RIFLE SHOOTING

Otago Daily Times, Issue 24474, 6 December 1940, Page 3

RIFLE SHOOTING

SECONDARY SCHOOLS' CONTEST VICTORY SHIELD TO SOUTHLAND The annual rifle shooting competition for the Victory Shield; open to all secondary schools in the South Island, has again been won by a team from the Southland Boys' High School, which also won the trophy last year. The Southland team scored 225 points out of a possible 254. Otago Boys' High School was second with 199 J points, Waitaki High School third with 187, and John McGtashan College, Dunedin, fourth with 119 J. The'competition consisted of two practices. In the first the team _of, 10 competitors had to run. 100, yards and then fire from the 200 yards range at 12 iron plates. . Each competitor had 10 rounds of ammunitibn, and a minute was allowed for firing at the plates. The Southland team knocked- down all the plates within the minute and for this gained 60 points. In addition the team returned 72 rounds of ammunition and was awarded another 36 points, half a point being allowed for each round returned. Thus Southland gained 96 points for. the first practice. The second practice consisted of snapshooting from the 200 yards range at targets exposed for five seconds at irregular intervals of time and at different places The Southland team gained 43 hits out of a possible 50, each competitor having been issued with five rounds for this practice. As three points were awarded for. each hit, the team scored 129 points, making a total oil 225 points.. '..'•■..

Sergeant-major H. Sutton, of the Defence, Department, one of the coaches of the Southland team, said he regarded the score as phenomenal, especially, that in the snapshooting practice. ' ;..