San Antonio daily light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1886-1907, 1897-05-09
TRAP AND TRIGGER.


Government Hill Gun club, for the
Dupont trophy at so single targets.
This trophy is subject by its gift to
the State Sportsmens association to
a challenge every thirty days.
Barr and Thiele have both taken to
the pump-gun and both improved on
their scores last Sunday.
Lieutenant Whitworth and Joe
George will take in the Kansas City
shoot next week.
Some of our game dealers are buy
ing doves and displaying them for sale,
thus encouraging the wilful slaughter
of game out of season, when the birds
are laying and breeding. To these
dealers we would say: DO not take
advantage of a defective game law,
but give every encouragement to the
preservation of game especially when
such is killed out of season. By refus-
ing to purchase doves you will aid in
making the slaughterer's occupation
Improbable and he can't realize
enough to buy ammunition with.
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The San Antonio Gun club has taken
in several new members since the late
tournament.
The Powder House Hill and San An
tonic Gun clubs hold their regular
weekly shoots on their respective
grounds this afternoon. All the crack
cracks" will be there and the tar
gets had better be irratic, otherwise
they will be punctured by the unerr-
ing aim of the " good eyed" marks
men.
Lord Volbright'' has assumed a
regular "Sweepstake walk" since last
Sunday, all on account of a splendid
score which captured the first class
medal An attepmt will be made by
some of his friends to wrest the title
of champion" from the nobility this
afternoon, to all of which he gives no
heed, but promises to lead the charge
until victory is perched on his side, or
retreat in good order, and entrenched
later on.
Some of our leading gun cranks"
tween the national game and a target
shoot it is hard for them to choose
whihc to patrOnize.
Fred Gilbert came to the front in
the lincoln, Neb., tournament and won
first average for four days shooting,
with 942 per cent. Heikes was next
with 1913; Budd third with 92.5. Gill
bert won the Kings smOkeless event
on a clean score.
Harry Lands, one of the best shots
in the state, won the final contest for
the trophy at the Keystone Shooting
league of Philadelphia, on April "a.
This contest has been running for sew
eral weeks and a sliding handicap gov
erened the matches, which were at live
birds. Lands shot a steady race all
the way through and finally secured |
the prize.
William Lair won the Spring handi- |
cap of the New Utrecht Gun club, of |
Brooklyn, on April "a. He grassed 10 |
birds straight from the 20-yard mark, |
but was tied by ]. S. S. Remsen. In |
the tie Lair killed three straight and |
Remsen lost one bird.
George Work and w. S. Edey defeat |
ed Colonel Butler and T. D. Hooper in |
a team match at live birds at Weches- |
ter Country club on April "a. Work |
killed 81 and Edey 81 a total of 17S |
Butler killed 81 and Hooper So, total |
of 176.
Rola Heikes killed Is live birds |
at Lincoln, Neb., last week in |
the big event. Rolla gets his pump |
gun" in motion now and then on live |
birds, as well as targets. On the sec
ond day he made an average of $3.50 |
per cent. losing 10 targets in 23O shot |
at.
Captain John L. Brewer, of New
York, has expressed his willingness to |
shoot some matches with DIR. Carver.
of Chicago. Brewer states that he will |
shoot one match at 200 birds for 81 900 |
or $4,000 a side. or will shoot three |
matches, each at 100 birds, each match |
for $1,000 a side. What is the reason |
these two giants in the pigeon shoot
ing world cannot be brought together? |
The secret of Col. Pietys success
has been discovered. Shooting glasses
are therefore much in demand and !
hereafter, when a shooter makes a
poor score, he will attribute his bad
aim to the fact of having left his glass
es at home.
Mr. Charles H. Wetzel, of Sunbury,
Pa, was so much pleased with a
remedy which cured him of rheuma-
tism that he made affidavit to the fact
for publication as follows: This is to
certify that on May 18th walked into
Melick's drug store on pair of crutch-
es, bought a bottle of Chamberlain's
Pain Balm for inflammatory rheuma-
tism which had crippled me up. After
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