BISLEY RIFLE MEETING.

Wairarapa Age, Volume XXX, Issue 8493, 23 July 1907, Page 5

BISLEY RIFLE MEETING.

I KING'S PRIZE WON BY AN | AUSTRALIAN. Received July 22, 9.6 a.m. 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 Yorkshire Rifles, who scored 319, had been disqualified because he was given an extra shot for a bad cartridge, which misled the target. Addison tied with Private Hope, of the Second Middlesex, but won on the shoot off. Lieut. Addison who won the King's Prize, secured 48 at 800 yards, totalling 241, against 243 by Sergeant Ommundsen and Private Bates, the Gold Medallist of 1901 and 1890 respectively. Hope scored 240. Addison, Ommundsen and Hope were equal at 900 yards with a score of 282. Padgett made 279. Padgett had been hailed as the winner for some time, when it was rumoured that 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's score was only 316 and he was placed fifth, winning £2O. During the shoot-off a large crowd encircled Addison and Hope, including Lord Roberts and all the Australians. Both marksiren were cool and collected. They scored inners for sighters, then Addison rang on a bull'seye, then an inner, followed by another bull's-eye, making a total of 14. Hope's three shots were an inner and a couple of magpies—a total of 10. Addison was hoisted on a chair, and carried around the camp, headed by the band of the Liverpool Volunteers. Half the bearers of the chair were Australians; thereat belonged to Hope's corps and to the London Rifles Brigade. Princess Christian pinned on the winner's gold medal. The victory was extremely popular. The Canadians gave Addison an immense reception. Several other Australians secured prize-money in the match. Received July 22; 9.28 p.m. LONDON, July 22. The Australians won eight out of twelve prizes presented by the London City Corporation for the best colonial scorers in the Grand Aggregate, winning £BO out of £95. (This is the first time the muchcoveted trophy has been brought south of the Line, though it has been won twice by Canadians —Riftemin Hayhurst in 1895, and Perry in 1904. The prize consists of £250 and the Gold Medal of the National Rifle Association).