Omaha daily bee., 1898-07-24

on the Pappio. a few have been shot on
the island, too, during the last week.
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II has been decided to hold the fall shoot
ing tournament of the Dupont Gun club on
September 81. % and %. Some OF the
details OF the affair will be arranged by the
committee in charge during the coming
week.
Frank Fogg cut quite a caper at Billy
Hardin's shoot last Thursday. He got In on
first money in every one OF the ten events.
In four OF them he shot fifteen straight and
in the other six he shot fourteen out of
fifteen, making a score of 144 out Of a pos
sible $50. He was jogging with Luck on
her blind side, for every time he missed a
target all the rest did, the consequence be-
ing that he was in on first money always.
The Dupont Gun club had a team over at
the Hardin shoot with the intention of
carrying off the prize, but owing to a lack
of entries the event was declared off. The
boys shot in the individual events and
made nice scores.
There will be the usual varied program at
the weekly meet of the Dupont club this
afternoon and quite an attendance is ex-
pected.
The party bound for the Big Horn country,
consisting of Judge Ives, Frank Gaines and
his brother, NJ. A. Hall, DR.. Conner, Charles
A.. Goss and Judge Keysor, got off last
Wednesday. Some OF them will be back in
three weeks, and others will not return
for six weeks.
While Billy Townsend was in a philo-
| sophical mood the other day he declared:
1.-THE popular cutlery against the expert at
tr%ap-shooting events this year is not only
| likely to bar the professionals from many
| such gatherings next year, but Ia also 60
ing to make 1t hard for an amateur expert
to put in an appearance at some OF them.
The paid expert, or rather the professional
| expert, Is frowned down upon by the am
| ateurs, not so much on account Of his be-
ing a professional, but chiefly because he
Is more expert than they are, has more OPP
portunities for practice and is therefore far
better fitted to capture 1.-The bulk Of the
purses than are the big majority of the
amateurs. This fact has been demon
strated hereabouts. For this reason pro-
fessionals and manufacturers agents are
gradually being barred from taking part in
many tournaments, or at least are barred
| lTOm uOluS anything eNCepJ SuOOlluS lOI
targets only. The result has been that
amateurs have turned out well at several
such tournaments, for example that at
Sioux City, but only to meet the same old
fate-to be skinned by their more expert
brethren who belong to the amateur class.
1t is only a question of time, therefore, be-
fore another wall goes up from the
amateurs, who will soon find that they need
as much protection from the expert amateur
as they do from the expert professional"
In this connection a new handicapping
scheme has been suggested and has been
tried with success at some of the eastern
resorts. The experts have been placed or
scratch and they allow all the others ar
extra target or so handicap in the ten and
fifteen birds events, according to ability
shown, and two or more in the twenty and
twenty-five target events. AS soon as 0
man shows he is receiving too much handi.
cap, and the score will soon indicate that
he should be promoted and have his handi-
cap cut down. The scheme has worked
very satisfactorily in small events and il
would be an interesting experiment to see
how 1t works in a tournament.