The sun., 1872-12-24
FUN ON THE JERSEY COAST.
Exciting shooting Match In Lone Branch
Judge Van Doren and Little sam Spencer
Darkeniug the Sky with bird shot.
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Exciting Shooting Match In Lone Branch
Judge Van Doren and Little sam Spencer
Darkeniug the sky with Bird shot.
Correspondence Of The sun.
LoNa BRANCH, Dec. 22.-On Saturday
afternoon the Clarendon Shooting Club Of Long
Branch, comprising most OF the solid men of
Monmouth county, N. j., held a pigeon shoot
ing match on the Long Branch Course Among
those present were William and Walter Green,
James Newbould the Monmouth millionaire
farmer Harry Clayton Harry Thorpe. John How
land OF the Rowland House, John u. Humber,
the wel-known scenic artist Deacon Tobin, q
Maiden lane merchant Levi Scovcll, Joseph
Cooper, f. L. RIdgewav OF the New York Cen
trail Railroad, Dwight Newins, benjamin Laigh-
ton Of the Keystone House, and many others.
THE FIRST MATCH
was between John Meegan and Hart Tsight, for
$500 side, 25 birds, 10 yards rise, and 10 yards
boundary. The wind was strong and the dis
tance being unusual, neither marksIn An did very
good execution. The score was IA follows;
Meegan LOCO l. 10 0, III. %. o. o.
"fsiehtoi. .i,66.olOO,L 0o0i,Lo,0
walt and Bill Green then shot on the same
terms at IS birds. for tOO, the former winning
and Bob Lloyd and John Humber followed, the
latter being the victor.
THE EVENT OF TIE DAY.
But the event OF the day was the match be-
tween Judge A; q. Van Doren. the judicial lumi-
the proprietor OF the Glare ndon. some days
ago these doughty champions met aocide ntally
while engaged In q hunt after the Long branch
elepha ant, when the subject of pigeon shooting
came up. Little sam Spencer was in ono OF his
confident moods and asserted that he could out
shoot Paine or Bogardus OF any Of the rest Of
en-.
but III shoot n match with you with guns, at
pigeons, for much you please"
Little Sam wouldn't take water, 80 the match
was ade, and on Saturday both parties arrived
n
shooter manton shotgun rife, freshly imported
from New York ut n cost Of 80, while the Judge
carried an ordinary double barrelled shot gun.
The rise agreed upon was ~ yards, and the
boundary ~ yards, and each man was TO shoot at
rs birds.
THE SHOOTING.
About 1b0 persons stood outside the boundary,
and some twenty youthful marksmen we're on
the mi rtre for escaping birds. As the trap was
pulled for Little Sans hrst bird, he raised his
piece rapidly, glanced along the barrel, and
pulled the trigger. Away went the bird to the
outer barbarians, while Little Sam turned round
in perpleXity, and looking at his piece, eXclaim-
ed, Hang IL forgot the cap"
At the second discharge he scared his bird as
well a. the out-shooters and spectators, who en-
larged the limits rapidly from ~ 10 100 yards.
asserted that he had winged bird which was
more than Ltte Sam did. As - latter blazed
away at the sixteenth bird, John Troutman, who
acted as Judge, called "Tme,' and ordered tho
outsiders to move twenty yards further away.
The following Is the score
Van DorenaO, o. o. o. O. 0. o. o. o. O. 0. o. O. o, O. o. O.
| O, o, O-totAl,O.
Little sam spencer-0, o. o. O. O. o. 0, o. O. o. 0. o. o 0,
q, o, q, o, u u 0, O, o, ., O-total,O o.
The stakes were awarded to Judge Van Doren,
as he was suspected OF having winged a bird.
The little boy winged by Sam Spencer Will be
well cared for.