CLAY BIRD SHOOTING
AUCKLAND GUN CLUB The Auckland Gun Club held a. series of matches at Pakuranga on Saturday. The first 10 birds match was divided by C. E. Hodge (18yds), R. H. Bartley (15yds), and D. Hyauiason (11yds), with nine lulls. The chief match for the Pakuranga Farmers’ trophy resulted in a tie between C. E. Hodge (19yds), R. H. Bartley (16yds), and M. Delich (15 yds), with 12 kills out of 15. In the shoot-off Bartley missed on the twenty-third round, Delich the twenty-fifth round, Hodge getting his bird and winning. The final shoot, a gimcrack match, was won outright by W. J. Turner, with the possible of seven. C. E. Hodge, R. H. Bartley, W. H. Hazard and M. Delich dividing second money with five each.
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Sun (Auckland), Volume III, Issue 739, 12 August 1929, Page 13
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129CLAY BIRD SHOOTING Sun (Auckland), Volume III, Issue 739, 12 August 1929, Page 13
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