39th Annual Prize Meeting

39th Annual Prize Meeting - Day 2

The Nottinghamshire Guardian of Saturday 27th May 1899 gives us an account of the second day of competition for the Association Prizes. The previous day the Lincolnshire Chronicle had reported on the first day, giving the date as Tuesday (May 23rd) but this account quotes the second day as Tuesday and describes the weather much the same as the Lincolnshire Chronicle's reported weather. The weather could well have been similar as can be deduced by the large changes of fortune in scores for several shooters.

There was another, shorter, report in the Nottingham Evening Post of May 23rd which stated that the second day was Tuesday, and refers to the meeting as "the annual Bank Holiday meeting of the Notts. Rifle Association". The Bank Holiday was on Monday, May 22nd, so it is most likely that the match was held on Monday and Tuesday, May 22nd and 23rd, and that the Lincolnshire report is incorrect.

The top 30 places attracted cash prizes sponsored by the Nottinghamshire Rifle Association. Many of the names will by now be familiar to the reader of previous reports of this annual competition.

Day 1 is on the previous page.

The second day's proceedings was inaugurated on the Trent Range at an early hour on Tuesday under conditions of the most favourable character. The best scores were obtained during the morning, for in the afternoon and evening the clouds had been hanging about ominously for a considerable time, and made the light wretched and heavy, and intermittent showers fell, and made matters generally miserable. The wind on several occasions was very difficult to negotiate, but in spite of this some capital scores were returned. The winners, with some of the principal scores, are as follow:-

ASSOCIATION PRIZES

	200	500	600	Ttl.
Sergeant T W Smith	33	33	30	96
Sergeant-Major Hodgkinson	29	35	31	95
Lance-Corporal W Ashby	32	33	30	95
Corporal J Drake	33	30	29	92
Corporal E Simpson	28	32	31	91
Lance-Sergeant H Tomkins	29	32	30	91
Sergeant J Allsopp	32	29	30	91
Lance-Sergeant J W Hall	29	28	33	91
Private B T Fletcher	26	32	32	90
Lieutenant E G Moors	29	31	30	90
Colour-Sergeant W Comery	27	34	29	90
Private W Thorpe	30	31	29	90
Private J Hildyard	31	31	28	90
Sergeant J R Coupe	33	31	25	89
Sergeant T E Burrows	24	32	32	88
Colour-Sergeant T Loach	27	30	31	88
Private E Jago	30	30	28	88
Colour-Sergeant W H Aldam	31	29	28	88
Lance-Corporal H St Leo Smith	28	26	33	87
Sergeant T G Sewell	29	27	31	87
Sergeant-Instructor Hawkridge	29	31	27	87
Sergeant F Dominic	29	32	25	87
Private E Marriott	30	32	25	87
Private J Barnes	30	33	24	87
Private W H Stevenson	31	32	24	87
Private O Thompson	26	29	31	86
Private R H Wiggins	27	29	30	86
Colour-Sergeant G Carter	28	30	25	86
Sergeant W Bailey	27	34	25	86
Private J Leavesley	31	30	25	86
Private T W Swift	29	33	24	86
Corporal H Kiddier	29	27	29	85
Colour-Sergeant St Leo Smith	32	24	29	85
Corporal J Seymour	32	26	27	85
Sergeant H W Davis	30	33	22	85
Sergeant R J Savage	29	24	30	83
Private W A Brown	25	29	29	83
Colour-Sergeant C Wood	31	26	26	83
Captain J Ashworth	29	29	25	83
Corporal F Goodliffe	30	33	20	83
Lieutenant P M Payne	24	28	30	82
Sergeant S H Page	31	31	20	82
Sergeant F Hargreaves	32	28	20	80

The first named 30 are the recipients of prizes.

RECRUITS PRIZES

	200	500	600	Ttl.
Private F Garner	28	30	30	88
Private R H Wiggins	27	29	30	86
Private J Henshaw	26	28	26	80
Lieutenant A J A Butler	24	29	26	79
Private W Ostick	28	32	16	76
Lieutenant R P Shearer	30	22	21	73

ALL COMERS' COMPETITION

	Tlt.
Sergeant T E Burrows (1st Notts)	48
Private E Jago (1st Notts)	46
Private W Perkins (1st Derby)	45
Lieutenant A J A Butler (1st Notts)	44
Lance-Corporal W Ashby (1st Notts)	43
Colour-Sergeant W Comery (1st Notts)	43
Captain T Lee (1st Notts)	43
Lance-Corporal T Smith (1st Notts)	40
Sergeant S H Page (1st Notts)	39
Sergeant A Willis (1st Notts)	38

Transcript from Nottinghamshire Guardian Saturday 27/05/1899
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