VICTORIA RIFLE MEETING

Evening Post, Volume CVII, Issue 54, 7 March 1929, Page 11

VICTORIA RIFLE MEETING

NEW ZEALANDERS WELL UP United Press Association—By Ele/itilc erapn—CopyrlsbtMELBOURNE, 6th March. The Victorian Riflo Association's meeting was continued to-day. In the Craig Williamson Match, ten shots at 800 yards, Siniinonds (49) finished third, and took £4. Masefield (49) finished with an inner and took £2. Boon and Nix (each 48), and Whiteman (47) each received £1. Other scores were as follow: H. Feast, Piper, James, and Or (each 44), Keir (43), Boots (42), Bolton, M'lver* and Swanson (40), Paterson (38), Hood (37), J. Feast (34), Soler (32). In tho Sargood Match, ten shots at 900 yards, the wind was so strong that an allowance up to twenty-threo feet was necessary. This resulted in poor scores. Keir put up a good performance, registering New Zealand's fourth with with a score of 47, taking the match and £10. Boon (45) took £2. Winners of £1 were Boots and Masefield (44), Nix (42), Bolton and Simmonds (41). Of the oth*r New Zealanders Piper made 39, 11. Feast and Whiteman 38, Hood and M'lver 37, Paterson 35, Swanson and James 34, Feast 32, Orr 31, Soler 24. In the Syme aggregate, Maseiield was fourth, with 2(59 points, five points behind the winner. He took £15. Keir was seventh with 266, and wou £5; Simmonds eighth (266) won £3. Fourteen of tho eighteen New Zealanders got in the prize-list of the aggregate. The opening stage of the King's Prize was commenced. The atmosphere was cool, but the wind was still gusty, seven shots at three, five, and six hundred yards were fired. H. Feast showed some of his New Zealand brilliance, being beaten for first place only in the count back 1 with 102. He takes second prize: (£6). Winners of £1 include Keir (99), Hood (98), Nix (97), Masefield (96). Other, scores werfli Boots and James (95), Boon and Simmojids (94), M'lver, Orr, and J. Feast (93), Paterson and Soler (92), Bolton ■(89), Piper (88). .' ■'' '•''. ■■''■,■ " ■ ■■