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. 20 
Ely , 
17 
Bender . 
. 20 
16 
Hellver . 
. 19 
16 
Henry . 
. 19 
Rodgers . 
. 19 
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. 18 
Iloupt . 
. 12 
AN ehring . 
. 17 
9 
Fligh . 
. 17 
Graham . 
. 6 
The next championship shoot, when the defenders of 
the cups will be open to challenge, will take place at 
the Doylestown Rod and Gun Club’s grounds on Satur¬ 
day afternoon, Aug. 22. The first event will start 
promptly at 1:30 o’clock P. M. The same programme 
as above will be shot for this date. 
Clay Bird Shooting. 
The Olymp ic Meet, 
A brighter and altogether more cheerful tone pre¬ 
vailed on the concluding day of this meeting. This was 
due to the brighter weather making the pastoral con¬ 
ditions a source of pleasure rather than an infliction. 
Shooting of necessity takes people far afield, and the 
absence of fine weather for last week’s meeting was a 
source of unqualified disappointment for those who had 
labored, so hard to meet all requirements. From a shoot¬ 
ing point of view, the result was certainlv to 1 bring the 
best men to the front; but the difficult conditions, which 
were discussed in the previous report, have unduly 
separated the various grades of skill. A shooter who 
knows himself to be fairly good on the average, not to 
say brilliant on occasions, hates to see his score on the 
50 or 60 per cent, level. In almost all classes of shooting 
a collapse of form is overwhelming when once it begins. 
If the number of competitors is large enough for only 
the successful ones to be named, others who fall bv the 
way remain in welcome obscurity. The figures of a 
published score are unfortunately more permanent than 
the explanation as to why they are so tow. Clay bird 
shooting as carried on in this country is unduly sensitive 
to alterations in the traps and in the character of the 
background, because the rules restrict shooters to the 
use of a cartridge which is inefficient beyond 35yds. 
With a perfect background and with traps throwing the 
birds just right good scores can be made, but the col¬ 
lapse is immediate if anything happens to delay the 
taking of the shots even the quarter of a second, this 
increasing by 5 or 6yds. the distance of the bird. The 
conditions prevailing at Uxendon produced this delay, 
and a wind blowing throughout the meeting, gave the 
rather high-thrown birds a tumble in their flight just at 
the critical moment. Mr. Ewing, of Canada, most suc¬ 
cessfully mastered the difficult problem presented. Mr. 
Maunder, of this country, showed in the team shoot even 
better form, but though doing well in individual, he 
showed his best form in shooting a tie for third place 
w'ith Mr. Metaxas, of Greece, this providing one of 
the most exciting incidents of the meeting. The obvious 
need in clay bird shooting is to remodel the rules by 
allowing charges up to iy 2 oz. of shot to be used in 12- 
bore cases not exceeding 2%in. in length, and to abolish 
the superfluous second barrel. 
The Americans have proved the success, from a sport¬ 
ing point of view, of one cartridge adequate to the occa¬ 
sion as against two which are both inadequate. To see 
at a world’s championship meeting shooters desperately 
firing second barrels at clay birds 70yds. away with guns 
containing game charges, emphasizes the need for a 
change. The double-barrel clay bird gun with full choke 
in both barrels is useless for outdoor sport. Being a 
special gun for a special purpose, there is no reason w'hy 
the specialization should not be carried the full distance, 
incidentally producing a useful type of wildfowl gun, and 
at the same time enabling the shooter, anxious to 
economize or to specialize still further, to use a single- 
barrel weapon. The whole point in the argument lies in 
the circumstance that first-class shooters such as those 
who took part in the meeting under notice, reckon in 
the ordinary way to show an all-round 90' per cent, of 
kills at their own ground, dropping to, say, 80 per cent, 
on a strange ground having unusual characteristics. The 
accompanying scores, which have been reduced to a 
percentage basis, show that 65 per cent, was the all¬ 
round form of those competing in the final stages. A 
return to the well-tried pigeon shooting conditions of 
2%in. cartridges, but with no limit of shot charge, would 
greatly assist clay bird shooting to take the place of 
pigeon shooting wherever the latter has fallen into 
disuse. This notice may well be concluded by con¬ 
gratulating Mr. F. \V. Moore on having again captained 
a team to victory. As captain by right and by tradition 
of the English teams, ever since the Clay Bird Associa¬ 
tion instituted these competitions, he has worthily up¬ 
held his reputation in the higher duties of captain in an 
Olympic match. The Canadian team, who won second 
place, showed themselves good shooters and good sports¬ 
men. The following are details of the scores made: 
Individual.—First stage 30 birds at known traps and 
unknown angles; second stage 20 birds ditto; third stage 
20 birds ditto and 10 birds at unknown traps and angles. 
the one following: 
*W FI Ewing. Canada. 
tG Beattie. Canada.... 
+A Maunder, U. K.... 
scores in one 
-Stages- 
1st 
2d 
"3d 
27 
18 
27 
21 
17 
OO 
21 
14 
22 
Agg. Per C’t 
72 90 
60 75 
57 71 
Grand American Handicap, 1908, Columbus, 0., June 23-26. 
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Amateur Championship —By George J. Roll. Score, 222 x 240. 
High Score in State Team Event —By Geo. J. Roll, of the Illinois 
team. Score, 97 x 100. 
EMPIRE 
(BULK) 
-WINS:- 
High Professional irv Preliminary Handicap —By Charles A. 
Young. Score, 95 x 100. 
Second High Score in State Team Event —By George Volk, of 
the Ohio team, 96 x 100. 
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