SCORING DROPS

Press, Volume CVI, Issue 31088, 17 June 1966, Page 6

SCORING DROPS

Smallbore Match

Shooting in annual competition for the Greig Shield, in the first of the two-match series for the current season, the Christchurch Association beat the North Canterbury smallbore team by thirty-seven match points.

Although the Christchurch score was good enough to win the match, it was the lowest since the introduction of the smaller bull seven years ago. Undoubtedly, the performance of marksmen who were competing in their first open representative team shoot, did much to lower the average, but there was a remarkable absence of possibles from the more experienced shooters. The only possibles were recorded by L. Key for Christchurch and J. A. Neale, a first-year South Island representative, for North Canterbury.

R. E. Taylor, the Christchurch team captain, was a little unlucky. After dropping his first counting shot, he scored inner bulls with his remaining nineteen shots. Taylor’s consistently high standard of marksmanship is all the more remarkable as he is now entering his fortieth year of competitive shooting. Christchurch.—l. Millar 184.9, R. Stanley 199.15, L. Key 200.19. G. Gibson 198.15, J. Burnip 196.13, M. Taylor 197.13, R. Mitchell 199.16, M. Crump 199.15. W. Sterritt 198.15, D. Wild 199.16, E. Briden 194.11, Mrs Taylor 197.10, C. Simonsen 198.17, J McFall 196.13, K. Lockyer 198.16. C. Thom 198.15, W. Drayton 198.17, V. Hicks 199.18. K. Cooper 199.15, R. E. Taylor 199.19; total. 1945.297. Emergencies: G. Smith 198.14, D. Froude 197.16, S. Reid 197.14,

North Canterbury.—B. Gardener 197.15, A. Wilson 195.9, G. Muir 197.13, T. Gabrielsen 196.13. J. McCaskey 194.13, P. Crimp 196.12, R. Kllworth 196.13. J. Corbett 195.12, B. Blackie 198.10. A. Cleeve 186.17, R. Wilson 195.10, F. McKie 194.11, T. Baxter 193.9. B. Harris 197.11, T. Smellie 196.11, J. Blay 199.13, G. Luscombe 196.11, J. Neale 200.17, E. Whvte 195.10, R. Hammond 195.13; total, 1910.243. Emergency: T. Smith. 193.13.