Cambridge University were beaten by Oxford University inthe Humphry Cup last year—the result of that competition this year has not been cabled—but their lowest scorer in that match, I. A. Duncan-Millar, eventually made a name for himself by winning the Gold Cross fór the Grand Aggregate at the meeting with 497, was only one point below the two tied leaders in the King's Hundred and, in the final stage of the King's Prize won the N.R.A. badge and £5 with 261, eleven points behind the King's Prizeman's score, Duncan-Millar's success then was. evidently the shadow of the coming event which is now acclaimed in the victory of D. L, Birney as King's Prizeman with 283—eleven points better than the score which was good enough to win the coveted trophy last year. Birney has left Cambridge but even then he would not be the first Cambridge man to win the prize for that honour is commemorated in the Humphry Cup, having been won by A. P. Humphry, the historian of the National Rifle Association, in 1871 just as he was about to leave the University. Humphry also won the Grand Aggregate Gold Cross in 1878, but that record does not deprive Duncan, Millar of the credit of being the first undergraduate to win the cross. Birney must be one of the youngest winners of the King's Prize—a possible rival to him in point of age is A. G, Fulton of the Queen's Westminsters who, stimulated by the knowledge that his father was a King's Prizeman, won the trophy for the first time before reaching the age of 21.
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