Evening Post, Volume CVII, Issue 122, 28 May 1929, Page 7

FAME AS A SHOT

FULL SCORE AT BISLEY WOMAN POULTRY FARMER (From "The Post's" Representative.) LONDON, lGth April. Alter 15 months' endeavour on the part of thousands of crack shot 3 of the Empire, a full seoro under King s first stage conditions was registered at Bisley on Saturday (writes a correspondent of the "Daily Telegraph"). The feat was achieved by a woman. The best woman rifle-shot in the Empire, Misa Foster, is a poultry farmer at Friinley, North Hampshire. On this occasion she was competing in a South London Rifle Club match. She put seven shots into a Gin bull's-eyo at 200 yards; seven more into a lain bull at 000 yards; and a third string of seven bullets into the same l.jin bull's-eye at GOO yards. Thus she scored tho full 100 points, a feat never achieved siuce the N.R.A. bull's-eye diameter was reduced on Ist January, li)2S. At tho Bisley. meeting last July Lieutenant Desmond Burke, the Canadian gold medallist, won tho bronze medal with 103 points.. At the same meeting Mr. B. N. Barker, under first stage conditions, won the Stock Exchange prize with 101 points. On Saturday the nearest score to Miss Foster's mi's 101 points, registered by Mr. G. "W. Downs, the bronze medallist of 1023. Miss Foster, who could shoot well with a Service riflo before she was 12 years old, was a sculptress before the war. Wishing to serve her country during the war, and failing to obtain admission to any of the military organisations for women, she turned munition worker. Because she did not serve," m the strict definition of the term, she cannot eompeto for the King' Prize, as.can her fellow-poultry farmer, Miss Blanche Badcock. This is. a misfortune for Miss Foster, but it is all to the good for male marksmen. Again and again in tho week-end club matches Miss Foster has beaten every man on Bisley Common at every distance from 200 to 1000 yards.