PINEHURST, MOORE COUNTY, NORTH CAROLINA.
QUAIL AND WILD TURKEYS!
Sportsmen are Having Good Sport with
Both on Pinehurst Preserves.
Duke lloi Some Ileniarkable
trieylng1 Many are Enjoying
Sport Excellent llag-n.
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ATISFACTORY bags continue to
be the rule among the quail hun
ters, and the demand for guides is so
large that it has been necessary to in
crease the number to
six, and even then it
is often impossible to
meet a 1 1 require
ments. Among the most
enthusiastic and suc
cessful of the hun
ters is a party head
ed by II. D. Lentz,
and including Wil
liam O. Lentz, La
Fayette Lentz and
II. A. Butler, Mauch
Chunk, Pa. This
party finds plenty of
birds to meet their
needs at all times,
their best bag num
bered 17 quail. Tur
key hunting has also
been tried and while
plenty of signs have
been found, no shots
have been secured.
FUN WITH WILD
TURKEYS.
C. Arbuthnot, V.
S. Arbuthnot and
Thomas S. Arbuth
not, Pittsburg, Pa.,
make up a merry
party of sportsmen
who are finding a
deal o f pleasure
in their visit, and securing plenty of
quail. Their best bags numbered twelve
and nineteen. An exciting experience
with wild turkeys was a feature on a re
cent trip of this party. During a fore
noon's hunting, three of these big birds
were flushed and sundry loads of num
ber eights sent after them without effect.
The first turkey was seen to light in a
tree about one hundred yards oil as the
party were following up a covey of quail
which had previously been flushed, but
before word could be passed, the bird
had flown.
The hunters immediately loaded up
with heavy shot and started turkey hunt
ing in real earnest, but presently quail
were found and bird shot substituted.
The effect of the change of ammunition
was most startling, for the party had
not gone two hundred yards before
another turkey got up some fifty yards
away and made off through the open.
Eight guns cracked in rapid succession
and feathers enough to make a small
sized pillow flew, but the big bird kept
on until it vanished beyond the tree tops
in the distance.
More big shot was again placed in the
guns and another turkey hunt followed,
but quail again were found, and after
flushing the covey and firing into it, the
hunters started after scattered birds.
They had not gone a hundred yards be-
nessed by the Arbuthnot party last week
in which "Duke," a young dog which is
being broken this season was a principle
factor.
A quail was downed by one of the
hunters and marked, near a fallen log,
but a search was unavailing. Later one
of the hunters saw the wounded bird
run, and the dogs were brought up and
put on the fresh trail. One of them
pointed at a small hole in the roots of an
overturned tree but made no effort to re
trieve. Just then young Duke came up and he
immediately began to dig as if he was
after a woodchuck, throwing the dirt
furiously in his eagerness. In a 'very
short time, he had a hole large enough
SCORES GROWING BETTER!
Pretty Contest for Gross Score Cup In
Target-Pistol Tournament.
11. W. lrieNt, 11. IV. llurrougrhs and
Mini Aug-iista Emlicott Cup Win
ners Hext Week' Shoot.
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THIS IS THE SPOT UPON THE COURSE WHERE OFT' IS HEARD A MUTTER'D VERSE?
fore a gobbler flushed, thirty yards
away, and sailed off majestically in rec
ognition of the fusilade which greeted
him, apparently uninjured.
''And he was a big one, too," said
Doctor Jones, "almost as big as two of
the one which is stuffed and rests over
the letter boxes at The Carolina desk."
That there are plenty of turkeys in the
immediate section where these birds were
started, is apparent, for they have been
flushed there previously. The location
is within a third of a mile of the house
at Thagard's Mills.
REMARKABLE RETRIEVING.
A remarkable bit of retrieving was wit-
to get a portion of his body into it,
Doctor Jones was afraid if he got in
too far he might get hung up, so he held
the animal by his hind legs, and when
he finally pulled him out of the hole,
Duke had the crippled bird in his mouth.
Frank Presbrey and Tyler L. Redlield,
New York, and George II. Johnson,
Bridgeport, Conn., hunted with Presi
dent Henry A. Page of the A. & A. K. E.
near Aberdeen, late last week, and had a
rattling day's sport, flushing quail by
the score and bagging nineteen. A
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-TT HE third of the Pinehurst Target-
Pistol Club's handicap tourna
ments, shot last Thursday and Friday,
drew a goodfield and resulted in some
excellent scores.
There were cups for
the best net and best
gross scores for men,
and a cup for the
best net score by
women.
Miss Augusta Endi
cott qf Boston, won
the womens cup with
a net score of four
hundred' and forty,
leading her nearest
opponent, Miss F.
Heftel finger of Min
neapolis, nearly one
hundred points.
II. W. Priest of
Franconia, N, II.,
won the mens net
score trophy with a
net score of five hun
dred and one, B. K,
Smith of New York,
w h o scored three
hundred and ninety
eight, net, being his
nearest opponent.
There was a pretty
contest for the gross
score cup, II. Nelson
Burroughs of Phila-
aeipnia, winning
with a gross average
of three hundred and
leading M. C. Beebe of
and Dr. Herbert J.
Mass., twenty-one
butseventy-one
Pittsburg, eleven
Hall of Marblehead,
points. Burroughs made a gross aver
age of seventy-four and one-fifth per
string Mr. Beebe, seventy-two, and Dr.
Hall, sixty-eight.
NEXT WEEK'S SHOOT.
Special interest centers about next
week's shoot, owing to the fact that the
women will contest for a Stevens Tar
get Pistol, offered for the best net score,
by The Pinehurst Outlook for the
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Volume VII; No. 13, Saturday, February 20, 1904.
Price Five Ceni