VOL. XV, NO. 8
SATURDAY MORNING, JANUARY 27, 1912
FIVE CENTS
TRAP SHOOTERS OF CLASS
Pick of Country's Amateurs are Gathered
for Midwinter Handicap
. . McCarty Break 198 out of 'ZOO
in Opening- Sweepstake .Event, Including-
Straight Hun of 131
A REMARKABLE
score of one hundred
and ninety-eight, and in
cluding a straight run of
one hundred and thirty
one in the two hundred
targets shot at, was the
sensational performance
of G. S. McCarty of
Philadelphia in Wednesday's opening
events of the Fifth Annual Trap Shooting
Handicap, for which is gathered the clas
siest and fastest fields ever assembled
south of Washington. In second position
F. S. Wright of South Wales, N. Y., C.
II. Newcomb of Philadelphia, F. A.
Hodgman of Tuckahoo, N. Y., and W.
T. Laslie of Tuskeegee, winner of the
1911 Southern Handicap, were bunched
in a quadruple tie at one hundred and
ninety-two and II. W. Kahler of Phila
delphia, winner of the 1911, N. Y. A. C.
amateur championship, was tied for third
with II. E. Buckwalter of Philadelphia at
one hundred and ninety-one. J. F. Wulf
of Milwaukee made one hundred and
ninety, J. A. Smith of South Solon, Ohio,
and C. G. Westcott of Orlando, Fla., one
hundred and eighty-nine each.
Heading the professionals was Lester
German, of Aberdeen, S. D., challenger
for the world's championship trophy,
held by George L. Lyon of Durham, N.
C, also a contestant in the tournament,
with one hundred and ninety-five and
including a straight run of one hundred
and five. J. T. Skelly of Wilmington
was second in one hundred and ninety
four, three targets in the lead of R. W.
Clancy of Chicago, E. II. Storr of Balti
more, L. J. Squier of Pittsburgh who were
bunched in a triple tie at one hundred
and ninety-one. Walter Huff of Macon,
Ga., made one hundred and ninety, and
J. M. Hawkins of Baltimore one hundred
and eighty-nine. In all seventeen con
testants were better than ninety-four per
cent and fourteen made straight runs
better than fifty. "Classy?" "Well some!"
Prominent among other contestants
are : R. L. Spotts, the Larchmont Yacht
Club Champion, C. W. Billings of Glen
Ridge, Dr. D. L. Culver of Jersey City,
William Foord of Wilmington, Jesse S.
Young of Chicago, Allan Heil of Allen
town, John Philip Sousa of New York,
Isaac Andrews of Spartanburg, S. C, E.
R. Alexander of Tuskeegee, Ala., J. A.
Blount of Greensboro, Ala., Boy H.
Bruno of Brookville, Ind., Vassa Cate of
Brunswick, Ga., George J. Corbett of
New York, II. B. Cone of Atlantic City,
AV. F. Clark of Boston, Mass., Jay Clark,
Jr., of Worcester, Mass., II. P. Carlon of
Wilmington, Del., Orrin R. Dickey of
Boston, James G. S. Dy of Syracuse,
J. II. Dreher of Wilmington, N. C, Ben
S. Donnelley of Chicago, John Ebberts
of Buffalo, John L. Englert of Catasau
qua, Pa., II. D. Gibbs of Union City
Tenn., C. E. Goodrich of Belvidere, TIL,
Edward F. Gleason of Boston, Mass ,
Norfolk Henderson of Lexington, Ky.,
J. M. Hawkinsm of Tuckahoe, N. Y., J.
A. L. Ivins of Red Bank was first
Thursday with a score of one hundred
and ninety-four which included a straight
run of one hundred and five. McCarty
with an unfinished run of sixty-seven,
tied with Kahler at one hundred and
ninety-three, Corbett with Jones at one
hundred and ninety-two, Buckwalter with
Ileil at one ninety-one, and Hodgman
with Cate at one eighty-nine.
German led the professionals with one
ninety-six and straight runs of eighty
one and ninety. Hawkins made one
ninety-four, Clancy one ninety-one and
Goodrich and Skelly one eighty-seven.
Storr ran sixty-eight straight with a
total of one eighty-five.
