1912 Olympic Games Official Report Part 2

total distance of all the hits from the centre, a procedure that wouldnot have taken any great length of time, nor have caused any greatamount of trouble.h) TEAM COMPETITION WITH MINIATURE=RIFLE.DISTANCE 25 METRES.3 p. m. Friday, 5 July.The regulations were as in the preceding event.The competition was open to one team of four men from eachnation.Seven nations had entered a team, Denmark, France and Hungarywithdrawing from the competition, however. The remaining teams wereplaced as follows:NationN a m eT:l pointsscoredbycompe-titorTotalpointsscored byteamRemarksSWEDENH. von HolstE. CarlbergW. CarlbergG. Boivie1st prizeGold medalGREAT BRITAIN W. E. PimmJ. PepéW. MilneW. K. StylesU. S. A. T. S. HirdW. A. SproutMc DonellN. T. Leushner2nd prizeSilver medal3rd prizeBronze medalGreeceJ. ThéophilakisT. MavrommatisN. LevidisJ. ThéophilasThis competition gave rise to a very sharp struggle between thethree winning teams, and the nerves, both of the marksmen andlookers-on, were put to a severe test lasting till the very last minute.The British team shot first, scoring 1917 with 99 hits, thus missingthe target only once. Then came the Swedish team. Everythingwent very well at first, but then came a piece of bad luck; one ofthe competitors, by some means or another, not having time to dischargeone of his shots, so that the team had a miss put down toits account, as the regulations prescribed that a shot not fired wasto be counted as a miss. The Swedes made 925 points, however,and thus beat Great Britain’s score, in any case.695