SHOOTING.

Taranaki Daily News, Volume LII, Issue 109, 4 June 1909, Page 3

SHOOTING.

TARA2JAKI VOLUNTEER TEAMS' > CHAMPIONSHIP. - ■ THE SHIELD COMPETITION. The first 1 team match for volunteer epmpanies for the championship shield, to be held by the winning team for twelve months, was fired at the Waiwakaiho Range yesterdiy afternoon under favorable conditions. Teams were entered from the Taranaki Guards (2), • Btham Rifles and Taranaki Rifles. The Stratford Bifle Club also fired, as toe /guests of the Taranaki Guards, their score, of course, not counting for the volunteer championship. The club men ehot particularly well, and put up th? best aggregate of the day, beating the Guards, who proved the winners of the shield, by a small margin. The shooting for the shield was exciting. When the Guards' No. 1 team and the Taranaki fiiftes left the 200 range, the former were leading by one point, and at the SOD yards both teams scored the same

.number of points, the Guards going y ' down to the 600 yanls with a one point lead, waieli tliey subsequently increased considerably. Scores:—

GUARDS No. 1. ' Private »RiddIcg 200 500 800 Tl. 33 32 32 .07 Private Grover 32 33 31 !>li Cflrporal Bent SI 33 30 94 Private Nicholls 3-2 31 30 03 Private Short 30 30 27 87 Private King 30 31 •25 86 Private Hill 20 20 '£ii 83 Private Bruce 29 23 28 rfo 240 242 228 716 ; TARANAKI RIFLES. Sergeant llarrett 32 32 30 31 Private Humphries 31 31 31 95 92 Private Marrett 32 30 30 [ Corporal Armitage 33 32 31 27 92 Private .Willis 28 28 87 Private Taylor 33 26 2(1 85 Private Cole 28 30 26 84 Captain Bellringer 30 29 24 83 i t 247 241 222 710 GUARDS B TEAM. Private Blancliett 30 31 32 03 Col.-Se»»eant Hartnell 2!) 20 30 88 Captain Mills 20 30 20 88 88 •' Sergeant Evans 32 28 28 24 Corporal Lol>l> 30 34 88 Lieutenant Beadle 28 30 2!) 87 (Sergeant Ollivcr 30 20 27 86 ■ .Private Goodacre® 28 26 23 77 j 236 237 222 b'J? ELTHAM RIFLES. ' Private Vincent 20 32 31 92 Xieutenaat "Whiting 31 29 28 88 Col.-Sereeattt Kogora 29 34 25 83 ' Private L, Webby 28 30 29 87 Private C? Webby 31 30 23 84 ■Captain rHeim 28 30 26 82 Private Kelliher 26 32 24 82 Private Fox 28 30 18 70

2-28 247 209 679 STRATFORD RIFLE CLUB. KflenWB A. Speck ri T. Speck 32 34 ;« 33 32 30 ov 1)7 " „ Hewland 31 31 33 05 02 •*. W. Speck 31 32 2B Tjnelwm 30 29 33 32 fll ~ , M Madden 30 28 !U "i Thorpe 3ft 28 26 81 "■ Wickliijtn ,20 34 21 81 r "t 244 253 231 728