CLAY BIRD SHOOTING

Evening Post, Volume CXIII, Issue 142, 20 June 1927, Page 16

CLAY BIRD SHOOTING

NORTH ISLAND CHAMPIONSHIP

(By Telegraph.—Press Association.*

■„,,-■ "NAPIER, 18th June. Ine North Island clay bird championship was fired on Monte Carlo grounds to-day. Thirty-seven competitors from all parts of the Dominion took part. .Some phenomenal shooting was witnessed Five competitors/A. Dobson, D. M'Lachlan, E Groorae, D. .Fraser, and F. L. Joblin, had the full twenty-one breaks each, and divided the prize money. In shooting off th« veteran shot, D. Fraser, and E. Uroome (Hawkes Bay) carried on until the formed dropped out at 55 hits, and Groome gO-La J? reak and won! the championship with 55 consecutive hits, the largest shoot-off that has ever taken place in the Dominion for the clay birds championship .D Fraser is one of the best known shots •in the Dominion, and has twice been New Zealand champion. . . The £25 15s clay bird handicap was fired the prize money being divided between C beddon, Duncan Fraser, J. Benson, M Pearson J. <J. Syme, G. W. Beard J Beard, G. Tait, D. P. North, and A. xv! Turner, each having fifteen breaks A five-pair double rise match was fired,. C..Seddon and A. Dobson dividih" hrst and second with nine breaks each, d! P. North being third with eight breaks