The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1886-09-19
:. or the 2esh and 9th of September. Over $500

es on the 26th and 9th of September. Over $500
in prizes offered
The telegraph match between the North Side and
New Albany gun clubs will take place next Saturday.
The bench show at the State fair win probably have
more noted dogs exhibition than any show of the
kind ever held in the State.
Tomorrow the $50-a.sde match between two Fort
Wayne and Indianapolis shots will take place at the
first named city 1t will be the feature of the opening
day of their three-days tournament.
The citizens purses the recent tournament of the
Marion Club proved the greatest feature of OF the
matches. In the first twenty height entries re-
ceived. and twenty-one in the second days purse
Mr. L. Scott. who resides the river south of the
city, shot at flock of ducks one day last week, kill
ing and wounding eleven. In order to get them all
he was compelled to shoot three more shots at the
wounded ones.
The practice of members of gun clubs Withdrawing
from the shoot. because they have made off score
in singe-brd shooting, is having its influence
orssr members, who do not desire to attend club
contest and commence with good number of
Dr. J. B. Morrison the badge of the North Side
Gun Club at their last shoot by of % out of
possible 25. Several other good scores were made,
as follows: Tutewiler, q; Comstock, 20 Van Blar-
com and Morse 70 each, and Casper, %. Such
scores in the telegraph match will prove hard to
beat
The match between Messrs Budd and Stice has at
last been shot off, in which the former by one.
bird This the fifth time they had met for
tional honors and in each of the contests Budd won
each killing fifty birds without miss This will
probably lead to a match for large of money,
it said Stce will not permit such defeats from
man to stand against his heretofore excellent record
Considerable ill-feeling has shown itself among the
local shooters since the recent tournament The
claim is made that the crack shots of the city had
pooled, and in this way captured first and second
money. If such were the facts there is nothing dis
honorable about it, it is pracced all the couh
try at tournaments Again, these two gentlemen
handicapped to twenty-five, while others stood but
eighteen yards, and thus placed at considerable
disadvantage. Another for persons disposed to
grumble is given in the disposition of the two citi
zens purses. 1t understood that $50 and all en-
trance money added to be divided after the pay
for the birds had been taken out. but instead per
cent of the total amount was held out for field
penses thus reducing the amount several dollars in
favor of the management
Several of the trapshooters who were talking of
the various kinds of backbirds used at trap shooting
the other evening the of Pennsylvania aud
Market streets, noticed colored man standing
by, with whewash- brush in his hands. Not think
ing him interested the conversation drifted to the
Marion Club tournament, where the Peoria blackbrd
was to be the target. Nothing thought of it
until the first day after the shoot, when the coored
was found on the grounds, with large coffee
sack One of the boys recognized him, and upon ask
ing him what he intended doing with the sack, he
plied Why boss is goin' to git enough of de
blackbir you kill to make pot-pie." He remained
until the first trap was sprung. when he opened his
eyes and said Boss whar do blackbirdf Upon
being shown one, he exclaimed: Oats me- /
left good Job of whitewashing to out here for
a mess of birds, only to find piece of black mud
with no feathers"