The Seattle post-intelligencer. [volume] (Seattle, Wash. Terr. [Wash.]) 1888-1914, 1895-12-31
1T GOES TO TACOMA.
The Medal for the Pigeon Shoot
Lost by One Bird.
SHOT OUT IN SNOW AND WIND.
Capt. Game surprises the Sporssmen
With His Long-Range Work
some New Rules Tried.

The Seattle-Ta coma medal for wing
shooting went back to Tacoma sunday
after q brief stay in this city. f. A
kimbau was the one so fortunate as 10
outsaoot +. ?. Mir. the holder. but even
at that he won by the close score OF u
10 Y out OF a possible ~. Neither Kim
bail nor Miner shot up TO their average
work, but that does not affect the facr
that the man from the City OF Destiny won
in a perfectly fair and legitimate manner.
Miner was unfortunate n having birds fall
dead ont OF bounds.
The score would indicate that the shoot
ing was perhaps worse than il really was.
Allowances must be made for the weather
IN shooting as well as in other sports. All
day long there was a strong south wind
blowing across the traps and up 10 noon
there was a dlsagrseable snowstorm 10
contend with. To make things more I'M
certain, some OF the birds were slow an1
some fast during the morning. and from
that on nine out OF ten came out of the
traps with a rush and went whlZziaS
straight away, assisted by the wind. The
sport was so exciting that il was decided
TO change the rules as TO rise and
Boundary" The American Shooting As
ISOLATION rules make the boundary seq
ment of a circle. drawn with a fifty-yard
radius from a point ten yards beyond the
center trap, and the rise twenty eight
EGlGS LOT IA-SauSc lIStciAaS nc
boundary" was reduced to thirty yards
and the rise increased TO thirty yards.
After witnessing the shoot there is no
reason for even q skeptlcal person 10 Won
der why the ducks never stop from one
end of Mercer slough to the other, or
make a way port the entire fifteen miles
OF Squak slough In the face OF weather
that made home a decidedly comfortable
place, fully twenty lovers of the rod and
gun got up in the morning and crossed over
10 West Seattle. where they pulled the trig-
gers for over three hours in slush and
snow. AT the first let up OF the elements
the shooters rejoiced, and went on with
stil greater gusto.
There were some surprises, the why's
and wherefores of one in particular that
the talent" has not figured out How
did Capt. Game kill so many birds? He
was never known as a shotgun man al
the traps Could ii be that he was a
''ringer?' Those were the questions that
We're being discussed last evening, and The
CAPTAIN will be surely handicapped in the
future If he continues TO kill g en-
mile off Then Joe Hardy came up to the
scratch, and in an off-handed manner Kept
on making stra,ghts until he was looked
upon as a ''phenom." His record shows
that he missed only one bird daring The
day. something quite remarkable. eonsid-
ering the surrounding conditions. tie said
last evening that he guessed he would
have TO go to the Skagit flats next week.
'Papa" Mckee and Dick Stevens were the
only ones TO make seven straight in one
match 1t was reported last evening that
as Mckee knocked one after another he
became so interested in his work tnat he
chewed three inches off MS cigar and tired
to smoke the ashes.