BISLEY SHOOTING
Australia Leads in Empire Match (Eeceived 20, 11.30 a.m.) LONDON, July 19. The Empiro shqoting riiatch at Bisley, which Australia and Britain have each won four times, opened in a good light with little wind. Shots at 300, 500 and 6000 yards wero shot to-day, the 800, 900 and 1000 yards matches will take place to-morrow. At tlie end of the 300 yards Australia and Britain were level with 374, Canada and TurUa, the only other competitors being 365. A magnificent team's slioot at 500 yards at whieli the first four, dropped only four. points and two made possibles gav© Australia tlie lead witli 387 and.an ag'gregate of 761, Britain beinng 756, Canada 744, and India 732. The day's aggregates were: Australia 1131, Britain 1121, Canada 1116, India 1091,
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Hawke's Bay Herald-Tribune, Issue 156, 20 July 1937, Page 6
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