MINIATURE RIFLE

Star (Christchurch), Issue 18546, 21 August 1928, Page 12

MINIATURE RIFLE

NEWS AND NOTES

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Last week's results:— JUNIORS. Sydenham 540 v. W. H. Harris, Ltd., 537. Cashmere 535 v. Railway 521. Heathcote 533 v. Christchurch W.M. Club 455. Returned Soldiers 537 v. Kaiapoi Woollen 533. X X * This week’s matches are as follow: Juniors—Railway v. Heathcote, Kaiapoi Woollen v.. Sydenham, Working Men’s Club v. W. H. Harris, Ltd., Burwood v. Returned Soldiers, Cashmere a bye. £t x New Zealand Championships. The New Zealand championship meeting which was concluded last week was very successfully conducted. The shooting was well up to past standards and the performance put up by Ashburton, the winners of the teams match, was meritorious. Last year’s winners. Lower Hutt, finished in third place and their number 2 team in fourth place. The winner of the New Zealand individual championship was R H. Nicholl, of the Wellington Harbour Board Club, with the great shoot of two ten shot possibles. He was closely followed by K. Johnston, of the Ashburton Club, with 190, one point behind the winner. Results:— ‘ B.S.A. MATCH. 10 shots, all to count. In the event of a competitor shooting a possible they continue shooting to determine winner of gold medal. Hill (Ohakea), 16 bulls, gold medfd, presented by 8.5. A., Ltd., and £2 10s. Jessop (Sydenham), 15 bulls, £2 10s. Johnston (Ashburton), 12 bulls. £2 10s. Nicholl (Wellington Harbour Board), 10 bulls, £2 10s. The following, with 9 9each, take 14s 6d each: Goldfinch (Hutt), Haden (Hutt), L. G. Kingsbury (Dorie), Mrs Potts (Public Service, Wellington), Bills (Christchurch W.M.C.), Teal (Wellington South), M’Nab (Wellington South), Hutt (Wellington Suburbs), Crossen (Christchurch Railway), Turn er (Christchurch Railway), Dorman (Fairlie). One hundred and seventy competed. PRESIDENT’S MATCH. 10 shots, all to count. Baurle (Lvnnford), 14 bulls, gold medal, presented by P. W. Congreve, Esq., and £3. Nicholl (Wellington Harbour Board). 11 bulls, £3. Spurdle (Imlay, Wanganui), 10 bulls, £3. The following, with 99 each, take 14s rest of the prize money, taking 12s 6d each:—Haden (Hutt). L. G. Kingsbury (Dorie), Tims (New Brighton),. Crimp (Christchurch W.M.C.), Con greve (Wellington South), Hunt (Wellington Suburbs), Haase (Wellington Suburbs), Hester (Wellington Suburbs), Benton (Featherston), Vile (Ohakea). Simpson (Linton), Johnston (Ashburton), Keir (Ashburton), and Truman (Ashburton). One hundred and eighty competed. GRAND AGGREGATE. Winner to hold W. 11. Tisdall and Son’s Silver Cup for one year; also a silver miniature, presented by the N.Z.M.R.A., and gold medal, presented by C. E. Blayney, Esg. R. H. Nicholl, winner (Wellington Harbour Board), £lO, 200. K. Johnston, runner-up (Ashburton), also gold medal, presented by Messrs Witcombe and Caldwell, £7, 199.

Haden (Hutt) 198, Baurle (Lynnford) 198, L. G. Kingsbury (Dorie) 198, Hunt (Wellington Suburbs) 198, £2 each; Goldfinch (Hutt), Tims (New Brighton). Crimp (Christchurch W.M. C.), M’Nab (Wellington South), Truman (Ashburton), Keir (Ashburton), 197, 15s each; Spurdle (Imlay, Wanganui), Teal (Wellington South),- Haase (Wellington Suburbs), Hester (Wellington Suburbs), Barker (Sydenham). S. O. Hay (Sydenham), Benton (Featherston), A. Vile (Ohakea), M’Donald (Cashmere), Simpson (Linton), Crossen (Christchurch Railway), Hodge (Christ church Railway), 196, 6s 6d each.

