The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1897-01-24
ar rHE Love rsLAsD Traps.
Crescent A. g. Defeats the Garden .City
Tenm-GNd.rrieeve Beats Jenpings.

Crescent A. g. Defeats the anrden CITY
Tenm-Giidersieeve Beats Jenuings.
with the most un favorable weather. the teams
representing the Crescent Athletic CLUB of
Brooklyn and the Garden City Gun Club met
yesterday afternoon In q match shoot at clay
birds upon the grounds OF the former club at
bay Ridge. which resulted In . victory for the
Crescents by nineteen birds. The shooting as
whole was exceedingly good. considering the
wind. aud In the opinion OF many Of the guests
present. q remarkable score would have been
made had the wind not been too high. A few
ten-bird handicap sweepstakes were shot after
the main event, In which honors were about
evenly divided. The scores:
First Event Team match at twenty-five targets
crescent 4 = 70 Gun CUE schsnek Rem.in. 70,
"Slss %S!.s H'i%siS1 Si. X S.a 10; SRarf..
sys .rrs 10 civ Gun ~ aubs T. Lawrence q; n Floyd
q. te.p's,nj 49, }: i: Wood III y y 6ssti. L
second @asndicsp sweep.sfs. al ten targets
each, Known traps and snslss. Albert r. isn, allow
scratch. Grant Norman. allowance one.7 Floyd
QUE. laS Sns Allowance iwo b. srsss
2 es n 81 e. "a mS aS g. f. e. 81 W
70 "a srso u N a%rsnes nise .w siow
D. Hosrman. allowance one. .; L. C. Hop
inird Event-sano conditions n. T.. Lawrence.
y f B. 4, asSae. allowance one & s. D. Brscs allow
fsse ,w allowance " D. four s. Ms sS0
:" nST g. vine Sns aowance S
j.. L. Lawrence. allowance four. o; L. c. Hopkins.
fosssS S;sn.. condition. B.ocs, .llGwssnss
sen scratch, :; 8. hoffman, allowance, two, Z: ":
.s5so C. L sSS Will HS.tos.
ance three, q: l.. G. Hopkins allowane. four Z.
Known % tss., un.%S%n snsss y. s. E:n'sn' II;
Grant Sinh SG'%Se Il O. 9 qss. targets
each expert rules 1 s. Esm,,n l ~; % ws,.e s
sI.n rap: .s a. a.:ss:
i5j werIeman, Is. sykes, ia! Lott II; hoffman. 10.
In the match race at TWENTY-FIVE live bird.
and tall traps gun under. the elbow until bird
is on the wing, also use Of one barrel only. he;
at Dexter PARK. the result was in favor
started of in the lead BY scoring the ,arst
three birds In grand style. while, Glider;
sleeve missed his first ,o ,To and scored ID
Jennings's three. At the end OF the tenth round
both men were on even terms, as Gildersleeye
nings having missed nve straight. In tho
fifteenth round Gildersleeve led Jennings By
nsS, 0 round dc Of fFS SVo saw each man xii four
while the last ana deciding round resulted In
which increased his lead TO three. The scores:
c. Frank Gildorsleevc. 10; John II. Jennings, IL.
only u fcw members OF the NOW ltrecht pun
Club took part yesterday afternoon In the regu-
lar semi monthly liye-bird shoot OF tho organ
ization. which was held At Dexter Park. As
the handicspping committee has not as yet
CONT leted It's work all hands shot from tho rs
yard mark. their scores to count in Averages
for yearly prizes. John Gaughen had high
score IN the club shoot with nine kill, to his
credit while q. Furgueson fell in to sec
ond place with eight. Four other men
shot during tho main event. as sweep
stake was also Included. the conditions be.
ing miss and out. In this John Herman and
e. Frank Giidersleeve divided the money. both
having n clean score. Another feature OF the
days sport WAS the shoot-on for the class Q
prize Of last year which rested between DIR. f.
q. Parr and +. q. Frost, VINO had made n Ito
score for the trophy. As yesterday wasthe first
time these men had come together this season
n decision had to be reached. Both scored seven
In this event; then they shot at miss and ont
II resulting in n victory for DIR. Parr IN tho
third round. Ono swrepstake followed. sum
mary:
First Event-Rcgular monthly live bird shoot at ten
birds each for yearly class prizes John Gaughen, W
Cornelius FUR tucson n; DIR q. PARE a D. o. Frost.
2. Frederick A. Thompson. q; John Herman guest.
10; {. Frank Giidersl-evr tRu.st l0 John Jennings
lguestl, Withdrew in SECOND rounl Jonn knebel
tgu,stl. withdrew In SECOND round
S-cond Evrnt-SwecpstSkesa At nve live birds each,
class shooting. Gaughcn. 8; Thompson, 4; DR..
Moore. 4; Brown, 4; Uiiders,cave, 4; Seover, 4.
Kncbcl, 3: Jennings, y; Herman. Y.