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Seventeenth Annual Midwinter Target Tournament
THE seventeenth annual Midwinter
target tournament, held during
the week past, brought together
a classy field of shooters and with ideal
weather prevailing the five-day program
was run off in fine fashion and excellent
refereering resulted from the services of
expert referees from Philadelphia. The
tournament was under the management of
Mr. Charles North, of the Chamberlain
Cartridge Company.
The shoot opened on Monday with a
160-target event at 16 yards styled the
Midwinter Introductory. Similar events
with numerous optionals were shot on
Tuesday, and Wednesday, and on Thurs
day the Preliminary Handicap was shot.
This event led up to the Midwinter, the
stellar event on the week’s program
which was decided on Friday and which
was won by Mark Arie.
Arie, who won the world’s champion
ship title at the last Olympic meet and
who is probably the greatest handicap
trapshooter in the world, was the out
standing figure of the week. He led the
field at the end of the high average race
on 480 targets at sixteen yards the first
three days; finished second in the Preliminary Handicap; won
the Midwinter with the excellent score of 94x100 from the extreme
back line and wound up the week by finishing high over all on
840 targets thrown during the five days.
B. V. Covert, of Lockport, N. Y., a 19-yard man, finished
second in the Midwinter with 92. Then came W. G. Warren,
another crack shot from the West who shot from the maximum
distance and broke 90. A tie at 89 for fourth money resulted
between W; Laimmers, Danbury, Ohio, (19 yards); George S<
McCarty (23 yards) ; W. L. Egner, Shiloh, Ohio, (20 yards),
and P. S. P. Randolph, Sr., (20 yards). >' ;
OLNEY LEADS IN OPENING
C. W. Olney, of West Allis, Wis., started the week's festivities
by winning the Introductory with 158x160. Olney dropped two
targets of his first 80 and was tied with C. A. Bogert, of Sandusky
Ohio* for second place. Tracy H. Lewis, of the New York
Athletic Club, was leading at this point with 79x80, but Olney
ran through his second 80 ■without a miss while Bogert missed
two, winning the second Class A prize with 156x160. Mark Arie,
tied with David Leahy, of New York, for third place, Arie win
ning the third prize in Class A, and Leahy the first in Class B.
C. L. Walker, of Wilmington, Del., took the second Class B
trophy with 147x160. W. L. Egner, of Shiloh, Ohio, was only
one target behind him and won the third prize in that class.
In class C., W. H. Letton, of Atlanta, was the high man with
Mrs. W. H. Fawcett selling Dr. T. H. Lewis, of
Chicago, a life membership in the Amateur
Trap-Shooting Association. Thirty-four
life memberships were sold during the
* tournament here last zveek.
the good total of 145, losing seven birds
in the first half and eight in the second.
He was followed by W. Eason, of Tar
boro, N. C„ and H. S. Williams, of
Wilmington, Del., both of whom had 138.
T. H. LEWIS WINS SECOND DAY
The Sandhill Special, which was shot
oh Tuesday and which comprised the sec
ond 160 targets of'the 480 target high
average race, was won by Tracy H.
Lewis after the shootoff of a quadruple
tie with W. G. Warren, George S. Mc
Carty and W. Hr Letton, all of whom
broke 153x160. *;
The first three named shot off for the
three trophies in Class A., Lewis winning
with 50 straight and McCarty getting sec
ond place after dropping a single target
in his second string. Warren was
eliminated in the first string. Letton was
awarded the first trophy in Class B. ' i
The Midwinter Championship, another
160-target event at sixteen yards, which
was shot on Wednesday, Concluded the
high average race on 480 targets and also
the great race betweenthe East and West
which was decided on the five best scores
from each section. Mark Arie won the
high average with 462 breaks out of 480, and was largely respon
sible for the victory of the Western guns over their Eastern rivals.
The West won with a .total of 2,274 as against 2,259 for the East,
Those comprising the two teams and their scores were :
West East
Mark Arie .. 462 Trach H. Lewis ___A 455
W. H. Fawcett ........ 449 G. S. McCarty ......... 452
W. G. Warren ......... 460 H. K. Starr ........... 452
G. W. Olney .... . ...... 459 David Leahy .\ ____ 450
D. C. Rand ............ 444 C. A. Bogert ........... 450
2,274 ' 2^59
McCARTY WINS PRELIMINARY r l A
George S. McCarty, a member of the New York Athletic Club
and president of the Amateur Trapshooting Association, shot from
the extreme back line in the Prelimitlary Handicap and won chief
honors and emoluments in that event with the excellent scpre of.
92x100. Jacob Fries, of Buffalo, N. Y., a 20-yard man, and Mark
Arie, who shot from the maximum distance, tied for second place
with 91 each
Walter Huff, of Macon, Ga., led the professional contingent in
most every event. He broke 159 out of 160 in one event and
outshot Arie in the high average race on 16-yard targets.