RIFLE SHOOTING

Dominion, Volume 18, Issue 54, 28 November 1923, Page 4

RIFLE SHOOTING

KARORI CLUB The Karori Rill" Club continued their championship series on Saturday, the ranges being 300 and 600 yards. A. V. Swanson again headed tho list, registering 19 at 300 yards. This shoot con‘clnded the third fortnightly competition, and Swanson won the trophy for the scratch men. with Deputy-President Judd second. The handicap was won by A. I. Coleman, with E. E. AckTand second. The details of Saturday’s shoot aro

PETONE CLUB The Petone Rifle Club fired the third competition of tho first series on Saturday. at ranges 300 and 600 yards. Iho conditions were fairly good, but a strong right wind, and changeable light were at times puzzling. At 300 yards, D. Guiney signalled his reappearance with top score of 15, including a “bird. Several others made 44. At C4M) yards, R H. Nicholl, firing consistently, topped with 44. and made tho highest total for the day, viz., 88 points. The spoon winners are: R. H. Nicholl, R. E. Flaws,

The leading aggregates in the first series, with one competition to fire, are: R. Askew, 271: A. Ballinger, 269; R. 11. Nicholl 269; R. E. Flaws, 263; A. Weir, 262 • L. McCarthy, 261; W. Boyd, 260. Next Saturday the ranges are 800 and 1000 yaras.

■ OLD NAVALS’ CLUB The Old Navals’ Club fired the fourth match of the first series at ranges 300 and 600 yards. Weather condition* were fairly good and some fair scores were registered. Rifleman Chapman's team Fere the winners of the Martin Challenge Badges with 341 points, Rifleman. Goldfinch’s team being runners-up with 319 points. Results are as follow:—

. SUBURBS CLUB The Suburbs Club commenced another scries of ehoots for trophies which also counted as the third shoot for the club ehampionsh’n. The wind was rather difficult to judge, and the scores suffered in consequence. Rifleman Harris with 47. and Secretary Hester with 46. at 360 yards, made the only scores of merit. Next 'Saturday tho club will shoot at Bflo and 1000 yards, counting for the championship. The following were Saturday s

UPPER HUTT The Upper Hutt Rifle Club continued its competitions at Treiitham on Saturday at ranges 300 and 600 yards. A strong rivht wind made the shooting natchy Following are the scores: p ‘ A Class.

AREA MEETING The Area 5 a rifle meeting for ’territorials and qualified Cadets will be held at Treiitham on Saturday next, when individual nnd teams’ matches will be fired. The prize-list to be distributjd totalled something like .£l6O. At Polhill Gully on Saturday, the Cadets fired their qualifying series There was sonic very good shooting by the bda the team from Scots College putting'up particularly brilliant work. As a result of the day’s shoohng the lollowing have qualified to sh°jt in the final fifty f or the AlTa Cadet Champimiship Belt at Trentham on Saturd CpL A. Ainslie, 29th Coy., 52; Cdt G. Parker, 35th Coy.. 51; Sgt. R. Allen, 35th Cor 50; C.S.M. I. H. MacArthur, Scots College, 48; C.S.M. C. George, Wei . College, 48: Cdt. I. AV. Bertram. Wellington College, 48; Cdt. F. Holder. 13th Coy., 45; Gif. A. P. B. Collins 2,th Cor 44’ Cpi L. J. McKelvic. Scots Coljp C e’’ 43; Sgt. S. Daniels. Wellington College 42: Cdt. R. IL Cnupliley, Wellington’ College. 38; Cdt. J. Ellis. Wellington College. 38: Sgt. T. N. Moses, Bwi» OUegix, 38; Cdt. A. H. Ritson, Bal.li

Coy., 37; Cdt. D. Fleming, Scots College, 36; Cdt. 11. Gordon, Wellington College, 36; Cdt. McWhirter, 30th Coy., 36; Cdt. R. Beckett, <3oth Coy., 35; Sgt. F. Jepson, 17th Coy., 35; Cdt. C. H. Bennett, 30th Coy., 32; Cdt, G. Heal, Wellington College, 32; Cdt. C. H. Turner, 107th Coy., 32; Sgt. E. Wallace. 17th Coy., 31; Cdt. S. P. Porter, 30th Coy., 31; Sgt. A. 1). Hall, 39th Coy., 31; Cdt. J. A. Gooder, Wellesley College, 31; Cdt. A. J. Everett, 26th Coy., <3l; C.S.M. L. Anderson, 35th Coy., .31; Cdt. E. Lambourne, 29th Coy., .30; Cdt. H. Laughton. 35th Coy., 30; Cdt. R. H. Pearce, 30th Coy., 30; Cdt. A. Askew, 31st Coy., 29; Sgt. W. Love, 35th Coy., 29; Cdt. J. Ross, 3bth Coy., 29; Celt. R. A. Hare, 30th Coy., 28; Cdt. C. G. Bird, 38th Coy., 27; Cpl. L. Coleman, Scots College, 27; Cpl. H. H. Ibell, 29th Coy., 27; Celt. F. Jamieson, 17th Coy., 27; Cdt. J. 11. Waterhouse, 30th Coy., 27; Cdt. R. S. Berg, 30th Coy., 26; Cdt. D. B. Fraser, 30th Coy., 26; Cpl. Bell, 17th Coy., 25; Cdt. A. C. Jessup, 17th Coy., 25; Cdt. E. V. Windley, Wellington College. 25; Cdt. .T. A. Clark, 27th Coy., 24; Cdt. T. Callaghan, 27th Coy., 24; Sgt. A, J. Davies, 39th Coy., 24. WHAREROA CLUB After a most exciting match at ranges 900 and 1000 yards, -the Whareroa Club concluded its series of shoots over all ranges for the Cordukes Cup. On going back to the 1000 yards mound, there wore only two points separating the first four men, and at the conclusion of the shoot members had the pleasure of witnessing the club’s oldest shot (Rflmn. F. Cordukes) defeat its younger members. The runner-up (D. Lynch) was top for tho day’s shoot, thus winning the trophy presented by tho cup winner. Scores in detail:—

