The Morris County chronicle. [volume] (Morristown, N.J.) 1877-1915, 1903-07-10
MORRIS CLUB
BEATS NEWTON
Big Crowd Witnesses Second
Of Series Of Shoots Be
tween These Teams
ONLY TEN TARGETS APART

The Newton Gun Club, one of the
best in the State, came to Morristown
Wednesday, with twenty-five men
and were taken into camp by the
Morris Gun Club of this city. The
match, which was the second of
series between these teams, was
close one from the time the first squad
farced the Expert traps and gave the
order to pull The victory of the
Morris team was won by the very
narrow margin of ten targets, each
side shooting at $50 blue rocks. OF
these the Morris Gun Club broke 339
while the visitors shattered but 329.
The visitors from Newton arrived
here on the ten O'Clock train and were
met by a delegation of local gunners
who escorted them in carriages to the
Club grounds in Collinsville. Here a
program of "sweeps" had been ar
ranged and in these the Sussex county
visitors showed up to good advantage.
Most of them were shooting for the
first time over Expert traps, the
grounds were new, the surroundings
strange and under the circumstances
their showing was particularly good.
At one O'Clock the Newton team was
taken to the Mansion House, where an
elaborate dinner was served. They
were escorted by thirty members of
the local team and expressed them
selves as more than pleased with the
luncheon. They then returned to the
club grounds and another sweep"
with thirty-six entries was shot off.
Then the club match was begun,
and again was it demonstrated that
the man behind the gun is very I'M
certain quantity. This was equally
true of the visitors and the hosts.
Several of the most expert of the
Morris team made scores which caused
them to blush while others, whose
careers as marksmen have but begun,
shot "better than they knew" The
Newton team was afflicted in the
same way. Judson Gum, one of the
winners of the ''Oakley Cup" presented
the Newton team by the famous
target destroyer and man who is
counted upon by the Sussex contin-
gent to "kill'' at least twenty on off
days, managed by hard work to get five
birds. This was true, also, of Ellie"
McClusky, shooter of the same class
as Gum. There were no such marked
drops on the part of the local team,
though there were more smaller ones.
The match was shot under the Sar
gent system, three traps being used
and five birds shot by each man from
each of the five positions.
The traps worked to a charm, and
threw the rocks with speed and at
difficult angles. This did not deter
such old timers as Morford and Kyle,
of the visitors, and Fulford of the
local team, from making good scores.
Resh, of Newton, made the highest
score of the day, getting twenty
three out of possible twenty-five.
Mr.. Resi- is a new shooter, having
learned how to handle gun but few
months ago 1t was his best score.
Dixon, of Morristown, fell to fifteen,
because he was shooting gun strange
to him and one that did not fit.
The agreement between the clubs,
is to shoot as many men on the home
grounds as the visitors bring with
them. That accounts for the fact,
that there were a number of poor
marksmen on both sides. 1t is a rule
of the Newton club to permit as
many of its members to shoot in club
matches as desire to do so, and that
spirit was entered into by the gunners
from this city.
More than two hundred people wit
messed the match contest in the after
noon, some of the most prominent
citizens of the place being on the
grounds. Scattered here and there
through the crowd were many ladies,
who seemed to enjoy the sport as much
as did the men who accompanied them
The victory over the Newton team is
great feather in the cap of the Nor
ristown team and has induced several
good shots to join the,local shooters.
The membership of the Morris Club
now numbers several from Rockaway.
Mr.. Hoagland of that place Wednes-
day did his share to win for the local
team, as did Mr.. Dram.
The scores are as follows
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