RIFLE SHOOTING.

Otaki Mail, 22 March 1922, Page 3

RIFLE SHOOTING.

♦ WHARBROA CLUB'S TROPHY MATCH. The Whnreroa Rifle Club fired a match at ranges SCO and 900 yards on Saturday, March 11th, for tho McGill trophy. The weather conditions were none too favorable, a very tricky wind being in evidence. Rifleman M. Maclean, one of the Club's veteran shots, was the trophy winner, with Rifleman E. Weggery as runner up. Results are as follows: —

On Saturday next. March 25th, the Club fires its final shoot for the Belt presented by Mr L. Howell and Mr A. Robinson's trophy at ranges '.""< and 10U0 yards, when the Club would like all members to be present. FRESH FOOD'AND ICE CO.'S CUP. The annua] competition for the above Cup, between the Riile Club* of this coast, look plaoe on the Hautere Riile Club's range on Saturday last, tire competing clubs being Hautere ;holders), Whareroa, Ngatiawa, and Levin, Foxton uot being "represented. The Hautere Club succeeded in upholding their title to the Cup, by the small margin of three points from the Ngatiawas, who narrowly missed repeating their win of ihe Shield competition. This makes the sixth occasion on which the Hautere Club have .won tlie Cup, out of nine contests, • record they should be proud of. They also put. up the line average'of points per man at 500 yards, which really put them in a winning position, otherwise Ngatiawa would have won the double. The day was very blustering, with a changing light, which made .shooting very hard. The i scores of the two leading teams were j very good under the circumstances. The other two teams were quite unable to gauge the changing conditions, J he gold medal donated by the Executive lor the. highest aggregate in the two competitions was won by Itfhn. A. Thomson, oi the Hautere Club, with ! a .score of 18b points, Rfliu. Fred. Monk of the .Ngatiawa Club being runnerup with 184. Following are the deHATJTERE.

GBIGKET. 1 SHANNON OUTPLAYS TE HORO. j was played at Shannon on Satta .between the local teani, the ipaißistifMhe clu'b competition in the northern end of the district, and Te Horo, 'j'ho won a similar position of e'minencie in the southern, to decidc:he club championship of the district. The result was a decisive win for the home team by 156 to 58 an the single mniugs. The winners hu out freely. and only lout members of the team failed to run their scores into double figures. The losers, with the exception of Lawry (27) and Johnson. (11), were very quickly dispatched, mainly through the agency of Morgan's bowling. "This player secured the remark- J ably good average of eight for -G. Details of the scoring are as under:— TE HOBO. Day."'r> .Morgan ■•■•■■ 6 McNeilly, !> Morgan * j.;nvry, b Grainger ** O. Ki/jg, b Morgan ■• J»uti,"c Prain, b Morgan •• jj n. King, b Morgan V Bernard, c Olsen, b Randall ° Aspinal, c Hook, b Morgah 1 Johnson, 1.b.w., b Morgan ] 1 Clements, not out - iones, n Morgan , Extras '• __ SS -Total Howling analysis: Randall one for r A, Grainger one for 5, arid Morgan Sight for 26. SHANNON. Main, b La*vTy ••--•• '" _ blerwood. 1.b.w.. t> Latwtjt ■•;•.• '"" „; ftrain, retired ..... ; , •••• ''" : ' * R Grainger, c McNeill?/, b ?• King ■ * ' Merman, b G. King 'tu&tt&etsm? m

Randall, e R. King, b G. King 10 Harris, c Lawry, b R. King 23 Hunt, " b Lawry 30 Hook, c Aspinal b R. King 1 Rev. Abbott, not out sdl Olsen 1« Extras •■• " Total , 156 Bowling analysis: Lawry three for 72, It. King, three for 31, and G. King two for 30

Son POO yds yds hdc. tl. Kflm. M. Maclean .. 36 32 12 SO .. E. Weggery .. 41 30 2J 73J ., K. Maclean .. 23 35 12 70 ., D. Hyde IS 35 12J 65J ., D. Lynch IS 35 12} 65* .. 0. Maclean ... 3C .14 .12. OC .. JI. Wcggcry .. 24 32 4A 60* ., W. Howell .. . 15 23 21 ">0 .. B. Weggery .. 22 20 153 57J Dep. Pres. Dowsett 31 IS <>i 552

clOO 50D 600 Tl. ! | a. Thomson 32 33 29' 93 I fi. Lunisden ... 30 33 28 91 J L. Lunisden ... 30 33 27 90 J H. Beauchamp... 27 31 30 88 | C. St-i'oui 31 32 25 88 I A. beauchaiiip... 31 33 2-3 88 | D. Mackersey ... 30 30 27 87 J F. Best 28 33 26 87 239 256 217 712 NGATIAWA. F. Monk 33 30 29 92 A. Clifton ....... 31 20 31 01 ( L. Palmer ......... 27 33 31 01. j Frank Monk 33 31 27 yi j G. A Monk SO 30 29 88 J .1. Monk 30 32 25 8? . j. Stubbing! .... 28 28 39 85 I S. Monk 28 S3 2* Sji I 239 245 J-28 : *S j LEVIN. i L. Catley so 30 2* 8* j J. Munro 33 26 27 86 \V. Ingram 29 29 28 S« R. Catley 28 26 29 83 C. Ingram 26 20 27 82 P. Jones 29 26 27 83 L. Ingram 31 28 23 83 M. Field 29 26 26 81 235 220 215 b70 . WHAREROA. = C. Dowsett' 31 29 31 91 8 D. Hyde 25 ' 25 32 83 j C. Cordukes ... 29 30 22 81 H. McLean 28 27 23 77 M. McLean 24 29 24 y j n. Lynch 19 21 23 83 J H. Wegpery ... 24 24 9 5/J j 207 206 185 50? I