VOL. XII, No. 9.
SATURDAY MORNING, JANUARY 30, 1909.
PRICE FIVE CENTS
ENDS IN BRILLIANT CLIMAX
-Unique Place Among Leading Contests
Assured for Midwinter Handicap.
Xarg-e and Representative Field and
Ilecord Scores Feature of "See
ond Annual" Trap Tourney.
liOPIIETIC of the place
it is to occupy among the
most important events of
its character, was the
second annual Midwinter
Handicap Trap Shooting
Tournament ; the contest thus early gen
erally regarded as one which is to be
most unique in this country, standing
absolutely alone, in many important par
ticulars. "I know of no place which offers such
possibilities for development, or which
promises so much for the future," re
marked a prominent Xew York trap
shooter. "The time of the shoot has
been most happily chosen, your grounds
are not surpassed the world over and
there is a charm and fascination about
the Village which is bound to bring old
friends back with new, year after year.
And, herein, mark my word, is the real
secret of the foundation of a shoot of this
character.
, "To be sure your program and the
publicity the event receives, play an im
portant part, but above and beyond all, a
tournament of this class is made or
marred by the men interested in the
sport, for no class of sportsmen are so
clannish as the trap shooters. They go
where others go, they look to others for
advise, and every shooter who comes here
is delighted through a happy combina
tion in which the enthusiasm and gener
osity of the Management, combined with
the equipment and other attractive fea
tures, are a prime factor."
The field of contestants was not only
representative of all sections, but in
cluding many of the country's fastest
men, and absolutely perfect conditions
and management kept the program going
from Rtart to finish like well oiled ma
chinery; ties in both of the principal
events, the brilliant climax of a perfect
week. Good fellowship brought the com
pany together, as "club members" not
competitors, and many reluctant to de
part, lingered into the present week, con
scious of the genuine Pinehurst welcome
which all feel here.
HANDICAP.
In spite of three days shooting which
preceded it interest centred in Saturday's
Handicap and keen competition pushed
the scores up to the record mark, and
kept the outcome uncertain until the
close. The tenseness which followed the
announcement of the tie at ninety-two
between Harry T. Edwards' of Union
City, Tenn., and R. G. Stokley of Wil
mington, N. C, was enough to unsteady
the most seasoned veteran, and it never
relaxed a whit until the last shot had
been fired, Mr. Stokley losing the chance
York; A. W. Church of New York, third
in ninety and the balance of the big field
coming fast.
PRELIMINARY.
Two North Carolina experts, Charles
Nuchols of Charlotte, and Dr. J. II.
Dreher of Wilmington, fought it out in a
tie shoot-oft' at ninety in the Preliminary,
Mr. Nuchols winning twenty-four to
twenty-one, both losing the eighth target
for a second tie, the winner running
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last target of the final race, the score
thrice tied during its progress.
The scores :
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In second place at ninety-one, were C.
W. Billings of Glen Eidge, the title
holder, and E. W. Reynolds of New
a clean score from that point while his
opponent failed to land on the seven
teenth, twenty-first and twenty-second.
W. D. Hinds of Portland, made second
in eighty-cine and D. A.Upson of Cleve
land thirdin eighty-eight,either of whom
might have tied for first in the last string.
HIGH AVERAGES.
The race for the gold and silver medals
offered for the best three high amateur
averages in the three hundred targets
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PINEHURST SYSTEM SHOOT
Special Trap Event on Mew "Match
Play" Plan Makes Decided Hit.
Posalbllitlea of Development are
LimitlesN and it General .Pop
ularity in Anaured.
OST natural it was that
YA Pinehurst should be re
sponsible for the intro
duction of something nw
in trap shooting, most
natural it seems to have
the innovation received with an enthusi
asm which bids fair to extend throughout
the country, for thus it -haV'ilwji-vs been
here. Briefly, Pinehurst liaS myarpbly
taken the initiative, always been crea
tive, and for this reason, has come to be
recognized generally throughout7 the
entire country. Most appropriate, also,
it is that the plan be known for all time
as the "Pinehurst System' of trap
shooting ; the idea, briefly, for contest
ants to run down through tovthe final
round in precisely the same manner as in
match play golf and tennis the field
being made up in .'divisions'' of .-sixteen
or ratios of this number : eight, thirty
two, sixty-four, etc.
It will readily be seen that the possi
bilities of development are limitless. For
instance, the field could be made to
qualify for the "match"? rounds with a
"medal" hundred bird shoot arranged in
sweepstake events, the sixteen best scores
making the first division and so on down
through the entire list. On the other
hand, the shoot might be, conducted on
the plan of the Pinehurst System used in
connection with the annual Midwinter
Golf Tournament, the field arranged in
various classes and the sixteen best shots
in each class qualifying. The number of
shots to decide the match in both quali
fication and match shooting, could be
fixed at any figure from ten to a hundred,
the latter figure, undoubtedly, what
would be decided on as a satisfactory test
in the more important contests. Handi
caps could also be introduced when advisable.
Further prizes could be offered for
the division winners and runners up and
the consolation division winners, and the
division winners and consolation division
winners could be brought together in
final rounds to decide the "Champion
ship." For instance, if there were f our
divisions of sixteen each, the winner of
the first and second and the third and the
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