RIFLE SHOOTING

Dominion, Volume 15, Issue 49, 21 November 1921, Page 9

RIFLE SHOOTING

1 SATURDAY’S MATCHES Riflemen were favoured with another fine afternoon on Saturday, and there Xas a large ' attendance at Trentham when clubs continued the season’s competitions. All the shooting was done on the long ranges. Petone Suburbs, and Upper Hutt fired at 800 and 900 yards on the Summerville range. Karori and Old Navals occupied the Seddon range at 900 and 1000 yards. Early in the afternoon a light southerly prevailed, which was inclined to fish tail, but after an hour’s shooting it freshened to a strong breeze that blow 1 squarely across the ranges, necessitating very large windage allowances. Scoring generally was only moderate, but there were one or two brilliant performances. The clubs report as follow:— 1 petoneTlub Tho Petone Club concluded this shooting for tho second series by firing its sixth championship competition, ten shots with sighter at 800 and 900 yards. The feature of the afternoon was the fine score of Rifleman A. Jackson, who topped the list with a 49 at the first range and 42 at 900. Under the prevailing conditions it was brilliant shooting. Results: —

*Si»on ’winners. The best aggregates in each division for the series were: —A Division: Barkle, 226; Carter, 217; Guiney, 213. B Division; C. Hoffeins, 201; Baoumgren, 200; Weir, 189. C Division: Flaws, senr., 189; Flaws, junr., 149; Thompson, 141; Riflemen. Barkle and Hoffeins and President Flaws win the trophies. ’ KARORI CLl]B Members of the Karori Rifle Club fired the fourth match of the first series ever long ranges; 10 shots each, at 900 and 1000 yards. The southerly breezd, always a difficult one at Trentham, found marksmen in trouble with their windage allowances and there were many clean targets as a result. At 900 yards the conditions were especially difficult, . the windage Varying at first from 3deg. ’ o” 4deg. left to about 12deg. right. Then it settled down more steadily across the range, keeping so through the JOOO yards shoot, and requiring an allowance of from 20deg. to 25deg. right. Rifleman J. Grove, a junior shot, headed tho net for the day’s shoot with the good score of 77 off the gun (78 being the club standard for their ranges). Rifleman J. Fraser, another junior shot, was a very close second. There was again a pood muster of members. The follow- ' tnp are the highest scores

Tho following aro the results of tho teams’ matches: —A. Butler’s team, 370; H. Croxton’s team, 326; 11. Bulford’s team, 313; W. Judd’s learn, 307; H. Marshall’s team, 300; J. Low’s team, 295. Tho 'following are tho leading scores for tho first series*. — 1 Senior: Deputy-Pres>. H. P. Croxton, 262; Riflemen J. C. Low, 259; H. Bulford, 254: A. Butler, 243; T. Payne, 239; J. Burns. 238; A. Caldwell, 237. Junior: 'Riflemen G. S. Taylor. 258; J. Grove, 249; F. Shaw, 248; R. V. White, 247; L. J. Lipsett, 244; H. Caldwell, 243; E. Daniel, 243; C. Morneon, 242; W. Webb, 2-10. Leading points for tho Dewar Imperial' Cup are as follow:—Deputy-Pres. H. V. Croxton, 15; Riflemen F. Ching, 9; G. S.. Taylor, 7; C. E. Morrison, 5; J. Grove, 5; J. C. Low, 4; J. Fraser, 4; 11. Bulford, 4; P. H. Randall, 4. OLD NAVALS’ CLUB Tha Old Navals’ Rifle Club fired the second match of the second series on ranges 900 and 1000 yards, under very tricky conditions. Rflmn. Guise, Rees, and Franklyn wore top scorers at 900 yards, tho former registering a good 41, with a miss for his tourth shot. At 1000 yai-ds, if. Goldffncn was top with 39. Tho teams’ match for the Martin Challenge Badges resulted in a win tor Rflmn. Pitt’s team with a score of 243, Rflmn. Standidge’s team being next with 228. The first series was also completed. tfibse members who hud been unable to finish their shoot at 900 yards in that series doing so on. Saturday. The results of Saturday’s shoot are as follow: — 900 1000

