RIFLE SHOOTING

Dominion, Volume 28, Issue 95, 16 January 1935, Page 6

RIFLE SHOOTING

Suburbs Club at Trentham long-range matches The Suburbs Defence Rifle Club fired matches tor No. 5 series o\ei JOO jaids at Trentham on Saturday. Weather conditions were easily the most difficult experienced this season. A strong southerly wind varying rapidly from 3 minutes left to 15 minutes right made accurate shooting almost impossible, and apart from one or” two exceptions the scoring was very ■ lO 'li li Hunt was responsible for a very fine effort in the first shoot, when he scored 47 under trying conditions. T. Goodall, who scored 45. was unfortunate in finishing with a “magpie.” The results were as follow 900 900

,T. ,S. Henderson yds. yds. Hep. Tl. 93 41 35 9-8 H. R. Illunt ... 47 -13 1-1 92 T. Goodall 45 30 851 F. Costello 37 35 7-0 85 W. Prictor 20 42 9MS TOJ S. F. McLean .. 2!) 33 7-81 77j ,T. Gagliardi .. - L. Fellingham . 32 28 2!) 39 8-8 1-1J 77 09 J. C. Milroy ,... 31 25 °4-S 09} L. "Wilkinson • • 30 27 09 W. G. Fellingham' 12 3S 91-91 OS H. Smith • • • • 20 31 8-8 07 G. Trevelyan . - 13 12 114-15} 52 First live take points in the Newton Cup. iNext. Saturday the club will lire matches over 300 and 000 yards.