RIFLE SHOOTING

Bay of Plenty Times, Volume LVII, Issue 10056, 23 April 1929, Page 3

RIFLE SHOOTING

FLOYD CHAMPIONSHIP BELT. A rifle shooting contest of more than urdinax-y interest for members of the Tauranga Defence Rifle Club was fired on the local range on Saturday, when the final shoot for the Floyd Championship Belt took place. The ranges were 200 yds and 300 yds, 10 shots at each range, with one optional sighter at each distance. The competition was keen but difficult shooting conditions kept the scoring down. Nevertheless President Mirrielees registered 87, a good shoot under the adverse conditions prevailing, and incidentally the highest score for the day. Rifleman Oliver, the present holder of the Belt, and Rifleman J ohnston were each expected to make a big struggle for the trophy, the latter in the end proving successful by a margin of only one point, and thus becoming the champion for the season 1928-29. President Mirrieles made a splendid effort to regain lost ground lost earlier in the Belt series, but the task was not an easy one and he finished two points below Oliver. The following are the leading scores for the day: _ 200 300 Toyds yds tal Pres. Mirrielees 43 44 87 W. A. Carswell 43 40 83 B. Johnston 44 39 83 H. Oliver . 45 37 82 W. H. J. Poole 41 39 80 R. M. Poole 40 38 78 F. Parnwell 36 40 76 The following are the names of the five leading men' in the Belt series, together with their respective scores at the different ranges: "V o O w to o - s- • o to - it * < rr. T. Vi EC 17 i J 5 s to S S O O O ■- i. ggS 8 a o Johnston S 5 83 78 90 44 380 Oliver 89 82 82 85 41 379 Mirrielees 86 87 82 82 40 37, Carswell 84 83 78 84 44 373 R. M. Poole 83 78 81 85 42 369 Woods’ Great Peppermint Cure. For Coughs and Colds, never fails.