Under the management of Luther J.
Squier, Du Pont's expert, and with the
aid of three ideal-leggett traps under the
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" DANGER LIES NOT ALONE IN DEEP WATERS
A. Howlett of Charleston, Mo., W. F.
Happer of Jefferson, N. Y., C. C. Irwin
of Pittsburgh, A. L. Ivins of Red Hank,
N. J., W. II. Jones of Macon, Ga.,
F. Daniel Kelsey of E. Aurora, N. Y.,
David L. Leahy of New York, C. A. Lock
wood of Jamaica, J. B. MoIIugh of Wil
mington, Charles Nichols of Charlotte,
N. C, P. E. Osborn of West Somerville,
II. B. Pottinger of Charlestown, Mo.,
Henry Powers of Atlantic City, J. F.
Pratt of Philadelphia, William Ridley of
What Cheer, la., A. E. Ranney of New
York, E. S, Rogers of Cleveland, R. L.
Shepard of Warwick, N. Y., J. B. Snow
den of Memphis, John F. Shanley, Jr., of
Newark, B. B. Ward and A. J. Ward of
Aberdeen, S. D., Basil Wagner of Balti
more, A. F. Welling of Mechanicsville
and Guy Ward of Birmingham.
personal supervision of Charles North,
the event is being run off like clock work.
Saturday's (today's) hundred target
Handicap is preceded by twenty-target
sweeps which fill in the morning.
Tie in Six Ball Play
A big gallery followed amateur pro
fessional six ball play early in the week.
Professionals Gilbert Nicholls and Fred
McLeod, playing the best ball of profes
sional Jolly and Messrs. Beach, Mac
Mahan and Dr. Gardner. The result was
a tie with medal scores of sixty-nine each.
fine Hag's for Sportiimen
Fine bags have rewarded such of the
sportsmen as found time to desert the
traps, C. W. Royce high gun with several
bags ranging from twelve to fourteen.
Z. T. MILLER IS THE WINNER
Defeats R. M. Puryes, 5 and 4, in Final
of Advertising Tourney
George It. JBarnen Capture Connota
tion on Twentieth Green and Keen
Play Rules In All Divisions
i IjPN
MATCH PLAY in the
Advertising Golf Tourn
ament provided numer
ous keen contests which
culminated in fast semi
final and final play, sev
eral pairs over-running
the home green. In all
divisions but the first,
handicaps tended to equalize the field, and
fully seven-eighths of the matches were
carried as far as the sixteenth. In the first
division, Z. T. Miller of New York met
R. M. Purves, also of the metropolis, in
the final, the match ending on the thir
teenth green, five up and four to play.
In the semi-final Mr. Miller won from I.
S. Robeson of Rochester, six and four ;
in the second round, from E. J. Ridg
way of Montclair, 3 and 2 ; and in the
first from Guy S. Pierce of Chicago,
three and one. Mr. Purves reached the
final through a ninehole win from Lee
W. Maxwell of Chicago. In the second
round he defeated J. P. Gardner, also of
Chicago, and in the first, he made it pos
sible for George Barnes of New York to
win the consolation! Mr. Barnes' final
was with G. T. Hodges of Chicago and
the twentieth hole decided it.
There were trophies for the division
winners and runners-up and consolation
winners and runners-up in all divisions,
the list including : R. W. Potter of New
York and W. L. Crocker of Boston, J.
H. Eggers and Don M. Parker of New
York, in the second; E. J. Phillips and
Thomas T. Rushmore, both of New
York, B. D. Butler of Nw York and
George II. French of Bcston in the
third ; R. C. Wilson of New York and A.
L. Aldred of Providence, J. C. Piatt and
Carl V. S. Howland, both of New York,
in the fourth; II. B. Kennedy of New
York and E. II. Morris of Philadelphia,
Edward Rode and John Bain, Jr., both
of New York, in the fifth; W. W. Man
ning and Robert Frothingham, both of
New York, James Barber of Englewood
and H. R. Reed of New York in the
sixth; Theodore Dickinson and W. W.
Hoops, both of Chicago, Russell Double
day and A. R. Robertson, both of New
York, in the seventh.
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