Practice brings ‘perfect’ prize
A shooter who had not won a title all week at the New Zealand trapshooting tournament at Yaldhurst, near Christchurch, carried off the High Gun award for the best aggregate of the championships yesterday. Gordon MacPhee, of Rata, near Hunterville;. scored 149 in the Points .Score championship yesterday to take the prestigious Champion-of-Champions trophy with an aggregate of 350. from a possible 355. There were six qualifying events and MacPhee’s tally put him one ahead of Christchurch’s John Woolley. A Waitemata marksman, ..Laurie Coppins, won the Points Score title with a possible 150 an 15 targets. Murray Cook, of Ashburton, scored the same as Coppins, but had to be content with
second place after using a second barrel in the shootoff. Woolley, the Commonwealth skeet champion, won three championships at the tournament Results.— New Zealand Points score championship (322 entries); Coppins, 150, 15, 1; Cook, 150, 2; Woolley, 149, 3; I. White (Amberley), 149, 4; Cameron, 149, 5; D. Devcich (Thames), 6; S. Everett (Christchurch), 7; MacPhee, 149, 8. The New Zealand High Gun Champion of Champions (A. N. Turner Memorial Trophy): MacPhee 1. B Grade High Gun: S. Thomson (Rotorua). R. S. Taylor (inter-island) Cup: South Island. ' Rooke, Gates, McMillan Trophy (Australia v New Zealand): New Zealand.
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