MINIATURE RIFLE NOTES

Star (Christchurch), Issue 17035, 8 May 1923, Page 3

MINIATURE RIFLE NOTES

BY TRIGGER

FIXTURES: Emne* close tor Winter Tournament Tuesday. .May 15. at 9.30 p.m. The Chriatohlirch Miniature Rifle Association held an executive meeting <*n Tuesday eyeni«g lent. The following delegates were present':—Messrs ®. M’ Donald (Reewe’*), Kerman Wiiaon (Lyttelton Times), T. Davie (Kaiop«K vVomlen), J. Diack (Cashmere), t'. (Railway), L. C. Pimm (Crown), Is. Hands (Ctvristohurch W. M. Club), J, Oml# (Sydenham) and W. Mat hie ' sop (Adam* Ltd.). Mr M. Dockery, ' vike-president di the association, proJuried. . Alter general business hod liben dealt. With the question, of the. .date at closing of entries and the date of coniine nee recent of the competition •matches was discussed, it waa decided that, ail entries- should ©lose with the seorotary, Mr A. Tongue, not later than ifeoednv. May 15, at 9.30 p.m., at the association range, Colombo Street, the competitions to start on the week cemsnanewg Monday, May 28. The Cjiieaview tit ideurtng the linikliug asret content* was kilt with the. secretary, with power to act. The ballot for targ#te tor those clubs renting the associdmon range resulted as ioMews: —Ohjuatcfmreh AV.M. dub 1 ajpd 2, “ Lytiteifion. i imc» 3 amd 4, Sydenham o and 6, Adams Ltd. 7 and Reece’s, Ltd. 3 and 4, Kaiapei W. Co. 5 and i» 3 W. Haiti.--. Co. 7 and ®. The nights allotted for practise to the eksbe weoe :—Monday—Sydenham, W. H. Harria aud 00., Christchurch W.M. Club and Reece's Ltd: Tuesday-—*■ Lyttekon < sMne%” Aston* Lid- and Kaiappi Woedon Co., Wed-nesday--Sydenham. W. H. Harris and On. and Reece’s, Ltd. : Thursday— Adana# Ltd., Christchurch W.M. Glufe and ftaiapoi Woollen CL. : Saturday—- , “ Lyttelton Times.” In additiop to , these ailotlments, the “ Lyttelton Times" Club has the neo of the range ,or. Tuesday and Thursday afternoons for the night staff, for which it pays a slightly increased rent. BRIGHTON v. CROWN. The New Brighton and Crown Brewery'Club* tired their annual friendly jpatoh «n t-fae letter’s range Inst Saturday evening. The see#nie club came m strong force and thoroughly derived their win as the secure was ■n Jthin one point of tlie record put up «tn the Brewery range in the winter competitions last season, when these Wo clubs met in the second round of the senior grade, the scores being: Crown 375, and Brighton 261. <Wi Saturday evening the visitors never left the issue in doubt and shot right no to practice form. J. Buschl, V. Tims and R. Dutliie each put on the posted hie. while “ Norma n-d ” Wood* and the ©tab's popular secretary each notched 34. Grown Brewery on the other hand ware weakened considerably toy the absanoe of “ Sonny ” Ftenoh and Georg© Evans. Nevertheless the tail came to light end put on two possible* and one 34, tho possibles being tor "Fred” Belt, and Brizley (who shot for last year's junior©). Mr J. Bawkin, captain of the Crown Brewery team, in. proposing the t-oast •f the winners, said he was pleased that they should be beaten by a club lake New Brighton, wboae representatives were always triers and excellent sports. He wisheed them the best of luck for the coming season. Air G. AV. Bishop, in replying, thanked the capt-ain of the Crown Club for the kind words spoken and hoped that their win that evening was the forrnuner of a successful season. They had a 1 wavs wished to beat tbe chain pion team and had at last: succeeded on the homo team's range. The scores were as follows: New Brighton—J. Buschl 35, V. Tims 85. R. Duthie 30, A. G. Mnnns 84. N. Woods 34, G W. Bishop 33, J. 'Weir 33. W. Buschl 33. total 272. Crown Brewery—Brislev 35, Batt 35. L. Pimm 34.' Halmshaw 33. Docket v 33, Davison 32, Hawken 32, Neill «l“ total 265.

SYDENHAM v. RAILWAY. This match- which was fired on Wednesday evening last, was keenly contested, some fine scores being put on. notably possible* by F. Sullivan, George Rylatt and AY. Johnston for Railway Club, and Low for Sydenham. Tbe scores were as follows: Railway—F. Sullivan 35, Rylatt 35, Johnston 35, Hill 34, \V. Sullivan 34, Lilley 33, Holland 33, Hales 32, total *7l. Sydenham—Low 35. Jessop 34, Barker 34. S. Ottay 33. Nelson 33 Webb 33, Wilson 33, Left 32, total 267. RAILWAY v. WARD’S BREWERY. A friendly match was fired on the Railway range between Railway Reserve and Ward's Brewery, last Thursday evening, the former team running out winners by 10 points After supper Air G. Rvlatt expressed the pleasure his club had in entertaining Ward's and Air R. Buchanan suitably responded on behalf of the latter team. The scores were as follows: Ruilwaj —F. Sullivan 35, G. Fai&ar 34, Hill 34, Owen 34, W. Sullivan 38, Johnston 33. Timbs 3», Duckworth 81. total 266. Ward's—Smith 33. Ward 33. Weston 32, T. Brown 34. Green 31, C. Brown 32. Buchanan 32. STharmirti 32. total 955.

