RIFLE SHOOTING

Dominion, Volume 30, Issue 174, 20 April 1937, Page 16

RIFLE SHOOTING

Matches at Trentham DIFFICULT CONDITIONS Wellington defence rifle clubs had tricky wind conditions to contend with while holding their weekly competitions at Trentham on Saturday, when the range was 600 yards. Karori Club In the Karori club’s match, R. J. Stewart reached the club standard of 90 with his handicap. The best score off the rifle was an 87 by J. McKelvie.

Old Navals Club The Old Navals club fired the fifth shoot in their fourth .series on Saturday. Following are the scores: — GOO 600

Petone Club The Petone club’s results counted for the fifth series. W. H. Ballinger made the outstanding single range score of the day with a 49, which under the conditions prevailing was an excellent effort. J. Devine was the next best with a 46, and B. Dunn, W. M. Jackson, T. McNab, and P. Stewart each made 45. With two shoots to go to count for the Burridge and Longfield handicap aggregate cups, W. H. Ballinger is leading for the Burridge Cup with 949 points, followed by R. H. Nicholl 942. Both these two men are equal with 942 points for the Longfield aggregate. The range next Saturday will be 800 yards. Following are Saturday’s scores: — 600 600 yds. yds. Hep. TI.

Suburbs Club The Suburbs Rifle Club completed its season’s activities on Saturday morning with a competition over 800, 900, and 1000 yards. The club championship was won by L. Fellingham, whose shooting has been consistently good. His average of 46.6 over all ranges at Trentham this season is a splendid one. The 900 yards series, with penalties applied, resulted as follows: —L. Wilkinson and L. Fellingham, 1761; H. Hunt, 175 J. Luke Memorial Cup: L. Wilkinson. “Daily Mail’’ Cup: H. Hunt. Newton Cup: H. Hunt. Morrison Cup: H. Smith. Saturday’s scores are as follows:— 900 900

Greytown Championship Postponed Greytown, April 19. Unforeseen circumstances compelled the postponement of the shooting for the Greytown Rille Club’s championship at the last moment. A few members coining from a distance were met at the range and a practice was fired at 300, 500 and (JOO yards. In spite of the cold and with rain threatening, shooting was good. Three cards of 99 out of tho possible 105 were returned and there were two possibles at 500yds. Following are the scores.:— 300 500 600

Levin Club April 19. The Levin Rifle Club fired two shoots of 10 shots at 500yds. on Saturday. The weather was fine, but with occasional gusts of wind. R. Tsuifriim recorded two good shoots of 48 and 49, and R. Ralston, H. Stratton and J. Eagle returned improved totals. Results are as follows:—

Scores were as follows: — Hep. Tl. 600 yds. 600 yds. R. J. Stewart ... .... 40 40 U-t) DO R. Bradey .... 41 40 4-3 8S J. McKelvle .... 44 43 scr 87 A. B. McDonald . .... 37 46 4-0 87 W. Boulton .... 34 38 8-7 87 H. V. Croxton .. .... 41 44 scr 85 T. H. It. Boon .... ."... 43 41 scr 84 D. R. McCarthy . .... 39 33 84 A. II. Williams . .... 37 30 5-5 77 C. H. Nelson .... .... 23 36 8-7 77 Next Saturday the club will close season with a match at long ranges. its

yds. yds. Hep. Tl. F. Waterworth 43 46 1 90 R. Bishop 41 43 6 90 D. Robertson 38 44 8 IX) M. Hugo 4'1 44 4 89 M. Monk 40 47 1 88 M. O’Grady ... 42 30 7 88 K. Chapman 38 40 10 88 P. Congreve 43 44 — 87 R. Dawson 37 45 5 87 F. Standidge .. 41 41 D 87 R. Mottram ......... 37 45 3 85 T McGill 37 45 1 S3 M. Martin 43 32 8 83 W. McBain 40 39 2 81 J. Stephens 36 40 5 81 C. Lawton 38 35 81 M. H. Reid 36 34 6 76 E. Sheehan The next shoot will 34 be at 41 800 yards 75

W. H. Ballinger B. Dunn ... 45 45 49 45 0 0 94 90 C. E. Tanner ... 43 43 4 90 W. F. Cropp ... 41 44 5 90 S. Nichol 42 42 6 90 A. Page 41 41 8 90 H. Felling 41 41 8 90 T. McNab 44 45 0 89 W. G. Scambary . . - 41 44 4 89 S. C. Higgins ... 42 43 4 89 B. Hayston .... 41 39 9 89 W. M. Jackson . 41 45 2 88 T. B. Richards . . . - 40 44 3 87 H. .Nickless .... 44 41 2 87 C. Lusty . 42 39 6 87 W. A. Scott .... . 39 39 8 86 P. Stewart 39 1 85 J. C. Ashman ... . 38 44 3 85 J. Devine . 35 46 3 84 R. H. Nicholl ... . 39 44 0 83 J. Braid . 35 42 6 83 C. Mitchell ..... . 32 40 11 83 D. J. Guiney .... . 41 41 0 82 P. B. Clarke ... 34 12 82

L. H. Wilkinson Hunt yds. yds. Hep. Tl. 8SJ 83 .. 40 .. 39 30 42 7-51 1-1 A. Stewart .. 38 38 24-34 82 C. Milroy .. 30 42 4-4 80 S. Newson 36 4-4 77 G. Trevelyan .. 37 31 4-5 77 T. Goodall .. 3G 31 4-4 75 H. Smith .. 27 34 2-2 65 N Kitchen .. 37 * 3-0 40 W. G. Fellingham .. 29 6J-0 354 L. Fellingham 35 •JRetired. scr-0 35

A. G. Rhodes .... yds. yds. yds. Total. 32 35 32 99 J. B. Bairstow . 34 34 31 99 H. C. Trotman ... 34 35 30 99 W. Jordan 32 32 31 95 H. Waldon 30 32 30 92 T. Trotman .... 28 32 31 91 D. J. Flynn 30 *\s 28 86 H. J. Farley 25 27 29 81

iiOO’ 500 A. R. Tantrum ... yds. 48 yds. 49 Hep. Total. 97 R. Ralston 47 47 4 96 L. Richards 47 46 4 96 L. Lumsden 411 46 3 96 V. Hunter 47 45 3 96 H. Stratton 47 44 7 96 J. Eagle 4a 45 o 96 A. Horn 42 39 10 96 s. Lumsden 44 47 3 95 J. G. Horn 4.> 43 4 Jl.i G. Benning 40 44 6 94 L. Anyon 41 44 4 93 P. Page 39 40 9 93 .T, Wylie .. 41 47 • ’ 91 R. Catley 45 42 *) 91 .1. Bowling 38 40 10 90 L. Ingram 42 42 3 90 R. Richards 43 .— — 43 II. Wylie — 43 —— 43 Limit with handicap, 90.