PERSONAL RECORDS

New Zealand Times, Volume XLVII, Issue 10846, 11 March 1921, Page 7

PERSONAL RECORDS

SOME SUCCESSFUL MARKSMEN. Lieutenant H. H. Donald comes of a family of marksmen. His father, Major Donald, was one of the pioneers of rifle shooting in the early day®, and one of the first men' to shoot on the Trentham range, which he helped to establish. Lieutenant Donald’s shooting career commenced as late as 1915, under the tuition of R. J. King, the • belt winner of 1909 and 1919. In 1919 Lieutenant Donald was seventeenth, in the King’s fifty, and last year he took thirteenth place. He is a resident of Master-ton, where he was bora, and a member of the well-known Opaki Rifle Club. He is an engineer by profession and neither a teetotaller nor _ a nonsmoker. He believes that golfing and rifle-shooting go well together. . Con.sistency Ie one of the main feature* of his performances. "" RIFLEMAN MAWLEY. Rifleman H. /H. Mawley (Opaki) started shooting in 1906, but did not come to the top until 1919, when he was nineteenth m the King’s fifty, and won the Hawke 1 * Hay championship at Hastings. Lost year he was sixteenth in the fifty. He is a sheep-farmer and does not object bo the use of tobacco and alcohol in moderation. TRENTHAM AGGREGATE WINNER Rifleman J. C. Carter (Petone) first took up- the sport- of rifle shooting in 1908, when he was a member of the Woodville Rifles. He came into prominence as runner-up to W. Drummond, a Bisley competitor, in the Hawke’s Bay championship. In 1906 he joined the Petone Rifle Club, and has competed in big meetings since. At the D.R.A. meeting of last year he Was thirtieth in tbe King’s fifty. As an unofficial member of the New Zealand team he went to Australia last year and finished second in the third stage of the King’s Prize series at Melbourne. He was also successful at the New South Wale* and Queensland meetings. This year he is tbe winner of the Trentham aggregate. Mr Carter is a non-smoker. RIFLEMAN PATRICK. Rifleman A. Patrick is a member of the Akarana Club (Auckland). He learnt his rifle-shooting at Johannesburg in the Transvaal in 1904. and came to New Zealand toward® the end of 1907. In the following year, at tho D.R.A. meeting, he finished sixth for the belt; in 1909 he was second, and in 1910 tenth. He was n, member of the 1909 team to Australia, and was se-

Ileeted as a member of the 1914 team, the visit of which had to be abandoned on account of the outbreak of war . In 1920 h© was selected as an emer- [ gency for the Australian tour, but was unable, for domestic reasons, to make the trip with the team. He is a native of Fifeshire (Scotland) and a carpenter by trade. A CONSISTENT COMPETITOR. Rifleman D. McLeay was a member of the Wliakataki Club (Tinui, near Masterton) in 1906 and first came into prominence by winning the Stead Cup for marksmen under 21 years of age, at the Canterbury Exhibition (1907). He has competed at the D.R.A. meeting on seven occasions, and the present meeting is the first in which he has won a place among the King's fifty. In 1908 he won the North Island championship at Wanganui. He was second in the Service championship at the present meeting. He is a member of the Te Kuiti Club. ONE OF THE LEADERS. Rifleman E. K. Vennell (Te Wborau) first took up rifle shooting in 1904 at Greymouth. He has attended the D.R.A. meeting on nine occasions. In 1914 he won the 1000 yards match, but lie has not competed at any D.R.A. meeting between them and now. From 1905 to 1915, except on one occasion, he has- had a place among the final aggregates at Greytown. He is a heavy smoker and is not a teetotaller. GREYTOWN CHAMPION. Rifleman R. Piper (Oh ristetiureh) has bad a brief but highly successful career as a marksman. His first D.R.A. meeting was the Trentham of 1914, when he did not win enough money to lose the title of'tyro. It was as a tyro that he entered at tho present meeting, although at the Greytown meeting he had won easily the Wairarapa championship against all comers. His record at Trentham this year includes the remarkble score of 100 out of a possible 105 in the three-range Westland majbh. After ups and downs he worked into the first dozen by fine shooting at the longest ranges. He is engaged in the manufacture of leadlight windows. j A PERSISTENT SHOT.

Rifleman W. H. West (Blenheim) is well known as a rifle shot. Taking up shooting ten years ago, he created a sensation at the D.R.A. meeting of 1912 by making his way high into the belt aggregate, and finishing eighteenth in the King’s fifty. He was then a tyro. He has been at every championship meeting at Trentham since, and has missed the fifty only once. He was runner-up twice for the King’s Belt—to R. J. King in 1919 and to H. V. Croxton last year. Helped by patriotic Marlborough people, he went to Bisley last year with Croxton and Loveday, and finished wel lin the final hundred. On the way home, he short at the New South Wales meeting in Sydney, and out of 945 competitors finished twenty-fifth. He eschews tobacco, and is very temperate in his habits. By trade he is a motor engineer. RIFLEMAN GILLICK.

ll ill em an R. Gillick (Dunedin) made ’ his debut as a rifleman in 1913, and had very fair success at district meetings. . Last year, upon his first appearance at . Trentham, he found himself among the final fifty. He finished seventh at the South Island meeting at Christchurch , in 1917, and won the Smith Challenge - Cup there against 180 competitors. He i is a non-smoker, and also temperate in I his habits. THE PRESENT CHAMPION. Rifleman H. V. Croxton (Karori) was first of all a member of the Wellington Naval ArtiHery Volunteer Com--1 pany, which he joined iii the shooting season of 1908. When the Territorial 1 scheipe was introduced, he joined the Karori Rifle Club, and in the 1914 1 sea«ou he won that club’s championship. His first D.R.A. meeting was that of 1910, when he fired as a tyro. In 1913 and 1914 he was in the King’s fifty. In 1919 he did not enter, biit in 1920 he won the champion belt. This is the fourth time in succession that he has been in the final'fifty. He was one of the New Zealand representatives sent to Bisley to compete for the King’s Prize last year, and wa* a. member of the 1920 team to Australia He was twelfth in the competition for _ the Queensland championship, and finished in the first hundred at Sydney, where the competitor* numbered 946. In Victoria he was counted out of the final hundred. Mr Croxton, is practically a teetotaller. He smokes a good deal, but never touches cigarettes. A LIKELY WINNER. Captain A. Nielsen, of _ .Meanee, Hawke’s Bay, first took up rifle' ehoot* mg in 1902 when a member of the Volunteers at Woodville. He is a schoolmaster by profession and a captain fn the Territorials (9tli Regiment)-, He first competed at a D.R.A. meeting in 1908 and four years later he finished fourth for the championship. In 1910 he won che championship at Auckland, and in the following yeaa- he was second at the same place. He has not taken part fn any championship meeting between 1912 and the present year, and dursngf the whole period of eight years he has done very little shooting.