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May 
1911.] 
Team Match at Ryland, Kentucky. 
The match at live birds between teams from Phila¬ 
delphia and Kentucky was held on May 15, at the 
grounds of the Crystal Lake Gun Club, Kyland, and 
proved to be the most successful affair that the club has 
given since its organization. Fifteen of the Pennsyl¬ 
vania shooters made the trip, and they certainly put a 
strong team in the field. The Fayette Gun Club, of Lex¬ 
ington, Ky., and the Crystal Lake Gun Club were the 
other contestants. The Louisville shooters were unable 
to get a team together, as they had hoped to do. 1 he 
Fayette and Crystal clubs were obliged to go into the 
contest minus one or two of their best men, otherwise 
the story might have been a little different. 
The day was hot, with just a slight breeze to make it a 
little less uncomfortable. The birds were a mixed lot; 
there were quite a good many extra hard ones, and a 
number of sitters, though some of the latter proved to be 
puzzlers when they once took wing. Owing to the inabil¬ 
ity of the club to secure birds, the handicap event, which 
was scheduled for the morning, was called off, and only 
members of the teams allowed to shoot. This was a 
disappointment to twenty-five or thirty sportsmen who 
had expected to enter the handicap, among them Ed. 
V oris, of Crawfordsville, Ind., who did not take his gun 
out of the case. There was a large attendance of local 
men, who came down to see the sport. Before the 
match began opportunity was given the visitors to shoot 
a few birds in order to get a line on the traps and be¬ 
come familiar with the surroundings. 
A match at 10 birds, for $100 was also shot between 
Mr. Munson, of Dover, N. J., standing at 30yds. and 
using one hand, and Mr. Knowles, of Philadelphia, 28yds., 
using both hands. The former won with a straight score 
to the latter’s 9. 
The conditions of the team match were: Four men on 
a team, 50 birds per man, 31yds. rise, 30yds. boundary; 
entrance $50 and birds, per man. There was also an 
optional $10 sweep on the 50 birds, divided 50, 30 and 20 
per cent., high guns. O. J. Holaday acted as referee, 
and George Walker and IT. Lehman as judges. R. H. 
West, Jr., was official scorer for the Kentucky teams and 
F. C. Goodbody for Philadelphia. The Independent 
team proved rather easy winners, taking the lead in the 
first round, and finishing with a lead of 10 birds over the 
second team. Fayette made a good fight in the first 
round, the Clay brothers missing but one bird out of the 
50, and the team being only 5 birds behind the Indepen¬ 
dents. Schreck and Gould were high men on the Crystal 
Lake in the first round, missing one bird each, but the 
team finished last, 10 birds behind Philadelphia, and 5 
behind Fayette. In the last round F'ayette and Phila¬ 
delphia went back, while Crystal Lake picked up and 
gave the latter team a close race, losing out by only 2 
birds and getting 3 birds the lead of F'ayette. Coleman 
was nigh man with 50 straight kills, or 55, counting the 
5 at practice. Wolstencroft, of the same team, was sec¬ 
ond with 4S. A. Clay and T. Clay, of F'ayette, and 
Schreck and Gould, of Crystal Lake, tied for third place 
on 47. Of their lost birds, Clay and Schreck had 2 dead 
out each, and T. Clay 1. Payne, Buckwalter and Som¬ 
mers each lost 3 dead out. The latter’s first miss was 
on the 38th bird, a fast outgoer, hard hit with both 
loads, but able to carry the lead over the boundary. 
Payne, the promoter of this match, has no need to feel 
at all ashamed of the result. He went up against a 
hard proposition, a team of the best wing shots in the 
country, and his team put up a good fight, taking 
their defeat like the true sportsmen they are. There’s 
more honor in fighting to the finish against heavy odds 
than in winning from a team of mediocre quality. A 
return match will be shot in the future, and perhaps the 
result will be more nearly equal. At the conclusion of 
the match Mr. R. H. West, Jr., announced that he had 
been requested to issue a challenge on behalf of the 
Hilltop Gun Club, of Austerlitz, Ky., to shoot a match 
with any member of the winning team, at 100 birds, for 
$500. The match to be held in Louisville, Ky., or on 
the grounds of the Hilltop Gun Club, at Austerlitz, and 
the time to be some day in November or December. The 
challenge was accepted, and on request of the Philadel¬ 
phians, J. D. Gay was named as the Hilltop Club’s man. 
That will be some match and well worth a journey to 
see. Whichever way it goes, the winner will know that 
he has been in a shooting match. 
Practice, 5 birds, 31yds.: 
Coleman .22222—5 
Buckwalter .22220—4 
Sommers .*2222—4 
Wolstencroft .22012—4 
Schreck .02222—4 
Pavne .22222—5 
Rubel .2*222—4 
Team match, four men on a team, 50 birds per man; 
31yds. rise; $50 and birds entrance; optional $10 sweep, 
divided, 50, 30, and 20 per cent.: 
Independent Gun Club, Philadelphia. 
