EMPIRE’S BEST SHOT

Otago Daily Times, Issue 21774, 13 October 1932, Page 4

EMPIRE’S BEST SHOT

TRIUMPH AT BISLEY “MAN WHO NEEDS GLASSES.” The King’s Prize was won at Bislcy on July 16 by Mr C. F. H. Bayly, a 58-year-old ex-c#mpany sergeant-major of the Royal West Kents, with a score of 289. Mr F. S. French, a former sergeant of the Herts Yeomanry, with 287 'points, was' second. Mr Bayly, who is an electrical engineer on the Southern Railway at Bexley Heath, and has for years been secretary of the West Kent Rifle Club, -.'aid afterwards: “The joke of my success is that people who ought to know have told me that I should wear glasses, and should have had them 10 years ago. They say my sight is decidedly bad. The heroine of the day was Miss Blanche Badcock, the only woman in the “ King's Hundred,” who obtained a total of 277 points.. Miss Badcock,- who was making her first appearance in the short for the. King’s Prize, was the most .deliberate competitor on the range. Although she was the only woman in the “Hundred,” she fired with the coolness of an old stager. She and Miss Foster, the only woman to win a prize, run a chicken farm. Miss Badcock said that she was satisfied to be ip the last hundred. “ I am glad,” she remarked, “ at having got so far. I think with a little more practice I may have a chance of carrying off the prize. It is the ambition of my life to inn it.”