Word: bisley
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Company Sergeant Major C. F. H. Bayly, 58, English marksman of the 4th Volunteer Battalion of the West Kent Regiment: the famed King's Prize ($1,250), a gold medal and a gold badge in the National Rifle Association's meeting at Bisley Camp, England; with 289 out of a possible 300, second highest score on record. Desmond Burke of Canada, King's Prizewinner in 1924, won the Challenge Trophy, $50, and the Rifle Association's Grand Cross for an aggregate...
...these lay in a 5-mi. firing line at Camp Perry (Ohio) last week. They were shooting, for the most part in rain and mud, in the 58th annual National Rifle & Pistol Matches. The three-week Camp Perry shoot is the biggest in the world, dwarfing England's Bisley. This year 3,000 competitors broke all previous Camp Perry records in attendance...
...British .22 calibre rifle team: a match against the U. S., at Bisley Camp, England, 3,927 to 3,925 ¶Eleanor Holm, slim, blonde-haired swimming champion: a new world's record (4 min., 47 sec.) for the 300 metres back stroke, surpassing her own previous record of 4 min., 49 2/5 sec.; at Glen Cove...