RIFLE SHOOTING.

Marlborough Express, Volume XLV, Issue 37, 13 February 1911, Page 7

RIFLE SHOOTING.

BLENHEIM RIFLES

The senior.and jwnioF teams fired, a match at Vernon on Saturday. The seniors fired two substitutes, and were beaten \by~ 7 points. The conditions were 7, .shots and an .optional sighter at 200.and 500 yards. Following are the scores:—

JUNIORS.

SENIORS.

HARDING CUP,

The Blenheim Rifles fired their! second competition for the Harding Cup this morning, Pvt. W. Logan coming out top for the morning with 46. The conditions were 10 shots aAd an optional sighter at 900 yards. Following are the scores:— ' ..

The following will represent the Blenheim Defence Rifle. Club in a match against : the Sounds Rifle Club at Waitaria on Wednesday next:— President .Miller, Riflemen West, Pope, B. J. Cooke, J. Brown, D. Wemyss, J. A. Leslie, W. J. Paynter, W. H. kumphreys, H. Kirbv F. 0. Linstrom, A. J. Maclaine, M. McKenzie. Gate's charabanc will leave the Square at 7.15 a.m. sharp.

The Liverpool Post says that strangers chancing to pass through the Dv Pont Circle Park at Washington have lately been perplexed to see a large number of children, cvi-> dently belonging to the moneyed class, playing about with a blue ribbon fastened across their chests on. which in gold letters are the words "Don't kiss me." It was at first thought that this betokened a recrudescence of the Puritanism of their forefathers. Further inquiry, however, has elicited the fact that this is not the case. It seems that it is all the outcome of the ani-germ. craze, and that the mothers of Washington and - Boston have banded themselves together with the object of preventing their babies bo(ing contaminated by the promiscuoi kissing, of admirer s^ and this" is t] initial .step in the crusade. It w" !1 probably be effectual, for who wouU dare plajnt ,a kiss on lips, however ruby, with that legend glaring in gold just below?

yds. yds. Tl. Pvt. P. Jackson ... 31 32 63 Pvt. A. Hadfield ... 32 30 62 Capt. Rogers 29 31 60 Pvt. V. Logan 30 30 60 Lieut. Jordan 31 29 60 Pyt. Robertson ...' ... 31 28 59 Sergt., Payne ■ 28 29 57 Pvt. Stirling 29 28 57 Pvt..Rowe 28 24 52 269 261 530

rFvt. W. ;l*>gan. ,., ...: 31 33 65 ;P,vt, Harding ...... 31 33 64 Pvt, Holdaway ... 33 29 62 ■<S)L-Sergt/Hadfield ..; 28 33 61 Sergt. Hddfield ... 30 31 61 Pvt. Laking ... ... 28 301 58 Pvt. J. Hadfield ... 28 29 57 Pvt. Cortett ... .;. 27 24 51 Pvt. P. Moreland ... 21 24 45 257 266 525

900 1st yds. Cpt:' Tl. Sergt. Payne 44 48 92 Pvt. W. Logan ... 46 44 90 Col.-Sergt. Hadfield ... 42 44 86 Pvt. Holdaway, 42, 43 85 ,, Robertson ... 44 40 84 „ J. Hadfield ... 43 41 84 „ Harding 41 41 82 „ Corbett 38 43' 81 „ B. Ward 44 36 80 Sergt. Hadfield ... 39 ,40 79 Capt. Rogers. ..."... 34 42 76 Pvt. A-. Hadfield ... 32 . 44 76 Lieut. Jordan 32 43 75 'Pvt. Paton ' 41 32 73 Sergt. -Hammond ... 32 41 73 Pvt. H. Hadfield ... 38 34 72 „ Rowe 32 39 71 ,, Stirling ...... 35 31 66 „ Brewer 19 35 54 „ A. Jordan ... 18 30 48