KOLAPORE CUP

Timaru Herald, Volume CXLIII, Issue 20782, 17 July 1937, Page 19 (Supplement)

KOLAPORE CUP

AUSTRALIA'S POPULAR WIN United Press Assoeinuon—By Electric Telegraph rnnvri ß ht LONDON, July 15. Australia won the Kolapore Cup, with 367 at 600 yards, and an aggregate score of 1121, Other scores were:—Guernsey 1114, Mother Country 1108, Canada 739, India 1095, Jersey 1076. Immediately the Australian win was announced, Merrctt was overwhelmed with the congratulations of other team captains, and many prominent shooting officials, including the septuagenarian Lord Cottesloe, president of the National Rifle Association, who is still competing at Bisley. Merrett (captain of the winning team), interviewed by the Australian Associated Press, said he hoped his success would Influence the Commonwealth to remember the promise that a team should visit Bisley every four years. Surely if the isolated Falkland Islands could send a team regularly, it showed the importance of Bisley to rifle shooting in the outposts of the Empire. Among the competitors was Woods who coached the Oxford University eight, which beat Cambridge under Kolapore Cup conditions, Oxford scoring 1107. Woods to-day, scored 47-47-45. The Australian P. M. Gillies, won the Northland competition with a total of 83.