RIFLE SHOOTING

Dominion, Volume 15, Issue 25, 24 October 1921, Page 9

RIFLE SHOOTING

OLD NAVALS CLUB The Old. Navals Bi fie Club fired jheir third match of the first series at Trentham on Saturday afternoon, over ranges 800 and 500 yards. The weather was very favourable, although a fairly tricky wind troubled some of the marksmen. Individual scores were as follow:—

KARORI CLUB Members of the Karori Rifle Club firod the first match of the first aeries on the Trentham range last Saturday at ranges of 300 and 500 yards, ten shots and sighter at each range. There was a very good muster of the club, some thirty-eight turning out. A slight fishtail wind prevailed, varying from about five degrees to three right, which found marksmen in trouble.at times. Rifleman F. Ching again topped the list for the day’s shoot, Rifleman P. H. Randall (a recently-joined junior shot) coming second with the fine score of 8G off I the gun. Rifleman F. Shaw (another junior shot) was also well up in the list. The following are the detailed scores:—

teams matches: — Rflmn. H. Bulford’s team 441 Pres. H. Marshall's team 423 Dep.-Pres. W. Judd’s team 420 Rflmn. J. C. Low’s team 420 Dep.-Pres. H. V. Croxton’s team 420 Rflmn. A. Butler’s team 409 Points for the Dewar Imperial Cup were gained by the following: —Rflmn. F. W. Ching, 5: Rflmn. P. H. Randall. 4; Rflmn. W. H. Cox, 3; Rflmn. F. Shaw, 2; Rflmn. W. Stanton, 1. SUBURBS CLUB

The Suburbs Defence Bifle Club continued their 1 team series on Saturday at Trentham, at ranges 200 and 500 yards. The attendance was not as large as on previous Saturdays. The best shoot for the day was by P. Barcham (91), closely followed by J. L. Turner (90). The best Tange shoot at 500 yards was by J? Turner (48), and at 600 yards by T. Goodall (47). Scores: —

N.S.W. ASSOCIATION MEETING Sydney, October 22. Williams and Cutler’s tic score won <37. Tho Maori champion was nowhere in tho running.—Press Assn. AUSTRALIAN TEAM TO VISIT BISLEY Sydney, October 22. The Commonwealth Rifle Council has decided that an Australian team shall visit Bisley in 1923, and <£lsoo was granted for preliminary expenditure for building a hut for the team. —Frees Assn. The population of Scotland on June 19-la.se was, according to tho preliminary report on tho 13th Census of Scotland, 4,882,288, of whom 2,348,403 were male 2.553.885 were female. Since 1801, when the first census was taken and the population was 1,M8,420, each successive ConBus' has shown an increase, but the Increase of 121,384 shown by tlio present census over the population in 1911 is the smallest on record. The male population has increased 39,564 since 1911 and th 0 female 81,820. There are 10,314 people in Scotland who can speak only Gaelic and 151,159 who speak both Gaelic and English. The former category has decreased by 8086 since 1911, and the latter by 32,839. Tho principal GaelicRpeaking are Ross and Cromarty, Inverness, and Argyll.

300 500 yds. yds. Hp. Tl. Rflmn. AV. Harris 41 41 8 90 Rflmn. A. Guise 38 43 9 90 Bep.-Pras. J. Alexander 38 34 18 90 Rflmn. J. Pitt A, 44 45 0 89 Rflmn. D. J. Alabaster 36 43 9 88 Rflmn. iS. R.McG-uire... 37 36 15 88 Rflmn. W. J. Conibear 46 41 0 87 Rflmn. E. Rees 42 37 7 86 Rflmn. J. Evans ...... 38 38 10 86 Rflmn. J. Move 40 3-1 10 84 Kflmn. C A Carver 32 38 14 84 Rflmn. J. V. Power ... 30 39 14 83 Rflmn. R. Goldfinch ... 42 31 8 81 Rflmn. R. Sneddon 38 42 0 80 Rep.-Pres. R. Pringle... 30 42 8 80 Rflmn. R. McGuire ... 38 41 0 79 Rrea. I i 1 . E. Ffilnklyn... 38 40 0 78 Rflmn. W. Aston 40 37 0 77 Rflmn. C. R. McGuire 35 27 14 76 Rflmn. IP. Standidgo ... 89 36 0 75 Rflmn. A. Lawton 35 35 0 70 Rflmn. C. Burdette ... 26 21 20 67 Rflmn. R. Chapman ... 23 17 14 54

