RIFLE SHOOTING
SUBURBS CLUB The Suburbs Club fired the second shoot of the fourth series at Trentham last Saturday afternoon. The ranges were 300 amt 600 yardk. The weather was perfect ami light good, but the wind playing at its usual fishtail antics led many marksmen astrav, but some good individual range scores were returned under such conditions. Rllmn, S. F. McLean made the best-score at 300 yards with 4(1. and Rflmn. A. Harns returned the best at 600 yards with 48, also making the best gun score of the day with 89 A general summary is given of the various competitions, and the finals will be very interesting, as the vagaries of Trenthani upset many calculations. Visitors
CHAMPIONSHIP. The leaders in the championship, with four short-range shoots to go,- are as follow :— ’ Dep.-Pres. H. R. Hunt 58a Rflmn. S. F. McLean 585 Rflmn. A. Stewart 584 Dep.-Pres. J. A. Bitters 573 Rflmn. H. T. Peat 568 Rflmn. R. E. Hester 568 Rgmn. T. Goodall 568 Rflmn. E. Aston 567 MORRISON CUP. Long range aggregate, 800 and 900 yards ranges, final:—lst, Rflmn. A. Stewart, 349; second, Rflmn. S. F. McLean, 345; third, Dep.-Pres. H. R. Hunt, 340; fourth, Rflmn. T. Goodall, 339; fifth, Rflmn. R. E. Hester, 331 HICKSON CUP. (Over ranges 500 and 600 yards.) With four shoots to go, the leaders are as follow:— Rflmn. H. T. Peat 622 Dep.-Pres. H. R. Hunt 607 Rflmn. E. Aston 591 Dep.-Pres. J. A. Bitters 58a Rflmn. A. Stewart o7a NEWTON CUP. With two shoots to go are as follows:— Dep.-Pres. J. A. Bitters, 20 points; Rflmn. E. Aston, 16; Rflmn. H. T. King, 16; Rflmn. A Stewart, 15; Pres. W. G. Fellingham, la; Rflmn. R. E. Hester, 14; Rflmn. H. T. Peat, 14. Next shoot of club will be shirt range shoot on Saturday, March 16.
are marked x. 300 yds. 600 yds. Hp. Tl. Rflmn. A. Harris .... 41 48 91 ,Dep. -Pres. J. A. Bit45 43 88 Rflmn. T. Kidd 43 42 —• 85 Dep.-Pres. H. Hunt .. 45 40 —— 85 Rflmn. A. Sherbrooke 41 41 86 Rflmn. A. Stewart .. 44 39 — S3 Rflmn. S. F. McLean.. 4G 36 —— 82 Rflmn. R. E. Hester.. 37 43 — 80 Rflmn. E. Aston 40 39 79 Rflmn. H. T. Peat.... 37 3!) 2 , 1 78 Rflmn. H. Cuming .. 36 30 12 78 x C. Stewart 40 3«J — «5 x Rflmn, McArthur .. 38 36 74 X Rflmn. Grant 33 38 — 71 Kflmn. W. J. Prictor 36 — 10 68
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Dominion, Volume 22, Issue 139, 8 March 1929, Page 14
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