RIFLE SHOOTING

Evening Star, Issue 19803, 29 February 1928, Page 6

RIFLE SHOOTING

THE NATIONAL MEETING KING'S PRIZE PROSPECTS [Pub United Press Association.] TRENTHAM, February 29. The main interest is centred oil the afternoon’s shoot, iyhcn the King’s Prize will be decided. M‘lver, who had a substantial lead yesterday morning, was looked upon as almost a certainty. He had been shooting consistently, but the vagaries of Trentham weather proved a stumbling block on the long ranges. E. King, the leader, who was steady throughout the meeting, lias been a competitor for some years, fn 1927 he. was nineteenth on the list. James, the second man, who was champion in 1913, won the Carbine Cup and the Trentham aggregate in 1923 and 1924. M’lver and O’Donnell (Petone) are well in the running, as is Piper (Christchurch) and Carter (Linton). The conditions this morning are-fav-orable for . good marksmanship—dull, with a clear atmosphere. The champion teams’ match is in progress, in conjunction with the North-South Island and Australia-New Zealand match. On Thursday a triangular match will be held between New South Wales, Victoria, and New Zealand. CHAMPION TEAM MATCH. Champion Team Match, 300, 500, and GOO yards. Seven shots. £2O and shield—P.etone No. ] (E. Ballinger, W. Ballinger, O’Donnell, Nicholl, and M'lvcr) ... 472 £]0 —Wanganui No. 1 ... ... ... 471 £6 —Napier 4(58 £s—Suburbs No. 2 £3—Christchurch No. 1 465

The following take £2 ouch:—Akarana 463, Linton A 462, New Plymouth 460.

Also competed; Suburbs No. 1 459, Opaki No. 1 459, Ashburton 458, Petone No. 2 455, Greytown, Old Navals, and Karori No. 1 454, Blenheim 452, Featherston A 449, Featherston B and Opaki 448, Karori No. 2 446, Linton B 445, Kimbolton 444, Wanganui B 442, Upper Hutt 441, Kiwi 438, Invercargill and Christchurch No. 2 436, Petone No. 3 434, Tararua 431. Won last year by Christchurch, with 476.

Rifleman C. H. M'Keich, Kiwi D.R.C., tho winner of the tyro aggregate (which carries with it th 6 gold medal presented by Ins own club and the holding of the Simmonds Cup for one year), is twenty-one years of age, and commenced shooting in 1922-23 season. This is his first visit to a National Rifle Association meeting at Trentham. Ho comes of a shooting family. The late Lieutenant R. M'Kcich (killed in the Boer War) first fired at the big meetings in Oamaru in 1888, exactly forty years ago, and was a competitor almost every year until going to South Africa with the 9th New Zealand Contingent, from which ho never returned. His father, Rifleman W. E. MTvoich, has visited Trentham on several occasious since the compotitio’ns wore revived after riie Great War. Both he and his father competed with a fair amount of success on their visits to the New Zealand Bisley, but the younger generation overshadows their performances.