VOL. XXI, NO. 9
SATURDAY MORNING, FEBRUARY 2, 1918
FIVE CENTS
NEWCOMB HIGH GUN
Vance Takes Pliminary Handicap
with 94
Hern nj Shoot a Triumph
for ll?ly, Morgan
und lllchards
THE SEVEN DAYS'
battle at the gun club,
raging about the sus
tained endeavor to dis
cover high gun for 500
targets, the winners of
the Preliminary and the
Midwinter Handicaps,
the champion who should
shoot in that most select affair at Maple
wootl, the best man of the Consolation
and those dividers of the spoils who were
to depart with some three thousand dol
lars coin of the realm, is now ancient
history. It developed some new cham
pions, and will long be remembered for
the close fight and high standard set and
maintained by all the favorites and
famous shots entered in the lists.
Foremost among them all we still re
cord Charles H. Newcomb of Philadel
phia. Starting high gun on Tuesday,
he was still high gun when the last
erratic pigeon had been shattered Fri
day night, and the medal and the purse
was awarded to the largest number of
targets broken out of 600. General
average they called this contest. It was
shot from 16 yards, a fair field and no
favor. And the great Philadelphia gun
maintained its lead.
But not without a struggle. Holding
to within a shot or two of him all the
way were a corporal's guard of the
keenest marksmen to be found. Thurs
day night George N. Fish of Lyn
donville, mindful of his last year's
kurels in this same event was but two
Points behind. And Chauncey M.
lowers, credited with being the most
consistent performer extant at this trap
game, was clinging to Fish, with those
twin shots and even rivals C. L. Eich
ars and R. D. Morgan neck and neck
behind, in company with W. H. Yule,
who last year made his name in the
Midwinter.
In this last hundred targets, Fish
"a le a memorable effort to recover.
Starting at 47,9 against Newcomb 's 481,
e picked up one point on the second
'ane, and actually tied the score twice
ter that during the round. But at the
end of every 20 targets thrown he was
always this same one point behind. The
score shows the tension and the lack of
margin in this contest.
Newcomb 481 20 18 19 19 19 95 576
Fish, 47919 20 19 19 1996575
Powers, held the high gun of this last
hundred shot for shot, and made his 96.
But this, of course, left him still in
third place with 573.
The First Ten Guns in this Contest
were
Charles II. Newcomb, Philadelphia, 576
Now while this general average affair
was training out the erratic genii, two
events of prime importance were on the
boards Thursday. Primarily there was
the Preliminary handicap, in which 115
contestants toed the mark at distances
varying from 16 to 23 yards. This
little discrepancy evened things up a
bit. And a new hero immerged from the
press. J. I. Vanse of Chillicothe, Ohio,
standing at 19 yards smashed 94 of the
faal hundred, and made way with the
trophy without discussion. Nobody
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JAMES D. STANDISH, JR.,
MEDALIST IN THE ST. VALENTINE 's .TOURNAMENT AS HE
APPEARED AS PINEHURST CHAMPION IN 1909.
George N. Fish, Lyndonville, 575
C. M. Powers, Decatur, 573
C. L. Richards, Livingston, Wis., 572
W. H. Yule, Akron,. 565
R. D. Morgan,, Washington, 565
W. H. Patterson, Buffalo, 562
H. A. Morson, Charlotte, N. C, 561
J. B. Pennington, Tarboro, N. C, 561
J. Gilbert Fye, Ollie, la., 560
VANSE TAKES TEHE PRELIMINARY
broke 93, and there was only one of the
famous long distance men to creep into
the 90 class. This was Frank S. Wright
of Buffalo, whose performance gave him
the trophy for the best score in his
class. G. H. Martin took the Presi
dent's trophy with 92. The best gun
in the third division was handled by
C. F. Marden, and C. O. Hedstron's 91
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STANDISH LEADS MAXWELL
Old Champion Takes Medal in St
Valentine's Golf Tournament
TiuomIvII Phillip and Jlkr
Come In Under th Oun In
tb (limllfylngr Hound
J. D. STANDISH, JR:,
of 'Detroit, an old hand
on the Pinehurst Links,
started out to repeat his
tory, and recapture the
lead he used to hold on
the Pinehurst Links. The
occasion was the qualify
ing round of the Annual
St. Valentine's golf tournament, played
here last Tuesday. He was paired with
Norman Maxwell. Naturally the interest
in the day's play centered about these
two. Nobody doubted for a moment that
one of them would come home with the
medal. Maxwell is the title holder of
the United North and South, and has
recently been picked by Chick Evans as
one of the most dangerous youngsters to
be found on the fairway. Standish held
the title in the North and South in 1909.
Since then he has twice been runner up
to Evans in the Western Championship,
and has held the title in Michigan several
years.
He showed beyond question that he is
still in form, and out for final honors.
On a heavy course he snapped off a 75,
and led Maxwell in by a margin of two
strokes.
These two made a very even thing of
it, however,. They came to the turn
all even with 38 apiece. This was two
over par. Standish lost these two by the
bunker route on the third. He made up
a shot on the long 5th, which he nego
tiated in a perfect four, but lost against
par on the 9th with another four. Max
well played five holes of perfect golf on
the way out the first, fourth, fifth,
sixth and ninth. He played one better
than perfcet, when he sank a long putt
for a three on the third. The second
made in five, the 537 yard seventh in six
and the short eighth in four ran his score
up to 38.
On the way back Standish kept his
standard of play in the same groove, hit
ting two over par as before. These two
strokes were lost on the eleventh and
twelfth, every other hole being made in
perfect score. This netted him 37 strokes
for the last nine, and a total of 75 for
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