Morning journal and courier., 1888-09-13
THE NEW HAVEN GUN CLUB.

Opening oftHae Two Bays Tournament
 winners of the Prizes YesterdaY-A
 Large Attcndanee-Mnny Out of Town Guests.
 Yesterday was e splendid day for the
 opening of the two days tournament of the New Haven Gun club, at the club grounds on West Chapel street. There were ten events on the programme, but only nine were
 shot of. Considerable interest was mani
 fested in the tournament, and there was
 much rivalry between the shooters. Quite 8 number were present from out of the city. The various events resulted as follows: ! FIRST EVENT, American clay-First money, M. Clark, of Bridgeport second money, c. E. Longdon and Manlsy, of Dan- bury third money, J. A. Penn, of Phila- \ delphia fourth money, Frank Potter, D. W. A. Pack, of Philadelphia. SECOND EVENT, g blue rockets-First I money, J. Stanton, of Boston; second money,
 J. Wolsteneroft, of Philadelphia and Manley; third money, Frank Potter and Bowditch; fourth money, Hendee and w. Wo1stencroft. THIRD EVENT, 2 singles and pairs-First
 money, J. B. Savage, 0. E. Langdon, Bris-
 toI; Bowditch, Strong and L. Mitchell; sec ond money, J. Wolstencroft, of Philadelphia; M. n. Clark and Beers; third money, Penn, Stanton, Potter and Albany; fourth money, Childs and Hendie.
 FOURTH EVENT, 10 American clay-First money, Steery and Mitchell; second money, Manley, Stanton and Savage; third money, Bowditch, w. Wolsteincroft and Root: fourth money, Clark and J. Wolsteincroft. FIFTH TWENTY straiRhtaway bats, 21 | yards. First money, Potter and Stein; sec- \ ond money, Penn and Root; third money, Langdon and Gould; fourth money, Ames, Pack, Meshon, Van Buren and David Calla- han.
 | = qTxru pxrrrr-S y,air hIua ~roL FirsS ! money, W. Wolstencroft, Clark, Savage,
 Folsom and Mitchell; second money, Gould ! and Lan0don; third money, Albee, Root and | Yerrington; fourth money, J. Wolstencroft.
 SEVENTH EvENT-5 clay, bats and blue
 rocks (merchandiss prizes.) First prize, fish, pole and box Of cigars, divided between Swift of Boston and Bowditch.
 ! Second prize, canvas suit and belt, divid- ed between Mitchell of New Haven and ! Manley.
 Third prize, spring bed and rubber gloves, Stanton.
 Fourth, shooting coat and 100 loaded
 shells, Higby of New Britain.
 Fifth, cuff box, and 15O loaded shells, Frank Potter of New Haven. | Sixth, 5.pound keg of powder, J. H. Gould and M. H. Clark.
 Seventh, silver cup, Houghten of Rhode Island.
 Eighth, one-half dozen silver tea spoons J. B. Merahun of Norwich.
 Ninth, 800 paper shells, s. 0. Bartram oi New Haven.
 Tenth, box of cigars, divided between Tousey of Bridgeport and Tyler and Hanson of Hew Haven)
 EIGHTH EVENT. Twenty bats, 2 men team. First money, Swift and Stanton; second money, Mitchell
 and Langdon, Savage and Whitiock; third money, J. Wolstensroft, Gould and Smith ! fourth money, Warner and Whitney. The ninth event was the clubs guarantee match, with purse of $75. E. W. Yerring- l ton and Sterry got the same number of points ! and they tried to shoot it of, but they both | got in the same number of points again. First money of $25 was divided between ! them; second money of $15, Longdon; third money, $1O, w. Wolstencroft and Hendee; fourth money, $12, Swift, Stanton, Man1ey, Saunders and Smith; fifth money, $S, Mil
 Ter, Mitchell, Bowditch, Clark, Carney and H. Whitlock; sixth money, $5, Higbee and Potter.
 Theshoot will be resumed this morning at 9;30 o'clock There was large attendance yesterday. Among those present from out of town were W. H. Clark of Bridgeport, A. H. Ames and E. W. Warrington of Norwich, J. Wolstencroft, W. Wolstencroft, J. A. Penn and W. Peck of Philadelphia, H. But
 Ter of Cheshire, J. Swift and J. Stanton of
 Boston, and O. Stern and E. I. Root of Tol- land.