LADIES’ MATCH. 10 shots, all to count. Miss M. Nix (Featherston), £2, 99. Mrs Kershaw (Port Nicholson, £l, 97. Mrs Crawford (Featherston), £l, 97. Miss Donkin (Hutt), 7s 6d, 96. Mrs Fowler (Port Nicholson), 7s Cd, 96. Miss Willis (Brooklyn); 7s 6d, 96. Miss N. Ruane (Featherston), 7s 6d 96. Miss Park (New Brighton), ss, 95. Mrs Moses (New Brighton), ss, 95. Miss Harper (Port. Nicholson), ss, 95 Miss Greathead (Brooklyn), ss, 95. Sixty-two competed. TEAMS’ MATCH. Scores taken from Match 1 and 2. Ashburton No. 1— £lO and five minia ture cups: E. R. Truman 197, K. John ston 199, D. F. Keir 197, F. Clark 192 Childs 194, 979. Christchurch Railways, £6 5s W Crossen 196, F. Hodge 196, B. Turner 195, F. Burtos 194, W. Sullivan 193; 974. Hutt No. 1», £3 —H. 11. Morris 193, P. B. Goldfinch 197, F. Kershaw, jun. 191, F. Ching 194. F. Kershaw, sen.. 194; 969* Ilut.t No. 2. £3—Warburton 191 O Ross 194. W. Clout 194, D. Haden 198, C. C. Lambert 192; 969. The following teams also competed; Seafield . 968, Wellington Harbour Board 968, Wellington Suburbs 968 New Brighton No. 1 966, Wellington South No. 1 966, Sydenham No. 1 966 Featherston 965. Ashburton No. 2 960 Lvnnford 959, Christchurch W.M.C. No. 1 959. Hinds No. 1.958, Timaru No. 3 955, Cashmere No. 1 954. Sumner No. 1 953, South Wellington No. 2 953, Doric--952, Ohakea 952, Sydenham No. 2 952, Linton 952, Wanganui P. and T. 95L West Melton No. 1 951, Willowbridge 951, Public Service (Wellington) 948, Claremont No. 1 948, Napier 948. Timaru No. 2 945, Cashmere No. 2 944 Cashmere No. 3 941. New Brighton No 2 940. Brooklyn 939, Sydenham No. 3 937. Cashmere No. 4 937, Sumner No. 2 936. Fairlie 934, Claremont No. 2 932, Imlay (Wanganui) 932, West Meltoi: No. 2 932, Westerfield No. 1 932. Timaru No. 1 932, Christchurch WM C No 2 929, Hinds No. 2 926, Pareora 919, Napier No. 2 918, Westerfield No. 2 899 Senior Champions, 1928. Railway are to be congratulated or winning the senior competition for 1928 They won in 1925, when they achiever’ the honour of winning the senior com petition for the sixth year out of th< ten since the association was formed Sydenham, the runners-up, and whhave won in the two years previous tc this, were perhaps unlucky on a few occasions during the season. When r shoot-off between them and Railwa looked almost certain, New Brighto very unexpectedly defeated th southern suburbs team. Cashmere, who were the runners-uj in 1927, finished in third place. The\ did not do as well as in the previous year, this to an extent being due to

