The Worcester spy. [volume] (Worcester, Mass.) 1898-1904, 1899-08-23
AN EASY WINNER.
Griffith Outclasses
Forehand at
the Traps.
LATTER WAS IN POOR FORM.
Many Prominent Shooters
Attend the Tour
nament.


with E. c. Griffith yesterday afternoon
at Sportsman's Club park, and in the
| 100 bird match race broke only 70
| targets against the Pascoag mans a.
The event was the chief centre of in
terest of the all day tournament of the
| Sportsman's Club, and aroused consid-
cradle interest.
From the start, Forehand showed
| lack of his old time form and Griffith
| started strong, breaking "a of the first
70, against Forehand's 20. The race
| was lost beyond recovery, when 80 birds
| We're thrown. Forehand appeared to
realize that it was losing game and
| shot lndimerently during the last half
| of the race, displaying form that be-
| trayed not particle of his well known
| ability with the clayS
| OF the second 25 birds, Griffith
| smashed 20 against Forehand's %. On
the third 20, Griffith increased his lead
| to by breaking 20 against the Wor-
cester mans IS, and in the final division
| IL was the best score Forehand could
! put up against Griffith's "a.
The latter half of the race was unin-
| teresting and slow, and appeared to in
\ teFest F'orehand about as much as it
| did the spectators, for he, as well as
| they, realized that the race was as goo>
| as over after the first rs birds were
| thrown.
| Griffith is hard man to beat, and the
style OF shooting in the race, which was
| known traps and unknown angles,
suited the Pascoag man. to the letter,
/ While Forehand Is admittedly a better
| man at unknown traps.
| Forehand has done practically. no
shooting this season, and made little
| preparation for the race. He is far
from anything like his usual form, and
rarely shot in poorer shape in his life
than he did in yesterdays match.
The tournament, of which the race
| was one event, was by all odds the most
| successful shoot that has been given by
a local club since the famous ladies'
day OF the Sporsman's Club five years
ago. Out of town shooters began flock
ing to Sportsman's Club park in num-
| bers that fairly took the breath away
from Secretary Walls, although he was
expecting good attendance.
In spite of rain and thunder showers
that We're intermittent throughout the
| AFTERNOON, the entire program was run
on with the exception of the last event
The guns were cracking away until it
was too dark to see, and the last of the
shooters did not return from the traps
until after Z o'clock Failure to pull off
darkness, tied up the S25 prize for high
est averages and another tournament
| VIII be necessary to determine the win
ners. Many of the shooters favored con-
Guiding the program this morning, but
number of candidates for good place
in the money contingent were unable to
remain, and the highest average money
is hung up to be again competed for at
a tournament to be arranged within a
month.
The shoot proved one thing conclus-
lively. If the Sportsman's club is dead,
as has been claimed, it is about as
| lively corpse as ever went unburied.
With fair weather, yesterday would
have marked the most successful tour
nament that was ever held in Worces-
ter. There were more prominent shoot
ers than have ever been assembled at
the traps in this city, and a score of the
men that handled a gun during the day
between showers are the most promi-
nent men in the sport in this section of
the country. There is scarcely a promi-
Inent shooter of New England that failed
to put in an appearance.
The work of o. R. Dickey of the We'll
lington club was nothing short of Won
derful when weather and light condl-
tions are considered. He missed but two
birds in the entire program of lao tar
gets. In mixed events he broke SO
straight and then sqSared away for 81
more without miss. Wheeler of
Marlboro was a close second and shot
close to clean score Jack Hull Of
| Meriden, Conn. was in few events,
but was not up to form.
| In the competition for the highest
general average. which was to have
been decided on the scores Of events,
| five to ten inclusive, Dickey was well in
| the lead and Wheeler, Eager Smell, Lee
| roy, Griffith. Within, Allison, Federen,
| Hoyle and Davis were candidates for
the money contingent. By mutual con-
sent the competition will be shot out at
another tournament to be arranged
| within a month.
4 In many of the events there were six
| squads entered, and in ala nearly 1000
| targets were thrown. Among the promi-
tnent out-of-town shooters entered
/ were;
/ E. G. Griffith, Pascoag, R. l.; o. R.
Dickey, Wellington; H. M. Federen,
lJr., Boston: William Allison, South
Weymouth; B. Leroy Woodward,
lCampello; F. B. Within Whitinsville;
L. W. Campbell, Woonsocket, r. l.;
lH. w. Eager, Marlboro; Jack Hull.
Meriden, Conn; Harry Winchester,
Shrewsbury; F. N. Hoyle, Sutton; f. A.
IInman Pascoag, r. l.; H. w. Balm,
| Providence, r. l.; H. e. Getchell,
| Woonsocket, r. L.; D. A. Warren, Up
ton: Hon. N F. Reiner Centredale,
Ri; C. w. Burbank. Leominster; NJ
F. Roberts Rutland, VT; Dwight Saw
lin, w. B. Stacy, G. w. Spaulding
i Charles Crabtree, Gardner; M. A. Cut
Her Fitchburg; Nick w. Parker,
Shrewsbury; Charles Porter, Pascoag,
R. l.; H. N. Frye, Boston; NJ H. Coz
fin, Whitinsville. 4
! Following is the summary:
10 targets, egular-Dickey, Federen,
Leroy, Hoyle, Vermont 10; Allison
Within, Eager, Hull, Griffith, Burbank
Sawin, Cutler, Davis, Parker, Wheeler
STACY, 3; Campbell Reiner, Kinney
Nichols, 8.
10 targets, regular-Dicl1ey, Within,
Eager, Hoyle, Parker, Wheeler, Fede-
rem, Allison Hull, Griffith, Inman,.
lGetchell, Burbank, Forehand Davis o;
Leroy Campbell, Balm Reiner Sawin,
Williams, s.
i 20 targets, unknown-Dickey, FEEDER
en-, 20; Allison, Leroy, Eager Burbank,
Sawin, Cutter, Forehand, Smell, 10;
Hull Wheeler. Remer Parker Hoyle,
u.s.
10 targets, unlSnown-Dickey, FEEDER
en-, Campbell, Wheeler, Vermont, Sawin,
Parker, 10: Allison, Leroy, Eager, Hull,
Griffith, 1nman, Remer Burbank, Crab
tree Nichols, 0; Within, Davis, Balm,
Getchell Cutter, Williams, Coffin, Smell,
rs.