THE GUN.

New Zealand Illustrated Sporting & Dramatic Review, Volume IX, Issue 426, 22 September 1898, Page 8

THE GUN.

The Grand Champion Sweepstake Match for the title of champion trap shot of New South Wales was decided at Botany on September 9th. That brilliant shot, Mr G. R. Mclntosh, secured the title by killing all the 21 birds he shot at.

His record at the traps since August, 1897, is so good that we reproduce it. On the last day of that month we find him runner-up for the Brighton Cup, 1897 ; then, again, at the Brighton £5O Open Handicap, decided at Botany in September following, he got a division of the prize. At the champion match last year lie grassed 18 out of 21. At Brighton he received a leg-in for the Record Reign Trophy on October 19, and another leg-in for the Queen’s Trophy at Botany on November 19. The Cashmore Gun Competition, at Brighton, on December 14, 1897, fell to him. On March 29, of the present year, he won Mr E. Blake’s prize at Brighton, with a dozen straight kills from a field of 16; and on the following Friday, on the New South Wales Gun Club Grounds, at Botany, he won the club’s presentation trophy, on “complimentary day” to Mr Garratt, prior to that gentleman’s departure for England, grassing 13 straight, the board showing the names of 18 shooters. On April 19 he cut up the £5O handicap at Brighton, killing 14, and the following week again saw him a runner-up for the Kurnel Cup at Botany. At the Gun Club’s Ground, on May 16, he pulled off the club’s right out trophy from 14 competitors, killing 9 birds. He stopped 11 in the second competition for the Kurnel Cup at Botany on May 27, and at Brighton the following Tuesday can up to “Ruby” for the Cup, killing 18. At Grath’s Hill Open Handicap, on July 9, he cut up the balance of the purse, and on August 12 he got a leg-in for the 17yds Monte Carlo boundary. Since then he has not been shooting up to anything like true form, and it was not till a few days before the champion match that he found himself getting back to something like fair shooting condition. As a match maker, Mr Mclntosh has been very successful in either single matches or with a mate, and I believe only once has he tasted the “ bitter fruit of defeat.” In addition to his brilliant success, he has a few more performances worthy of mention. One is when he defeated “ Clifton ” in a 50-bird match at Botany, killing 43 out of

50. The next, at Botany, when he stopped 62 out of 65. At Brighton, for a side wager, “that he could not stop 32 out of 50, use of one barrel, 27yds rise,” he won, killing 35. Mr Mclntosh is the gun manager at McLean Bros, and Rigg, Sydney, and is no relation of Donald Mclntosh, the Melbourne crack.