THE PINEHURST OUTLOOK
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NORTH AND SOUTH TRAP
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The annual mid-April North and South
Trapshooting tournament got under way
on Monday last with the shooting of a
hundred-target event at sixteen yards,
and the Pinehurst Introductory, a handi
cap event of one hundred targets, and
will continue daily throughout the week.
U. R. Brooks of Columbia, S. C,
Southern Zone Chairman of the Ameri
can Trapshooting Association and win
ner of the Preliminary Handicap at Pine
hurst in January, led the field in the first
day's shooting when he registered 9S
breaks in the sixteen-yard event.
This event constituted the Maplewood
hundred and Brooks' victory gave him a
winner's certificate to take part in the
New Hampshire shoot in July.
Col. John M. Morehead of Charlotte,
won first alternate for' that event by rea
son of finishing second, at 94, and M.
S. Kemmemer of Asley, Pa., will serve
as second alternate.
B. V. Covert, of Lockport, N. Y.,
and II . A. Morson, North Carolina
State Champion wound up in a tie at 93
for chief honors in the introductory
handicap.
Covert shot from the nineteen-yard
mark and Morson two yards further
back. On the shoot-off of the tie Mor
son broke nineteen out of twenty as
against eighteen for Covert and Avon first
money and the trophy.
In the special double target event, A.
W. Montgomery, a Spartanburg, S. C,
youngster, who is attending only his sec
ond tournament, scored nineteen breaks
out of the ten pairs thrown, and outdis
tanced his nearest opponent by three
targets.
Another hundred-target event at six
teen yards, and the North and South
handicap was shot on Tuesday. The
hundred targets in the sixteen-yard event
comprised the first half of the sectional
team race between the five high guns
from the North and five from the South,
and the Southern guns gained an edge on
the Northern delegation when Colonel
Morehead and his son-in-law, II . A. Mor
son of Charlotte, carried off chief honors
and emoluments in that day's shoot.
Colonel Morehead Avon the North and
South handicap after the shoot-off of a
triple tie, at 91, Avith Norwood Johnston
of Pittsburg and A. W. Montgomery
of Spartanburg. He shot from the
twenty-yard line, the maximum distance
of the trio, and broke tAventy straight
on the shoot-off as against nineteen and
eighteen respectively for Johnston and
Montgomery .
Morson was in a shooting mood that
morning and broke 97 of the hundred
targets throAvn in the sixteen-yard event,
Avhich Avon him the honors and the trophy
in the four hundred target general aver
age contest made up of the two hun
dred targets throAvn on Monday and tAvo
hundred yards on Tuesday.
THURSDAY'S SHOOT
Wednesday Avas practice day for the
shooters and a 100-target event at six
teen yards served a preliminary for the
first half of the State championship and
The following poem, written hy Clin
ton Scollard, the well-Tcnown and much
loved poet, appeared in the New York
Herald shortly after Mr. Scollard' s re
cent visit to Pinehurst when the peach
orchards were in bloom).
Could you behold the bloom of the Pine
hurst peaches,
Their delicate crimson stain,
HoAV wave 'upon Avave the ravishing color
reaches,
The sense of beauty AA'ould be to Aour
heart like pain.
For beauty such as this is a thing su
pernal, A loA'eliness such as gloAvs
In the sunset's soul Avhen the Southern
days are vernal,
And the song of the mockingbird dieg
to a poignant close.
Clinton Scollard.
the Country Club Handicap Avhich Avore
shot on Thursday.
Hugh E. White of Gastonia, led the
field in the first half of the championship
race with 90 breaks out of the hundred,
closely followed by J. Lindsay Morehead
of Charlotte, and L. P. Hazel of Dur
ham, at S9. II. A. Morson and Colonel
Morehead formed a tie, at 87, for third
place. The second half of the champion
ship Avill be shot on Friday.
The Country Club handicap which Avas
shot in the afternoon, resulted in another
'ictory for Colonel Morehead Avho shot
from the maximum distance of 21 yards
and had 86 breaks to his credit. U.
R. Brooks, Avinner of the Maplewood
hundred on Monday, A. W. Montgomery
and J. II. Dreher formed a triple tie,
at 84, for second place.
The tAvo hundred targets in the above
eA'ents comprised the first half of the
high general average race for high guns
on the 400 targets throAvn on Thursday
and Friday.
In the special double-target event,
Lester German, a professional shooting
for targets, led the delegation Avith 19
breaks out of ten pairs throAvn. Brooks
and Martin McVoy, Jr., of New York,
outdistanced the amateurs with 15 breaks
each.
The scores in the first half of the
championship Avere:
x-J. M. Hawkins 97
x-E. L. Moss 96
x-C. E. Goodrich 95
x-Lester German 94
x-Walter Pickett 91
Martin McVoy, Jr. 91
U. R. Brooks 91
Hugh E. White 90
J. L. Morehead 89
L. P. Hazel 89
II . A. Morson 87
J. M. Morehead 87
Isaac Andrews 87
G. A. Magoon 86
Wm. S. Morris 86
NorAvood Johnston S5
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