RIFLE SHOOTING.

Rangitikei Advocate and Manawatu Argus, Volume XLV, Issue 12018, 8 March 1920, Page 4

RIFLE SHOOTING.

TRENTHAM ' MEETING. Per Press Association . Trentham, March 6. The Senior Cadet Championship resulted :—£3 knd gold mdeal: Cadet L Edgecombe, Hamilton 73, £1 J K Baird, Hamilton, 73 These Hamilton hoys tied for first place with 73 out of a possible 80. 10s C Ashley, Auckland. AUCKLAND MATCH—Ten shots each at 300 and 500 yards, possible 100: £5 H O Loveday ..98 £4 Major J A Wallingford 95 *- £4 A S T Butler 94 £3 R H Hunt 93 £3 H Harris 92 £3 D Richy 92 £2 L O Braithwaite 92 £2 Lieut H Donald 92 £2, Lieut J P Atkinson 92 £2 Y E Donald .... 92 The following take £1 eachG Gledhill, Ingram, JBarkle, Wilson, 'Halliday, Jones, Bell, Govenlock 92; Paterson, Green, Oheal, Boon, Sutherland, Barrell, Oiossan, Ballinger. Harrison, Whiteman, Engstrom, McMurray, Warbnrton, Ashley 91; P W Maokay, McKenzie, Guiney, Pimm. McLeod, Pietersen, Paynter, France, Bluett, Hester, Masefield, Halligan, West, Mayhew, Moslem, Te Whaiti, Oausley, Oroxton 90; McKenzie, Richardson, Torbett, Henry, Thomas, Winsiade, Burns, L Loveday, Nix, Cameron 98. Ten Tyros take prizes of £1 each i»nd ten 10s each, with scores ranging down to 85. Five returned soldiers take 10s each with scores down to 82, and ten Senior Cadets take 10a each with scores down to 77. WELLINGTON MATCH—Ten shots each at 500 and 600 yards.; possible 100: £5 L Pimm 96 £4 W Miley ... 9i £4 R G Gillick .... 98 £3 R C Barkle 91 £3 A Govenlock 01 £3 S Elliott ... 91 £2 F Bolton .... 91 £.2 O J Nix .... 90 £2 E A Ballinger • .... 90 £2 P Foden 90 The following take £1 each—L Loveday, Masefield, Guiney, McKay, Crump 90; White Croxton, Feast, Barrell, Patrick, Jarvis, Henderson, Harris 89; Harrison, Atkinson, Simpson, Warburton, Powell, Keats, Donald, Evans, Oatley, Green, Ching, Howe, Y Donald, Roots, Duncan, H O Loveday, Fryer, Caldwell, Paterson, Williams, Bell, Milroy, West, Mcllvride, Lane, Cooke, Lewis, Te Whaiti, Sunnes, Kay, Knowles, McElroy, Sandford 87; Preston, Brenigau, J Shariand 86. Thirteen were counted out. Ten Tyros take £1 each, with scores ranging down to 84, and ten take )0a each, with scores down to 83. Five returned soldiers take £1 each with scores down to 80, and five Senior Cadets 10s each with twelve down to 74. NELSON MATCH—Ten shots at 800 yards; possible 50: £5 W J Feast 49 £4 H C Loveday .... 48 £4 P Fodden 48 £3 H Cameron 48 £3 W Randell .... 48 £3 D Roots 48 £2 G S Wooton 48 £2 H Seymour 48 £2 L H Tobin .... 48 £2 W Bradshaw 48 The following take £1 each —Johnstone, Richardson, Baird 48; Franklin, Merrilees, Mackie, Clayton, Loveday, Mitchener, Harris, Jarvis, Winsiade, Clayton, Evans, McMurray, Oatley, Farr, King, Engstrom, Wallis 47; Sutherland, Elliott, Torbett, Barrell, Braithwaite, Ryan, Mayhew, McDonald, Ching, Sunnex, Woodland, Dunstan, - Eyles, Seddon, McLaughlan, McLean, Shariand, Soffe, Burns, Warburton, Faulkiner, Dayman, Mclntosh, Gainey, Shaw, Gledhill, Catiey, Nix, Gillick, Gatrick, 46. Seven were counted out. The shooting in the Nelson match was almost phenomenal. The winner only dropped one point, and the sixty-ninth man in the list was only throe points behind him. During the morning shoot, two tyros—V H Ross, son of “Carbine” of that ilk, Wellington, and Trosnon, of Taradale, got on the possibles at the 300 yards stage of the Auckland match. LEADING AGGREGATES. With the completion of the Canterbury Match, the result of the Treptbam Aggregate Match, including the scores made at 300, 500 and 600 yards,of the “C” series, becomes known as follows —possible is 460 : £5 and Carbine Cup, R O Barkle 415 £4 W J Feast .... 414 £8 H O Loveday 412 £3 D Roots 410 £3 W Winsiade 409 £3 A Govenlock .... 409 £2 L C Pimm 408 £2 H Harris, .... 408 £2 E A Ballinger 407 £2 H W West .... 407 The following take£l each—James 407; Bolton, Mayhew 456; Croxton, Major Wallingford 405; Evans, Palmer 404; McDonald, Hudson 403; White, Guiney 402; H Donald, V Donald, Milroy 401; Williams. A Green, Milley, Masefield 400, King 399. The following were counted out— Ching, Ashley, L Loveday, and Lane.