THE KING’S PRIZE

Wanganui Chronicle, Volume LXXXIII, Issue 19648, 6 September 1926, Page 3

THE KING’S PRIZE

SERGEANT FULTON’S WIN. SECOND VICTORY AT EISLEY. The King’s Prize —the blue riband of markmanship—has gone for tho second time to Sergeant Arthur Fulton, formerly of the Queen’s Westminsters (16th London Regiment), and bv general consent the most famous shot in the Empire. Fulton won in the only tie-shoot among four men that has ever boon necessary in the final for the King’s Prize. The three other men who ended Ihe third stage with an aggregate of 286 points were Lieut. L. B. Hughes, R.A., Dr. F. 11. Kelly, late of the University of London, 0.T.C., and Cadet T. Vezey, late of the Cambridge University O.T.C. In the tie-shoot, after the sighting shots,( Vezey fired first, scoring a magpie (3 points). Kelly and Hughes scored 4 points and 3 points respectively, and Fulton got an almost central bull. Fulton’s next shot was an inner (4 points); so was Kelly’s. Vezey and Hughes had magpies. A bull was made by Fulton with his third shot, and tho crowd broke through ropes and police cordons, ready almost to mob their beloved Arthur, who had repeated his vici tory of 1912.

Fourteen times in the King’s Hundred is now Arthur Fulton’s record, and other prizes he has won for rifle shooting run into hundreds. Ho was only about a year old when the Queen’s Prize was won at Wimbledon in 1888 by his father. Private Fulton, of the 13th Middlesex. Tn the. hundred were also a father and his two sons—Messrs A. T. C. Hale and Messrs F. C. and A. C. Hale, aged 23 and 21 respectively. It was the older son’s birthday, and his aggregate score of 279 points—only seven loss than Fulton’s—beat that of his brother by one point and that of his father by seven points.