RIFLE SHOOTING

Evening Post, Volume XCIX, Issue 122, 24 May 1920, Page 2

RIFLE SHOOTING

SATURDAY'S MATCS3S iiii.KY cv? competition.. Ai Poiiiill Guiiy on Sat-ura-a-y alterr.oon trie r.nnu&l coinpot-ition lor'Coioiiul iiilsv'a C;ip was held. T'.iis cup is j awarded to a member of-tile local xia.il- j y.-sy Bnginecrs making tha highest score in t'.ia classification practice:- 'of the musketry course. A foe;- en e:;csedin;rly i interesting match the winner wac- found" j to be Sergeant Kestei-, of No. 7 Cor.--- ! ■pa-ny, who will hold, the cap for another ; ■ year and i-eceive ;■. ;;oid me'dnj. Lie-iiion- ■ .alit Dayman cf the ti,ir.e company was vu.u:iei--up, and will receive* a. "silver meda".. Tile standard of siicoiin;; this ye!-:; was very higii, i\nd "possibk-s" were registered, by lieutenant Dayman and Sergeant Hester in the Snap Match at £00 yards. In the Sapid Match Sergeant He.»ter only managed to fire eight roiTiido within the rainu;a time limit, but- secured eight "bull's-eyes." The conditions wore : Five rounds application, E^ ronrido snap (once). 10 rou;-.c'.5 vapid (Ir.ii:*), and 5 rounds ;r.ii-p (Ssec).at 200 yard.l?, a-nd S rounds application ■at 500 yards. Service sights; no siir.gr. or rest 1:. Scoring, 4, 3, 2, 1; The beet scores v.-ero a? follow : Ser^sapi T>. 13. Hests?, 18-20-32-19-17—total 106 :■ fje;--tenant. J. W. Dayman. 19-20*^4-18-I^— total 93:' Corpora! v 7. G. Fbae;, 19-17----£5-17-14—-lot.-.) 92; Cn-plain f:. Wr^-'it. 14-13-25-17-12—total 81. previous winners : 1918. Corporal W. G. Fisher, score 75 (vunivjr-np Serjeant Hester, score 72'!. 1919, Sergeant I!. E. Hester., score ■ 106 (rir.'.ncr-uo Corporal Fisher) score 36. KAKORI RIFLE.CLUE., T!ie members of the Karori Eifie CJub fired a. match under service conditions for the Willoughby Cup at the Trentham Bange on Saturday. The result was a tie between President H. liiarslmil and Rifleman A. S. T. Butler, but in the shoot-off the cup went to the latter, the- ."core being 17 to 12. Following tre the highest scores :—A.. S. T. Butler 88, Pres. H. Marshall 88, O. Morrison 75, Dep.-Pres. J. Bertram 72, IT. Preston 71, F. Smith 62, E. Daniel 60, W. Favqnhar 58.