The annual meeting of the Kaiapoi Woollen Coy. Miniature Rifle dub was held in the company’s social room last week. The president, Mr G. B Bowie, occupied the chair. The annum report showed a marked improvement ( in last season 1 © shoci-mg The team finished third wi the junior competition, winning 13 matches o»t of 18. and also secured second place in the junior championship match. Several very enjoyable soeiols wore hold during, the season, the profits from these going to the purchase of new B.S.A. rifles. The balance-sheet showed the club to be in a very satisfactory condition. Starting with a credit balance •f 30s and without rifles (the okl rifles having been stolen), the season closed with a credit balance of £3 Is lid and assets i* the shape > f two new’ rifles. The election of officers ie»wlted a* follows :—Patrons, the Board of Directors; president, Mr C-. B. Bowie; vicepresidents, Messrs D Man son. C. Porter. C. G. Blackwell, A J. Duncan, C. Lucas, E. T. Dean, F. Riwhsrd, J. W Wahely, H. PaLmor. A. D. Smith, L. T. l^eighton; club captain, Mr T. E. Davie: vice-eaptOm, Mr F. Burgoyne ; secretary and treasurer. Mr F. Burgoyne ; cemmittee, Messrs A. Hobbs. AV. Thompson. J. Oli?», H. Rogers, A Beaton : delegate to asooeiation. Mr T. E. Davie ; honorarv auditoa - . Mr J W. Wakely. Hearty votes of thanks were passed to the company for ite help given during the reason, to the Pfess ; for their report© ot matohos, and to the retiring officers of the club. CLUB NQT»B The Crown Brewery Club intends commencing its competitions this week, fr. is intended to run a monthly compel ition all through the season. One •hoot each week ia to be fired, and the highest three out of four to count each month and prises will be given to the highest aggregates at the end of the season, handicaps inclwdod. The New Brighton Miniature Rifle Club on Tues4*v evening hist again tried out its No. 1 team. The team fired twice, and the total snores were 272 and 273 against the previous week's 276. The scores of the team were as follows;—R. D. Duthie 35, F. Lightfoot 35, A. Munas 34. G. Catton 34. V. Tims 34. G. TV. Bishop 33, A. Duthie 33. In the second shoot the Duthie Bros, each put on possibles, and Bishop 34. All the other scores were much the same as the first shoot. The following possibles were scored during the week:—R. Duthie (2), A. Bikhia A. G. Munns. Light foot, G. Catton, \ r . Tims. J. Buschl and J. Hayes one each. It is the committee’s intention to commence the club's competitions this evening. On last week’s shooting R. Duthie and F. Ligbtfoot both received points in the Hotty Competition. The Cashmerp Club held its weekly competition for the M’Lean Hottv Button last week. There was an excellent attendance of members, twenty tivking part in the competition, which was won by H. M’Elroy for the second veek running with 34. the next hesfc being Walker 33, and S. Clark S 3. The second shoot for a gold modal presented, bv Mr A. J. Newton will be held this week. The present leaders are Neill 50, Hogarth 50. Howartli 50. Hunslev 49, and H. Judkin* 40. At the weekly practice of the New Brighton Ladies’ Club held last week some good shooting took place. The following were the highest score©: — Airs Stoker 34-38. Mr? Brooks 34. Mrs Bishop 32-30, Miss Park 32. Mrs Buschl 82, Miss R. McClelland 32, Airs Burmeister 31. Miss Buchanan 30. Miss Langley 30 and Mrs McClelland 30. Two new member© in Mrs Leighton and Miss Smith were elected. ' Reece’s Club held its first practice on the new range last week, when there was a good attendance of members, including a number of promising non ones. Some good scores were made during the evening. I). M’Donald, the ; popular captain and coach. and H. Taylor each registered the coveted no* sible. In fact both put in eight bull’seyes. Reece’s will be losing the services of AV. Taylor as he has taken up a position in Wellington. He was a popular member of the club as well as a consistent shot and also held tbe honorary position of chief entertainer. The opening shoot of the Ladies' Club at Ward’s took the form of a match between teams picked by Mrs Fuller (captain), and Airs Salter (vicecaptaine). The former s team was sue cessful, the scores being:-—Airs Fuller’s 203, Mrs Salter’s 180.' Mrs Buchanan 24 and Mrs AVeston 30 were the top scorers respectively. The Working Men’s Club is practising at the association new range. The. following are the results for last week’s shoot: —AV. Smythe 35. H. Biggins 715. G. Graham 34, H. Hunt 34. J. Huehinson 34-34, Captain H. Harris 34, D. Harris 34, J. Crimp 34-34, F. Simpson 34. 'The members of AV. H. Harris. Ltd., are practising at the association range, but up to the present the scoring is irregular. One of the rifles is throwing shot in side ways. Arthur Halmshaw is coaching them. The <£ Lyttelton Times *’ members made a big improvement last week. Air Bills, their captain, gave a lesson or two mb the use of the aperture sight, and it did a lot of good. JOTTINGS. The Working Men’s Club have lost four of the best shots this year in J. Wilson (gone north). J. Tirnbrell (gone to the West Coast), "Bob” Smith (gone to the AVest Coast), and Harold Biggins. The last named was instrumental. in forming a new club, the Sydenham R.A.O.R. Lodge, and hr? is the coach. Arthur Shaw, another ok! AV.M.C. shot, will be shooting for R.A.0.8. The olub will have a range in Colombo Street, opposite tbe Fire Station. Joe Left coached * the. “ Lyttelton Times” members last Tuesday night, and they have- benefited by hi© instruction. Afterwards lie had a shot and put on a possible- with his new Vickers. ! E. Simpson.. W. Coekroft, T. Hay, R Hay and Fred Wilson formed a working b*»e »t tbe association range on Saturday, and riflemen will see a vaat im

