The record-union., 1898-02-23
.FEuDNER DEFEATS STELLING,
THE STRONG BREEZE HELPED
THE PIGEONS.
And They Were Corkers-The Score
Was S3 for Feudner and
rs for Ste1ling.

| Henry Stelling, the Davisville trap
shooter. will not take with him to the
klondike either the scalp or the ducats
of Otto Feudner, the Olympic Gun Clubs
champion. as he had hoped to do. This
much was determined yesterday when
the young men came together at Snow
flake Park in their 100-bird shooting
match for 500 side, in which Feudner
secured both the honors and the stakes
by killing SO birds to Steling's 15.
The result was a disappointment to
! the several hundred spectators, for it
had been taken for granted that the
winner would score at least 80 out of
| his 100 birds. and several bets were
made that this would be done.
| But, taking all things into consid-
Grafton, score of 80 out of 100 was next
to impossible with such strong, swift
birds as We're trapped yesterday, aided
as they were by a stiff wind that blew
right-quartering over the grounds and
which not only added to the lightning
| like speed of the birds that escaped the
rain of shot but helped many to get
beyond the line of flags though mortally
wounded. Indeed, there We're very few
birds that escaped scott free, most OF
| them falling just inside or outside the
| high fence that surrounds the grounds.
| Feudner was coached by Peter Murphy,
| noted New York trap-shot, who is up
| to all the kinks and quirks of the game
and saw to it that his principal did
not lose a point that might be gained
| through any technical shortcomings on
the part of the enemy. For instance,
when Steling followed Feudner to the
score in the first round and killed his
| bird in good shape Murphy challenged
| the bird. l.. 5. Upson, who acted as
! referee (and made a good one. by the
way), asked the ground of the challenge,
and Murphy replied that Stelling's left
| foot was two inches over the score when
| he shot.
| The score" was wooden peg driven
! into the ground, with scratch in the
dirt alongside. Stelling put his toes by
| the side of the peg, and possibly they
| did reach an inch or two beyond it, but
neither he nor anyone else (unless 1T was
| Murphy thought anything of it. Con-
! sequently when the latter made his chal-
! lenge Stelllng said nothing but accepted
| another bird which the referee allowed
| him. This one he lost, SO he started off
with a goose-egg on his score card.
| Later on Stelling brought down bird
with his first barrel and opened his gun
preparatory to leaving the score. The
bird was making it's last flutter when he
| concluded to give it the contents of the
second barrel He did so, and this lost
him the bird, for the wide-awake
Murphy challenged it on the ground that
| Stelling had no right to break his gun,
then close it and shoot again. The chal-
| lenge was allowed under the rules, and
| though the bird had been killed it was
scored a miss.
These things evidently served to rat
| tie the Davisville man, who was not so
! schooled in the finesse of the game as
those accustomed TO shooting IN
matches where all possible advantage is
| claimed by men shooting for money.
| Neither did Steling seem to notice the
| fact that when his second was engaged
| in chasing wounded birds the gentleman
| from New York would clap his hands
vigorously. Some may have thought
he was applaudng the retriever for
his skill (and perhaps he was), but
there We're veterans present who under
stood that the hand -clappng served
more to encourage the pigeon in get
ting toward the fiag-line Besides, Mr..
Murphy was not pulling" for Steling,
but for Feudner, and he had no enthu
siasm to waste on the man from Dav-
| isville.
However. it is doubtful if Stelling
could have shot up with Feudner, al
though the difference in their scores
would have been much less had he
l, Il
One fact was quite noticeable-Stel-
ling relied mostly on one barrel, while
F'eudner rarely failed TO give the bird
both of his loads. even when it was
killed stone dead by the first. Stelling
used his second barrel sixty-one times,
and Feudner ninety times. Where
two barrels were required to stop fast
flying tailers Feudner was the quicker
of the two, and that was where Stel-
ling lost several birds.
There were no very long runs made
during the match, the longest being one
of eighteen and one of twenty by Feud-
per. The men We're even in the ninth
round. each having lost two Feudner
lost his eleventh, and Stelling his four
teenth. and they We're even again.
Then Feudner lost his fifteenth and
seventeenth and at the end of the first
quarter Stelling had one the best of it,
having scored twenty-one to twenty for
Feudner.
In the next twenty-five birds Feudner
lost but three, while Stelling lost five,
and the first half of the race found the
score thus-Feudner ~. Stelling 50.
From the fiftieth to the seventy fifth
Feudner lost but three, while Stelling
lost five, leaving him six birds behind
his adversary.
In the last quarter of the race both
did their poorest shooting. Feudner
scored but nineteen Of his twenty five,
and Steling but sixteen.
Following is the score in detail. The
figure denotes the use of two barrels.
and the dead out of bounds. Where
birds were seen TO fall just over the
fence they are scored herein as y.
though the official scorer may have
put them down as misses:
Feudner ..... II *221 s2s22l a2*222f2222-2D
12222222222l 022220# 222222-22
Observation-Disclosures
12222222ol 2222s 0*2222020-19
Total
Stelliug . 21l0i112I10211121221*2-
0ll+l2oo122.22l2 l221I20il01-lS