OUR RIFLEMEN.

Feilding Star, Volume III, Issue 822, 8 March 1909, Page 4

OUR RIFLEMEN.

AT THE TRENrHAM MEETING, BUSY AT BISLEY. RESULTS OF THE THIRD DAY'S SHOOTING. i A DAY ON SERVICE MATCHES. (_PEB PRESS ASSOCIATION. J Trentham, March 6. To-day was devoted entirely to eervice matches at Trentham. These matches have comparatively little interest to the general public, because there is nothing that stands out conspicuously, as in the case of the various matches for the Championship Belt; but they secure the class of shooting for which the Dominion Rifle Association really exists, and thus are a valuable aid to national defence. The weather conditions to-day were similar to those existing during Thursday and Friday, and the oldest Trentham marksmen cannot recall so prolonged a spell of perfect weather during a championship meeting. The only drawback has been the unusually high temperature during the day and the excessive cold at night. On starting the men ott the mounds this morning Colonel Collins made a cheering announcement. The programme, he said, had been based upon an estimate of 500 competitors, but the total number of riflemen entered was 536. It had therefore been decided to giv^ £100 in extra prizes, £50 for a Consolation Match open to all competitors who had not won £1 or over, and £50 to be distributed at the rate of £1 per man to the 50 men whose aggregate scores are nearest to the 50 highest aggregates firing in the King's Prize competition, and gaining £2 per man. Four service matches were fired today. in Service Match No. 7, sharpshooting at 200 yds, 7 shots, 125 competitors won 8s each. In Service Match No. 8, rapid firing at 500 yds, the following were the principal winners: Turner, Petone, £5, 46; Potter, Auckland, £4, 45; Chapman, Tekapu, £3, 44; Frederick, Martou, McLeary, Opaki, Breuton, Pongaroa, each £2 6s Bd, scoring 43; Rait, Gisborne, McCalmont, Opaki, Soper, Taumarunui, each £1 13s 4d, with 41 each. In the Cover Match the following won £2 6s each: Lowe, Gisborne; Barltrop, Feilding; Drummond, Westport; Moslen, Kaeo; Franklin, Weber; Anderson, Kaitangata; Bent, Taranaki;. Stephens, Ashburton ; Jackson, Wellington; Standish, Tarata; Pearson, Timaru; Proffit, Napier; Currie, Riverdale; Wickens, Wellington; Kitchen, Upper Hutt; Irvine, Nelson; Wayte, Mataura ; Eden, Nelson ; Cameron, Palmereton North; Watson, Permanent Forces ; Wing, Marton ; Nix, Apiti ; Mirrilees, Johnsonville ; Frederick, Marton; Simpson, Waikato; Loveday, Ohura. Attack Match, No. 9, 400, 300 and 200yla, competitors to start at the 500 yds peg and on the bugle sound to run to the 400 yds, and fire from there three rounds; at further bugle sound to cease fire and run to 300yda, firing point and fire further three rounds ; the same proceeding to take place at the 200 yds range.— £l 12s 6d, Peak, Waikato, 9: £1 12s 64, Eden, Waime-i. 9: £1 10s. Pankhurst, Colac Rnv. 8; Henry, Opaki, 8; £1 each; Zimmerman. Tariki : Cameron. Opaki; Cliinjr. Waimea. 7 each. Thirty-three others take 15s each, with 6: while 45 take 10s each, with 5.