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THE FIRST BIG GUNS 
SOUNDED AT PINEHURST 
T HE overture that starts the big events 
of each year’s trapshooting history 
has been played—the great annual 
shoot at Pinehurst, N. C., took place 
January 15 to 20. Here each year America’s 
most famous smooth-bore artists gather for 
a fresh start. And this year was no ex¬ 
ception, for the same high percentage of 
skill in proportion to the size of the field 
faced the traps. 
Unquestionably the feature of the tourna¬ 
ment was the contest for# the Hercules 
trophy, which was shot for at the Grand 
American and also at the Westy Hogan 
last year. At this year’s Pinehurst tourna¬ 
ment it was defended, tied, lost and chal¬ 
lenged. Fred Plum, of Atlantic City, a 
sportsman of trapshooting fame, had been 
challenged by F. S. Wright of Buffalo, 
N. Y. On the second regular day of the 
shoot, Wednesday, the pair faced the traps 
under a poor light for the 200-bird race, 
50 targets at 18 yards rise, 50 at 20 yards, 
50 at 22 yards, and 25 pairs of doubles. 
Plum led by nine birds when the pair came 
up for the doubles, and when the smoke 
cleared from the last shot of the battle 
Plum still held the trophy, with a score of 
189 x 200 as against 178. 
Before this contest started John R. Jahn, 
a young shooter from Iowa, presented a 
challenge to the winner, and Plum agreed 
to accommodate him on Friday. Arid Fri¬ 
day was a real day for spectators at Pine¬ 
hurst. So closely were the two men 
matched that when they lined up to call for 
the birds in pairs, Jahn had but a two bird 
lead. Curiously enough the test came at 
the last pair thrown, a pair called out of 
the trapshouse by Plum. He missed them 
both. The match was a tie, both handing 
in 185 x 200. In accordance with a prom¬ 
ise to shoot again in the event of a tie, 
Plum announced he would again defend 
the cup on the next day, Saturday. It was 
on this day that the cup changed hands. 
Plum broke 177 while Jahn rolled up a 
score of 189. Jahn will have an oppor¬ 
tunity to defend the hard-earned cup on 
April 29th at Davenport, Iowa. The chal¬ 
lenger is O. C. Bottger of Ollie, Iowa. 
M ONDAY, practice day, spilled a cold 
winter’s rain on Pinehurst. Hence 
it was left for the first regular day, 
Tuesday, to see the shoot well under way. 
The rain had dried off into a sleet and 
the experts from Travers Island must have 
felt quite at home in the Long Island 
weather for they, together with two other 
New Yorkers, touched off their guns in 
vain at rare intervals. In the 180 bird go, 
all that was possible on this day, a former 
New York man, Yule, hung up 176, Spotts 
175. Fish 175 and Pendergast 175. 
Wednesday’s program was limited to 160 
birds and it proved enough for this real 
winter’s day strayed so far south. But 
despite surplus clothing, three men dropped 
but 3 targets each out of the 160. These 
three high guns were J. B. Pennington, of 
Tarboro, N. C., G. N. Fish and Mark Arie. 
On Thursday the shooters drew a real 
Pinehurst day. Twenty targets were sub¬ 
tracted from the 100 bird program and all 
hands went to work on the 80 with such 
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