KISE PINEHURST, MOORE COUNTY, NORTH CAROLINA. 2SmS?
PISTOL CLUB ORGANIZES !
Early Success and Enthusiasm Promises
Well for Future.
O llice l-H Elected, Constitution and Ily
Law Adopted and Handicap
Tournaments Arranged.
HE Pinehurst Target Pistol Club is
sure to be an important addition to
the list of sports which the Village
offers if the success and enthusiasm
which lias characterized its organization
and first meetings is to be taken as a
criterion. Three weeks ago only two
men here of which Dr. Herbert J. Hall of
Marblehead, Mass., the resident house
physician, was one, were interested in
the sport; but since that time a club has
been organized, with a dozen charter
members which includes several women;
officers elected, constitution and by
laws and rules governing tournaments
adopted, splendid target butts built and
a series of handicap tournaments not
only arranged but begun !
Members have been coming forward
from all quarters and the end is not yet,
and all because of the peculiar fascina
tion the sport has for a wide range of
people. It is much like fly fishing,
truly called "sport ideal," because it
always leaves something to be attained ;
because one may ever strive for but
seldom make perfect score.
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DETAILS OF ORGANIZATION.
Formal organization of the club was
completed at a meeting at The Carolina
during the week. Details of the sea
sons program were enthusiastically dis
cussed and this Executive Committee
elected :
President, Dr. Herbert J. Hall,
Marblehead, Mass. ; Secretary,
Herbert L. Jillson, Worcester,
Mass.; Treasurer, Thomas B.
Cotter, Pinehurst, N. C. ; Harry
P, Benson, Salem, Mass. ; II. W.
Priest, Franconia, N. II.
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CONSTITUTION AND BY-LAWS EUT IiS
GOVERNING SHOOTS.
At a meeting of the Executive Com
mittee early this week the following
constitution and by-laws and rules gov
erning shoots were adopted :
THE PINEHURST TARGET-PISTOL
CLUB.
PURPOSE.
The name shall be the Pinehurst Target-Pistol
Club, and its purpose to en
courage target pistol and short range,
small calibre, rifle shooting, as an addi
tion to the list of sports at Pinehurst,
North Carolina.
OFFICERS.
The officers shall consist of a Presi
dent, Secretary and Treasurer which
together with two additional members,
shall constitute an Executive Commit
tee, which shall have general manage
ment of the Club. This committee shall
hold office until its successor is elected.
This Committee shall have the power to
till vacancies in its own ranks, as occa
sion arises.
MEMBERSHIP.
A On payment of an initiation fee of
one dollar any resident or guest of the
Village, may be elected to membership
for one year, by a majority vote of the
Executive Committee.
B The Executive Committee shall be
safety, and any infringement will be
subject to a fine of one dollar for each
offense. Persistent infringement or re
peated carelessness of any sort, will re
sult in disqualification or dismission from
the club, or both.
No. 2 There shall be no time limit in
tournament shooting, except that each
participant shall finish the required
number of targets at some time during
the day fixed upon, shooting at one time
no less than ten shots (one target). A
fresh target shall be used for each string
of ten shots. These targets will be re
turned to the shooter after they have
been examined by the Executive Com
mittee. No. 3 All pistols used may be ex
amined by the Executive Committee,
and any considered unsafe shall be ex
cluded. The minimum trigger pull of
all pistols shall be two pounds.
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C. A. LOCKWOOD, NEW YORK WINNER of LAST WEEK'S TOWER TRAP SHOOT.
empowered to elect such honorary mem
bers as it sees fit, who shall be exempt
from the initiation fee and annual dues
of the Club.
C The annual dues of the Club shall
be one dollar, payable in advance.
D The range shall be available for
practice by members at all times, except
during Club events, without charge.
ANNUAL MEETING.
The annual meeting of the Club shall
be be held on the second Wednesday in
January at such time and place as the
Executive Committee may designate.
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RULES GOVERNING SHOOTING.
No. 1 No pistol shall be loaded or
kept loaded except upon the firing line,
and after loading, the muzzle of the pis
tol shall be kept pointed in the direction
of the target at all times. The strict ob
servance of these rules is necessary for
No. 4 Unless otherwise specified,
participants shall use 22 calibre single
shot, target pistois, length of barrel not
to exceed ten inches. Long or short,
smokeless or black powder cartridges of
any make, may be used.
No. 5 Shooting slnll be done with
the arm extended, unsupported and not
touching the body.
No. 6 Any shot cutting into the line
will be counted as inside of the circle.
This decision shall be made by aid of th
eye alone, without placing any object in
the bullet hole or behind it.
No. 7 The range in all events shall
be fifty yards, and the Standard Ameri
can Target (fifty-yard pistol center)
shall be used.
No. 8 Unless otherwise specified by
the Executive Committee tournaments
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ONLY TOUCHED HIGH PLACES!
Edwin A. Freeman Plays Brilliant Golf
in Saturday's Handicap.
Wallace It. Ie Wolfe, Chicago,
Take Net Score Trophy John I.
Jlockefeller Participate.
ff N the language of golfers, Edwin A.
" Freeman of the Montclair Golf
Club, "only touched the high places"
in Saturday's eighteen-hole medal play,
handicap, was an easy winner of The
Holly Inn cup offered for the best net
score, with seventy-eight, a card which
has only been surpassed here this season
in tournament play by Walter J. Travis,
the amateur champion. At the eleventh
hole Mr. Freeman came within six inches
of making a one. The score, which is
one under bogey, was in detail as fol
lows :
Out 4 4 3 4 4 4 5 4 436
In 42645564 64278
L. L. Kellogg, Jr., of the Fox Hills
Golf Club, Staten Ishmd, a well-known
golfer who has figured prominently in
metropolitan events, played a brilliant
long game and would have given Mr.
Freeman a close match but for hard luck
on the putting greens, with which he
was somewhat unfamilar.
Wallace L. De Wolfe of the Onwent
sia Golf Club, Chicago, playing with a
handicap of sixteen, won the net score
cup with 76, with J. E. Smith of the
Wilmington Country Club, Delaware,
whose handicap allowance was ten
strokes, a close second with 78.
Special interest was given to the tour
nament owing to the fact that John D.
Rockefeller was one of the participants.
Mr. Rockefeller made two even rounds
of fifty-one and fifty-three, one hun
dred and four which less his handicap
of eighteen strokes, gave him a net score
of eight y-"ix and placed him within the
first sixteen to finish.
There were thirty-two entries and
tVenty f the participants finished in
ninety-three ;md under.
THE PARTICIPANTS.
Wallace L. De Wolfe, Onwentsia golf
club, Chicago; E. A. Freeman, Mont
clair golf club, N. J. ; J. E. Smith, Wil
mington Country club, Delaware; P. M.
Prescott, Chevy Chase country club,
Washington; J. W. Atkinson, Lakeside
country club, Richmond; C. O. Gates,
Nassau golf club, L. I.; F. G. Stevenson,
Brookline country club, Mass.; B. S,
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