RIFLE SHOOTING

Southland Times, Issue 24357, 11 February 1941, Page 6

RIFLE SHOOTING

INVERCARGILL CLUB The Invercargill Defence Rifle Club fired its weekly competition at Otatara on Saturday undei’ tricky conditions because of the east wind at times being of the fish-tail kind. In spite of this some of the competitors compiled some excellent scores, G. Wilson scoring 100. Mrs L. R. Lyall had rather a bad run at 300 yards, getting only 28, then at 500 yards she scored the possible 35, and 34 at 600. Her total was 97. Following are the scores:—

CITY GUARDS CLUB The City Guards Rifle Club began the first stage of the championship at Otatara on Saturday, 10 shots being fired each at 300, 500 and 600 yards. Splendid scores were registered. L. Woodful was in fine form and scored 145 out of the possible 150, which is seldom beaten at Otatara. The best aggregate scores for the day were:—L. Woodful 145, J. B. Doake 144, J. Buttolph 142, D. Wishart 142. Following are the scores:— Yds. Yds. Yds.

Yds. Yds. Yds. 300 500 600 Tl. G. Wilson 32 34 34 100 R. B. Wood 32 33 34 99 W. Milley 32 32 34 98 J. Archer 31 33 34 98 Mrs L. R. Lyall 28 35 34 97 A. Lyall 31 32 33 96 J. Kilby 32 34 30 96 W. Henderson 33 33 29 95 J. Clark 32 32 30 94 F. S. Henderson 32 30 30 94 N. McWilliams 29 33 30 92 Miss James 31 30 30 91 W. Cook 32 28 29 89 L. R. Lyall 32 29 28 89 A. Blee 30 30 24 84

300 500 600 Tl. L. Woodful 47 49 49 145 J. B. Doake 48 49 47 144 J. Buttolph 44 49 49 142 D. Wishart 45 50 47 142 Mrs Doake 46 47 48 141 B. Broomfield 46 47 47 140 W. McChesney 47 46 46 139 J. W. Doake 46 44 48 138 J. Brydon 44 48 46 138 C. E. Young 43 45 44 132