Kansas City daily journal. [volume] (Kansas City, Mo.) 1892-1897, 1895-04-25
VICTORS BY A SINGLE BIRD.
KANSAS cry GuN CLuR TEAM WON
TiiE STATE CHAMPIONSHIP.
The Winning Team scored fifty-two birds.
Closely Followed by the ~. X. Team
with Eifty-one Baseball. Rae
ing and sporting News.

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by selected teams OF four shooters repre-
senting each club taking part
II was Won by the team representing the
Kansas city Gun club composed Of H. H.
Durkcc, u. 5. Gordon, Joseph Underwood
and George Schroeder on score Of ~
out Of a possible &c. the team OF the .,
X. Gun Club, made up ~ j. Is: Giuinotie
lid Hickman, j, Lee Porter and James b.
Porter, finishing close second Win u
suose OF o. Three other clubs competed,
the stock Yards. Belt Limo. and Forestcrs,
all Of Kansas city, no clubs from outside
the city entering for she shoot Tho stock
Yards and Belt Line teams tied on score
OF y and the Forcsters brought up the
rear WITH 30.
a surprise to the talent which had picked
the o. ks rs sure winners, that club be-
Ing represented by a team made ~. of the
acknowledged cracks of the city, The Oh
reliablcs Of the Kansas city Gun club,
however shot In splendid form and gaining
a lead In the first squad held IL 10 the
finish, winning by one bird under the whip.
-Four marksmcn Of the twenty who took
part IN the shoot had the honor of tlglng
were j. II. Durkec and George schroeder,
Of the Kansas Citys and j. Lee Porter ana
James u, Porter. OF the @. *, Gun Club.
The shooters went to the traps in squads
of I'VE, one man from each club, and there
was great interest manifested by the large
number of spectators as the championship
contest progressed. The first squad was
composed of Guinotte, of the -. k.S:
Barse, OF the Stock Yards, Harrison, Of the
Forestors; purkee, OF the Kansas Citys,
ana Mem of the Belt Lines, The feature
Of the work Of this squad was the ine
His fourteenth bird was a rather easy
right quarterng incomor. which was lost
purely through overcontidence Harrison,
squad, scoring 13. Guinotte did not shoot
up 70 his true form, scoring but II birds.
birds. about the lowest score ever made
in a state team shoot. The score, when the
first squad had finished. showed the Kan
"a l..ai ~ 11a laT "a D. roo II
with the o. KS second.
For the second squad those who faced
KS; Charles Baldwin. OF the Stock Yardsi
t. Is. Hoover. OF the l0orestcrs. u. 5,
Gordon, of the Kansas Citys, and j. Il;
Winter, of the Belt Lines. IT was expected
that Lee Porter would regain some of the
pectation was well founded, for he made
sas Citys also killed II. so the latter team
was still one bird to the good. Taken right
Hoover. with 10, making the lowest score.
;, The third squad Vas composed Of Ea
Of the Stock Yards: l.. D. Russell, of the
Foresters: Joe Underwood, of the Kansas
Citys. and T. j. Smith, of the Belt Lines.
Again it was expected that Hickman would
bring the O. KS up, but Joe Underwood
stood him off each scoring u birds, while
Bridgetord and Russell were content with
10 each. With but one more squad to
shoot the score showed the Kansas Cltys
10 sun nave Il ltil Dl OIt DllL anu the
interest was redoubled.
The last squad was made up OF lanes
Il. Porter, for the o. KS; George stock
well. for the Stock Yards; +. L. SwiUney,
for the Foresters; George Schroeder for
The Kansas Gitys, and c. Mum, for the
Belt Lines. The o. KS had their cratN
edged that he would nave a hard task to
gain a bird on "Germany" Schroeder, who
mise proved to be correct FOR both Porter
and schroeder shot IN great form, killing
~ ttch ana leaving the hdhsaS CityS INC
killed II straight, but Porters twelfth,
a twisting driver, got away from him,
though hard hit. Schroeder lost his thir-
teenth and there was stll slight chance
for the O. rs, but Schroeder settled that
by graSsing his two last birds.
The birds We're not the best In the world
being decidedly mixed with some fast
flyers and n good many duhs which refuscI
tric traps did not work well and a good
deal "a, OF delay was oecasioned.
KANSAS CITY Gun .cLUR.
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FORESTER GIN CLUB.
]. S. Harrison..2 O1 222222 2212O-12
L,DH. Russell2 ! 0oOi& &602iii 10
H.; r. SwInney2 o % 2001000O2 o2-7
Most Of the shooters who were not on
teption 10 The target sweepstakes, Of which
entries, l.. z. smith. Lou Erhardt G'r}s Trof-
ter, Bennett, Dave Elliott. Barre and
Brown got the bulk of the money, In the
eighteen entries Killed the entire thirty.
rather a remarkable record.
The score follows:
Event No. ILL targets. Barre, 12: Err
b! hardi i5 norton TO- ~ l$i Brewer. 4 Pmmmer
mot 9. Trotter, first; Erhardt. norton
and Plummer divided second; Eicholr2
Rarre, Brown ana l.. c. Smith divided
Event No 12-2o targets. Erharit 10:
-; Brown, y; Higgins, Is; uckmcrg, ls;
I'r9wn Il; ,rummer "; Wilmot. M; l.. q,
Smith, ls Doctor, i Hubbard, IA, Enorr
Trotter Norton aud i. Elliott divided sec
Ond; Barre. Higgins and l.. g.. Smith dl-
yided third; Brown and WIlmot divided
Event Even No. 1870 targets. Erhardt is;
Brewer lG: Norton, ID. Ilummcr. n. Allan
II; Barre. IS Brown, 10; Rickmcrs y; Hig-
l.. 9. Smith, 10; Bennett, 10; Wilmot, II:
Bris tow, ~. -. Elliott, Brown and l.. O.
Smith divided first, Erhargt Barre and
YTuttrr divided second; Ilummar and vii
mot divided thirIi Brewer, Norton and
EristON divided fourth.
Event No, li-20 targets. Erhar1t
70; Plu amer, l6 Norton, %; iiintsghe, lt.
Scott, ~; Wilm9t IS; Trqtter, ~, Brown
4; Reel y; El}weli i5i i, /, g. SmiIrP, 20;
III; Wheeler, ~ Norton, Tr0tter ami l..
g. Smith diyiiel hrst; t,rhardr, second;
WAmot and Bennett divided third; Brown
Event Event No. $50 targets. Erharit
80. Pummer, q Brown, 30; Wllmot ae
J.. G. smith. 3o; BLACK 20; Higgins 2i
Scott, ~ Allen. ~ Fcrnkas p: Trotter
g; Barre, ~; Norton, ~, u, ELLIOTT -;
West, 30; 2iehol2. q; RicEmGrs, 2i;, Ben
West divided first, Wilmot and Trotter di-
yidel secondi Scott ana Barre divided
Event No. $50 targets. Trotter. %;
Keeuc 49, Erharit. II; Plummer. II; AL
len, 10; L. g. Smith. II Norton, ld, Elweu
IL; Barre 49, Brewer II; Myers lU, Brown
70. West II; Wlmot. 10: Peck, Is; Quarles
n Black II; Scott is Barse, n, sparrow
1s; Bennett, 49, TrotIer won first; Barre
That