New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1911-03-11
TRAPS BUSY At GARDEN
Cow Puncher, in Disguise, Has
Some Fun with a Gun.
HITS TWENTY-0NE TARGETS
Darling Wins Dry Fly Casting
Contest, While Held Scores
Under Barrier.

Tran shooters and anglers held the centre
OF the stage at the Sportsmen's Show yes
terday In Madison Square Garden. The
preliminaries in the rap shooting tourra-
ment continued, and a number of good
scores were made I'm spite of the uncertain
light. The crowd continued TO enjoy the
many attractions. and the aisles were full
to overlooking most OF the afternoon and
evening.
There was a bit Of fun in the kinder
garten hour, when from TO IL O'CLOCK
novices were instructed In the handling OF
n gun at the traps 4 raw lot OF recruits
was on hand yesterday. including Two
chorus girls. the treasurer OF Joe weber
Theatre, two truant high school boys
Young clergyman and German-Amerlcah
rabbit hunter. Jack" Tanning and Lester
German we're patiently tryng to keep the
novices from destroying III" scenery anu
themselves instead OF the clay disks wheH
a long. lank person came in and asked IL ne
might take a chance
He proved to be worse than the rest ana
Tanning rang a bell and shouted "Schooi
Is closed" but the stranger begged Tor an
other chance. declarin. that h. had got the
range. He then broke twenty-one out on
twenty-five clay pigeons. The top notch
novice was identified as "Suspender JacA
McGee. a one-time cow puncher.
CAPTAIN Jack Bonavita, in a one-arneu
shoot. broke five pigeons out OF NJ
teen. when his arm got tired. BonaVtd
right arm was swallowed by lion named
Baltimore
Steve Van Allen has already secured
dates for 1912 repetition Of the present
show. Inquiries have come from Chlcaso'
Boston. Philadelphia and Pittsours 10
transplant the show, and. II not the whole
show" the shoot. TO those cities. From one
OF them came an offer OF guarantee
against loss Chicago would offer lar
greater field for trap shooters than New
York To discuss plans for the future
dinner t. being arranged by the exhibitors
and management. TO be held tomorrow
evening
Irving G Mccall, chairman Ct the ex-
ecutive committee of the Boys camp. re-
ported that over eighteen hundred persons.
representing twenty-three states. have WIS.,
tied the exhibit. At the conference Of the
camp directors last night II was agreed to
make the Boys Camp exhibit a permanent
organization. and it Is assured that its ex-
tent and importance next year will be at
least three times as great as az the present
show.
l. s. Darling won the dry fly casting con-
test for accuracy, with r. J. Held second,
J. T. Mitchell, third; J. l.. Kirk, fourth,
and z. VI Gill, fifth. The conditions called
for one cast at each of five buOys placed
D.. 80, 40 80 and GO feet from the platform.
one demsrt was charged for each failure
to make the fly float for at least one Sec
ond.
r. J. Held won the contest for distance
under a horizontal bar six feet from the
water and thirty feet from the platform.
Mr.. Held carried off the honors. with a
cast OF 81 feet inches. A. j. March, OF
Orange. y. j., was second with 81 feet II
inches. while J. L. Kirk finished third with
20 feet inches.
In the three-man team shoot at the traps
the scores were as follows:
Danoury Comm team-C. II. DAILY, 43; c.
". Stevens. &c. and +. I. Clarke, A.. Total,
Bridgeport Comm team-E Southey. 50;
106
New Haven team-W Rice. q; DR.. Funk,
IS, and Dr.. Bishop. IS. Total. 100.
Jersey City team-H. J. Burlington, 81; Fl.
II. Shannon, 81. and E. Halinger, %. Total,
iO3.
North Caldwell IN j. team-G 6. Fran
cisco, 35; l.. Stager, 80. and W. Kussmaul.
g. Total 10i.
Miss Annie Kicker Of Lancaster, Penn,
entered the regular tournament yesterday
and broke 81 targets out Of 80; Other scores
were as follows: F: D.. Kelsey, IS; F.
a; T.. D. Borden. c. II. DAILY, f. Grosbeck,
II: Burlington. A. Betti and f, G. SoIthey
all recorded 43; G. H. Pomelly. ~; G. l..
Lyon. Al: ]. S. flaming. A. Edward Viffet,
Al: c. F. Hamlin. Il: G. II. King, 49, f. A.
Wilson, 20; c. Won Lengerke, 40; George
Percy, 30.
Eighty individual scores in all were re-
corded in the preminaries for the finals on