A COVETED TROPHY

Evening Post, Volume CXI, Issue 70, 23 March 1926, Page 8

A COVETED TROPHY

WON BY VICTORIA COLLEGE

IMPERIAL UNIVERSITIES' RIFLE MATCH—I92S.

Advice has just been received that the Victoria University rifle team has been successful in carrying off the coveted trophy for inter-varsity shooting throughout the Empire for 1925. In the 1924 match Victoria College was placed third (Sydney being first and Cambridge second), but they improved on that performance in the recent match by winning from Sydney by a narrow margin of two points. The performance of the local team is all the more meritorious when it is considered that they had to shoot for the match on the notoriously tricky Trentham range. ' : A double honour has been secured in that G. E. Parker's fine effort of 219 was the highest individual score in the match. Detailed results are as follows:— Victoria' College (New Zealand), 1614, 1; Sydney, 1612, 2; Perth (West Australia), 1381, 3; with London fourth, Edinburgh' fifth, and Rangoon sixth. These were the principal scores. Detailed scores of Victoria University College team were as follows (10 rounds at each practice—possible 250): Application— Rapid—

yds yds yds yds yds 3. E.Parker.. 43 44 45 41 44 219 a. V. Scott ..43 44 40 41 41 209 H. F. Bollard . 44 47 40 35 41 207 r. G. HIslop ..36 46 41 30 42 204 f. H. Macarthur 40 39 40 41 39 199 f. B. Yaldwyn 46 42 41 34 35 198 F. R. O'Connor 44 43 43 35 28 193 i. Ainslie .... 40 40 42 38 25 185 Range totals .. 338 345 332 304 295 Grand aggregate ...'. 1014