TEAMS’ SHOOT. Rflmn. Pitt’s T«im.--A. Guise, 78; B. Goldfinch, 70; J. Alexander, 52;'J. Pitt, 43; total, 243. Rflmn. Standidge’s Team.—E. Rees, 75; 11. Sneddon, 59; F. Standidge, 58; K. Chapman, 36; total, 228. Pres. Franklyn’s Team.—Pres. Franklyn, 68; W. Aston, 64; D. Alabaster. 48; C. Carter, 39; total, 219. R|flmn. Conibear's Team.—J. Moye, 40; W. Harris, 34; C. I>. McGuire, 32; B. McGutTe. 29; total. 135. The prize winners of the first series are as under ’ Gun

Next Saturday the club will fire the match of the second series, two shoots ot ten rounds at 600 yards. SUBURBS’ CLUB The Suburbs Defence Rifle Club completed their team's series fit ranges 800 and 900 yards.. Tho weather conditions were good, although the light at times was changeable. These team’s series proved most interesting, all matches being fought out "to ft finish with the keenest interest. H. T. Boon’s team proved the winner, with 12 points ahead of Hunt’s team. The credit for the win is given to H. T. Boon„the captain, for his able coaching. Boon’s team also wins V. Swanson's special trophy. The teams' scores were ns follow:— Boon’s 898, Hunt’s 379, Turner’s 377, Swanson’s 372. The best range score was put up by V. Swanson with 88, McLean and Cotterill following with 86 a piece The ranges for next Saturday will bs 500 and 600 yards. The aggregate scores of trams for th» series of six shoots are as follow :—

PARAPARAUMU CLUB : The Paraparaumu Rifle Club fired a practice match fit 500 and 600 yards, trophies being won by Riflemen VV. Howell and S. G.-Batten. A very boisterous wind running from 9 left to 7 right made good scoring impossible.

A DIVISION. 800 900 yds. yds. Tl. A. Jackson* ,. 49 42 91 R. C. Barkis . 46 37 83 W. Wilson . 37 45 82 W. Ryan . 40 39 79 D. J. Guiney ... 38 38 76 R. H. Nichioll . 43 30 73 J. C. Carter . 44 29 73 T. W. Warburton . ... 42 30 72 A. S. Ballinger . 36 35 71 J. Scott . 35 35 70 B DIVISION. C. Hoffeins* : . 43 40 83 A. Baoumgren . 89 35 74 A. Weir . 31 39 70 D. F. Mason . 28 35 63 C DIVISION. R. E. Flaws* ... 40 37 77 R. E. Flaws, junr. .. . 41 27 68 . W. Body . 34 31 65 R. Withington . 36 26 62 2S 32 57 M. W. Hoffeins, . 28 27 55 E. Hicks . 33 19 51 F. Kershaw . 28 22 50 S. Marshmant . 40 2 42 R. Mockridge . 18 11 29 R. Thompson . 0 22 i 27

900 1000 yds. yds. Hp. Tl. Kflmn. J. Grove 35 42 1 16 Kflmn. J. C. Fraser ... 35 40 3 78 Minn. A. Jensen 39 36 3 78 Kflmn. C. E. Morrison St 39 8 78 Kflmn. G. Bagley 33 33 12 78 Kflmn. W. Webb 3G 34 / 77 Kflmn. J. Burns 32 43 0 75 Kflmn. G. S. Taylor ... 32 36 7 75 Kflmn. A. Butler M 40 0 74 Kflmn. J. Dayman 28 41 5 74 Kflmn. E. Daniel 38 24 11 73 Kflmn. W. Matthews... 39 22 12 73 Kflmn. T. Bayne 39 31. 0 70 Kflmn. Mistin 36 24 20 70 I)ep.-Pre*«. II. Creston 32 35' 0 67 Pres. Marshall 30 3t 0 67 Kflmn. H. Kussell ... 27 25 14 66 Dep.-Pres. W. Judd... 28 34 0 62 Kflmn. F. Shaw 24 26 9 59 Kflmn. F. Smith 31 15 11 57 Kflmn. II. Pouston ... 27 18 It ■56 Kflmn. K. Banda 11 13 41 0 54 Kflmn. L. Lipsett 26 16 15 54 Kflmn. K, V. WJiilo ... 19 20 12 51 Kflmn. T. Cox 10 21 20 51 Kflmn. H. (Bulford ... 31 13 0 44 Kflmn. W. Farquhar ... 17 13 9 39 Kflmn. W. Stanton ... 21 7 11 39 Kflmn. K. Varlow ...... 8 12 18 38 Kflmn. A. N. Mulhano 2 8 2? 30

