The Archive · 1938

Remarkable Tie When S.V.C. Meet Seaforths Shoot on Miniature Range Has Surprising Result

A rem: rkable tie occurred when the crack marksmen of the Seaforth Highlanders challenged the Shanghai Volunteer Corps to an indoor miniature range shoot on Wednesday. The eight best. scores counted om each team of ten men and of 2.possible 800 points, each team, strangely enough, gained 694. The feat of the S.V.C. marksmen is particularly noteworthy in view of the fact that th shoot was held on a ministuré range to which they were unaccustomed and that targets which they had not used before were employed.

The best individual score was made by Sgt. Garrow of the Scoferths with 95. He was most closely followed by it. Hil and Sgt. England? of th S.V.C. The full scores were:

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