the fact of the club having two teams in the competition. The past winners of the Beaven Cup. which goes to the winners of the senior grade, are as follows: 1916 Railway. 1917 Railwav 191 S Railway 1919 Railway 1920 Crown Brewery. 1921 Ward’s Brewery. 1922 Crown Brewery 1923 Railway 1924 Sydenham 1925 Railway 1926 Sydenham 1927 Sydenham 1928 Railway Goodhart Cup Aggregate. For the third time L. C. Pimm has won the Goodhart Cup, which goes to the shooter putting up the best aggregate jn the senior competition" matches. 3he first time that Pimm won was in 1922, when he was shooting for Crown Brewery, but during the last three seasons he has thrown in his lot with Sydenham, his old club having disbanded in 1925. Pimm has always been looked upon as one of the best miniature rifle shots in Canterbury. He very seldom puts on a bad score, and in the years that he did not win, his name was always in the first halfdozen. C. Jessop, the runner-up, who is a team-mate of the winner, occupied a similar position last year, after a very exciting shoot-off with J. Edmonds, of the Sumner Club. The following are the past seven winners of the cup: 1922 L. C. Pimm (Crown Brewerv) 1923 C. Timbrell (Sumner) 1924 IT. Haworth (Cashmere) 1925 D. M’Donald (Cashmere). 1926 L. C. Pimm (Sydenham) 1927 J. Edmonds (Sumner). 1928 L. C. Pimm (Sydenham). Junior Notes. Sydenham again put up a good total m defeating W. 11. Harris Ltd., by 540 to. 537. Great interest will be taken this week in the meeting of Sydenham and the leaders, Kaiapoi Woollen. Last week the latter were defeated. by Returned Soldiers, and another loss will put the R.S.A. team level with them. Those mainly responsible for Sydenham’s good win were R. Uav 70. J. Clark 6S, and P. Grey 68. For W. 11. Harris, Ltd.. C. M’Callum 70. A. Halinshaw 69, and N. Harris 6S shot well. K X X Cashmere came to light with one of their best totals for the season, notching 535 against Railway’s 521, on the Cashmere range. With nothing higher than 68, the winners shot very consistently. R. Elcock 68, W. Guy, sen. 68, L. S. Loader 67 were their best scorers. Railway were considerably handicapped by having no cut-outs, as only the bare team of eight men turned up, which necessitated counting in a poor score of 57. E Falgar 68, G. Rylat.t 67, R. Smith 67, and J. Murray 67 were their top scorers. :: With only seven men shooting for Christchurch Working Men’s Club, Heathcote had a very easy win by 533 to 455. Heathcote shot much better than usual, the outstanding scores being: R. Long 68, W. Wilson 68, J. Evans 67, L. Gamblin 67, G. Hodgson 67. For the ‘‘Club'’ F. Matthews 69, C-. Stowell 68, and L. Gee 67 put on good scores. Returned Soldiers were expected to give Kaiapoi Woollen (the leaders) a good match, and this duly eventuated, the former winning by four points. Returned Soldiers opened well with a possible, and continued to shoot well until the latter part of the match, when the scoring fell away somewhat. Kaiapoi* opened badly, but the last few men shot well, and the result was in doubt with one man to go. He crashed with a ; bad shoot. D. Harries 70, Russell 69,, and R. Stringer 68 for R.S.A., shot well, while R. Alexander 70, F. Burgoyne 68 and G. Green 67, were the best for Kaiapoi Woollen.

Hub Notes. R.S A. Presidents team fired a frtendv match against the Veterans’ Associa -ion last week and ran out winners by 544 to 469. For the winners Shaw 69. R. Erickson 69, M’Coll 69, Harris 69, ind Stringer 6S returned the best cards, while Green for the Veterans put on v v | The members of the Returned Soldiers’ Club are taking a keen iuterest .11 their club competitions, there being >nly three more shoots to go before che close of the various competitions un by them. The following are the eaders, with three cut-outs:—Bassett Aggregate Cup (Presidents only): E. Peach 671. J. M’Coll 669, R. C. Dobson >64, R. Shaw 664. Tisdall Handicap ’up: C. Farley 697, J. Comer 695, P. Riches 694, IT. Gracie 694, D. Russell 393, R. C. Dobson 693, J. Gagliardi 893. Most Bulls Competition: Juniors, C. Farley 71, R. Stringer 54, J. Bassett 52, H. Gracie 52, D. Russell 51; Presidents, J- M’Coll 47, R. C. Dobson 46, E. Peach 16, P. Alderslcy 42, R. Erickson 41. lotty Button Competition: Juniors, C. Parley 6 points, R. Stringer 2, J. Basett 2, H. Gracie li; Presidents, R. Lee '• points, J. M’Coll 3, E. Peach 2b, R. Shaw 2. Weekly Sweepstake: P. Riches . J. Gagliardi 2.