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VOL. XX, NO. 9
SATURDAY MORNING, JANUARY 20, 1917
FIVE CENTS
THE BIG SHOOT
Old Favorites and Many Champions
Makeup the Field of 170 Competitors
Plum Successfully Defend III Title
Ag-alnst Wrlg-ht. JTahn Challenges
for the Hercules Trophy -
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ON Monday the war
began. The gun
club and its four
shooting pits were
christened by the
opening of the great
shoot. One hundred
and sixty-two of the leading trap
shooters in the country assem
bled to take a crack at the Mid
Winter handicap, and the 600 tar
get event, and State team
matches, and long score prizes,
and a paradise of shooters chances.
And as we write the fusilade
sounds merrily over the land
scape, and those two formidable
champions, J. R. Jahn who was in
at the finish last year, and every
where else he eroes, and Fred
Plum, the holder of the Hercules
All Round Championship, are
breaking their strings in keen
competition for this very trophy.
The first stirring event on the
program was the shoot for the
Hercules title between Fred Plum
and Frank S. Wright of Buffalo.
Plum had won the title fromBart
lett.whom he challenged imme
diately after the "open" shoot for
the trophy in St. Louis last Aug
ust. He took it handily and
quite as handily defended it yes
terday. Wright, many, years
champion of the State of New
York and credited with being a
very steady performer, made it a
close thing for a while. The con
ditions called for 50 birds at 18,
50 at 20, 50 at 22 yards, and 25
pairs of doubles. On the first
string Plum missed the eighth
and the nineteenth, and extraor
dinary to relate, Wright not only
tied him, but missed the very
same shots. Plum made a perfect
score on the second string, leav
ing him one up at 18 yards. Plum
48, Wright 47.
Plum missed three out of tlie
fifty at 20 yards, and substantial
ly increased his lead. Wright lost
his chances on the first three or
four targets, missing two before
he got the swing of it. The score
was 47 for Plum and 45 for
Wright. So at the end of the sec
ond distance Plum with 95 had
a lead of 3.
Plum improved with the dis
tance, and showed his champion
ship form at the 22-yard mark.
He broke 37 in succession and
only missed one in the two
frames. Wright dropped five out
of the first twenty-five, and two
out of the second and came into
the double competition with b are
ly a fighting chance, 135 to 144.
Plum's strong point has always
been shooting doubles and he
lived up to it. Both contestants
did some very fine shooting con
siderably better than Plum's
score in his winning shoot against
Bartlett. On that occasion 37 out
of the 25 pairs was good enough
to win. But Wright broke 43.
Even this was of no avail how
ever, since Plum clinched the
(Concluded on page fifteen)
JONES' TROPHY AT LAST
Miss Ballin Wins the Women's
Singles
Count Aalm Fig-urea In the Doubles
of the MldWlnter Tennis
Tournament
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1 J. D. E. JONES of
the Agawam Hunt
won his third and
decisive leg upon
the Pinehurst Cham
pionship Tennis cup,
and took it into his
lasting possession by decisively
defeating Howard Cordes, the
Cincinnati champion, in straight
sets in the final round. Jones
showed all his old time power and
accuracy. Cordes' effort was
made in the very beginning. He
is fast on the court and a strong
net player. On his first service
he went to the net and by vigor
ous and determined smashing
took two out of the first three
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MID-WINTER TENNIS TOURNAMENT. SHOWS JONES DEFEATING CORDES AND THE FINALS OF THE MIXED DOUBLES