Rifle Shooting.

Hastings Standard, Volume XIII, Issue 4371, 27 January 1910, Page 2

Rifle Shooting.

COLEMAN SHIELD. GOOD SHOOTING. TIE BETWEEN GUARDS AND RANFURLY RIFLES. CHAMPION BELT WON BY BUGLER HAY. The fourteenth annual shoot for Coleman Shield and the Champion Belt, also presented by Mr j. H. Coleman, took place at the Roy's Hill rifle range yesterday. Five teams entered this year, namely, Napier Rifles, Hastings Rifles. Napier Guards, Hawke's Bay Mounted Rifles and Ranfurly Rifle?. The conditions for the Shield were: Twelve men teams, seven shots at 200, 500, and 600 yards. The twelve highest scorers shot off, ten shots at 700 yards, for the Belt. In the shoot-off for the Champion Belt, Bugler Hay of the Napier Guards, came out t>n top, and. will have the honor of holding the Belt for twelve months. Money prizes were won be Sergeant Humphries (Hawke's Bay Mounted Rifles), who also won the BoltenCup presented by Major Bolten, Sergeant McLeod (Hastings Rifles', Corporal Young (Ranfurlv Rifles), . Sergeant James (Napier Guards), Colour-Sergeant Grindell (Napier Rifles) and Corporal Proffit (Napier Rifles). Mr F. W. Williams was the range officer in charge yesterday, and was assisted by Lieutenant-Colonel Russell, Major Ringland, Captain and Adjutant Simm and Captains Colebourne and Holderness. The following are the scores :

V COLEMAN SHIELD. RANFURLY RIFLES. 200 500 600 TI. C®l--Sgt. Nicholson 29 34 3i 94 Corp. Young 33 34 30 97 Sgt. C. Stephens ... 29 32 29 90 L.-Corp. Thompson 34 34 27 95 Pte. Scullin 28 25 23 76 Lieut. Pirie 30 31 28 89 Corp. WiUis 28 30 33 91 Sgt. H. Stephens 31 22 20 73 Sgt Culliford 34 25 28 87 Corp. Laing 31 28 29 88 Pte. Bendall 29 23 27 79 Sgt. Tronson 30 32 34 56 Totals 366 350 3391055 NAPIER GUARDS. Sgt. James 33 34 30 97 Bugler Corp. Hay 35 30 28 93 Sgt. Head 33 23 30 86 Pte. Morgan 30 79 26 85 Sgt. Kennedy 34 3-2 27 93 Pte. Atkin 30 31 86 Pte- Maidens 32 32 28 92 Pte- Fougere 29 18 29 76 Pte. Morgan 30 31 28 89 Pte. Crawford ... 29 26 30 85 Capt. Andrew 28 25 31 84 Bugler Knock ... 28 28 33 89 Totals 371 349 345 1055 NAPIER RIFLES. Pte. Storkey 31 27 30 88 Corp. A. Robson... 31 24 28 83 Pte. F.Taylor 27 29 27 83 Pte. D. Lascelles... 31 29 24 84 Corp. Trevellvan 30 28 29 87 Pte F. Robson ... 30 27 26 83 Sgt. F. Yates 29 27 30 86 Sgt. W. Yates ... 31 29 50 90 L.-Corp. Proffitt ... 33 33 30 96 Corp. Wiig 35 30 23 88 Bugler D. Robson 27 24 34 85 Col.-Sgt. Grindell 32 29 31 92 Totals 367 336 342 1045 HASTINGS RIFLES. Sgt. McLeod 32 33 20 94 Sgt. Ryder 32 31 27 90 Corp. Smith 29 25 29 83 Corp. Beaie 32 30 24 86 Bugler George ... 24 28 33 86 Pte. McCulloch ... 30 28 28 85 88 Pte. McCorkindale 31 31 26 Pte. Batt ... 27 30 8 65 Pte. Milne... 30 26 30 86 PteBegley 31 30 28 89 Pte Guthrie 30 32 31 93 ?te- Wright 24 23 26 73 Totals 352 347 319^18 H B. MOUNTED RIFLES. Sgt.Major Hyde ... 28 31 22 81 Lieut. McCormick 28 29 32 89 Sgt. Humphries ... 31 28 32 91 Corp. O'Sullivan... 2« 27 26 81 Corp. Hinde 29 28 27 84 Tpr. McKain 23 25 17 65 Q.M.S. Heighway 25 33 26 84 Buglar Tong 29 32 26 87 Corp. McMillan ... 29 26 30 85 Sgt. Marchant ... 30 25 30 85 Tpr. J. B. Beachen 31 28 25 84 Tpr. L. Beachen... 24 27 28 79 335 339 321 965 CHAMPION BELT. Total 700 G.T as above Bugler Hay 93 45 138 Sgt. McLeod 94 42 136 Corp. Young 97 38 135 Sgt. James... 97 37 134 Col.-Sgt Grindell .. 92 41 133 Corp. Proffitt 96 37 133 Sgt. Kennedy 93 38 131 Sgt. Tronson; 96 35 131 '■ Pte. Guthrie 93 36 129 1 Col.-Sgt Nicholson 94 35 129 t Pte. Maidens 92 32 124 L.-Corp. Thompson 95 29 124 V