Manchester Rifles.
The sixth and final competition for the General Feilding trophy, a haudsome silver inkstand, took place on the Feilding range yesterday, aud resulted in a well -deserved win for Corporal Parker. The conditions were the four best out of six competitions, Snider rifles. Following are the scores : —
Total scores for four highest competitors—Parker, 300; Richards, '284; Aitken, 282 ; Petherick, 259. A practice match (Martini) was fired after the above, with the following result : —
A meeting of the Shooting Committee will be held at Light's Jiofcel on Friday, at 7.30 p.m^
Four Men. 300 600 700 tl. Sergt Aitken ... 28 27 22 77 Corpl. Parker ... 24 26 17 6* Sergt. Petherick 28 14 15 52 Lieut. Halcoinbe 15 19 2 36 Total 00 86 56 232 Three Men. 300 600 700 tl. Lieut. Bray ... 24 31 23 78 Vol. Scott ... 24 25 25 74 MrFlygor ... 21 26 22 69 Total 69 82 70 221
200 300 500 Total Corp Parker ... 31 24 19 74 Vol Richards ... 30 24 16 70 Sergt Aitken ... 29 22 12 63 Serst Petherick 28 24 13 65
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Feilding Star, Volume XVI, Issue 211, 7 March 1895, Page 2
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