SYDNEY RIFLE MEETING.

Auckland Star, Volume XXXVIII, Issue 258, 29 October 1907, Page 5

SYDNEY RIFLE MEETING.

THE EMPIRE MATCH.

SCORES OP THE NEW ZEAL ANDERS.

SYDNEY, October 28. The weather was fine for the Empire Match to-day, and there was a good light, the shooting conditions being the best that have obtained during the meeting, j The members of the New Zealand team fired very consistently. The British team lost 12 points through hitting wrong tar- j crets. Mai or Barley, one of the British team, made ten bulls at 500 yards. The position of teams in the Empire Match at the completion of the first two ranges is: Australia, 746; Great Britain, 737; New Zealand, 726. At tbe completion of the tbird range in the Empire Match the scores ™ere:— Australia, 1108; Great Britain and New .Zealand (equal), 1077. I The scores at tbe different ranges were:200yds. 500 yds. 600 yds. Ti. Australia,..- |6| Kg gg W°f Great Britain 368 369 340 i.om New Zealand 363 363 60l i,vit The individual scores of the New Zea-

The remaining ranges, 80yds, 000 yds, and 1000 yds, 10 shots at each, will be lired io-morrow.

landers were: — 200 500 600 yds. yds. yds. Tl. Cra _ 4S 43 4-1 13r> Mm! .:...-. 46 48 45 130 4vson " . ... 4C 47 43 13G i yS BaUin g er". 46 44 45 135 Purnell 4a 4e 43 ls4 Maseleld"::: J4 48 43 135 SSSS-L"::::::::::: ? « ? j? Totals 363 363 351 1077