RIFLE SHOOTING.

Auckland Star, Volume LXIV, Issue 253, 26 October 1933, Page 20

RIFLE SHOOTING.

1 " " 3 PENROSE PERFORMANCES. 1 ■ l WANGANUI'S NOVEL PROGRAMME. ! 1 Riflemen were more fortunate on Saturday, as far as weather was concerned, than on the previous week. Both lofcal clubs shot at 200 yards and 300 yards. City men were in form, and no fewer than five were over 90. Two outstanding scores were ; made by A. G. Degenkolbe and Leslie ~ r Vei'rall; the former with 49 at 200 yards and the latter with 48 at 300 yards. It is hard to say which was the better performance. L. Verrall has been absent ffom the range for a couple of seasons, but his 48 at 300 yards, with six bulls- • eyes to finish, is an indication that he has not lost his cunning. Degenkolbe is only recently in the A | section, and lie held his own with H. Sim- ' monds and G. G. Kelly on Saturday, compiling 93. He will make a fine rifleman when he steadies down and loses some of his imagination. G. G. Kelly made another good score on Saturday with 48 at 200 yards and 45 at 300 yards. His' 300-yard shoot finished weakly with 3, 5, 4, and he was counted out by H. Simmonds, with the same total. Simmonds finished 5, 5, 4. Kelly is going well this year and has been in one of the first three places every Saturday so far, averaging over 93 points. H. Simmonds is shooting steadily and it is not easy to pick anyone likely to displace him in the championship. F. Bowes, one of the City's most brilliant riflemen, has started badly on the short ranges this year. Opening with 80, he has now 86 and 90 in his championship series. Bowes is very solid on the middle ranges. Akarana is disappointing on the short ranges this season. This may be due to the change of targets; formerly the club used the round aiming mark, but this year have adopted the "tin hat." Walter Colquhoun is hitting it hard this year, and on Saturday shot splendidly for 45 at 200 yards and 47 at 300 yards; his total of 92 was one point better than R. F. Wakefield's score, which read 46, 45. Wakefield ran away from his club mates last year, but will have to reckon with Colquhoun and possibly A. G. Smith this year. Tom Bevan, one of Akarana s most popular juniors, won easily on Saturday with 88. Bevan deserves much greater success, as he brings to the game enthusiasm and perseverance. The Wanganui Rifle Association s programme is out. There is to be a day's competition for miniature rifles at 25 yards, 50 yards and 100 yards. This, is the first important outdoor competition with the .22 calibre rifles that has been staged in New Zealand, and the Wanganui Association deserves credit for its enterprise. .„ , . „ _... H. L. Lucena, rifle champion of liji, and who recently shot with the Auckland Citv Rifle Club, has written from Sydney saying that he spent a wonderful _ week on the Anzac range and competed in the Australian Bisley. Lucena won fourth place in the Liverpool match at 300 yards with the possible. He made another possible at 600 yards—the only one made there —and won this match. In the aggregate these two possibles and a 46 at 500 yards gave him ninth place. As a matter of interest to riflemen, Lucena says he used a S.M.L.E. Service rifle with a heavy Lithgow barrel fitted thereto.