RIFLE SHOOTING,
. » : — ■ > THE SYDNEY MEETING. THE EMPIRE MATCH. A NEW ZEALAND SUCCESS. * United Press Association— By - Eiectrlo Telegraph—Copyright. SYDNEY, October 181 The Empire Match was commenced in fine weather j with a stiffish wind at times., The three shorter ranges were disposed of to-day. The shooting generally was very even, though the .Commonwealth team managed to head New Zealand at every range. The scores at present are :— Commonwealth li**, New Zealand 1057. " _ The individual scores of the New Zealand team were : —
The only- - possible went to Howitt (South Australia) at. 500 yds. The 1 longer ranges will be fired tomorrow. . ■.'••• t As a set-off to their leeway in the Empire Match, the New Zealand team won the Gordon Highlanders' trophy, securing five hits to South Australia three and, Queensland, New South ' Wales and Victoria two each.
', i -fiOO MO 600 ii;'^^ ;..!;. . ...\.-,.i- •--«■■- ■■< • yd». y'dfjj-'yds. • Jataes F , , .40 45 '42 Halliday . • « .47 48 41 King . t . . .45 4S i 43 Patrick . . . . 48 45 41 Hfidfield '. . , .46 43. 87 Hawthorne : . . .47 48 '44 Maeefield . . , .48 42 44 Gay .xw • • .45 ' 43 40
Permanent link to this item
https://paperspast.natlib.govt.nz/newspapers/TS19091019.2.9
Bibliographic details
Star (Christchurch), Issue 9676, 19 October 1909, Page 1
Word Count
180RIFLE SHOOTING, Star (Christchurch), Issue 9676, 19 October 1909, Page 1
Using This Item
Star Media Company Ltd is the copyright owner for the Star (Christchurch). You can reproduce in-copyright material from this newspaper for non-commercial use under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 4.0 International licence (CC BY-NC-SA 4.0). This newspaper is not available for commercial use without the consent of Star Media. For advice on reproduction of out-of-copyright material from this newspaper, please refer to the Copyright guide.
Log in