RIFLE SHOOTING

Dominion, Volume 3, Issue 634, 11 October 1909, Page 7

RIFLE SHOOTING

AUSTRALIA'S BISLEY. ADELAIDE WINS THE C.A.C. CUP. my Tcleeraph.-I'reei AMocfallnn-Oopjflilill (Rce. .October 10,, 5.5 p.m;) Sydney, .October 9. The Adelaide Rifle Club tfon the Teams' Match for tho Colonial Ammunition Company's trophy competed for at tho Commonwealth Itifle Meeting at Randwick Rifle Range, Sydney. The C.A.C. trophy match is a service event with disappearing targets at unknown distances between 50 and 500 yards, open to teams ot seven men from any ship of the Commonwealth Navy, squadron, battery, company, or .riflo club of the Naval and Military Forces of tho Australian State? or New Zealand. Tho trophy is a-silver challenge cup, value .£IOO. There aro also added seven individual prizes (replicas of the trophy), value £5 each—or £5 ca<h ijrjzcs at the option of each member of tho winning team.

EMPIRE POSTAL MATCH. . WIN FOR;THE TRANSVAAL. (Rec. October 10, 5.5 p.m.) London, October 9. The complete results of the firing in tho Empire Postal Match are' as follows— Aggregate Score. 920 Sydney _ 914 Natal 904 Melboiirno ; 904 Capo Town : 595 New Zealand 888 London 853 Last year, the order of merit was.—l, Jfclbourne; 2, Pietermantzburß; 3. Johannesburg; 4 Sydney; 5 Cape Town; 6, Adelaide; 7, Wellington ; 8, London. The Empiro PakM Match is" really an Imperial contest between teams representing postal centres, not countnos, as tho cable messago seems to indicate.