300 500 yds. yds. Hp. Tl. Rflmn. F. W. Ching... 46 45 0 91 Mmn, P. H. Randall 42 44 5 91 Rflmn. W. H. Cox 41 43 7 . 91 Rflmn. F. Shaw • ., 39 41 11 Z S1 Rflmn. AV. Stanton ... 42 38 11 91 Rflmn. H. Russell 36 38 17 91 Rflmn. H. B. Bulford 47 43 0 90 Rflmn. A. Caldwell 45 44 0 89 Rflmn. J. C. Low 45 44 0 89 Rflmn. J. Grove l 39 43 6 88 Rflmn. J. Fraser 40 39 ■ 7 86 Rflmn. R. H. Caldwell 40 39 7 86 Dep.-Pres. IT. Croxton 44 41 0 85 Rflmn. W. Farquhar ... 41 41 5 85 Rflmn. G. S. Taylor ... 40 36 9 85 Rflmn. A. .Butler 43 42 0 84 Rflmn. W. Webb 37 40 7 84 Rflmn. R. V. White ... 34 37 12 83 Rflmn. J. Line 35 36 12 83 Dep.-Pres. AV. Judd ... 37 45 0 82 Rflmn. J. Burns 41 41 0 82 Rflmn. AV. Willoughby 41 41 0 82 Rflmn. A. C. Jensen ... 39 40 2 81 Rflmn. E. Daniel 37 35 9 81 Rflmn. T. Payne X36 44 0 80 Rflmn. R. Caughley ... 37 43 0 80 Rflmn. JI. Preston 36 35 9 80 Rflmn. W. Matthews 35 35 9 79 Rflmn. A. N. Mulhane 33 28 18 79 Rflmn. T. Cox 23 36 20 79 Rflmn. R. V arlow 29 30 20 79 Rflmn. C. E. Morrison 35 35 7 77 Rflmn. G. Barnicoat... 32 25 20 77 Rflmn. AV. I. Clark ... .30 39 6 75 Rflmn. L. J. Lipsett ... 29 26 20 75 Pres. H. Marshall 35 / 36 0 71 Rflmn. K. Randall 37/ 30 0 67 Rflmn. J. W. Dayman 33 32 0 65 The following are the results of the

Hunt's Team. 300 yds. y 500 ds. Tl. •.T. 'Goodall . 40 47 87 H. R. Hunt . 44 43 87 L. Lewis . 41 45 86 T. R. Caplin . 42 42 84 R. E. Hester . 41 37 78 A. Henderson ........ . 35 38 73 Cadet I> r Jones . 34 38 72 G. Emms . 35 32 67 *B. Dunns Swanson’s . 32 Team. — — H. A. Snelling , . 43 44 87 CS. Milroy .. 42 43 85 V. Swanson . 40 £1 84 A. W. Boniface . 43 39 82 A. J. Dodd . 44 37 81 A. C. Bellamore . 38 42 80 L. D. Turner . 37 42 79 Turner’s Team. R. Barcham .. 45 46 91 > J. L. Turner .. 48 42 90 ' W. G. Fellingham.. .. 44 41 85 S. F. M'Lean .. 40 41 81 Cadet Bertram .. 36 35 71 •A. Bodley .. 34 — — •J. Doyles .. 36 — — J. Smart’s Team. ... . A. Harris .. 43 45 . 88 W. Haase .. 45 42 87 Cadet Hislop .. 40 41 81 H. McLoughlin .... .. 36 40 76 H. Futter .. 29 17 46 •J. Smart 41 Boon’s Team. F. McDonald .. 41 44 85 H. T. Boon .. 41 43 84 Pres. Bertram .. 40 42 82 J. M. Neal .. 38 40 ' 78 •Did not complete at 500 yards.