RIFLE SHOOTING

Southland Times, Issue 24368, 24 February 1941, Page 6

RIFLE SHOOTING

CITY GUARDS CLUB The Invercargill City' Guards’ Rifle Club fired the final stage of the A and B grade championships at Otatara on Saturday under good conditions. The final stage of the Old Guards Cup was also fired. In the championship shoot, 10 shots at 300 and 500 yards and 15 shots at 600 yards were fired. The shooting was of a high standard and some good range scores were registered. At 300 yards J. B. Doake and W. McChesney were topscorers with 48. At 500 yards J. B. Doake shot spendidly and scored the possible 50, followed by B. Broomfield, J. W. Doake and Mrs Doake with 48. The long test of 15 shots at 600 yards produced some fine shooting. Mrs Doake and J. B. Doake were the first two to go down, and each scored 71, Mrs Doake with 54555,44555,55545 —71, counting out J. B. Doake, 55544,55555,54545 — 71. The next three places were filled by J. W. Doake, J. Buttolph and D. Wishart, with 70 each. The highest aggregate over the three ranges was obtained by J. B. Doake with 169, Mrs Doake 165, and J. W. Doake 165.

The A grade championship was won by J. B. Doake, who shot splendidly over the six ranges, 144-141-169 —454, which is a new club championship record, beating the previous record of 451 held by A. Ford, last year’s champion. The second and third places in the championship were filled by Mrs Doake 447. and J. Buttolph 441. The B grade championship was also a close finish, being in doubt until the last shot was fired at 600 yards. J. Brydon 370 and D. Wishart 367 were the leaders to go down at 600 yards and Wishart with 555445545555445-70 — 437, won the cup by one point from Brydon with 4444544555444554-66—436. The Old Guards’ Cup shoot resulted in a tie, J. B. Doake and L. Woodsford both reaching the limit of 270, including handicaps. Doake with 5,4,5, counted out Woodsford with 5,5,3. Following are the results:—

CHAMPIONSHIP SCORES 10 Shots at 309 and 500 yards and 15 shots at 600 yards

CHAMPIONSHIP AGGREGATE Ist 2nd 3rd Tl. Stage Stage Stage

OLD GUARDS CUP

Ist 2nd Hep. Tl. Stage Stage

300 500 600 Tl, J. B. Doake 48 50 71 169 Mrs Doake 46 48 71 165 J. W. Doake 47 48 70 165 J. Buttolph 44 47 70 1G1 D Wishart 44 44 70 158 W. McChesney 48 43 67 158 J. Brydon 4 47 66 157 L. Woodsford 45 46 66 157 C. Mathieson 46 47 63 156 V. Mathieson 41 46 67 154 B. Broomfield 40 48 66 154 C, E. Young 46 44 61 151 L. Wilson 45 46 — —

J. B. Doake 144 141 169 454 Mrs Doake 141 141 165 447 J. Buttolph 142 138 161 441 W. McChesney 139 140 158 437 D. Wishart 142 137 158 437 J. Brydon 138 141 157 436 J. W. Doake 138 131 165 434 B. Broomfield 140 140 154 434 L. Woodsford 145 126 157 428 C. E. Young 132 136 151 419

J. B. Doakc 100 169 1 270 L. Woodsforcl 101 157 12 270 Mrs Doake ' 99 165 4 268 C. E. Young 96 151 18 265 J. Brydon 93 157 12 262 J. Buttolph 92 161 6 259 B- Broomfield 94 154 6 254