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Pinehurst Midwinter Trap
Tourney to Open Season
THE CAROLINA
BY NEWTON M. ROMIG
NO MATTER what action the newly
appointed committee on the affairs of
the Interstate Trapshooting Association
may take, the trapshooting season for
the new year will be opened for the
twelfth consecutive time with the . Pine
hurst Midwinter Tagret Tournament,
January 20, at Pinehurst, N. G. Twelve
years of good management has made this
tournament one of the trapshooting
classics of the season, and it is consid
ered a good barometer on clay-target
activities for the year.
That the management has taken kindly
to the class division of trophies and
purses is evidenced by the program
just received. A new method of making
up the classes has been devised, each
shooter will be given an average accord
ing to known ability, the names will
then be entered in rotation and the
shooters divided into four equal classes
if 100 or more entries, or three classes
on less entries. This scheme at a large
tournament should work well, and it
will be watched with much interest, as
the class division has not yet been
satisfactorily worked out for either the
shooter or management.
On Monday, January 20, a practice
shoot will be held and 200 targets will
be thrown to warm up on, two trophies
will be awarded. The real opening of
the tournament is scheduled for Tues
day morning at 8.30 when 200 registered
targets in ten events will constitute the
day's program. There will be 600 reg
istered sixteen-yard targets during the
four days of the regular tournament.
The entire 200 targets of the second
lay will constitute the Pinehurst cham
pionship and will probably bring forth
the greatest effort of the shooters, be
sides the valuable championship trophy
the winner will receive a money pirze
of $100.
The second half of the third day's
program will be devoted to the prelimi
nary handicap, sixteen to twenty-two
yards, for which there Is a trophy and
guaranteed money prize. As usual the
choice part of the program has been
reserved for last, the last half of Fri
day's 200 targets will be the celebrated
Pinehurst Midwinter handicap for which
there are six money prizes guaranteed,
the winner, besides getting the trophy
will get $350 sure, and the sixth high
gun's share will be $100. The distance
will rnnc same as the preliminary.
In the twelve times that this event
has been featured, only one shooter has
had the honor and distinction of winning
it twice. Charles II. Newcomb won in
1911 from twentv yards, and repeated
in 1914 with 95 breaks, from twenty-one
yards. Newcomb has always proven at
his best in these tournaments and sel
dom came away without some of the
honors and titles. In 1916 he won the
preliminary from twenty-two yards and
tied with J. B. Jahn for the high gen
eral average at 800 targets, each having
broken 759. Newcomb won the shoot off
by breaking 50 straight, while Jahn let
one slip by in the second frame.
It was in 1917 that Newcomb was
obliged to view the activities from the
side lines, as he was suffering from a
serious illness while the tournanitnt
was being staged. Steve Crothers was
the sensation at this meet by breaking
482 targets out of 500, he fined in third
place on the entire program.
Many sensational contests and shoot
offs have been staged in connection with
this tournament. Fred Plum lost his
title to the Hercules all-round cham
pionship by missing his two last tar
gets in the doubles to J. R. Jahn in
1917; either one broken would have
been sufficient to win, as it was the
result was a tie, and he lost the shoot
off. In 1916 there were three ties for
high average on 600 targets. J. R.
Jahn, II. W. Jones and Frank Wright
each broke 578, in the shoot-off Wright
wras eliminated in the second frame and
got third place. Jahn nd Jones shot
200 targets each to decide the winner. In
the eighth frame Jones dropped a target
while Jhn went straight. Jahn had
broken 195 of his targets.
Saturday, the last day, is Special Day,
and includes the Consolation handicap.
There will be many special features
added. Ralph Spotts, the New York A.
C. champion, will conduct a Red Cross
event, and the du Pont eighteen-yard
championship will again be offered as
an open contest. The present holder
of this title is George Fish, the Lyndon
ville,' N. Y., star, he having won the
honor at the Westy Hogan shoot last
September by breaking 99x100. The
targets must be thrown sixty yards and
the shooters stand at the eighteen-yard
mark.
Indications point to a record breaking
entry, the program cannot help but suit
all shooters, and Pinehurst offers a fine
vacation spot at that time of the year.
From the Philadelphia Press.
Namurcand Jullli
A short time ago the plantation folks
gathered in holiday mood in the great
hall at Samarcand joining Mr. and
Mrs. Raphael Pumpelly in the festive
and proper ceremonies due to the fallen
greatness of the plain Count Hohenzol
lern, Mr. and Mrs. Benjamin F. But
ler, Mrs. George Maurice, Mr. and Mrs.
W. Hutt and some convivial spirits from
the colony performed the ritual with
unusual eclat.
At best, the Allied table will be less
than ours, for the Allied peoples are
denying themselves more in order to
transport soldiers.
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