DOMINION MARKSMEN.

New Zealand Herald, Volume LX, Issue 18340, 5 March 1923, Page 8

DOMINION MARKSMEN.

THE TRENTHAM MEETING. \ SERVICE i'j CHAMPIONSHIP. {TROUBLESOME CONDITIONS. [bt ' IBtEOttATH.—PRESS ASSOCIATION.] '.',"- . TJEOSNTJIAK,. Saturday. The conditions were; very Variable at Trentham to-day for the continuation of the rifle ; shooting meeting. , A mirage and a troublesome " fishtail " wind sorely tried the tempers of the markesmen. Thomas, an old hand from Linton, put all his shot* into the bull at the 500 yds. range of the Marlborough shoot. Young Haldane got one less. The most meritorious performance waa that of Cadet Booker, a Blenheim lad, who got *• string of nine s's, and then dwelt overlong; on the last shot, which got off the black into the inner ring. He had made only a small score at the 300 yds., but this "all but" landed him a P"* e - . The service teams' match filled £ the rest of the afternoon, 11 J*-** in* revived, and some interesting shootinf was witnessed. Wanganui had mdeltly trained steadily and left the other teams well behind. '„■:,- . _ A/vwda The leaders in the first stage, 600 yds, 15 shot*, of the Dominion flitch, «• r W Chine (Karon, "2 t. • i - XLia * fdkawk), 70? W. Williams (Ohura), ftN. Maaefield (Sounds), «d West (Blenheim), 69; J- Sunn« (Flttbourne A. H. Gay (Kaponga), A. Solo' (Upper Eutt)/and A. hurt SS) l 68- L. G. Loveday (Linton), $ Wdane B \Wai P ukurau) *-*™» (Westport), D. Thompson (Napier), L. Braithwaite (Okawa), and R. 0. Barkle (A wSrtwo matches, the and the Marlborough, completed the leading eight are: Turner (Wellington) and NTclson (Napier), 141; Connor (Okawa) and Masefieid (Sounds), 140; Haldane (Waipukurau), 139; Carter <**»•»■■* Veale (Auckland), 138; Croxton (Karon), The Service Championship resulted: O MosMDunedin) 243, £5; H .Boone SaSS 242, £4; B. Hester .(Wellington Suburbs) 239, £2. The foUowmg take £1 each: B. Barkle (Petohe), 235; G. Hood fo™Lki)723o; H. Simmonds (Wanganui), 230VP. Veale (Akarana) 229 ; J.Bryden (Kaiapoi), 229; W. Duncan (WestP), 1 229 V W. Hudson (Wanganui), 228- W. E. Jones (Timaru), 227; J. Munro (Wyndham), 227; F. Sharland (Blenheim), 223 ■ ' _, ♦>.»,„. Results in the Service Teams Matches were : -Casualty Competition -Wanganui Rifle Club (Simmonds, Hamilton, Hudson, Hughes, Patterson) won the match, taking £4 and the Islington Cup. Kaiapoi was second, Wellington Suburbs third, and Cambridge fourth. Machine Gun Rescue: Karorl Rifle Club (Butler, Caughley, Boon, Marshall, Croxton) won, taking £4 and tie Dawson Shield Suburbs was second, Akarana third, ana Kaiapoi fourth. Superiority of Fire ComG!tition:Opaki Rifle Club (Hood, King, opley, Bolton, McCalmont) won. taking £54 and the Club Coffee Cup. Wanganui was second, Karori third, and Cambridge fourth. Wanganui, -which scored the highest aggregate points in these three competitions, became the champion service team for the year, carrying off the Sir John Logan Campbell Shield.