BISLEY MEETING.

Rangitikei Advocate and Manawatu Argus, Volume XXXII, Issue 8870, 22 July 1907, Page 2

BISLEY MEETING.

The King’s Prize; Won by an Australian. Press Association—Copyright. London, July 20. At Bisley the second stage for the King’s Prize concluded. Private Buckley, of Manchester, won the silver medal, with a score of 199. Sight Australians have qualified for the third stage. London, July 21.

Lieut. Addison, of South Australia, won the King’s Prize at Bisley with a score of 318, after Armourer Padgett, of the East Yorkshires, who scored 319, had been disqualified because he was given an extra shot for a bad cartridge which missed the target. Addison tied with Private Hope, of the Second Middlesex, hut won on the shoot-off. Addisou scored 48 at 800 yards, totalling 241, against Sergeant Ommundsen and Private Bates 243, Hope scored 240. Addison, Ommundsen and Hope were equal at 900 yards with a score of 282, Padgett 279. Padgett was hailed as winner for some time, when it was rumoured a protest had been lodged. The Council held a meeting on the spot and ■ decided that the range master’s issue of an extra round of ammunition contravened by-law 182 hence Padgett with only 316 was placed firth, winning £2O. During the shoot-off a huge crowd encircled Addison and Hope, including Lord Roberts and all the Australians. Both marksmen were cool and collected. They scored inners for sighters, then A* disou rung on a hulls-eye, then an inner, followed by another bnlls-eye, total 14. Hope’s three shots were an inner and a couple of magpies, total 10. Addisou was hoisted on a chair and carried around the camp, the procession being headed by the baud of the Liverpool Volunteers. Half the bearers of the chair were Australians, the rest belonged to Hope’s Corps and the London Rifle Brigade. Princess Christian pinned on the gold medals. The victory was extremely popular. The Canadians gave Addison an immense reception. Several other Australians secured prize money in the match.