RIFLE SHOOTING.

Dominion, Volume 3, Issue 826, 26 May 1910, Page 5

RIFLE SHOOTING.

— « "DAILY MAIL" CUP. i 4 Tiy Telecraph—Prcsa ABsociation-Copyrielit Sydney, May 25. Further details to hand of the shooting for. the "Daily Mail" Cup—a sighter and seven scoring shots at each of three ranges, 200, 500, and COO yards, eight men —show that tho Goulburn Ambulanco team made 801, which would have placed them second so for to Granvillc Tech- 3 nical College's 81C, but as the Goulburn f, men did not provide check scorers their n score will not count. Th« Brisbane Railway Eiilo Chili team put up 703, and the Seventh Regiment team, firing at.' Ballarat, 7-10. GRANVILLE LEADS. ' AN ENGLISH TEAM SECOND. (Rec. May 25, 9.30 p.m.) I London. May 25. The highest score so far for the "Daily Mail" Cup, is the Granville Technical 1. College (New South Wales). Then comes t Langporf (Somerset) with 812, the Young o Club (New South Wales) 805, and Hull c 795. ... THE MEATH TROPHY. , 1 ,;, ' Sydney, May 25. ; Firing for tho Earl of Heath's trophy, 1! tho New South Wales cadets scored 057. < [The Meatli trophy was presented by * Lord Mcath for annual competition on Empire Day between teams of eight schoolboy marksmen, representative of the Mother Country and of various colonies and dependencies. The shooting is done with miniature rifles, at 25 yards i range. The conditions last year were a sighting .ihot oud seven rounds in two positions—(l) Kneeling and (2) prone, highest possible score 70 points in raeh position, a team's possible being' thus 1120. The Sydney cadets have thus scored fi a long way below' the possible and below S the leading scores last vear, 1909, when y New South Wales was tenth with 690. Britaiu was first Inst year with 1(121, Natal second with 1011, Victoria third ' with 981, the North Island of New Zea- ' laud fourth with 901. Tho South Island f of New Zealand was eighth with SOl. In " 1908 Britain won with a score of 862, r Australia second with 801, and South t Island of New Zealand fourth with 736.1 C