RIFLE SHOOTING.

Taranaki Daily News, Volume LVII, Issue 13, 3 June 1914, Page 7

RIFLE SHOOTING.

OTW PLYMOUTH v. IN'IiLEYVOOD A match will be lircd on the Rewa Picwa rifle range to-day, between teamfrom the Inglewood and New' Plymouth cjlubs. The following will represent New Ply mouth;: Riflemen iMeWhirter, Keating A. Jones, W. Slaughter, G, Blanchai". O. Bruce, Gunson, .Wilson, and three others.

,Tke markers will be Ward, Blyde, and A. Anmitage. WE HIGH -SCHOOL'S AOHIEVEMEN'I The achievement 'of the New Plymouth High School's shooting team, tn oamin" second in the Schools of the Empire Shooting, Competition, is all the more creditable when St ia remeimbered that the only team-which: beat it wah- that from the Charterhouse School, which is one of the most famous- of the English schools, and has some COB boys on- its roll. There was only one point between the two teams.

The New Plymouth High School Cadets shot in the competition on December 18, when the weather was favorable, the light dull, the wind light, and -slight rain Showers fell. The" rifles used were, of course, the Lee-Enfield (long). The scores in detail trere:—

200 500 Tl. I Sergt A. M. Sutherland .... 33 34-07 00-rpJ. iS. Ewing 33 33 _(j( i Sergt. H. Lepper 32, 33—Go Pte. H. Jj. Lucena 33 31—64 Pte. W. Ewing 32 31—03 Sergt. I. W. Pott 31; 31—62 Corpl. C. C. S. Candy 29 32-61 Sergt. C. J. Hamolyn .... 29 24-53 252 249 501 The School Magazine, "'Die Taranakian," in commenting on the score, flays: "We are ait a loss, to account for Hamblyn's score. As compared with the , others he was worth at least 60. Iffel more than likely that the explanation may be found in the fact that his rifle is not m the best of order, though this is scarcely through any fault oi his." Continuing, the magazine said: "Last year the aggregate for the winning team was 500, and the. highest score in the recent Secondary Schools Match w?|-, 478; 'but in the .Schools of the Empire Match for the current year a oenera! improvement in scores may be°expected, as a result of the removal of the regulation requiring a week's no ticc of intention to shoot, Sutherland's score of 07 was- equalled last year by only four schoolboys of the Empire. What success the" team has achieved is due not only to tire enthusiasm of its members, but also in very large part to Mr V. Hartnell, who has spared much valuable time in coaching the boys, and in no small measure to the rapid marking of Mr 11. C. Evans and 'Mr Shepherd, who very kindly granted us their services. We desire to thank them all, and we take this opportunity of thanking Captain Stevens. too. for superintend-to!? at the firing point." " °

. It has Hint-e been ascertained that on? of the groove- in Hamblvn's r i(le was choked with lead, and this would ae count for his comparativelypp ur yhnot '"fi-

ll was known that the boy* had put up a "-core which would ibe Inird to boat but such an honorable) place was hardly 'expected, even in the school's most sanguine moments, and as it tinned out it is fair to say that only a defective rifle stood between the school and (he Empire championship.