Strong bid for Games spot
PA Rotorua Taranaki’s Eddie Adlam may have shot himself into a Commonwealth Games spot, after events at the national smallbore rifle championship, near Rotorua.
The Inglewood marksman cleaned up the three-posi-tional shoot, being used as one of the selection trials for next year’s Auckland Games, by a clear six points from Tony Burgess, of Christchurch.
Adlam finished with a total aggregate of 1131, from a possible score of 1200. Burgess had led after winning the morning prone event, in which Adlam was fifth, but the Taranaki shooter showed greater consistency. He easily won the standing — the most difficult event — and then finished third in the kneeling. Timaru’s Lindsay Smith was third, over all, on 1123, after a second in the standing, while an Australian, Don Brook — winner of the Bay of Plenty shooting title at the week-end — was fourth.
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Press, 25 January 1989, Page 21
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