May II, 1912 
FOREST AND STREAM 
605 
E. C. Trophy Shoot. 
Wilmington, Del., May 4.— This day at the grounds 
of the Du Pont Gun Club saw the decision of the 
eighteenth contest for the famous E. C. trophy, em¬ 
blematic of the world’s championship at targets. The 
contestants were Geo. L. Eyon, of Durham, N. C. 
(holder), and Lester S. German, of Aberdeen, Md., who 
was the challenger. 
While the E. C. cup was the main featvire on the day’s 
program, there were two other attractions, a 100-target 
race, open to all amateurs, for a purse and also for 
prizes offered by the Du Pont Gun Club, the latter 
being awarded under the Lewis class system, one prize, 
a souvenir silver spoon, for every ten entries. Another 
attraction was the shoot-off of a tie between Frank 
Sidebotham of the S. S. White Gun Club, of Phila¬ 
delphia, and J. R. Bonsall, of the Clearview Gun Club, 
for some Class B prizes offered for competition during 
the recent series of team contests carried to a success¬ 
ful conclusion under the auspices of the Philadelphia 
Trapshooters’ League. 
The weather was all that could be desired from a 
spectator’s standpoint. It was bright, clear and warm. 
Naturally enough, with such a program offered, there 
means up to either shooter’s real form. How the misses 
came is shown in the following scores: 
German .0110111111111011011111111 
1111101011111110011111111-T2 
Lyon .11111110111 lOlllOnilCllO 
0111111100111111011111110—40 
With only a lead of 2 to the good, and 50 targets to 
be shot at, viz., 25 pairs, it was anybody’s race, although 
it was generally conceded that Mr. Lyon was hard for 
anybody to beat at that style of shooting, and his stock 
went .above par in consequence. At the start, it seemed 
as if both men tried to see how many they could miss. 
German dropped 4 out of the first 10, while Lyon went 
him one better, losing 5. Then Lyon tightened up and 
ran 8 pairs straight, following th’s with a “dutch double’’ 
—his 40th and 41st targets—and a run of six pairs, losing 
the first target of his last pair. This gave him a total 
of 40, as against 38 for German, who shot away below 
his form on doubles, and broke only 38. The scores in 
the doubles were: 
German .10 
Lyon .10 
11 10 10 10 11 11 11 10 01 11 11 11 
11 11 11 01 01 10 11 01 n 10—38 
11 10 01 00 11 11 10 10 11 11 11 11 
11 11 11 11 00 11 11 11 11 11 11 01—40 
The match therefore went to Mr. Lyon, his score being 
174 out of 200 to Mr. German’s 170. 
Mr. Lyon won’t have the satisfaction of holding the 
trophy very long, as it,is understood that the West Vir¬ 
ginia State .Sportsmen’s Association, which holds its 
annual .State shoot on May 15 and 16 next at Fairmont, 
W. Va., has redeemed the trophy from the winner of 
to-day’s match and will place it in open competition at 
that shoot. It is possible, however, that Mr. Lyon may 
journey to West Virginia and try to renew his grasp 
on the cup. 
The winners of the E. C cup are, up to and including 
to-day’s contest: W. R. Crosby, of O’Fallon, Ill., six 
times; Fred Gilbert, of Spirit Lake, la., five times; 
R. O. Heikes, of Dayton, Ohio, four times; Geo. L. 
Lyon, of Durham, N. C., twice, and J. A. R. Elliott, of 
Brooklyn, N. Y., once. 
The shoot-off of the ties for the two Class B trophies 
in the Philadelphia Trapshooters’ League resulted in an 
even break. Mr. Bonsall, of the Clearviews, won one 
tie with 36 to 34, while Mr. Sidebotham won the Keim 
trophy with 40 to 39, both matches being at 50 targets 
per man. 
In the 100-target race there were eighty entries, all 
THE E. C. CUP. 
was a good attendance, not only of shooters, but of 
spectators, the latter numbering fully four hundred. 
That it was an interested crowd was proved by the fact 
that the club house was absolutely deserted while Messrs. 
German and Lyon fought the battle over the expert 
traps at the far end of the club grounds. .(All of which 
goes to show that match shooting—with interesting 
features thrown in, such as doubles, expert rules, etc.— 
does attract and hold the crowd.) 
Although the main event—the E. C. cup race—was 
scheduled for 1:30 P. M., it was just about 2 o’clock 
before a start was made. Ed. Banks was referee; C. H. 
Newcomb, of Philadelphia, acted as judge for Lyon; 
\V. M. Foord, of Wilmington acting in the same capacity 
for Mr. German. Bill Joslyn was official scorer; J. A. 
McMullen was puller and W. Schuyler Colfax, Jr., went 
into the trap house and drove the trap to perfection. 
After the referee had explained the conditions of the 
race to the spectators, Messrs. Lyon and German went 
to the score, and as !Slr. German had won the toss for 
choice of position, he stepped up to No. 1 position and 
opened the ball by breaking a sharp left-quartering 
target- Nobody dropped a bird until the 9th round, when 
Lyon let one go, but German refused to take any unfair 
advantage of him and dropped his 10th. German then 
lost his 14th, but Lyon missed his 17th and 20th, and 
was 22 to German’s 23, when the first 25 had been shot 
at. They then went and got 25 more shells and came 
out and shot the ne.xt string, with the result that Ger¬ 
man lost his 30th and 32d targets, while Lyon dropped 
his 32d and 39th. The score at-the end of the first 50 
was: German 46. Lyon 45. 
In the second 50 targets Lyon dropped only one, his 
84th target, running U straight, but German lost his 
61st, 65th, 72d, 85th, 92d and 96th targets, ending with 
c-nly 90 to Lyon’s 94 out of the 100. Lyon thus went 
up to the expert traps with an advantage of 4 targets, 
semewhat of a surprise, even to his friends, who had 
figured on his being a few behind at that stage of the 
game. 
The second stage of the match—50 targets, expert rules, 
one man up—resulted in German’s favor by 2 targets, 
the scores being: German 42, Lyon 40, totals by no 
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