The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1893-03-28
TRAP SHOOTERS BIG DAY.
The Championship Shoot to Open In
Savannah To-day.

the Championship Shoot to Open in
Savannah To-day.
The championship shoot of the Manufact-
urers' Trap Shooters Association will begin
to-day at the Chatham Gun Clubs grounds
on Twelfth street. under the auspices of the
Savannah Gun Club. Sportsmen from At
lanta, Jacksonville and Baltimore will take
part il the event
The shoot will begin at $50 o'clock this
morning. Electric pull and expert traps
will be used, and 800 will be given away
in prizes both days. A solid gold trophy,
emblemetic Of the state championship, will
be awarded tomorrow night to the best
Georgia gunner among those participating.
There will be an exhibit of guns, powder,
ETC., in a tent erected by the association.
Mr.. C.. II. Townsend OF the Forest and
Stream arrived last night to write up the
shoot for his journal
To-day's programme is as follows:
Event Ten single targets, entrance
81 50.
Event 2-Ten single targets, entrance
81 so.
Event 3-Fifteen single targets, entrance
50 80. One man up. Unknown traps and
angles.
Event Alive pair, entrance 81 So
Event 5-Ten single targets, entrance
81 80.
hV6uL U-rllbeSu sluElo baTR6B5, entrance
50 so. One man up. Unknown traps and
angles.
Event TEN single targets, entrance
81 so.
Event 8-Twenty single targets, entrance
50 90. One man up. Twenty-one yards
rise, two barrels. Unknown traps and
angles.
Event 9-Fifteen single targets (surpIus
shooJ). Price OF targets.
association Ft1ias "a
vised by c. w. Dimiok are to govern the
position Of the gun, load, rise and allowing
of another bird.
The handicap will be used only in the four
ten bird events. There will be no haudi-
cap in other events, everybody shooting on
even footing The handicap is as follows:
Everybody starts each day shooting, IN first
event, at known traps and known angles, at
the rapid fire system those who win or tie for
first money, shoot first; in the next teu-bird
event, at unknown traps and unknown an
gles from traps l, 2 or 3, or 8, or 5, &C
cording TO where he is standing as he walks
down the score, he having three unknown
traps to shoot from always the indicator to
be turned at each shot; those VINO win or
tie for second money shoot second in the
following event at known traps and I'M
known angles; those below second place are
not handicapped. Thus shooter is classi-
fed from one event to another according to
the score heis making.
The two fifteen-bird events are shot as
follows: One man up at time, standing in
the center OF five traps, unknown traps and
angles. Indicator turned at each shot. Those
who break fifteen straight receive $40 each;
the fourteens, IS each; the thirteens, $6
each; the twelves, IS each; the elevens, 81
each; the tens, SO each, and the mines, 50
each.
The twenty-bird event is shot as follows:
One man up at a time, standing in the cen
ter. five unknown traps and angles; 81 yards
rise for twelve bores and % yards rise for
ten bores; both barrels can be used, second
barrel 20 score same as first. Those who
break twenty straight, receive SIS; the
nineteens, 3d. the eighteens, 81; the seven
teens, SO; the sixteens, 81; the f1f-
teens, Sc; the fourJeens, IS; the
thirteens, 81; the twelves, So.
IL there is any surplus, accrulng from
entrance money or what has not been paid
out of the 800 which the association puts
up each day, it will be shot for in the
surplus shoot-ffteen targets, known traps
and known angles, rapid firing, entrance
price of targets, open only to those who
have participated in the two fifteen and the
tweuty-bird race, to be divided as follows:
Seventy per cent. Of the total amount to
be divided 80, 30 and 30 per cent. pro rata
among the three highest places, and 80 per
cent. to be divided; 50, 30 and 20 per cent
among the three next highest places All
events except those specified will be divided
49, 30, 20 and 10 per cent.
The individual state championship race
for Manufacturers Trap Shooters Assooia-
ton trophy is open only TO resi-
dents of state: fifty single targets, known
traps and unknown angles; ties to be shot
of at twenty-five targets; to become per-
maneDt property Of winner.
AS will be seen this will make a varied
and interesting programme, combining all
the different styles of inanimate target
shooting, and doiug away with all pooling
and combinations, which have been the
baue Of shooting tournaments for a number
of years Also, the presence of the expert
does not materially affect the interests of
the poorer shot, nor is the expert so handi-
capped that he has no possible show of
holding his own. This association has care
fully considered the interests Of all, aud
thereby hopes to create a renewed interest
in trap shooting among the trap shooters of
America.