RIFLE SHOOTING
KING’S PRIZE WINNER.
[BY CABLE —PRESS ASSN. COPYRIGHT.]
SYDNEY, October 14.
The weather conditions to-day were pleasant but tricky for the final stage of.the King’s Prize. The winner was L. A. Smith, of Victoria, with a score of 334.
Smith is a member of the Melbourne Cricket Club Rifle Club. He was the third Victorian in succession to win the coveted King’s. J. Carter (Petone Rifle Club) was seventeenth, with 325, and thus won a King’s badge.
In the Rexonola, ten shots at six hundred yards, Nicholl (Petone) with 47, won 20/-. In the Lindsay, ten shots at. eight hundred yards, Carter and Rule (Petone) with 47, won 10/each. In the Chateau Tanunda aggregate, which is the third stage of the King’s Carter with 138 out of a possible 150, won 60/-. Nicholl 135, O'Donnell 133, Rule 131, Koppert 129, Cromie 128, each won 20/-. In the King’s Prize, H. M. Natt (South Australia) 332, was second, R. Gunn (Victoria) 330, was third.
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Greymouth Evening Star, 15 October 1932, Page 7
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