The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1901-04-09
TO SHOOT IN ENGLAND
AMERICAN TRAP SHOOTERS CHAL-
LENGE BEST BRITISH EXPERTS.
Team of Ten Men. with Trip, of In
dianapoIis, as One of the Experts,
TO Cross the Ocean i'm July.

NEW YORK, April Sat a meeting held
i'm the Astor House to-day the terms OF
the challenge issued by the American In
animate Target Trap Shooters TO the trap
shooters of England. ireland and Scotland
were agreed upon and a draft for $500 was
forwarded. along with the conditions of the
match, TO A. III. Gale, honorary secretary
and treasurer of the Middlesex Gun CLUB.
England The $500 is to bind the match.
which will be for $500 side the remain
der of the money to be put up in Mr. Gales
hands by June Is. Thomas A. Marshall.
mayor of Keithsburg. ILL.,, presided at the
meeting, which was attended by all of the
team chosen to represent the United States.
OF which Mayor Marshall will be the cap
tain. The other members are: r. o. Heikes.
Dayton, o.; f. s. Parmelee, Omaha, Neb. !:
Fred Gilbert, Spirit Lake, Ia; c. w. Budd.
Des Moines, Ia; w. r. Crosby, OFalon.
ILL.,: Chauncey Powers. Decatur. ILL.,; Jack
Tanning. Jersey City; ]. A. r. Elliott.
Kansas City, Mo-, and r. r. Merrill, Mil
waukee. Wis. In addition to these there
will be three substitutes-namely, +. e.
Trip. indianapolis; o. Won Lengerke. Chi
oago, and Clarence c.. Nauman, of San
Francisco.
in England recently was instrumental in
bringing about such match. also
present at the meeting, and 1t was decided
that the team should leave New York for
England July %, and, after having a
weeks practice in England, that the match
should be begun on Aug. IL and continued
from day to day until decided. The teams
are to be of ten men side, any ten Amer
leans against ten men from England. Ire
land and Scotland. Any number of sub
stitutes may be put I'm on each side, but no
change will be permitted during any one
contest
The match is to be decided in the best
three-out-of-fve contests, each of which is
to be at one hundred inanimate targets
Der man or one thousand targets per team.
to be shot at in many successive days
as are necessary to decide The targets are
to be Ely targets, thrown from Ely traps,
Inanimate Bird Shooting Association rules
to govern, with the following exception:
Targets TO be thrown not less than forty
nor more than sixty yards. and not lower
than six feet nor higher than twelve feet,
at a point ten yards from the trap. One
judge is to be selected by each team, and
these two are TO select a referee. In case
the judges disagree the referees decision
is TO be final. The shooting is to be con-
Quoted in squads of six men, three from
each team, the fourth squad TO be made
up of one man from each team and four
substitutes, two from each side.
The Americans are TO use one barrel
only. and are to be allowed one and a
fourth ounces OF shot, struck measure, No.
1106. Dixon's or American Shooting ASsoca-
ton measures. The Englishmen are to
have the use of both barrels and l.. Il. S. n.
rules TO govern charge of any shot Any
length of shell and any charge of powder
is allowable, 12-guage guns only TO be used.
1t is the general opinion of those present
at the meeting that these conditions will
be acceptable to the British gunners AMI
| the Americans are very confident that they
will return to this country victorious.