SMALL-BORE RIFLE SHOOTING

Evening Post, Volume CXIX, Issue 112, 14 May 1935, Page 16

SMALL-BORE RIFLE SHOOTING

■ CHAMPIONSHIP MEETING

NOVEL PRIZE BASIS

(By "Elevation.") FIXTURES. • Sydney Tlsdall Cup—May 6 to 18. Inter-club Matches commence—May 20. Empire Cities Match—May 25. Wellington'Championships—June 3. Winchester Cup—June 3 to 15. Falma Cup—June 24 to July 6. Christchurch Ladles' Postal Match—June 24 to July 6. B.S.A. Hatch—June 29. New Zealand Championships—July 29 to August ■ 10. Witcombß and Caldwell Cup—August 26 to September 7. Entries close as under:— Winchester Cup—May 25. Wellington Championship—June 1. Talma Cup—June 15. New Zealand Championships—July 13. Wltcoinba and Caldwell Cvu—August IT. INTER-CLUB MATCHES. .J<o advice has as yet been received from the inter-club schedule committee as to the draw for the opening rounds next week. It Is anticipated that clubs will be individually advised as soon a3 It becomes available. There are sis entries, for A grade, four for Intermediate, 15 B, and 14 C, necessitating the splitting into two sections of each of the two latter grades.. .'WELLINGTON CHAMPIONSHIPS. The programme for the Wellington championship meeting on June 3 has been compiled and will be issued to clubs in the near future. Several Innovations have been made this year. The permission to use telescopes for spotting will no doubt be welcomed by many. This year, the programme caters for every class of small-bore rifle shot In Wellington. There will be the usual three matches and aggregate in the A and B grades, and the C grade has been extended to Include three matches. The ladies' match has been re-estab-lished. There are optional aggregates for each grade and the ladles, and team matches for each grade have been established. It has been customary In the past only to have one team match, that for the A grade. The greatest Innovation is a system of proportional distribution of the prize-money. In the A grade all 98's and over will participate; In the B grade all Si's and orer; in the C grade all 9a's and over; In the ladles' match all 96's and over. This has been accomplished by V system of valuation of the scores, and by allocation of the total prize-money for the Brado not to tho individual matches but to the total number of scores which have reached tho minimum for. the grade. To take an example say In tha A grade, the prize list, which is based on 30 entries at 12s (including the aggregate) allows £14 total prize-money for the, three matches. Assuming that in the course of' the meeting five possibles are registered, eighteen 99's, and twelve 88's, the basis of valuation- of the scores has . been assessed as 6:3:1. giving a possible six times the- amount payable Ho a 98. Thus the allocation would pc: 100's (5 X 6) 30 plus ,99's (18 x 3) 54 plus 98's (12 x 1) 12 equals 96. A 98 .would receive one-ninety-sixth of £14, 2s lid, or. approximately the entry fee of 3s. The 99's would get 8s 9d each and tiie 100's 17s 6d each. The allocation is much fairer than by the "count-back" or other, systems that havo been In force. The basis of valuation for the other grades .is: B 6:3:2:1, C 8:4:3:2:1. The ladies' is the same as the B. It is possible for a score, or 99 in the C grade to obtain a higher prize than a 100 would in the A grade, as witness:—Total prize-money based on 30 entries at 2s a' match,- £9. Assuming scores of two 99's, two 98's, three 97's, seven 96's, and thirteen 9a's, the 99's would receive £1 4s each and the OS's Is 6d each. The officials appointed for the meeting other than those holding offices for the year are:— Scrutineers; G. Boddy.'n. Xlckless,'H. R. Hunt P. Kershaw; range officers, J. E. Pitt, L. Cooze; scorers,' P. -tv, Costello, B. G. Murphy; target stewards. P., Stewart, T. McNab; Press steward)..B; : O, Murphy; assistant secretary, A. V, G,. Wilson. Entiles close with the secretary on. Jupe .1. A late entry fee of 6d will be imposed on entries received after that date. OSMOND SHIELD. The scores of the Municipal Club, which are now to hand, do not affect the result of the Osmond Shield match. Aotea are ths winners ■with 686. The individual average now becomes 67.67 for 70 riflemen, wlch is 0:06 below that of the same round average for last season. Of the 70 scores, ten were possibles and 41 were 68 or over. 1 _ A The Municipal Club's scores were:—J. Jenkins IS' h CoJ?° 69' Pl wtlllSras 69, L. Anderson 67, Miss M. Murray 67, S. Owen 67, A. Ford \l' R.\Si haw 63- K. Lynam 59, J. Roberts as > total. Goo. LADIES' SHIELD. t T,? 