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Through the sights
Premier rifle pennant
•winner for 1953-54 was .
the outstanding Melb-jurne
Cricket Team.
"A" Grade went to Coburg
No. I, "B" Grade to
Australian Glass. "C" to
Essendon, "D" to Sandritigham,
with Coburg No.
3 winning "E" Grade.
Melbourne
Rifie
Club.
339, won the Burgess
Cup
(scratch'
from
Melbourne
Cricket.
386.
with
"C"
graders
Essendon
in
top
form with 384.
MRC
collected
the
double
taking
the
Na.son
Cup (handicap'. 389 (25< —
4:00. from
Essendon,
384
(-31'—400.
Charlie
Carmen
(Railways'.
427. won the George
Fullerton
Cup
(yearly
teams' aggregate' from
Mark Callinan (Melbourne
Cricket), 422.
Closest match of the
final pennant round over
800 yards was the tie be-|
tween Coburg and Post and
Telegraph each 375.
Po.ssibles came from the
rifles of 10 men. They
were Bill Mitchell and
Alan Henry (Caulfield >,
George Martin and Kai
Brown (MRC>, Bruce Morrison
(PraUram. Tommy
Griffiths IMCC', Ernie
Jones and Charlie Carr
(Essendon). Norm Mann
(Sandringhami and Ron
Toakley (Malvern >.
There were 32 men on 49
and 48 on 48. Conditions
generally were "dead easy."
University fire today and
tomorrow in Adelaide for
the Venour Nathan Shield.
They are in top form, scoring
372 for eight men, an
average of almost 47 a man
last Saturday.
Next Saturday, Defence
Services Union will fire a
monthly match with two
runs of rapid fire over 300
yards.
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