The Worcester spy. [volume] (Worcester, Mass.) 1898-1904, 1899-07-17
Big RACES PROMISED.
Some Rare Sport To Be
Seen In Worces,
ter Soon.

Some interesting races are promised at
the grounds of the Worcester Sportsmen'
Club in the next few weeks. The secre-
tary A. w. Walls, has arranged FIVE
men team race between teams from the
Worcester Sportsmen's Club, Providence
Gun Club and Woonsocket Gun Club. The
race will consist of so birds to a man.
Secretary Walls was at the shoot of the
Woonsocket Gun Club in Woonsocket
saturday and arranged the race The
GATE has not been selected, but it will
take place in two or three weeks. All ar
engagements for the race have been left to
the secretary of the Worcester Sports
mems Club. who can handle details OF
such events about as well as ANYBODY in
charge of details for shooters events.
On the same day a special race of 100
and M. H. Coffin of Whitinsville. both
members of the Worcester Gun Club. The
system or shooting has not been agreed on
by the contestants. The men agreed on
the number of birds, and that the race
should take place the same day as the
team race between the Worcester and
Rhode Island clubs.
The two matches promise a day of tar
get shooting better than any that have
taken place in Worcester for a long time.
The Rhode Island trap shooters will come
70 TINS city on morning train and will
pc taken in charge by representatives of
the Worcester Sportsmen's Club and es-
corted to the grounds There will proba-
ply be other events for the shooters, so
that the entire day will be spent at the
traps.
Mr.. Walls had a talk with E. C. Grifiths
OF Pascoag, r, l., who recently CHALLENGED
Charles n e. Forehand of this city for a
lV8-bird race. Mr.. Griffith is willing to
abide by the terms of his challenge. but
through some error of publication the
entire conditions of the challenge were
not published Mr. Griffith included in
fha - .I,.N
naming unknown angles. His challenge
10 the Worcester man was for 100-bird
race for any part of 800 at unknown an,
giles. Mr.. Forehand was not aware of the
fact that Mr.. Griffith named unknown an
giles as the system of shooting, and when
ne replied accepting the challenge he
named unknown traps as the style of
to the acceptance, as he named the con-
ditionS, and thought Mr.. Forehand should
accept them in their entirety or decline to
answer the challenge. 1t was a mistake
in which neither of the shooters was to
blame, and had Mr.. Forehand received
the full terms of the challenge he would
undoubtedly have accepted them without
alteration. Mr.. Griffith informed Mr.. Walls
that his challenge is still open on the
terms he originally named, which call for
unknown angles
Mr. Griffith is willing that the match
take place at the grounds of the Worces-
ter Sportsmen's Club
Mr.. Walls wound up the events at the
Woonsocket shoot by winning a sweep
stake in which the best shooters of Rhode
Island were entered. It was a race at
1--WE pairs, and was an extra event Mr.
Walls broke four pairs straight and the
first bird of the fifth. He also got into
the money on several OF the regular
events.
He received in behalf of Worcester tran
shooters an invitation to take part in the
Rhode Island interstate shoot, which
takes place in Providence July 10 and 20
r. G. Root, secretary of the Providence
Gun Club, under whose auspices the shoot
will be held, is making extensive prepa-
rations for the tournament, and looks for
two days of excellent sport before the
traps. From correspondence he has all
ready received from trap shooters of Mas
sachusetts and Rhode Island, he is conf
dent that the number of guns at the tour
nament will be close to 100, and will in
clude the best guns in this section of the
country Several Worcester shooters are
making preparations to attend Mr.
Wells says the sport is very active in
Rhode Island. The shoot at Woonsocket
Saturday. was enough to convince a, tran
shooter of that. There were about 81 ems
at the shoot, and the men were ONLY too
anxious to jump into anything in the
sweepstake line.