RIFLEMEN AT BISLEY.
KING’S PRIZE GOMPETITION. 100 IN THE LAST STAGE. A LEGLESS MAN’S TRIUMPH. (Omclal Wireless.v (Received July 22, 11.0 a.m.) RUGBY, July 21. Ninety-nine men and one woman fired at Bislcy rifle meeting on the last stage of the competition for the King's Prize. The woman was Miss Marjorie Foster, who won the event in 1930 — the only time it was ever captured by one of her sex.
The male competitors Included five who had previously won the Prize, as well as Lieutenant Sutherland, who lost both legs in tho war and had to be wheeled to the firing points in an Invalid chair. Lieutenant Sutherland won the St. George’s Challenge Vase, given for 15 shots at 900 yards, after two shootsoff.
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Waikato Times, Volume 118, Issue 19634, 22 July 1935, Page 7
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