MARKSMEN AT BISLEY
UNPRECEDENTED DUEL KOLAPORE CUP TO CANADA By Cable.—Press Association..—-Copyright I.ONDON, Wednesday. At the annual meeting at Bisley there was an unprecedented duel in a Service Rifle match between Lieutenant Macgregor and Sergeant A. G. Fulton, o£ England. They tied in the competition for the Times Cup, and then fired three shots to decide the winner. All were bulls. They then fired shot for shot, until one man dropped a point. The competitors scored 17 bulls each in succession, and Macgregor scored the eighteenth bull and Fulton shot only an inner. In other competitions, Boxall Chapman, of the Australian Flying Corps, scored 34 and 34 in two stages of the St. George’s Cup competitions, and he stands twelfth in the 100 who will shoot in the final on Saturday. Canada won the Kolapore Cup with 1,138 jjoints. Great Britain was second with 1,125 points. Sproat scored 34 of a possible 35 in the first stage of the St. George match.—A. and N.Z. Sergeant A S. Fulton i.-f a well-known competitor at Bisley. He was lately in the Queen’s Westminster Rifles. Last year he won the King’s Prize with a score of 286, after a tie with Lieutenant R. B. Hughes, of the Royal Artillery (Territorial Forces)..
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Sun (Auckland), Volume 1, Issue 96, 14 July 1927, Page 7
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