Cameron wins sparrow title
A Porirua policeman, Murray Cameron, overcame blustery conditions to win the New Zealand Clay Sparrow championship at the national trapshooting tournament at Yaldhurst, near Christchurch, yesterday. Cameron, aged 40, outlasted nine other finalists when he hit 20 targets without a miss in the shoot-off. Ten marksmen qualified from the entry of 305 with “possible” scores of 25 in the preliminary round. The other New Zealand title to be decided at the Christchurch Gun Club’s headquarters yesterday was the Double Rise, which went to an. Australian representative, Bill Isles (Melbourne). Cameron’s closest rivals in the Sparrow shoot-off were John Woolley (Christchurch), who finished second with 19 targets, and two Australians, Steve Phillips (N.S.W.), who hit 14 targets, and Peter Flack (N.S.W.), with 10 targets. Cameron, a member of the Hutt Valley Gun Club and a previous titleholder in the International Shooting Union
Skeet event, felt pleased with the way he handled yesterday’s north-westerlies. In the Double Rise, Isles was similarly untroubled by the winds. “This is typica’l Melbourne weather,” he quipped. The burly Australian was one of only two marksmen to score possible 30s and qualify for the championship shootoff. The other was Papakura’s Gavin Paton, who fell two short of Isles’s 10-target score in the final. Results — Double Rise championship (285 entries): W. Isles (Melbourne), possible 30 and 10 targets, 1; G. Paton, 30. 8,2; A. Munden (Tokora), 29, 5,3; G. Scott (Stokes Valley), 29, 4,4; R. Wasley (Fielding), 29. 7,5; G. McPhee (Marton), 29, 6. 6. Clay Sparrow championships (305 entries).— Finals’ (10 possibles of 25): M. Cameron (Hutt Valley), 20 targets, 1; J. Woolley (Christchurch), 19, 2; S. Phillips (New South Wales), 14, 3; P. Flack (New South Wales), 10, 4; T. Latimer (Dunedin), N. Owens (Waikato), 6, equal 5; W. Fitzherbert (Hunterville), W. Brunton (Timaru), 3, equal 7; J. Longmore (New South Wales), 2.9; M. Baker (Ashburton), 0, 10.
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