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Bishopville Gun Club. 
Bishopville, Md., Jan. 30.—Herewith are the scores 
of our new club shoot. We organized with twenty-eight 
members. We held our first shoot to-day and I had a 
delightful time. The town turned out to see a target 
shoot. The Squire closed his office, school closed, and 
in fact, every business stopped except the grist mill 
and the milinery store. They did a slashing business. 
This county is dry, but the boys brought the cider 
jug along, and some of them got red in the face before 
the shoot was over. They all shot at 25 birds, and 
considering that they or some of them never saw a 
trap or target before, I think they shot fine. You can 
look out for some of them entering in big tournaments 
after they practice a while, for this Bishopville is a 
sporty town. We have a ball team and a nice half mile 
track to try our horses on. We have one which can 
step a mile in 2.11, so you can see we have pretty good 
horses here, and we hope to have some 95 per cent, 
shooters after a while. 
Sie Hopkins won the prize, a fine pig of the Pole and 
China stock. The farmer who gave the pig says if 
kept until three years old will weigh 700 pounds, and will 
most of it be lean meat. Now you can bet we shot hard 
for that pig, but Sie won out without a tie. He had the 
misfortune in days gone by to bump into a saw mill 
and the saw started on him saw log fashion, lengthways, 
sawing off half of one foot, part 'of hip, half of one 
arm, part of one cheek, one ear and grazed his brain 
by the thickness of his skull; but Sie is on the earth 
with his gun just the same, and says with more prac¬ 
tice he intends to challenge some of the upper class. 
W Collins . 15 
Sie Hopkins . 20 
S Kimble . 11 
F Moore . 14 
W Morris . 16 
B Morris . 15 
Sie Floyd . 13 
A Jinks . 5 
Tim Slabs . 10 
I Monk . 8 
Ike Bord . 11 
Sam Jones . 9 
Wm Whaley . 18 
Old Jap . 18 
Lone Sam . 5 
Hump Tingle . 8 
G Hudson . 16 
H Laws . 16 
S Rust . IT 
Jo Logs . 5 
Jim Ties . 7 
Ike Tubs . 10 
Bush Linch . 9 
A Moore . 13 
High Coffin . 10 
C. W. Floyd. 
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Nanhasset Bay Yacht Club. 
Port Washington, L. I., Jan. 31.—I append scores 
for to-day’s shoot. The weather was clear and the wind 
blowing a gale right in the face of the traps, making it 
very hard shooting, which caused the irregular scores. 
In the prize events, Edgar A. Sierck carried off all the 
honors. The sweepstakes were fairly well divided. 
Targets: 
15 
10 
10 
15 
10 10 
10 
H F Clark . 
6 
6 
8 
8 7 
7 
W H Williams. Jr... 
9 
1 
2 
4 
E A Sierck. 
... 11 
6 
6 
5 
8 7 
10 
J E Meyer. 
4 
8 
11 
9 7 
7 
G C Meyer. 
... 4 
8 
5 
1 
9 7 
7 
S G Loomis_ 
... 7 
6 
T W Alker. 
6 
5 
11 
C M Gould. 
3 
H L Hoyt, Jr... 
8 
11 
W J Bott. 
0 
A C Clarkson.. 
7 
4 
J F O’Rourke.. 
7 
. . 
Sauer gun contest, 
, 25 
targets, leg won 
by 
Edgar 
A. 
B. 
H. 
T. 
B. H. 
T. 
K A iSierck. 
. 20 
4 
24 
H F 
Clark.. 
12 3 
15 
G C Meyer. 
18 
4 
22 
A C 
Clarkson... 
11 4 
15 
C Cowl . 
. 15 
6 
21 
J E 
Meyer., 
9 4 
13 
B G Loomis.... 
. lb 
3 
18 
W Williams. 
Ir. 
6 7 
13 
J W Alker. 
. 14 
4 
18 
Jrl L. Hoyt, Ir... 
16 4 
20 
J t’ O'Kourke.. 
. 10 
6 
16 
Clark weekly cup, 25 targets, won by Edgar A. Sierck; 
E A Sierck. 21 
J W Alker. 17 
H L Hoyt, Jr.. 17 
A C Clarkson... 16 
J E Meyer. 13 
B G Loomis. 
H F Clark. 
G C Meyer. 
W Williams, Jr. 
13 3 
12 3 
10 4 
6 7 
16 
15 
14 
13 
J. W. Alker. 
Indianapolis Gun Club. 
Indianapolis, Ind.—If ever the members of the In¬ 
dianapolis Gun Club were in doubt about the gameness 
of. fheir venerable president. Dr. O. F. Britton, all such 
misgivings have been utterly dispelled by his actions of 
last Saturday, Jan. 30. A more disagreeable and im¬ 
possible ^ day for target shooting could not have been 
imagined. He was repeatedly importuned by the mem¬ 
bers to annul the regular weekly club shoot, on account 
of the wintry blizzard that was waging a relentless war¬ 
fare with everything out of doors. But the Doctor would 
have none of ;t._ He told the boys that he intended to 
go to the club in the afternoon and would shoot at 50 
targets in the day’s event of the members’ trophy con¬ 
test, even though he might be the only contestant pres¬ 
ent on the grounds. Then the boys commenced to 
figure, one by one, that it would not do, to let the 
Doctor go out alone and steal the event, with the result 
that there was a larger attendance at the club house bv 
seven than the day was entitled to, having due regard 
for prevailing weather conditions. The doctor’s bold 
and unfaltering leadership has endeared him more than 
ever in the hearts of the members, and to such an ex¬ 
tent that they are determined that he shall continue to 
serve as their president as long as it is given him to 
live. 
The day was awful, so were the scores. Burton Call, 
professional, chose the occasion to visit the club, broke 
37 out of 50 targets in shooting with the club members 
in the trophy contest, and pronounced the Indianapolis 
bunch” the gamest crowd he ever met. The other 
contestants let down a little too rpuch, and permitted 
Denny to capture the day’s event. The scores were: 
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