8 .outstanding result from Hutt Valley Ladies is now to hand, and does not affect the result. P.W.M.C. Ladles lead with 538 (equalling the- record .score). The individual average for the round is 64.44, which is 0.21 above that of the second of last season. x,.3?6, Hutt v»»ey Ladies' scores were: Mrs. Nicholasi 69, Mrs. May 69, Mrs. Ffrost 68, Mrs. Greenfield 66, Mrs. Davies 64. Mrs. Barden 63, Mrs. McFarlane 60, Mrs. Cleland 59; total 518. EMPIRE CITIES MATCH. ' -Clubs-still wishing to make nominations for the Empire Cities match are requested to forward the names to the secretary not later than tomorrow. The match i 3 to be fired on the association range on Saturday week. The names of the team will appear next week. "EVENING POST" CLUB. There was a good attendance of members last night for : the second series of the competitions. 68 was the highest score for the night, moro members put on higher scores than last week. The winners of the buttons, B. Pumfrey and K. MacDowell, with 136, wera only four below the possible^, beating the old-record of 135 held by several teams. ' ■ A team.' has been picked to shoot off the Tisdall Cup next Monday, and members are reminded to be at the range early., HUTT VALLEY FRONTIERSMEN. The first of the monthly competitions finished on May 2 and resulted In a win for I. R. Davies, with C. Harvey second. The standard of shooting is steadily improving, and members are looking forward to the commencement or the Inter-club matches. The Petone Ladles will be the guests of the Frontiersmen on Thursday In a return friendly match. '■■•■■ LOWER HUTT CLUB. The official opening of the Lower Hutt Club will be held on the range, Rlverbank Street on Wednesday, May 15. - Mr. K. Jlunrd has given a medal, the competition ■ for which comprises a handicap match of four shoots of ten shots each. Members are-showing keen interest. The shooting to date has been of a very high standard; K. Munro, A.' D. Brown, sen., F. Cropp R Whiteman, L. Hare, F. Ching, J. McHoim, iun. C Lambert; ;Sergt. McHolm, and J. Ross have all scored one. or more possibles last week. AU the new members are shooting remarkably well. The club will be entering four teams in. inter-club matches. All new members should be present on Wednesday, as the selector would like to have a try-out before picking the C grade team. ONSLOW CLUB". • .flS st aerles for the Weeds Shield was completed last month, F. E. Brßdshaw being the winner. The, shooting was of a fairly high standard. IV Freeman, D.- Small, and O. K. Jeffs obtained possibles (90), Jeffs and Mattingley 89 *, and Pedersen, Potts, Thompson Fittes, Mattingley, and Jeffs 88's. ' ' The ladies have not got going properly yet, but should show better .results soon. PETONE CENTRAL CLUB. The championship shooting was commenced last month.; All shoots and practices have been well attended, and a high standard has been revealed. The leading scores in the championshipvare: W. Clewer 208; S. Jones 208, J. Devine 207^ O. Churcher 205. Possibles have been obtained by W." Clewer, L Wilkinson, O. Churcher, B. Ffrost (2), A. Hobbs J Devine, S. Jones, and H. May. ' ' The club .score in the Osmond Shield match Was its best to date in this match. The club Is entering three teams in the inter-club competitions, one In the-I grade,- one in the B grade, and one In C grade. The Tisdall Cup shoot will be held on SOUTH CLUB. ".■•'.' The South Club held the first shoot for the club championship and handicap aggregate series last Tuesday evening. The best scores were possibles (70) secured by H. Lane and B. T. Boddyy and 69's by R. Congreve, C. Ivybarg, W. T. Creswell, P. W. Congreve, 11. tvans, J. Culling, and T. JlcNab. The ties for the April trophies were shot off. In the A. grade P. W. Congreve has won the second trophy, defeating A. MacDowall by one point In the B grade J. Culling and R. S. Churcher have again tied for the first and second trophies, M. Evans has won the third, and the following members have tied for the fourth, fifth, and sixth trophies: K. Klndell, J. Farmer, J. T. Priestley, Miss B. Lindsay, E. Edmunds, Miss Wright, L. Lawton. The ties will be shot off this evening, the method being three shots off rifle (with optional sight er), any'further ties shot for shot. The second, silver badge for members new this season to miniature shooting securing the rifle score of '68 points has been won by K. Kindell. ■ ■ Last week's holders of the' Weekly Challenge Shields (MIS 3B: Lindsay, R. Boddy, and J. t. Priestley) were again successful in this ' competition with the score of 208 ex 210. The shoot this evening will bo tho May Competition for the Congreve Juir.