provement when they attend this wees. Clubs renting. the range are reminded that they are expected to see that the premises are in good order when their practice is finished. Members ar,e also reminded that they mu.vt not leave bi cycles at the foot of tho stairway. W. Johnson (Railway) was present at the association’s range on Saturday laat. and gave ” Lyttelton Times '* some coaching. It is good sports like Johnson that do so much to keep alive in terest in the game. JOTTINGS. This will b© a record year for the Ghri*tohurch Miniature Rifle Association as regards entries for the coming winter tournament. it is reported that there is every likelihood ol nine senior and thirteen junior teams tak uig part. ‘ Harry” Dockery will be coaching tlie Crown Brewery team this season, as “Arthur” Halmahaw will have quite enough to do with the new team of W. Hands, Ltd., which he is going to coach. Crown are 1 uoky indeed to have one o«f “ Harry’* ” calibre t© fall back on. a© he ie well known as one of the oldest ©hot* in Chriatehuroh. Hs ie shooting well tohia season, having already put on several possibles. and Trigger ” i© informed that he i* right after tike Goodhart Cup, for which he wm runner-up last aeaaon. 1 take this opportunity of wiehing him the best ot All riflemen using the association range should bear in mind the danger of walking up and down while firing is in progress. This applies more to the younger members, who ahould not load their rifles until thfejr have taken up a correct firing position on the mounds. During a practice shoot held by tho Cashmere Olub last Saturday afternoon *' Fred ” Judkins paid a visit to the range, and had tbe satisfaction ot notching a possible. This its a good shoot considering he has net shot with a miniature rifle for several years. “ Fred ” has decided to join up with the Caahmere Club, and will shoot with thAt olub’s senior team when available. It ia l’gther unfortunate that Christchurch Mechanical Workers’ Club hns bad to disband, for this season at any rate, owing to shortage of members. This team showed good promise last season, when it finished fourth on the liet in the junior competition out ol ten teams competing. All entries for the winter competition* close with the secretary, Mr A. Tongue, at tbe association range on Tuesday next. Ma.y 15, at 9.30 p.m. sharp. No entries will be received after this date. The competitions will commence in the week beginning Aion day, Alay 28. Ellis, a promising colt, who has joined up with Crown Brewery, only com rmenoed shooting this season. He is putting up some good scores and is fast improving. He has the keenness ari.J the patience necessary in the making ol a good shot. Several prominent riflemen who have had a shoot on the new association range informed the writer that the lighting and target arrangements are very good. One said that the arrange mentte are a credit to those revsponsible, and. that there should not be any com plaint* about not having enough room, which was tbe case on other ranges. The secretary of the association will be iveH pleased at having his long-felt want fulfilled in the shape of a private office. G. Green, who shot for the Linwood Club Last year, has joined up with AVard s Club. H. Judkins, a son of the well-known rifleman, “Fred" Judkins, has joine-l up with the Cashmere Club, and is showing promise. His father did a fair amount of miniature shooting, notablv with the Christchurch Defence Club m 1916, when they had to fire off with Railway for the championship. H. M’Elroy, of the Cashmere Chm. is having hard luck, he having put on nine 34 s without notching the coveted possible 35. “Jim ’ Edwards and Claude Tun brell, of the Sumner Club, are putting on possibles regularly. The latter scored two last Tuesday evening ani Edmonds one. A correspondent informs “Trigger* that one of the first acts of the newlyelected City Council will be to confer the “Freedom of Cathedral Square on some well-known miniature rifle en thusiasts. Some ten possibles were fired in inter olub matches last week. This points to records being broken in the coming competitions. New Brighton and Railway Clubs have mode an excellent ing‘Trigger’’ welcomes contributions in the shape of club news, matches, personal notes or anything of interest in the miniature rifle world. These should be addressed “Trigger,” “ Star ’ Office, and reach this office not later than noon on Saturdays. iH club secretaries please note ?