VOL. XIV, NO. 9
SATURDAY MORNING, JANUARY 28, 1911
FIVE CENTS
HEWCOMB AND WESTCOTT
Tie Shoot-off Brings Fourth Midwinter
Handicap to Brilliant Close
Ianlie and Dr. Culver Fight it Out in
Preliminary, While Taylor, Welles
and Lyon Ilead Professionals
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A TIE shoot-off be
tween Charles II. New
comb of Philadelphia,
and C. G. Westcott of
Leesburg, Fla., both at
the eighteen yard mark,
brought the fourth an
nual Midwinter Handi
cap trap hooting tour
nament to a brilliant close. Not far
enough away to be overlooked was J.
II. Anderson of Philadelphia, at sixteen
yards, B. B. Ward of Aberdeen, S.
D. , and C. W. Billings of Glen Ridge,
both eighteen yards, who finished in
eighty-seven, eighty-six and eighty-five
to eighty-eight for the leaders who lined
up for the twenty-five target shoot-off,
which Mr. Newcomb won, twenty-two
to twenty. The scores :
1110 1-11111-10 111-11111-10 11 1-22
1110 1-1110 1-11111-10 0 10-1111 1-20
Viewed comparatively, the striDgs of
the five leaders form an interesting
basis for comparison :
Newcomb 22 23 20 2388
Westcott 20 22 22 2488
Anderson 22 2 0 24 2187
Ward 20 22 19 2586
BillingB 20 21 20 2485
The balance of the field was close up,
F. D. Kelsey of East Aurora, (18 yards),
scored eighty-four ; Dr. J. II. Dreher of
Wilmington (17 yards), eighty-three;
Charles Nuchols of Charlotte (19 yards),
eighty-one ; J. E. Cray ton of Charlotte
(18 yards), C. II. Anderson of Aber
deen (16 yards), and Thomas Lenane, Jr.
of New York (16 yards), seventy-eight
each; Dr. D. L. Culver of Jersey City (20
yards), winner in 1910, and W. F. Clarke
of Boston (18 yards), seventy-seven
each ; with R. L. Spotts of New York
(18 yards), the last to land within the
seventy-five per cent average.
George L. Lyon of Durham, N. C, at
the twenty yard mark, led the profes
sional contingent at eighty-nine, and II.
S. Welles of New York (19 yards) and
E. II. Storr of Baltimore (18 yards) tied
for second at eighty-eight; J. T. Skelly
of Wilmington, at (18 yards), made
eighty-five ; John R. Taylor of Atlanta
(20 yards), eighty-one; Wolf oik Hen
derson of Lexington (19 yards), seventy-
one and Walter Huflof Macon(19 yards'),
seventy-five.
THE PRELIMINARY
W. T. Laslie of Tuskagee and Dr.D. L.
Culver of Jersey City,Handicap winner in
1910, fought it out to a finish in the Pre
liminary from the nineteen yard mark,
Mr.Laslie winning ninety-two to ninety.
On the first string the pair broke even
with twenty-three, which fcore Laslie
duplicated on his second string,gaining a
lead of two over his opponent. On the
third string, however, Dr. Culver finish-
two each; Hinds (18 yards;, seventy
nine; Billings (18 yards), and Filson (16
yards, seventy-eight each ; Newcomb (19
yards), seventy-seven; Dr. Dreher and
C. II. Anderson, (17 yards), seventy-five
each. Lyon'(at 20 yards) led the profes
sionals with nine-two; Taylor (20 yards)
tied with Welles (19 yards) at eighty
six. Storr (18 yards) made eighty-five ;
Henderson (19 yards) eighty-four ; Ger
man (20 yards) eighty-two ; Skelly (19
yards) eighty, and Huff (19 yards)sixty-
nine. In the sweepstake events Newcomb
I led Saturday morning with ninety-six ;
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C. II . NEWCOMB
ed even with twenty-four to twenty-two,
but the southerner gained the lead again
with twenty-four to twenty-two on the
final string. Westcott and Spotts who
shot from nineteen and eighteen yards
respectively, were only a target away in
eighty-nine, five strokes in the lead of
Nuchols (19 yards), and Kelsey (18
yards), who headed the balance of the
field with eighty-four each, llice (18
yards), made eighty-three; Clarke (18
yards) and Lenane (16 yards), eighty-
Nuchols and Kelsey second , in ninety
two and Clarke third in ninety-one.
Welles, Lyon and Taylor made ninety
seven, ninety-six and ninety-Sve. Fri
day morning Billings topped the list
with ninety-six, the best score of the
week, Newcomb second in ninety-three
and Laslie third in ninety-two ; Taylor
and Henderson made ninety-five each
and German ninety-three. In Thursday's
two hundred target sweeps Dr. Culver
(Concluded on page four)
A BROTHER OF RED FOX
As Last Resort Lands in and Doubles
Back to Empty Carriage
Bat Trick Doesn't Work and he
jeap to Itoof of Shed, Thinking
Hounds Could not follow
OTrfj
"PERHAPS those bo
called nature fakirs
don't know what they
are talking about", says
M. F. II. Twitty of the
Pinehurst Hunt, "but
I rather think they do,
and T guess we struck a
brother of 'Red Fox'
over by McKenzie's Mill early in the
week ; in any event he was a corker. -
"For a time he contented himself to
the woods between Nick's Creek and
Little River, but the trail got too warm
for him after a while and he took to the
swamp, which wasn't as cool as it looked.
Then he tried log-hopping on the hillside
and a zig-zag dash cross country which
touched all the rough places on the
map and a few the maker overlooked.
But the hounds piked right along, near
er and nearer. A half-mile dash down
a dry, sandy road was the next step,
but the pack just spread out along the
sides and enjoyed the change and rey
nard began to think it wasn't as much of
a joke as he first anticipated. Then
he tried to mix things up in the tram
pled barn yard of an adjoining farm,
waltzing about the pig pen and visiting
the cow shed as a final coupe, but the
dogs were 'Johnny' on the spot, and in
desperation, f oxie played his trump card.
"Jumping into an empty carriage he
slid out the other side, ran out into
an adjoining field, doubled back and land
ed in the buggy again, apparently con
fident that the dogs would never once
think of expecting him to stop ever and
wait for them. But it didn't work a bit
and clever reynard with the death knell
in his ears, made his final dash, ending it
by leaping to the roof of an old shed
which he incorrectly judged was too
high for his pursuers. A moment later
pack and fox tumbled to earth and a
thrilling two hour chase was over. Mr.
John F. Weiss of Rochester was award
ed the brush and the whole field was
in sight of the finish."
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