RIFLE SHOOTING
FDR CHAMPION RIFLE BELT
EUnA'L BOUND THiS AFTERNOON Three marksmen \V. H. Ballinger, F. H. James and W. N. Masefield, are making a bold bid for the King’s Prize, and after several days on the ranges at Tfontham in all kinds of shooting conditions, Uhery are at the top of the King’s Fifty with an aggregate of 500 out of a, possible of 550 obtainable in the champion belt matches.
Two of tiliem, James and Masefield, have previously won a King’s, the ■former' rn 1913, and the latter in 1914. Another King’s Prizeman, L. A. Caldwell, of Karori, and P. B. Goldfinch, of the Old Navals Club, are next in the Fifty, cacti having an aggregate of 504. This afternoon the King’s Fifty will g O , down at the mounds for ten round’s at 900 yards in the King’s Prize Match,, and the rifleman whose score in this match, together .with his score in the belt series, makes up the highest aggregate will be King’s Prizeman for 1929.
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Feilding Star, Volume 7, Issue 2134, 13 February 1929, Page 5
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170RIFLE SHOOTING Feilding Star, Volume 7, Issue 2134, 13 February 1929, Page 5
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