The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1890-08-04
CRACK SHOTS AT BIRDS.
SOME OF THE VICTORIES sAVAN-
NAB MARKS MEN HAVE WON.

Gun Club Men Preparing for Another
Contest With Brunswick-Ihe Els
tory Of Gun Clubs in savanneh-rhe
Clubs That Have Lived and Died-The
Forest Citys the Only Surviving Or
ganization-Its Ups and Downs-The
Trophies It Has Won
The Forest City Gun Club is practicing
for its next shoot with the Glynn Gun Club,
Of Brunswick. which will take place Mon
day, Aug 1s, in Brunswick. The team will
leave Savannah Sunday morning, and will
arrive in Brunswick that afternoon.
President Kieffer has appointed ten of the
crack shots Of the club TO practice regularly
until the shoot comes off. They are: G. s.
McAlpin, c. b. Westcott, John Rocker,
John Woeltjen, John Reideman, George
Campson, E w. O'Connor, d. :Entelman,
w. r. Curtis and c. A. Lamotte
A record will be kept Of their practice
and a few days before the shoot President
Kleffer will select the team according to
their respective scores. Mr.. Kieffer will
act as captain of the team.
The Waycross club has been correspond
| ing with the Savannah and Brunswick
clubs, endeavoring to persuade them to have
the shoot at Waycross instead of Bruins
wick, in which case the Waycross team
| would enter the contest The probability
is that Waycross will enter anyway
The Forest City Club is preparing for the
| contest with spirit, animated with determi-
nation to wips out the memory of its recent
| defeat with fresh victory.
sAvANNAH's CRACK CLUB.
Without doubt the Forest City Gun Club
is one of the most successful organizations
| a in nd nhah W
all the clubs in the three states, Georgia,
South Carolina and Florida. Since its or
| ganlzatlon. over six years ago, its existence
| has been an almost uninterrupted record of
success. In the last five years it has prob
ably won more prizes than any two clubs in
| the three states.
President Kieffer keeps scrap book of
newspaper reports Of the doings Of the club,
and a MORNING NEWS reporter turned its
| pages with him the other day. The club
was organized in 1888, and every year since
| then has been the winner in one or more
Interstate contests, besides in number Of
| smaller contests.
In 1885 and 1884 it won several contests
| At the shoot at the opening of the Scheutzen
park in 1885, the sweepstakes were divided
by the Forest City aud the Chathams an
| other Savannah Club.
In 1885 it defeated the Brunswick team
at st. Simon's Island for the Ligowski
medal, offered by the manufacturer of
| sporting goods of that name. The Forest
| City team made a score of rs birds against
the Brunswick teams score of 49, Imme-
diately on the return of the Forest Citys
they were challenged by the Chathams, and
| the contest resulted in a score of 70 for the
Forest Citys against "a for the Chathama
THE INTERNATIONAL MEDAL
| In 1886 the Forest Citys' won the interna-
| tloual state medal in Savannah against the
| Brunswick, Macon and Jacksonville teams
| and the teams Of the Suburban and Caat-
| ham clubs Of Savannah In October, 1897
| during the Charleston gala week, the Forest
| City team shot against number I Caro-
Ii a clubs for the sveepstal1es offered by
| the Charleston merchants, and carried
| everything before them, winning two-thirds
Of the prize money to one-third won by all
the other clubs.
In 1888 the club won the diamond medal
offered by the National Gun Club, making
| the highest score in three out of four con-
tests, and the medal is now worn by Charles
| WestcOtt.
At the Atlanta exposition in the fall of
1888, the Forest Citys' shot against num-
Der of other clubs and won first, second d
third prizes, and everything else in sight.
The two fine guns which they brought back
are now used by two individual members
Thomas Martin has fine oil painting which
was one of the trophies.
In the shoot with Brunswick on st. 81
mons Island last year, the Forest Guys
won two medals and a gun.
The club has number of other trophies
won in different contests The champion
flag offered by q. s. McAlpin at the opening
Of last season, and contested for by six
clubs, was won by the Forest Citys, and is
now fl own at the club house whenever q
shoot is going on.
THE FOREST CITYs' OFFICERS.
The club is in a most prosperous condition.
and has ffty-three members. 1t entered on
its seventh year in June with the following
board of officers:
President-E j. Kieffer.
Vice PresideDt-F. j. Jaugstetter.
Secretary and Treasurer-C. A. Lamotte.
| Executive board-C B. Westcott. D.
Entelman, w. r. Curtis.
The club is arranging for a grand live
bird shoot this fall to which the Georgia
Carolina and Florida clubs will be invited
They will endeavor to make it one of the
biggest shoots ever held in the south, and
prizes will be offered from S25 to 500. The
Forest City Is now the only gun club in
Savannah. A few years ago there were
three clubs, the Chatham, Subur-
bans and Forest Citya. They were
all good clubs and there was
great deal of rivalry. The Chathams and
Suburbans both ceased to exist over a wear
ago. Inc death or some OF the leading
members, the removal of others, and a gen
eral lack of organization caused their de-
cline. Another gun club for Savannah is
not improbable, but at present the Savan-
nahs only Forest Citys hold the field against
all corners.
There are dozen or more gun clubs in
the state. Atlanta, Macon, Augusta.
Rome, Brunswick, Mi len and Waycross
all have good clubs. South Carolina and
| Florida have DerhaDs n dozan oluhO
together and some fine shooting may be
expected this fall at the expositions and
fairs.
AT the last meeting of the Forest City
club President j. E. duBiguon of the
Brunswick club was elected an honorary
member.
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