GRENNELL WINS SHOOT

Sun (Auckland), Volume III, Issue 715, 15 July 1929, Page 7

GRENNELL WINS SHOOT

SPARROW CHAMPIONSHIP BAD WEATHER MARS MEETING Press Association HASTINGS, Tod.. The lt>th New Zealand sparrow championship was shot under very bad weather conditions on Saturday, and resulted in an outright win by H. Grcnnell. of Lyttelton. A very keen wind, together with fi> - quent showers in the early part of The day. made shooting uncomfortable and difficult. The birds were in excollen condition, and proved too fast for the majority of the shooters. Several u> - tors remarked that they were the best and fastest birds they had ever > •: at. Owing to the bad woutlier conditions prevailing, the executive of the Gun Club Association asked that all shooters with four misses stand down after the seventh round. This put l'» out of action by the end of the I lilt round. \V. Woolver, the previous champion, was all on, but had the misfortune t.. lose the next three birds H. Grennell. who had lost three birds in the first 10, carried through the remainder of the match without a miss and won the championship with IK birds. 11. Clinch, who could have tied with 11. Grennell. had exceptionally bad luck with his last bird. Grennell, apart from winning first prize money, gets a ten-guinea sold medal. The winner’s prize money amounted to AMG Is. Details. —H. Grennell. IS birds; If. Clinch, R. Buick, W. Nichols. R. M. - lllwick. C. E. Grey and IV. Woolver, all 17 birds.