RIFLE SHTOOTING.
[by TKLKUIiAPU —I’Kll FIIESS ASSOCIATION.j TREXTHAM, March 22. Towards inioii the weather grew (■older, though line, and gathering clouds with a following fishtail' wind of very uncertain strength played havoc with scores at the second (600 yards) stage of lhe Otago match. Yeale added !i) to 15 notched at 8()J yards and will probably win the match. Taylor ul Kniori put one sightor into the bank, then sent ten into the black disc, the only possible refolded at this range. The three Venders, West. Roots and. Whiteman, luul a rough passage at GO-) voids, all shooting at the same time. They were caught by the same troublesome shifts of wind, having to go out as much as ten degrees right and each had a miss in his string of figures. Roots finished with 57. making him g] fee the match. West 35 and SI. and Whiteman ended up with 83. In the meantime D. Keif, who had come hack from 800 yards with 12 and 44, bringii.., his match total to So and lifting him into the leadership for the belt w ;ih -|7s, followed by West 476. White man 475. and Roots -174. There dees j not appear to he any likely to displace ! these.
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Hokitika Guardian, 22 March 1927, Page 3
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208RIFLE SHTOOTING. Hokitika Guardian, 22 March 1927, Page 3
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