KING’S PRIZE

Hokitika Guardian, 21 July 1930, Page 3

KING’S PRIZE

WON BY WOMAN. MISS FOSTER’S FINE SHOOTING. United Press Association—By Electric 1 eiegru pti. —Copy n gin. j LONDON, July 18. Aliss Foster carried Her recordbreaking a step further when siie became the first woman to earn the right to shoot in the final of the King’s prize. She made 48 at each range, an aggregate of 144 giving her fourth place in the competition. Lieut. Andrews is the winner of tlip silver medal with a score of 14?. LONDON, July 19. Alias Majorie Foster won the King’s Prize jwitli a score of 280. She is the first woman to win this trophy. Miss Majorie Foster, after winning the King’s Prize, said “I am a teetotaller, but to-day I think I’ll have a glass of champagne!”- This concession she made to mark her triumph ever m»nv of the Empire’s best rifle shots. She is. doing her share in adding women’s -‘laurels in a year which has seen Antv Johnson’s flight to Australia. and Winifred Brown's victory in the King’s Cup air race. Aliss Foster is thirty-three years of age. She served in the Women’s Legion as an ambulance driver during the war. She is a familiar figure in rough tweeds and close-cropped hair, under a' beret at Bisley, where she has competed for the last seven years. Not even the excitement of many chattering woman watching her final shot at the thousands yards affected Miss Foster’s imperturbality. She was equally calm when waving her hand in reply to terrific cheering when she was hoisted in the famous King’s Prizeman’s Chair, and carrier shoulder high around the camp, the band playing “The Conquering Hero,” wh.le cavalrymen cleared the way. Miss Foster says that she did not know that-it was such a close tiling. She was merely having a comfortable afternoon’s shoot. She did not . know that she had won until Lord Jellicoe came to congratulate her. She scored ten bulls at the thousand yards, ol which seven were consecutive, and her last shot was a bull. Lieutenant Eccles, of iSeaforth Highlanders, was the runner-up, with 279. He had a great chance of heating Miss Foster. He needed a bull for his last shot, but lie only scored an outer, giving him sixty-six out of a' possible of seventy-five for the match against the winner’s 68. Lieutenant Andrews, a Londoner, and quartermaster Parker, of tiie Army 'Service Corps, tied for third place with 278. • The King telegraphed his heartiest congratulations and described Aliss Foster’s achievement ns one of the most wonderful in the history of rifle shooting. The new gold medallist was not permitted to go home to her chicken farm at Firm-ley Green on her motor cycle, as usual. , The local fire engine turned out, and took her back in triumph on its tender. other “mascots,” hut perhaps the strangest choice of all was that of Misr ALaureen Guinness, who was seen with pets of a toad and a lizard. FIRST ENGLISH GLIDERS The first certificates for gliding pilots to be issued in England were recently awarded to two British flying experts who completed their flying tests at Ivinghoe Beacon, near Dunstable. Certificate No. 1 went to M r Lowe AVykl, an aircraft engineer who who was connected with several of the biggest aircraft companies in the country. The second certificate was won by Captain Lattimer Needham, the education officer at the R A. F. Cadet station Halton Aerodrome. Captain Needham was responsible for the design and production of several types of light aeroplanes.