New-York tribune., 1912-03-07
NEW YORK LOSES SHOOT.
Beaten by Philadelphia Team at
the Sportsmen's Show.
TWO BIRDS TELL THE TALE
Fourteen Year Old Girl Shows
Skill by Breaking Thirty
four Targets.

After an elimination contest that lasted
the greater part OF the afternoon the inter
city match between picked teams from
Philadelphia and New York City trap
shooters was settled yesterday at the
Sportsmen's Show in Madison Square Gar
den, and Philadelphia won.
Some nineteen members from various
clubs In both cities faced the traps before
the teams were formed AS a result. ten
men were picked to represent each city.
The teams shot in squads of five. or two
squads for each city. The FIVE highest
scores OF each ten men counted as the team
score.
That the contest was attractive was
proved by the fact that. although the sup
per hour generally has seen thinning out
OF the spectators. nearly everybody re-
mained to see the match The representa-
tives OF each city were as follows: Phila-
delphia, A. B. Richardson, n. l.. David, J.
B. McHugh, II. w Kahler, J. T. Robertson,
F. J. HeinIelne w. II. Matthews. William
Foord, G. II. Newcomb, and G. S. McCar-
thy.
New York;. B. Stephenson, II. L. Hoyt,
B. NJ Higginson. r. J.. SPOTS, W. Simon
son, N. Herrick G.. A. Bobart, a. f. Ran
ney, ]. II. Hendrickson. and f. H. Schauf-
fer.
Ono thousand birds were trapped, each
member shooting at fifty bluerocks.
Philadelphia won the match by the mar
row margin of two "birds" The visitors
broke 413 targets 10 AL for the sons of
Father Knickerbocker. The individual scores
OF the winning team follow: A. 3. Rich
ardson. 9s. Fl. w. Kaher, 96; ]. T. Robin
son. 81; G. $. Mccarthy, 81, and William
Foord, a. The New York gunners scored
as follows: F. B. Stephenson. s5; r. I.
SPOTS. 96; w. simonson 90; n. Herrtck 93
j. Hendrlckson, %. The judges were Neat
Apgar and Jack Tanning
Probably the youngest girl shooter in
America and certainly the youngest in the
metropolitan district made her first appear
ance at the show yesterday. She is Miss
Jessie Thorne. fourteen years old. OF Mount
Vernon, y. Y. She entered the amateur
competition in the early part of the day
and made the remarkable score Of 80 out of
so targets with a 20 gauge shotgun The
versatility Of the little girl was demon
strated when from time TO time she
changed guns. using a shotgun owned by
Miss Annie oakley. Miss Thorpe is the
only woman member OF the Siwanoy Coun-
try Club, where she was Initiated into the
sport Of trap shooting last summer She
comes from family OF shooters, her father,
Walter Thorpe. and her brother. Walter ". /.
Thorpe, being we'll known in Westchester
County.
The positions Of the leaders I'm the ANA
teur race showed little alteration during
the morning session. 7. Won Boeckman. Of
the Bergen Beach Gun Club was high man
at this session. with IS targets. other
leaders with the same score follow: Will
lam Hassinger, Newark: l.. c. Remsen,
Mount Kisco n Y; p. l.. Osborne. West
Summerville. Mass: i. b. Stephenson,
Brooklyn; NJ Harvey. Norwich, n. Y; W.
Slmonson. Mineola, Long Island H. Her
rick New York City, and $. B. Adams,
Portland. Me-
Harry c. Kirkwood led the professionals
with 40 targets, Jack Tanning and Sim
Glover following with 4S each
The State Board OF Fish and Game Com
mssioners OF Connecticut, DR.. r. w.
Hewes. OF New London. chairman, and L.
Hart Geer, OF Hadlyme. secretary visited
the show yesterday and were entertained
by the representatives OF the exhibit of the
New York State Conservation Commission.
The chief feature of the afternoon angling
tournament was the dry fly casting for &C.
curacy, free 10 all. 1t was won by G. j.
Marsh. f. B. Rice was second, and L. ].
Darling third
Fifty-two boys from the Kyle Military
Institute. of Flushing, Long Island, visited
the show again and gave a clever calls
thenic drill. The boys used dumb bells and
Indian clubs, and showed much SKILL
Future boy scouts, to the number OF
twenty, from the First City Fairgrounds,
OF Newark. n. j.. We're guests OF w. w.
Thomas, chairman of the entertainment
committee of the Boy Scouts exhibit The
little fellows. whose ages ranged from eight
to eleven years, are known as tenderfeet
They are too young as yet to be enlisted
among the scouts but what they learned
at the exhibit yesterday will do much
toward improving their ideas on the SUBJ
ject.
De Witt Clinton High School won the
schoolboy shooting match from Morris
High among others, by ten points. The
score follows
De Witt Clinton-De Castro. 1S1; Clenden
113: Grossman, 1872 Total, LOS
Morris High School. 1,06S; Morris High
School, I'd team, 1,042; Stuyvesant High
School. 1.029; High School of Commerce,
l.O2l: Manual Training High School. 1.Oo6:
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