The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1906-03-25
CRESCENYS WIN AT THE TRAPS
BOSTONIANS LEARN HOW THEY
SHOOT AT hay RIDGE.

for the YisitOrs-Men From the Hui
OutcIassec but MakeG Good Uphfl Fight.
Walter j. Hin, DR.. Gleason and some other
members Of tho Boston Athletic Association
came on from the Hub yesterday and tried
conclusions with a team Of shooters romNh
Crescent .Asbletic Club OF Brooklyn. The
Boston men can shoot anf they Thought thar
they would Lave an easy time picking up
some prizes from the New Noon men. they
will return to Boston to-day sadder ana wiser.
The Crescents beat them by % targets out o I
800 shot at by each team. This may not seem
much of a margin. but the Crescents won
largely through good management. Their
men took the lead at the start anu lhen kept
IL throughout the match.
There was another thing about the match.
too, that will give the shooters from the Hun
something to ponder about and 1t is that, man
for man, seven out of the eight on the Cres-
cent team beat the visitors. and the only
man from Boston who managed TO beat MS
rival was Farmer, who made the lowest
score for the visitors. He made Two more
than Bedford. tho lowest man on the Crescent
team.
This was the fifth time that the Crescents
and the Boston Athletic Association haVe'
met at the traps. and the Boston men have
vet TO win a match. They may be success
full on their own grounds at Boston on APPLY
but the Crescent shooters will dispute the
right to the contest until the last target has
been broken.
Formerly ten men have been on a team,
and this year the Boston Club wanted teams
OF six men. To this the Crescents objected,
but they were willing TO compromise, and
eight m-n faced the targets for each CLUB
as they we're trapped at Bay Ridge yesterday
afternoon.
The shoot is a friendly one, but in order
TO make il interesting each man on n team
- + III A4n L. ali Thta attn tG IN
purchase a trophy for the winning team. and
in addition 10 this the Crescent club offered
a prize for the member of the Boston team
that made the highest score. This was won
by j. b. Paine. a son of the veteran yachts
man. Gen. Charles J, Paine. Mr.. Paine
scored 85 out of a possible hundred.
A special car conveyed the visitors to the
Crescent club grounds in time for lunch and
afterward they spent a little time practising
at the traps. Charles j. McDermott. chairman
of the athletic committee, was on hand early
ooklng after the arran gements. and he soon
had thing moving br risky. Us Tanning was
selected as the referee and C. A. Sykes OF the
Crescent club and Walter l.. Hill OF the Boston
club were the iud ges. The first squad that
went out OF the house was Or. Gleason OF
Boston, l.. NJ. Palmer. Jr., Crescent; 7. c.
Adams, Boston, and +. Is. Stephenson. Cres-
cent. And that was the order in which they
shot.
The light was a hard one, as the suns rays
reflected from the snow shone in the eyes OF
the shooters and made it hard for them TO see
the sights on their guns. 1t was noticed be-
fore the contest began that the Boston men
mostly used reporters and automatic guns,
while the Crescent men were content TO use
the regulation double b~arrelled shotguns.
1t was 2:is o'clock when the first squad
marched out of the house, and they were fol-
lowed by a crowd of rooters who were anxious
4 - l-.,- .-aEN yuHN H. Ilnnaan M M
the first man to face the traps. He was the
best man on the Boston team. He wore a
derby hat. took of his coat and went out into
the cold in his shirt sleeves. and Just put on a
paper waistcoat TO keep the cold chills from
reaching vital points. He carried his gun
easily and shot as though it was an everyday
affair with him. His first shot he plunked
fairly and the olny target fell in %splinters on
L. Nj. Palmer, Jr.. followed. He is as tall
With a viSor that meant business, He killed.
too. Then came T.C Adams. anolher boston
f6r nyiHg wn no T tSs m bSeast y the Se'ir unicorn 20 S of the
Boston Athletic Association. Another Kill
and F. B. Stephenson, Jr. followed represent
that in some way shielded his eyes. He
killed and on the first round the scores were
Gleason and Palmer killed again and Adams
C wss E t = hard an lo the ft thru le Iqu aHar 1es a0'f Hs
shot under, and cored a miss. adams toe;
round and II tie iifth adams pissed again:
missed his ninth and twentieth and went
out on the first string Of rs with 20 kills; DR.;
Gleason broke e; Stephenson ;. P3bs Waat broke shot oil Of a tba
visitors and only, got away with ls. This
made the score when the first four men had
Boston 40. This was a lead OF four for the
nome team and that lead was never over
The second squad then faced the trans.
This squad was gad Or, s; 4 sd Ellts w snd e. and d C 9, !.
Sftnedn OF w we'll Ii and &c each man killed on the
first round. On the second Grinnell lost. but
fourth round ali Killed and on the nth South,
on the sixth and RSiG on the seventh Grinneii and
Clark sho, under d and t l9st' for The ne, eighth aSh nn and md
tenth Ellis lost, southworth and %tirinneil
eaSh had k! Nd ;: Clark q re br sdie u i, and 3 d. Ellis His
shot at by half the teams tho score stood:
The third squad followed, These shooters
were !; B; Paine and VI Farmer Of Boston
Cents. Kryn was in hne form. He shot
truly, each time and in his string only missed
his thirteenth bird. which was a hard left
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and Lott lost 4, so that the totals for the
the Crescen Is had gained and the totals were
Crescents, 1870: Boston, ITO; showing the
Crescents in the lead by 20 targets.
The Crescents had put Brigham on the last,
SQUAD In order to brace things ZIP at the end
and Il was a wise move. The teams were
D.. Z. Hallett and C.. NJ. Howell of Boston
and +. 7. Bedford and II. NJ. Brigham for the
Crescents. The Crescent men We're, again
in good form. Each man broke %, while for
Boston Hallet broke IS and Howell 20. Howell
attracted some attention because he was
the only man on the two teams who went
TO the traps with a cigar in his mouth. and
he pulled vigorously all the while, This
squad scored Crescent, "a. Boston. rs; so
that on the f1rst quarter OF the match the
Crescents had won on each squad, and the
totals were, CreScents, ia; Boston, 1i8, a
lead for the Crescents Of 20.
Every squad of the Crescents outshot the
visitors in the second round, and al the end
of the first half the SCORES were, Crescent,
3s7: Boston, 1902, II had taken an hour and
Ave minutes to shoot the first 500 targets.
On the first twenty-five OF the second
half the first squad scored Crescent. Is;
Boston, SO. on the second SQUAD Boston
scored 80 and Crescent IS. This, was the
first time the Bostonians had made a gain.
The third squad scored Boston, -; Crescent, 3s,
and this showed another gain for the visitors,
and IL they kept on. that way they would
win the match, In the fourth squad Boston
scored Al and Crescent SO. another gain.