RIFLE SHOOTING

Otago Daily Times, Issue 18674, 2 October 1922, Page 6

RIFLE SHOOTING

The Kiwi Defence Rifle Chib opened the shooting season with the president's match on Saturday afternoon; ranges, 300yds and 500 yards, seven shots at each distance. "Weather conditions— changeable light, with variable head wind. A good attendance of members was on the range, and .for the first shoot of the season the scores were fairly good, the now members showing promise of hotter shooting later on. Rifleman Gillespie, a beginner, put on a magpie for his ■first business shot and finished with six bulls. Amongst the old shots Riflemen W. Ogg and'W. Crimp finished with a serviceable 63. Rifleman W. M’Kcich’s 34 at 500 yards was also a good) shoot. The following are the scores: —

THE DUNEDIN COMPETITIONS. TO THE EDITOR Sip.,—Have we in the last few years become so tired of hearing mistakes ami complaints in conned ion with the competitions that we lei everything pass? Surely not, or competitions will become a. thing of the past. Perhaps it will ho only necessary to draw the committee's attention to some of the decisions —in the case of the Impromptu Sneech and other competitions during the "last 10 days to ensure more care in the future. , . In the hoys’ section—Kipling s Cord Roberts”—the judge said /‘every boy made the same error, pronouncing 'dcs-cned instead of ‘de-cried.’” Hut every boy was right and the judge wrong, and I have waited for some of the boys’ school teachers to object to such a decision. The judge s ruling would substitute a. which ontirely alters the sense and meaning,_ amt as long as such mistakes are ‘'descried ’ so long will the public continue to “decry ’ the’educational value of the competitions.— I am, etc., T. De Spoxg. Sm,—Will you allow me to express dissatisfaction with Hie decisions of Mr M'Danald, of Port Chalmers, the-judge in the national dancing sections? In the class for girls under 10, one competitor, having finished her dance, was called on to dance again because she had made a false start Ihe first time. Was that right? In three other events first prizes were awarded to competitors who, in my judgment, danced out of time with the music. One of the competitors is somewhat puzzled with her report sheet. She is credited with giving a, splendid performance during (ho afternoon, for which she received 89 points and a recall. The report says that the evening performance was inferior to that given during the afternoon, and yet she received 90 points.—l am, etc., Disgusted Competitoe. DRUNKENNESS UNDER PROHIBITION. TO THE EDITOR. Sir, —Mr “Pussyfoot.” Johnson claims that there has been an extraordinary decrease in drunkenness in. the United States under prohibition and quotes selected statistics to back up his statements, mentioning particularly the cities of Philadelphia, Buffalo, San Francisco, and St. Pit ul I, have before me the Juno, 1922, issue of the New York Times. Current History and lift the statistics for tho cities mentioned by Mr Johnson—viz., Arrests for Drunkenness and disCitv. Population, orderly conduct. liv’d. 1020. ' 1021. Philadelphia J,82:1,770 20,443 27,115 P.uUalo .>00,77.5 li.lol ;i.fi.so Sau Francisco ... r.O'l.cm 2.7!1t (i,00.5 St. Paul rtU.titld 1,022 4,:i10 Dissecting ihese figures I find that. Philadelphia. was over 32 per cent, more drunken and disorderly in 1921, (he second year of prohibition, than in 1920, the. first year of drought; in Buffalo there was over 13 per c.-nt. increase; in San Frnncieoo, over 114 per cent, increase: and in St. Pant, 127 per cent, increase.. In other words these cities, especially selected by Mr Johnson to show (ho wonderful work accomplished by prohibition in the United Slates, are really shocking exan i of how not to handle the liquor business. On the aggregate the four select cities were 40 per coni, more drunken and disorderly in the second year of prohibition than in the first, and the whole of them are nearly two and ahalf times more drunken under prohibition than our tcniporale dominion under license. On paper, two of these “show cities” are oven worse limn Chicago, for increase in drunkenness during the second year of prohibition. --1 am, etc,, CIIIIISTIAX. October 1.

Rifleman to O & 300 500 yds. yds. 32 31 Hp. Tl. 5 — 68 Rifleman Gillespie .. 25 33 10 — 68 Rifleman W. Crimp 33 30 2 — 65 Rifleman F. Dolphin 20 31 5 — 65 Rifleman W. Mills .. 31 28 4 — 63 Rifleman R. Bruce .. 26 31 6 — 63 Rifleman W. M'Keich, 26 34 2 — 62 Rifleman J. Hay .. 29 31 2 — 432 Rifleman R. Gil lick 20 31 60 Rifleman H. Pettit .. 30 25 5 — 60 Rifleman H. Stewart 20 26 5 — 60 Rifleman B. Andrew 30 27 2 — 50 Rifleman \V. Rains 20 27 2 — 58 Red.-pres Parsons .. 27 29 1 — 57 Rifleman Chirnsido 19 28 10 — 57 Rifleman T. Steele .. 0.2 28 6 — 56 Rifleman A. Crimp 28 26 1 — bb Rifleman J. M‘Kinlav 24 23 8 — 55 Rifleman C. Farr 17 30 5 — b'2 Rifleman Harvey 21 10 Rifleman Fennessey 21 20 10 — 51 Rifleman R. Andrew 22 27 49 Rifleman R. Johnsten 24 25 49 Rifleman M'Keich .. 16 21 12 — 49