Coleman .2222222222222222222222222_25 
2222221222221222222222222_25_50 
Wolstencroft .2221122212211212222222101—24 
2222222222221222222220222_24_48 
Buckwalter .22222222222222222222222**—23 
222222222222*222222222201_23_46 
Somers .2 9 22222222222222222222222_25 
222222222222*222°22**2220_21_46_190 
Favette County Gun Club, Lexington, Ky. 
A . ciav 2222222222222222222222222_25 
22222*0212222222*22222222_22_47 
■p Q a y .2222*2222222222222222222_24 
2222222 9 2220222 9 222222022_23_47 
Richardson ..2212212212222220022021212—22 
2211211222122222221021201 —23—45 
F Bedford .22222222*222202222202*222—21 
22222222*222*002022222222_20_41_ISO 
Crystal Lake Gun Club, Kylands, Ky. 
Schreck .2021222222222222222222222_24 
2222*22222*22212122222222_23_47 
Gould 2222212222222222222022222_24 
0222222201222222222222122_23_47 
Rowe .12222—5 
A Clay .22222—5 
Bedford .22222—5 
T Clay .22222—5 
Richardson .11222—5 
Gould .10100—2 
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Wins Three State Championships 
Not only the Individual Championships but the 
Amateur High Averages, Professional High 
Averages, and other honors, were won with Win¬ 
chester Shells at the big State Tournaments held 
in the East, West and Middle West on the 17th, 
18th and 19th of May. After the W inchester 
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MISSOURI STATE 
SHOOT 
State Championship: 
Peter Batterman, shooting 
Winchester shells. 
High Amateur Average.- 
Dr. W. S. Spencer, 440 x 
450 . 
H. B. Pottinger, 2 d, 433 x 
450 . 
High Professional Average: 
C. G. Spencer, 445 x 450 . 
A 11 shooting Winchester 
shells and guns. 
PENNSYLVANIA STATE 
SHOOT 
State Championship: 
“Kelsey,” score 437 x 450 . 
This was also High Ama¬ 
teur Average. 
High ProfessionalAverage: 
I.ester German, score 446 x 
450 . Mr. German made 
the longest run of the tourna¬ 
ment, 210 straight. 
4-Man Team Championship: 
Won by the Pittsburg 
Team, every man of which 
shot Winchester shells. 
SPORTSMANS ASSOCIA¬ 
TION OF THE NORTHWEST 
Individual Championship: 
Fred Dryden. 
High Amateur Average: 
E. J. Shingren, 520 x 550 . 
High ProfessionalAverage: 
Lee R. Barkley, 530 x 550 . 
Team Shoot: 
Won by Walla Team, every 
man shooting Winchester 
shells. 
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Hyde Park (Ohio) Gun Club. 
On May 20 there was a slight break in the hot spell 
which has been with us for many days. In the after¬ 
noon it clouded up and the outlook for rain was so 
threatening that only a few members came out. Then, 
too, the wind blew half a gale and effectually prevented 
any high scores, by tossing the targets about in most 
unexpected ways. Schaefer, Phillips and Jenkins came 
out to the grounds, but amused themselves on the re¬ 
volver range, the latter leaving early to escape an ap¬ 
proaching shower, which passed over the grounds after 
all, giving us only a few drops. 
C. G. YVestcott, who is visiting in Cincinnati for a 
while, was high man with 86; this is not the kind of 
work he did at the Southern Flandicap, but was pretty 
good for the kind of conditions we had. lloladay got in 
second place on a score so much below his mark that 
it is a shame to record it. Sampson broke 8S per cent. 
of his targets, but the 20yd. event cut him down some. 
Frohliger didn’t do very badly; most of his misses were 
on the easy targets. Irwin had a race on with Hola¬ 
day and led him one target in the first two events, which 
the latter got back in the third event and increased his 
lead in subsequent events. Irwin says he is going to get 
some of the new shells—99 per cent, guaranteed. As a 
finish to the afternoon Holaday shot at 11 pairs, break¬ 
ing 17. 
At the annual meeting on May 16, the following direc¬ 
tors were elected: Z. De Mar, K. \V. Rugg, P. K. 
Phillips, J. Stevenson, H. C. Matlock, J. \\ . Jenkins, 
Schaefer. The board will meet soon to organize. 
Targets: 
15 
15 
20 
25 
*25 
Total. 
Westcott . 
. 12 
13 
16 
24 
21 
86 
Holaday . 
. 14 
12 
17 
19 
18 
so 
Irwin . 
. 13 
14 
14 
18 
14 
73 
Sampson . 
. 14 
14 
16 
20 
64 
1 )e Mar . 
. 12 
13 
17 
52 
Frohliger . 
. 10 
9 
10 
is 
47 
*20 yards rise. 
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