Australian Riflemen in England
(BEirFEK'S *JELEGBA-_:S.} ' ' * > : ;vr~-?,]^IOX.-I**lj.Js For the Ojoseeh's prizey'the-folldwing^ are the averages at the :2ooyds range : ..,..- —Australian men averaged 27.46; Canada, 27.9; India, 25,71. At Wimbledon to-day, in the firing .* for' the first; stage ofthe. Queen's prize, r . the following points were scored by the Australians at 6100 yards (7 shots) ; Ijieut. Golding,^^ Tasmania, 31 ; ; BtivateAllen, Victoria, 25; Colour-Sfergt, . Gee, New South Wales, and Sergt. Taker, Victoria,, 24; Lieut-Colonel Sleep, Victoria, 20 ; Private Churchill, Victoria, l&; M. A. B, Fenn, New South Wales, 17 ; Lieut. Ecmms, Ti_svi * mania, 12. The highest Australian scoring, at all ranges, so far (200, ' 500^ 600 yards) for which- th^ highest '■- English score is 96, is as *R>Howi:— - Sergt. Grimes, Queensland, 81,; Colour-S'erg£ ' Barrow, Queehstaiid, :*■.-' 77; Lieut. 'Keating, '■' New South Wales, 75; Lieut. Watchorn, Taai- : c mania, 70; Captain Blackshaw, New '"* South Wales,; 69 ;" Captain _A)weil' Victoria, 54; Lieut. Cork, New South : Wales, 54.- A ' ,_ .., ,• .. : .; r ;
j deceived July 17v 130 a:n». j. ; ,y::iY?yAy yALoptvos, |wiy .__■.. 1 'By his score in the- first stage, lieutenant Goidi ng, of Tasmania, SergeantGrimes, of Queensland, are eligible* for entry for the second stage of thee. •Queen's prize. d ' .*■■•' a ■ .-. - I
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Feilding Star, Volume VIII, Issue 15, 17 July 1886, Page 2
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194Australian Riflemen in England Feilding Star, Volume VIII, Issue 15, 17 July 1886, Page 2
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