Australian Victory at Bisley
■ ——- i EMPIRE SHOOTING MATCH j United Press Association—By Electric Telegraph.—Copyright. I LONDON, July 15. • I Australia won the Kolapore Cup with | - I score of 367 at 600 yards and an ■ aggregate score of 1121. Guernsey ' scored 1111, Great Britain 1108, Canada 1110, India 1095, ana Jersey 1076. v Immediately the Australian win was innounced, the Australian captain. ’ Merrett, was overwhelmed with con jratulations from the other team cut>- - tains and many prominent shooting ofs ficials includin 0 the septuagenarian ’ Lord Cottesloe, president of the Na- • tional Rifle Association, who is still r competing at P.isley. Mr. Merrett, interviewed by the Ausf tralian Associated Press, said that he • ! hoped their success would influence tho Commonwealth, to remember its prom--1 ise that the te- -u should visit Bisley 7 • every four years. “Surely if the isolat--1 ed Falkland Islands can 6end a team regularly, it shows the importance of • Bisley to rifle-shooting in the tfutposts of the Empire. 1 Among the competitors was Mr. Woods who coached the Oxford Univer- ' sity eight which beat Cambridge under ’ Kolapore Cup conditions, Oxford scor--3 ing 1107. Mr. Woods to-day scored 3 47/47/43. The Australian, Mr. P. M. ? Gillies, won the Northland competition , with a total of S 3.
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Manawatu Times, Volume 62, Issue 168, 17 July 1937, Page 6
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