RIFLE SHOOTING.

Hawera Star, Volume XLV, 19 March 1926, Page 3

RIFLE SHOOTING.

BELT MATCHES AT TRENTHAM. SOME GOOD SCORES. (BY TELEGRAPH PRESS ASSOCIATION'.) TRENTHAM, March 18. To-day saw solid progress made with the Dominion rifle meeting, the management making the most of the fine weather prevailing. The weather is unusually fine and uncomfortably warm, and the marksman’s bane, the mirage, was painfully evident all day. except when at rare intervals a slight right breeze came along and drove it off, onlv to reappear presently more tantali sin <r than 'ever. The shooting, however, desDite the mirage, was very hot throughout, and some fine totals were recorded. Two matches were eompleted. Wel-lino-ten. 10 shots at 500 and 000 yards, and Taranaki. 10 shots at 800 vards. To addition, ore range (600 vards. 1-5 shots! ef the Tlominion Match -was firod. anti the second leg (10 shots at DOO nprdsl will be taken to-morrow morning. To-dav’s shooting at the 600 '•ards comnletec; the ranges counting for the Trenth°m aggregate. which falls te Rnots fßateal with 439 noints. TTo takes tho h.S. ' . medal and shield. Tt. la notable that Anderson, last wear’s Belt winner, who also "arned off this match with a to+al of 414.. is onlv three noints behind that talk" to-day. and stands th'irtv-fifth- en the list. Lari »'ppr 307 got into the nrire money, and fo-dnv it took 410 to creen in. Details of to-day’s shooting are: TRENTHAM AGGREGATE. (All scores at 300, 500 and 600 yards.) £5 and B.S.A. gold medal and shield —Roots (Patea) 432 £4 —Simmonds (Wanganui) 425 £3—A. Harris (Wellington Suburbs) 425 £3—E. S. King (Wanganui) ...... 425 £2 —Graham (Dunedin) 424 £2—H. Donald (Opaki) 424 £2 —Smart (Wellington Suburbs) 424 £2—Caldwell (Karori) : 423 £2—Jeune (Gisborne) 423 £2 —J. C. Feast (Greytown) 422 TEAMS MATCH. The tie between the Wellington Suburbs and Greytown teams in the champion service teams maftch was decided to-day, Hunt (Suburbs) and H. Feast (Greytown) firing five shots at tiles. Hunt won by 15 points to 5. Suburbs thus carry off - the Logan Campbell Shield and the Islington Cup. WELLINGTON MATCH—A GRADE. (Ten shots at 500 and 600 yards.) £5 and gold medal—Roots (Patea) 97 £4 —Hood (Masterton) 97 £&—Piper (Christchurch) 96 £3—Pitt (Old Navals) 96 £3 —Hohnshaw (Christchurch) 95 £2 —Koppert (Oamaru) 95 £2 —Smart (Wellington Suburbs) 95 £2 —Muschanip■ (Christchurch Railways) 95 £2—Graham (Dunedin) 95

£2—L. F. Ching (Karori) 95 WELLINGTON MATCH—B GRADE. (Ten shots at 500 and 600 yards.)

£3 —Jeune (Gisborne) 94 £2 —T. Whiteman (Upper Hutt) ... 94 £1 —Hallagan (Olcawa) 92 £1 —G. Tewhaiti (Tuhirangi) 92 £1- —J. Munro (Dannevirke) 92 £l R. Russell (Auckland City) ... 91 £1 —Hare (Wellington Suburbs) ... 91 Tyros.—£2, F. Palmer (Omana) 94; £1 each, 0. M. Ching (Karori) 91, Ogg (Kiwi-j 91, H. W. Ching (Waimea) 91, White (Okawa) 91. Lundy (Wanganui) 91, Gower (Rata) 91,, A. Murphy (Grmmerburn) 90, MeCorkindale (Dhnedin) 90, Sigvertsen (Taravua) 90. TARANAKI MATCH—A GRADE. (Ten shots at 800 yards.)

£3 16s —W. J. Green (Ok aw a) ... 50 .£'3 16s —F. Clark (Ashburton) ... 50 £3 16s—J. Pirie (Gisborne) 50 £3 16s—West (Renwick) 50 £3 16s —Holmes (AVanganui) 50 £2—AV. S. Mills (Kiwi) 49 £2 —J. McKenzie (Opaki) 49 £2 —Nix (Featherston) 49 £2 —H. J. Verrall (Auckland City) 49 £2 —H. AV. Ching (AVaimea) 48 TARANAKI MATCH—B GRADE. (Ten shots at 800 yards.)

£3 —'Pitt (Old Navals) -49 £2—A. J. Pieterson (Auck. City) 48 The following take £1 each —D. Robertson (Karori) 47, O'. Allen (Auckland City) 47, Thomson (Palmerston North) 47, Lovett (Renwick) 47, A. P. Anderson (AA r anganui) 47, Jones (Kimbolton) 46. Tyros.—£2, Betts (AVestport) 48; £1 each, O'. Ching (Karori) 47, Sutherland (Tuhirangi) 47, Ivibblewhite (AVaimate) 47, N. Harris (Christchurch) 47, Teal (Greytown) 47, R. Jones (Linton) 46, Wrigley (Opaki) 46, Clayton (Kiwi) 46, N.* Hunt (Hawera) 46. CHAMPION TEAMS’ MATCH. The positions at the end of to-day’s shooting were as follow: Wellington Suburbs No. 1 1606 Feather ston •• 1591 AAhmganui No. 1 158/ Christchurch No. 1 15/6 Petone No. 1 1574 Karori No. 1 1570 Wanganui No. 2 1563 Upper Hutt ••••• 1560 TO-DAY’S AVORK. Pool’S IN STRONG POSITION. TRENTHAM, March 19. The weather is holding gloriously line. This morning shooting began at ejo-ht o’clock at 900 yards to complete the Dominion Match. Shaded targets and sunbathed mounds, with a mirage in front of the targets, affected some men, and misses were dotted about freely. About nine o’clock the first reallv threatening puffs of wind came along ,and though not yet serious, are giving'marksmen something to think about” Later on the Hawke’s Bay Match, 10 shots at 900 yards, will be fired, and in the afternoon 'the Otago Match, 10 shots at 800 and 900 yards, will keen the men occupied. These last 30 shots will complete the 110 fired to determine finally those who shall fire in the King’s Fifty to-mor-row. The general opinion is that, unless Roots breaks down badly, nobody can stop him putting his name for the third time on the Belt. At the annual meeting of the National Rifle Association, held last night. Colonel Hughes was re-elected president, and Mr Ellingham was elected secretary. Colonel Creswell, Maior Dunne and Captain Simmonds were elected to the executive.

The latest positions of the leaders in the. Rifle Club Champion Teams Match is: ‘

Wellington Suburbs No. 1 1834 Featherston 1815 Wanganui No. 1 1815 Karori No. 1 1801 Akarana 1792