A CLOSE FINISH

Evening Post, Volume CIX, Issue 51, 1 March 1930, Page 11

A CLOSE FINISH

CANTEBBUBY MATCH.

lii the Canterbury match, 600 yards, there was some close shooting, nofewer than five marksmen finishing -with 47. each. The match was won by P. Berry, of Tararua,' on a count back to the fifth place. He is a B grade man. H. K. Smith, of Opaki, a tyro, also scored 47, and would- have won the match had he .finished with a bull. His card showed eight bulls, but, unfortunately, tis last shot was a magpie. H. T. Peat, of Suburbß, after putting on seven bulls, dropped to a magpie followed by another bull, but finished with a four. Detailed results are as follows:— . ! : A GRADE. . ■•■;.• ■ £s—r-T. Berry (Porirua), 47. £4 each—L. G. Benton (Feath'erston) and H. H. Mawley (Opaki), 47 £3 oach—H. T. Peat (Suburbs), 11.. K. Smith (Opaki), 47 each. £.2 each—-Lieutenant Duncan ("Westport), ' ;W. A. Kenning (Eltham), G. Clegg (Waikopiro), 46 each. £1 each—W. H. Thomas (Upper Hutt) and T.B. Goldfinch (Karori), 46 oach; B. Caughley (Karori), E. M.. Wrigloy (Opaki), F. N. M'Vicar (Waipukurau), T. W. Warburton (Petone), A. G. Eobertson (Hawera), W. J. Green (Opawa), D. Boots (Patea), B. A. Wilton' (Petbne), A. J. Govenlock (Turakina), Captain P. Bolton (Opaki), J." Austin (Nuhaka), 45 each; W. H. Battinger (Petono), C. Blackwood .(Timnrii), P. Clark. (Ashburton), H. H.-.';M«lutosh .(Blenheim), .'&.. Joyce (Waimate), G. T. Gardiner (Haveloek), Cadet H. 'V. Whiteman (Upper Hutt), P. C. Hogg (Wanganui), Lieutenant A. J. Green (Westpprt), "W. J. Johnston (Petone), J. B. Bairstow (Greytown), J. Brydon (Kaiapoi), F. W. Ching (Karori), T. P. Sullivan (Waipukurau), J. Buschl (Sydenham), P. W. Coiigreve (Old Navals), J. Dean (Opaki), J. G. Turnbull (New' 'Plymouth), A. P. B. Crawford (Invercargill), S. P. Nelson (Chrwtchurch), P. T. White (Okawa), 44 each. • '; . Counted out—P. H. Sharland, D. F. Keir, W. Hudson. . ' '"_ B GBADE. £3—L. Olds (Karori), 46. £2—o. H. Wilson (Invercargill), 46. £1 each—L. H. Proffitt (Napier), G. A, Eyles (Napier), W. M'Chesney (Invercargill), A. Combs (Blenheim), 44 each; B. Tarrow (Tararua), 43. lOseaeh—A. S. Bel-iy (Dannevirke), B. T. Haldane (Waipukurau), G. E. Pearson (New Plymouth), B. Ure (Invercargill), H. P. '-pore (Karori), T. 8.. Trueman (Ashburtou), O. George (New Plymouth), T. Whiteman (Upper Hutt), I. Bruriton (Patea), J. Hunter (Petone), J. P. Sigvertsen (Tararua), 43 each; H. J. Verrall (Auckland), 42 Counted out:—W. 3ST. Garth, E. D. Grant, H. C. Percy, W. Malcolm, G. E. Carde, L. J. Sigvertscn, jun., J. Ure, D. Murray, O. M. Ching. • . TYBOS. £2—H. V. Searle (Nelson), 45. £1 each—E. H. Carter (Old Navals), S. Boebuck (Okato), 44 efceh; E. W. Syme (Le Bons Bay), A. G. Bpbertson (Auckland), E. I. Wells (Paeroa), E. Drake (Suburbs), 43 each; C. Stone (Old Navals), J. Nelson (Waimato), 42 each. . ■ 10s each—J. K. M'Manus (Old Navals), L. Bidgway (Upper Hutt), J. E. Parley (Wanganui), A. Linton (Tuhiraugi), T. Weston (Alfredton), 42 each; G. Dassler (Waikopiro), J. W. Smith (Alfredton), W. Oakley (Christchurch), P. E. Jamieson (Petone), H. L. Mason (Christchurch), 41 each. Counted out—J. D. Edwards, J. Bain,' M. Green, H. C. Basmussen.