The silver state. [volume] (Winnemucca, Nev.) 1909-1925, 1913-07-08
STAUNTON AND
STALL WINNERS

Roast veal, roast pork and roast
mutton, with plenty of wet goods to
wash them down, and sauce to flavor
them, were some of the articles on the
bill of fare Sunday afternoon at the
/ close of the great shooting tournament
at Moana Springs. 1t was the desire
OF the Reno target club to furnish
something out of the ordinary in the
way OF entertainment of their guests
from adjoining states, and the barbe-
cue was selected as the best substi-
tute for set dinner, with fancy
dishes, fancy settings, and so forth
Accordingly, an expert meat roaster
was engaged, the pit dug, an ample
supply of meat procured to feed as
many people as were expected, and
twice as many more.
At the close of the three days' ,
shoot, dinner was announced. and
about $50 people availed themselves
of the invitation to fall to. Many of
the shooters, having stayed the limit
OF their time, had engaged their
oerths on the early evening train for
California, and left before the barbe.
cue was ready for them.
From a shooters point of view.
the tournament was a great success.
For three days, beginning at 'cloek
each morning, and continuing all day.
there had been the continuous pop.
pop, pop, of shotguns, in the hands of
some of the best shots in the country.
banging awav at small black discs
flung from machines, to show their
skill In pointing small steel tubes in
the right direction to do the most
damage to birds of the air or smaller
denizens of the woods. While there
were no worlds records broken so far
as known, there were many excellent
scores made. For the whole tourna-
ment, Ed Staunton, of Winnemucca.
carried off the honors, breaking 412
out of 425 targets at which he shot
Frank Leonard, of Reno, who is com,
paratively new at the blue rock game,
made Mr.. Staunton do his best to keep
in the lead, and he only did then by a
small margin. Friday afternoon Mr..
/ Leonard hit 80 out of 100 targets.
missing has 95th shot, and yesterday
morning continued his remarkable
score by breaking 65 more straight.
There were many scores in the various
matches at % birds each wherein
there were no misses, resulting in
many ties, which were shot off in sue
ceeding events.
In the two-man team match Messrs.
Ogilvie and Counts opened the ball by
scoring 9s hits out of the hundred,
and tord and Trout 81. After this
started, as the succeeding teams made
sufficient misses to shut them cut from
winning, they discontinued, and there
was no use in keeping track of their
scores.
Amateur averages for the three
days, 425 targets to the man, are as
follows:
w. r. Staunton .........41 412
T. Prior and +. Leonard ....... .407
O. n. Ford ....... ..... 406
f. Hoelle, S. W. Trout and F. J.
The professional scores, 425 targets,
are:
X. c. Reed .. ...........3 1893
w. r. Willett .. ..3 3S7
Z. A. Haight ... ............3S 3S5
w. l.. Robertson $3.50. ... .376
The California Nevada handicap
trophy was won by George Stall, of
Winnemucca, at II yards. Stall sue
ceeded in breaking 95 blue rocks out
of 100. In the money were o. n.
Ford with "a; 4. G. Riley with 90; G.
Gordon and Frank Leonard with 92;
ii. Dunn, E. Hoelle and Ed Staunton
with 81
In the Becker handicap George
Wingfeld, Frank Leonard and Cald-
well tied for first place and divided
the money.
In the shoot-off for the Gray Reid
Wright trophy, held over on a tie
from Fridays shooting, Toni Prior
was the successful gunner.-Reno Ga
zette.