Cordukes Cup results:—F. Cordukes, 30.3; D. Lynch, .302; H. J. Lynch, 295; S. Batten, 294; D. Hyde. 288; C. Dawsett, 267. The first shoot for the Walkley Cup will be held next Saturday at 200 and 300 yards. RIDDIFORD CUP Owing to tho imminent departure from Wellington of His Excellency the Gover-nor-General, the Riddiford Cup, recently won by tho Cadets of Scots College, will not bo presented until some date early in tho Now Year. This trophy ig a gold cup. awarded to tho most efficient Cadet Corps in New Zealand.

as follow:— 300 GOO yds. yds. Up. T'l. 4 V. Swanson 49 44 0 93 G. S. Taylor 47 41 3 91 F J. McDonald 43 40 0 89 H V. Croxton 47 42 0 89 A I. Coleman 42 3S 8 S8 W K. Osborne 43 44 0 87 II. T. Boon 41 43 0 F E. Buckley 37 32 18 87 45 40 0 85 d'.’M. Ching 39 37 9 85 II J. Russell 39 40 6 85 84 F. Ching 43 41 0 41 37 6 84 L. A. Caldwell - •• 45 37 0 82 W. Stanton 39 26 17 82 E W. Daniel 42 29 10 81 H. T. Marshall 38 42 0 8(i J Hrnvo 41 39 0 SO E. E. Ackland 38 37 5 80 R. G. Varlow 39 32 9 so F. H. Morgan 36 29 14 79 A. S. T. Butler 42 37 0 79 E A. Murrell 42 31 0 7(1 R. Caughley 38 37 0 75

and R, Askew. The scores are:— Hp. Tl. 300 600 rds. yds. R. E. Flaws •11 40 8 89 R. Askew 3!) 41 8 88 R H. Nicholl 41 44 0 88 W. Body 40 37 10 87 D. ,T. Gainey 45 42 0 87 44, 39 4 87 E. Ballinger 43 40 0 83 A Ballinger 44 39 0 83 L McCarthy 40 34 9 83 40 40 ■ • 82 W. McIver 43 38 0 81 Dep.-Pres. T. Warburton 44 37 0 81 J. Rivers 37 39 4 so S. Knight 40 30 10 80 42 35 7 y j Pres. W. H. Ballinger ... 44 33 0 77 A. Scott 28 26 16 70

P .... 300 COO yds. 42 yds. Hp. Tl. 45 3 90 41 40 9 90 L. Hare 43 41 5 89 W. MpBain .... 42 42 3 87 R. Sneddon 41 45 0 86 R. A. Haro 39 41 5 85 B. Goldfinch .... 45 38 0 83 C. B. McGuire 43 38 1 82 33 33 11 so j. Evans 38 3G 79 C. lawton 39 33 79 R. "Pringle 40 35 32 33 7 11 79 79 W. Conibear .. 44 34 32 0 78 F. E. Franklyn 0 77 S R. McGuire 35 37 77 37 34 5 76 F. Standi'dge .... 39 34 35 33 0 74 74 | piff. 41 32 0 73 H Jackson .... 34 20 7 61 Spoon winner, Rifleman R. Chapman.

scores: — 300 600 yds. vds. Hi>. Tl. Bflmn. J- Smart 42 44 88 Pflmn. A. Harris 47 37 4 88 Pflmn. T. Goodall 43 41 3 87 Pros W. Fellinpham ... 38 41 G 85 Pflmn. U- Aston 39 41 2 82 82 Mmn. L. Lewis ......... 42 3a 38 5 Pflmn. S. McLean 39 7 8 2 pflmn. H. Hunt 42 39 0 81 Secretary Hester 4G 33 81 pflmn. A. Henderson ... 37 37 81 ■pep.-Prcs. Haase 39 3G 80 78 pflmn. -T. Cheyno 35 32 11 Pflmn. F. W. Thompson 36 28 14 78 Pflmn. C. Morrison 32 30 77 Pflmn. C. Stewart 39 29 73 Pflmn. C. Brew Pflmn. H. Henderson ... 30 31 28 23 1;> 15 69

■100 600 yds. yds. H’p. T’l. S3 41 30 8 30 39 10 88 C. Whiteman T. Burrell 42 35 43 45 36 ' 39 0 13 0 87 84 82 jX'. VVlIKlC ■Fred Whiteman .. 43 33 6 .82 E. R. Woods W. Collett 35 36 34 32 9 12 82 80 Tube Whiteman .. 41 36 F Wilkie 41 28 . -L/cUtt •• B Class. •yr Cot Ha 36 31 11 78 \ Clifford 39 36 0 40 32 3 j’ Whiteman 34 24 13 71 26 24 59 E. Gard 24 12 17 53

900 1000 yds. yds. H’p. T*I. 1), Lynch 30 34 3 67 A. Petherick 32 29 5 66 H. J. Lynch 34 26 0 GO S. Batten 37 25 0 62 F. Cordukes .' 21 36 0 57 I). Hyde 23 26 5 54 C. Pawsctt 19 19 2 40 M. Field 19 5 0 24