Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1900-05-18
TRAP SHOOTING EVENTS
LOCAL SPORTS WILL TRY TARGETS
AND LIVE birds NAY 30.
Curiosity Aroused by the Approaching
Handicap Target TOurna-
ment I'm June.

Local SportSmen are awaiting with much
interest the shooting tournament to be held
all day May 30 at Stubener's. near Bladens-
burg. An excellent program has been ar
ranged. including events both for high guns
and class shooting Targets will be shot at
in the morning and live birds during the
afternoon. 1t is also possible that one or
two matches will be made previous to Dec
Grafton day, and be shot off at the tourna-
ment Among the cracks who are probable
entries in both the target and live-bird
events are Uncle Billy Wagner. James NJ.
Green. Ed. Mills, who has lost none of the
experiences that distinguished him several
years ago, when he was the most pro-
nounced regular at the traps in this section:
G. B. Wise. Ralph Nutting, w. B. Nickel
den, ]. A. Brown. William Steel, Arthur
Mattingly and George HELEN.
There will be an event for guns Of 10
gauge and smaller which will be interest
ing. as being the first shot off in the north.
The tendency of field sportsmen toward
small-bOre guns in preference to the stand
ard 1Z-gauge. particularly for field shooting,
is becoming more and more pronounced. In
this connection it will please local sports
men to know that Mr. Wagner possesses
the first 2S-gauge gun manufactured in this
country. 1t has just been turned out by
Parker Bros. 1t weighs six pounds, is
hammerless, has 26-fnch vulcan steel bar
rels. and with twenty-four grains of Du-
points powder and five-eghths of an ounce
of No. shot, placed 225 shot with each bar
rel in standard target at thirty yards, or
30 per cent of the number of pellets in each
she'll
Several local shots are considering partic-
ipatinS in the Interstate Association grand
American handicap at targets at Interstate
Park, Queens. Long Island during the
week commencing June H. Considerable Gu
rloSlty exists among trap shooters generally
over this event. as it Is an experiment To
handle handicap even at targets is al
ways difficult. and most often it fails The
system usually followed in handicapping for
such events is that of giving an extra al
loWance of targets to the weaker shots.
running from one to twenty or so. This is
at best unsatisfactory, as 1t IS very difficult
TO adjust handicaps on an equitable basis.
Another system. which IS somewhat better,
is that by which an allowance of a certain
number of misses as breaks is made to
those less expert than their opponents.
Inc interstate Association therefore, has
decided to discard both of these and 10
handicap by dis'anc" only. The tourna-
ment Will begin June u and conclude June
15
The three chief vents In the order named
VIII be the preliminary. the grand Ameri-
can and the consolation handicaps. In the
first and last 500 will be added to the
purse. and in the second 500. All three
Will be high guns and not class shooting
events, and the money will be divided In
each according to the number of entries.
The winner of the grand American will also
receive a handsome silver trophy presented
by the association.
Besides these there will he twenty-five
events during the meet al fifteen and TWEEN
ty blue rocks, alternately, with $50 added
in each case. All these purses will be di-
vided according to the Rose system at the
IA ito of $500
The committee on handicaps consists Of
W. r. Hobart of the American Field, Jacob
Pentz of Shooting and Fishing. Bernard
Waters of Forest and Stream, VIII K. Park
of Sporting Life and Elmer E Shaner of
Plttsburg.