Rflmn.- A. Guise yds. yds. Up. '’’I41. 37 0 78 Rflmn. E. I’ees 42 33 0 75 Rflmn. B. Goldfi.nch.... 31 39 3 "3 Pres. F. E. Franhlyn... 41 27 0 68 Kflmn. AV. Aston 37 27 0 64 Dep.-Pres. J. Alexander 20 32 12 64 Rflmn. R. Sneddon 34 °5 0 59 Rflmn. F. Standidge ... 30 28 0 .’8 Rflmn. R. Chapman ... 26 10 20 56 Rflmn. 1). J. Alabaster It 34 0 48 Rflmn. J. Jackson •> 23 23 18 Rflmn. J. Evans 28 13 4 45 Rflmn. J. Mayne 35 4 44 Rflmn. C. Carter It 05 44 Rflmn. J. Pitt 20 23 0 43 Rflmn. C. D. McGuire 15 17 11 43 Rflmn. C. Burdette ... 0 14 24 38 Rflmn. VV. Hari'is 13 21 2 *’() Rflmn. S. R. McGuire 21 11 1 .'3 Rflmn. R. McGuire .... 21 8 3 32 Rflmn. J. V. Power ... 10 U 8 32 O«p, Pres. R. Pringle 14 18 4 so

Kflmn. G. Howe 24 4 0 28 Rfltnn. W. J. Conibear 0 23 0 23 Kflmn. U. Lawton 9 0 12 21

score. Hp. ',11Rflmn J Pitt .. 058 0 358 Rflmn. W. J. Conibear. .. 355 0 355 Rflmn. 11. J. Ala'Oaster.. .. 315 31 316 Rflmn. B. R. McGuire.. ,. 301 40 341 Rflmn. E. Rees .. 318 20 338 Rflmn. A. Guise .. 306 31 337 Rflmn. W. Aston . 329 0 829 Rflmn. IV. Harris . 305 24, ?2B

Points. Boon’s Teem . 2258 Hunt’s Team . 2246 TnrnftF*. 4 ? Tohm . 2213 . 2192 Detailed scores as as ; under: BOON’S TEAM. 800 900 vds. yds. T1 J. Cotterill 41 45 86 R. J. Gray ■ 38 44 82 F. McDonald .... 42 35 77 IV. J. H. Haase .... 42 35 " 77 Pres. Bertram 44 32 76 H. T. Boon 42 32 74 HUNT’S TEAM. H. R. Hunt 43 39 82 T. Goodall 43 37 80 R. E. Hester 39 40 79 L. Lewis 37 33 70 B. Dunn ..... 35 • 33 68 T. R. Caplin .... 33 32 65 A. Henderson .... 32 23 55 G 5V i t> r h c o m ho .... 30 4 34 G. Emms 19 13 32 TURNER’S TEAM. S. F. McLean 39 47 86 Dept.-Pres. Fellingham ... 43 36 79 ... 35 36 71 Dept.-Pres. Turner ..... 38 33 71 JI. McLoughlin 34 36 70 29 12 45 11 11 22 SWANSON’S TEAM. 43 45 88 37 38 75 A. J. Dodd 40 32 72 A. C. Bellamore .... 35 36 71 36 30 66 A. C. Moore 17 17 34

Scores:— 500 KOO vds. yds. Hp. 'J'l. W. Howell 42 29 8 79 S. G. Batten 37 38 0 75 B. Powaott 39 33 2 74 G. Maclean E. Weggery 33 40 27 31 12 0 « 2 71 70 40 28 32 67 Vice-Pres. C. Dowsett 35 31 0 B. Waggery II. Maclean H. Waggery 40 21 2 22 16 8 46