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Number 18
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United North and South Trapshooting Tournament
HE eighth annual United
) North and South Handicap
trapshooting tou r n ament,
which held forth at the Gun Club last
week brought out a representative
field and a classy bunch of shooters
competed in the various events.
The shoot opened on Monday with
a 100-target event at sixteen yards,
followed later in the day with the
Introductory handicap, and on Tues
day the North and South Handicap
was shot. Wednesday’s shooting
was not registered, the day being
devoted to practice, while Thursday
began the State Championship and
also the first round of the Pinehurst
Pedigree Plan. The Pedigree plan
is a new feature in trapshooting,
being inaugurated with much inter
est during the Midwinter shoot in
January. It works pretty much
■along the lines of a golf tournament,
having a qualifying round in which
the sixteen highest scores form the
first division, the second highest
sixteen form the second division and
so cm down through the field. Then
match shooting begins the elimina
tion process until there are but two
men left in each division to compete
m the finals.
W. B. Arey, of Salisbury, retained
1IS title as North Carolina State champion by totaling 196
°ut of the 200 targets. Arey succeeded in gaining the laurels
hy outshooting J. R. Ardrey, of Wilmington, on the second
day, getting 97 td his opponent’s 93, though Ardrey in the
fost day’s test made a perfect score of one hundred birds.
J B. Whitacre, of Waynesburg, Ohio, and E. L. King, of
Winona, Minn., each finished in a tie for second place with
B-3, F. ■U. Roseberry of Baltimore being next with 192.
Ardrey, however, won the best all-around championship
with a score of 322, including records made in the handicap
1 nd doubles events. Arey’s total was next highest with 318.
John B. Rumbaugh, of Asheville, a former winner of
the Midwinter Handicap which is shot here iit Jan
uary each year, made his re-appearance in the
Spring shoot last week and carried off first lion
ors in the North Carolina State Handicap.
John B. Rumbaugh, of Asheville,
a former winner of the Midwinter
Handicap, won the State Handicap
championship by breaking 190 out
of 200 from the 22-yard line. Ike
Andrews, of Spartanburg, a veteran
of many Pinehurst shoots, shot
from 21 yards and was second with
189, while B. V. Covert, of Lock
port, N. Y., and Mrs. E. L. King,
of Winona, Minn., the only woman
competing, broke 188 apiece. The
South defeated the North in the
annual team match by a margin of
twenty-one birds. H. E. Johnson,
of Haines City, Fla., led the South
erners with a two-day total of 187,
with Ike Andrews having 181; G.
D. Williams, of Miami, 181; D. H.
McCullough, of Charlotte, 178; W.
W. Lancaster, of Spartanburg, 167,
making a total of 894. The team
which represented the North ran up
a sum of 873 made by B. V. Covert,
of Lockport, with 177; E. L. King,
of Winona, Minn., 177; E. H. Lott,
of New York, 176; Mrs. E. L. King,
175, and C. C. Allen, of Kenosha,
Wis., 168.
Among the leaders who trailed
Arey in the championship event
were D. S.- McCullough, of Char
lotte, with 191; Martin McVoy,
New York, 190; J. «B. Rumbaugh, Asheville, 190; Arthur
Cuscadin, Tampa, 189; H. L. Worthington, Baltimore, 189;
J. B. Pennington, Tarboro, 189; U. R. Brooks, Columbia,
188; D. T. Leahy, New York, 186; Mrs. E. L. King, 183; L.
B. Pearce, Wilmington, 182 and G. M. Fountain, Rocky
Mount, 180.
The Pedigree plan proved a most popular event. Tfie, win
ner of the first division was awarded a medal and is entitled
to shoot in a special event to be held during the Midwintet
shoot in January, which will be made up entirely of winners
of Pedigree events held here and in other shoots.