The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1901-01-19
A Gun Club
TO Start.
To
Bang MerriIy
Soon.
~ HE latest proposed innovation :,
local sport is gun club. Al.

u ready the matter has bee,
threshed out by number of enthus.
asts and number of traps obtained
The idea is to establish a club on the
line of the Reliance, Olympic and San
Francisco Gun Clubs. The members
will meet for shooting purposes AT
least once a week when shooting at
live and inanimate marks will be in.
dulged in. The great difficulty is in
securing a suitable ground for which
a space of three or four acres will be
necessary. Another important essen.
tial is that the ground selected possess
a sky background, for If it be backed
by hills, trees or like obstacles its val
ue from shooters standpoint is con.
siderably discounted.
The matter is being vigorously taken
hold of and it is expected that in the
course of week some definite action
in the matter will be taken. The
project is assured of the support Of
local breechloader men as body and
as that class of sportsmen numbers
a goodly crowd the club should speed
lily become one of Honolulu's foremost
sporting institutions.
The following extracts taken from
proposed code of rules to govern the
new association will throw light on its
intended operations, especially in re-
gard to match shoots:
INANIMATE TARGETS.
A puller or pullers shall be appointed
by the management, whose duty It
shall be to see that the trap or traps
shall be instantly sprung when the
shooter calls "Pull' and shall be
placed in such position that the
shooter will have no means of know
ing by his actions which trap is to be
pulled. In single target shooting he
shall pull the traps as indicated by "a
trap pulling Indicator, or other means
which may have been provided by the
management
All matches shall be shot from three
or five traps set level. three or five
yards apart, in the segment of circle
or in straight line. When in the
segment of circle the radius of the
circle shall be eighteen yards.
All traps must be adjusted to throw
the targets a distance of not less than
40 yards nor more than So yards
The elevation of a target in its flight
shall not be more than IL feet nor less
than feet.
In single target shooting the rise
shall be: Eighteen yards for 1O-gauge
guns, 16 yards for 12-gauge guns, IA
yards for IA and 16-gauge guns, 10
yards for 20-gauge guns
In double target shooting the rise
shall be: Sixteen yards for 10-gauge
guns, IA yards for 12-gauge guns, II
yards for IA and 16-gauge guns, II
yards for 2o-gauge guns.
No gun of larger calibre than 10
gauge shall be used.
In single target shooting only one
barrel shall be loaded at a time and
the cartridge shall not be placed in the
barrel until after the shooter has taken
his position at the range
A target to be scored broken" must
have a perceptble piece broken from
1t while in the air. A busted" target
is not a broken target. No target shall
be retrieved for shot marks
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Stokes, Biddell, Morse, Davies. owens,
Lansdale. Irvine and another
Ihe Scotch team at Makiki will be sub
stantially the same as last Saturday and
Will probably include osborne and Cock
burn. The Barbarians who oppose them
are under the leadership of Mr.. Beard
more, who is ably seconded by Mr. Sin
clair. These two players have been do
ing great deal of work lately in beat
ing up tagging recruits to the Seeker
standard, and deserve a vote of thanks
from all the clubs for augmenting their
ranks.
THE RETIRED LIST.
Mr.. Fiddes is about again, but his re-
coVery promises to be somewhat slow.
Goudie is gradually recovering from the
e1ects OF his severe shaking and is do
ing as well as can be expected.
D. w. Andersons retirement is the lat
est addition to the Scotch teams misfor-
tunes. He will probably not play again
for some weeks.
The following will represent Scotland
this afternoon against Mr.. Beardmores
team: Goal, Fennick; backs, R. Ander-
son. j. McGil1; halves, Lennox, Cock
burn, osborne; forwards, Munro. Kay
Boyle. Guild and Cation.
The eleven captained by b. F. Beard
more is made up as follows:
Messrs. Baird, Gibbs, Singlehurst, Wal
dron, Beardmore. MCLEAN, B. Clark, Sey-
mour. Wilson, Sinclair. Greenwich; re-
serves, p. Lishman and Manase.