Sacramento daily record-union. [volume] (Sacramento [Calif.]) 1875-1891, 1880-08-07
OUTDOOR ADJUSTMENTS.
ITEMS OF INTEREST TO THE LOVERS OF
FIELD SPORTS.

I'm this department, as the bead indicates we pro.
pose 10 make record of current sporting events
Communications to the paper concerning such
matters should be addressed to the outdoo,
Amusement Department ~
TIE HANDIcAPpING OF Mr.. ROBIN
SON. Considerable feeling has been gener.
| ated by the action of the Forester Club in
handicapping Crittenden Robinson for its
| September wing shooting tournament. We
judge that MIR. Robinson, by his silence,
countenances the growing The San
francisco press is greatly exercised about
1t, as if some great wrong had been done,
and local paper has seen fit to take
up the battle against the Foresters, and
declares IN common with others that
handlcapping at State tournament is un-
heard of. We fan. to see wherein State
| tournament differs from a club tourna.
ment open to all the State. We have al
ready pointed out that the Foresters have
right to do as they please, and it is in
the mouth of no one to object. If the
Agricultural Society gives its purse to that
club for distribution, it does so with the
| full knowledge that the club rules and
edicts will prevail. If it don't like them.
1t can withdraw its purse, we presume
| But our present intention is to show that
handicapping Is not unusual, though for
that matter presidents have little weight
| with us. We prefer what is right, and, as
all things must have beginning, there
must be time when there is no precedent
However, out of many precedents we pro-
pose to cite lew against the position OF
Mr. Robinson's friends.
The Butte County Sportsman's Club.
May 10Th and 20th, 1880, open to all the
State, handicapped Crittenden Robinson
five yards, and he did not object so far as
we know.
The same club has shoot October 9th,
and no ore is handicapped. Why? Be-
cause though free to all the distance is 30
yards, and hence there could be no handi-
Gaping beyond that. Prior to that the
club has shoot October LIST, we believe,
and there is no handspring, but it is for
club prize only, is limited, and hence the
necessity for handicapping does not exist.
At the Louisville tournament, Nav 3lst
to June 9Th, Mr.. Robinson was handi
capped, and that was State tournament.
by the way, In every sense of the word.
Let us see how the check. rein was put on
there without growing We make ex.
tracts from official scores: First day. Nav
3lst, handicap free-for-all. The distances
were from q to IS yards among twenty.
eight sportsmen, and Crittenden Robinson
was placed at rs yards, with six others
Kleinman, Turrell, Dow, Pollard, Jones
and Tunstall- he got all his birds. and
in shooting off divided the first money
with four Others.
Second day, June lst-Handicap. free
for all. with Robinson and four Others at
26 yards, against 81, %, %, "a and 25 for
twenty-one other men, and Robinson got
all bis birds, but was beaten in shooting |
off, but not then till the last, for he shot
down five ties, being beaten on the fifth. |
The same day he shot in a class match
with score or more of others at 25 wards |
and was beaten.
Third day-Handicap, free for all 80
men IN and two of them put at 80 wards. |
one Of whom was Mr.. Robinson, and Rob. |
inson, after shooting down four ties, was
beaten.
The fourth day he shot with 25 men at
26 yards and won first money. The same
day he shot in ground trap handicap at
% yards, Bogardus 80 yards. against
81 Others at various lesser distances |
In that match Tunstan insisted on shoot
ing at 30 yards. He was booked for 20
only. Robinson got out of the 10 BIRDS
bat was beaten. The same day he shot in
a free for-all, 26 yards and also in a match
at Is yards, and lost in both, and thessame
day shot in 25-yard match and divided
the purse with Britton and Lee. The same
day he shot in 26-yard match and GOT 4
out of 5, and was beaten.
Tho pexi DIV, ba shot ~, o1o ~ !
rs yards, and divided the second money,
and III an l8-yard match and took third
money, and at 10 single birds at q yards
killed 8, and shot ties of at 26 yards and
lost. We have thus given the result of
his shooting, showing when he won and
when he lost, and that handicapping
prevailed. The club indeed handi.
capped all its best matches, and the right
existed for it to do as the Foresters have
done.
In this connection San franciscan ~
says that State Wing Association is to
De formed at once, and will apply to the
A gricultural Society for its permission to
conduct State tournament. Good. Let |
t be done. State Association is needed.
Efforts to form it have frequently been
made, and San Franchises reticence or
Indifference has invariably thwarted the !
cheme. We trust the new effort will sue :
iced. Let us suggest, however, that if a s
State Association is to be formed it should
,e done at once, and that every club in the !
State have timely notice of the assembling !
# delegates that there may be full repre- t
entation, and that all clubs have equal a
lights as to voting III the convention, with I
nut regard to their age. There should be a
,erfect fairness, and no attempt on the !
'art of any section to control by force OF !
as the eficier cy of club is in a
10 wise dependent upon the length of its :
membership roll. As matter of fairness
lso to all interior clubs, it would seem +
hat a State Association should hold its ..
rst meeting at the State Capital, where it 8
proposed its first tournament shall be
ED. This will insure full attendance :
rom the interior clubs. One thing more
lust be borne in mind-no State Associa. g
ion will be tolerated by the people which ID
lay be formed by few individuals it t
,ust be a representative body, in which
he local clubs throughout all the State :,
hall have part as clubs. Any other pro- '
edure will result in half dozen State
fact in as many as indi- 4
iduals choose to form.
ODD NOTES By THE WAY. \
a bicycle school has been opened in San CT
rancisco. II
Santa Claus is in training at Agricultu- ;,
Il Park in this city, and every day or two y
speeded, shows up well and makes hand =
,me time. ~ ~
Wilson Davidson, the indefatigable Sec !,
'tary of the Pioneer Coursing Club, is at :
resent on his way to Scotland, where he 81
arposes spending vacation of six or a
ght months. I'll
The 0lympidn, a prime good sporting :,
onthly OF San Francisco, has entered T.
pom its second volume. 1t deserves and 81
i'll win success in the future as in the az
lst. "a
The six-year-old stakes of the National 10
ssociation of Trotting Horse Breeders, to
, trotted at Albany in September, has e
led with Maud S., Trinket, Noontide, q
harley Champln and Fleming Girl. This Y Y
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