A BOY CHAMPION.
! ~ BISCEY KING’S PRIZEMAN
Canadian exchanges just to. hand report that Private Desmond Burke, of Ottawa, who won the King’s Prize at Bisley, is still a boy, being in his 19th year. He matriculated from the Ottawa Collegiate Institute onlv last year. . V •
Private Burke was 17th man in the Canadian team for Bisley, and was quite a tyro at long ranges. When he went down on the' mound at Bisley he had only once before shot at 1000 yards. Canada has never sent a younger marksman to meet the Empire’s best.
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Hawera Star, Volume XLVIII, 1 September 1924, Page 9
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94A BOY CHAMPION. Hawera Star, Volume XLVIII, 1 September 1924, Page 9
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