Evening journal., 1913-07-14
95 BREAKS
WINS TROPHY
FOR FOORD
Local Shooter High in Match
EmblematiC Of IS Yard
Championship

Shooting In a late squad of pro
fessionals. after most Of the other
amateurs had finished. and A B. Rich
ardson. former State champion. hai
hung up score Of "a and was con
ceeded the handsome dupont lS-yard
mark championship trophy w. NJ.
Foord. a local shooter, smashed 95
targets out Of 100. and won the trophy
emblematc of the 1s-yard champion
/ ship Of the United states and the
large purse that went with IT,
Mr.. Foord was in rare form today
and broke his targets with the ease
that only a champion can display
His victory is all the greater when
one considers that at every bird he
was looking IN the face Of the re-
markable score Of A. b. Richardson
who was conceeded the trophy until
Mr.. Foord's scores commenced TO
come. He went through his irsi
40 birds losing only two. II was here
that he began TO get dangerous In
his next 90 he dropped two. making
/ the race exceedingly close and In the
next lost one more bird. When he
started on the last string he knew
that he would have to 90 straight 10
win and he could only afford to lose
one II he was going to tie Mr.. Rich
ardson. His trap was the center Of
/ all eyes and the large crowd counted
/ the targets one by one as Foord broke
| them with his quick snappy shooting,
never hesitating at single bird.
/ Finally he came 10 his nineteenth.
The crowd held its breath until Foord
broke it into dust To smash tho
next one meant the honore and
one Of the handsomest trophies in
competition; to miss it was to tic
The shooter looked back at the
crowd with a confident smile. placed
his gun to his shoulder carefully and
"Pull"-" Bang. a target gracefully
shot out from the trap and in an in
stant was transformed into a cloud
OF dust The trophy had been won
only by the hardest kind of shooting
by local man who had not ONLY out
shot his amateur rivals but had rout-
ed the professionals.
The crowd applauded the shooter for
several minutes and many rushed to
congratulate him on his victory Among
the first ones TO grasp his hand was tho
vanquished sportsman. A. b. Richard
son, the hero of many a contest and
garded as one of the best shooters in the
country
| c. F. Moore and j. A. Hawkins. both
professionals. tied Mr.. Richardson's
score. j. B. McHugh, local shooter,
made an excellent showing. getting 80
out of his 100. j. II. MinniclS. another
local man and holder of the worlds rec
ord for 800 birds. was OIL form today
and could only get 81 out of his 100.
When the shooting began the eyes OF
the crowd were turned on j. PHILLIP
Sousa. the march king. who is also
member Of the trapshooting nobility. At
D tired in nattv grey suit and Whit
shoes. he presided over the traps will
the same ease as If he were leading his
famous band. Mr.. Sousa did not fee
in shooting trim this morning and con
sequentlv got only - Of the targets
He is regular 90 per cent man and nc
doubt will be back az his old form be.
fore the Eastern Handicap ends.
Another man who attracted much
attention today was George Maxwell
the one-armed shooter He got S.
The shooter has only one arm. but
he handles his gun quickly and was
one Of the surest shooters at the traps
this morning.
Mrs. Ad Topperwein. the champion
woman shot Of the world. gave a
splendid exhibition of what woman
can do with a gun by getting AZ out
of a hundred. On Friday. at Balti-
more, she beat all men with a score
of o.
Among the other shooters who
made good scores today were Edward
! Banks. champion or Delaware. SO;
s. W. Putnam, 81; q. Lewis, 90; r
II. Burns. 90. and G. L, Lyon, 92
e This afternoon will he practice for
the shooters and all of them will pro-
badly shoot over the traps to get the
lay of the land and become used tc
the back ground
Dinner was served 10 the gunners
today on the grounds in a huge tent
that had been erected by the club
Several other tents have been erected
. for the convenience Of the shooters
! and the crowds that will throng tn,
l club from tomorrow until the cracl
of the last gun. Among the tents is
, large rest tent with capacity o
several hundred people Dinner vii
be served on the grounds each lay