The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1915-02-28
ONE MORE VICTORY
FOR NEW ROCHELLE
Second Of Interyacht Club
Shoots Brings Repetition
Of Previous Event.
HIGH WIND Is ANNOYING

In the second shoot for the inter-
Yacht club championship the gunners
OF the New Rochelle Yacht Club moved
one peg nearer the prize at the traps
Of the Bayside Yacht Club yesterday
afternoon The Echo Bay organization
vsn tho shoot with a total of AT out OF
A possible 500 targets. using a team OF
Ave men. The Bayside Yacht Club
finished second with a total Of 425
targets Then came the Manhasset Bay
Yacht club with n score of 4o3 targets.
followed by the Marine and Field Club
with 800 targets. The nimrods OF the
Bensonhurs; Yacht Gu finished last
with a card of 81: targets.
As the New Rochelle Yacht Club also
was the winner OF the first leg. the
organization now is leading with a total
Of $ points. The Bayside Yacht C1ub
Is second with 8 points to its credit. II
Is poss bic. therefore. for the latter
organization to move into first place
at the third and last shoot that is to
he decided at the Marine and Field Club
on saturday. March 81. This. however,
y exceedingly unlikely. Indications.
therefore. point to the Echo Bay club
winning the title,
= W Kent OF the home organization
was the high individual gunner yester-
day He took first place with a total OF
% out OF a possible 100 targets. His
strings were %, 90. 25 and %. 1t was
excellent shooting. taking into considera-
ton the day. The conditions were I'M
usually difficult. as a high wind blew
in from the Sound. tossing the blue
rocks into almost impossible shooting
angles.
Twenty-Five gunners who visited the
Travers Island traps OF the New York
Athletic Club had plenty OF fun trying to
kill the tiny blue rocks in an easterly
gale that kicked up whi,ecaDs on the
waters of Long Island Sound. II being
the final Saturday OF the month two
events came to an end. The winner Of
the monthly cup was n. g. Berner and
the novice cup for February was taken
by w J. Smith Both events were won
only after shootoffs. A. W. Church vas
the winner of the leg on the monthly
cup and w. Il Delehanty took the final
leg on the novice prize.
r. VI. HiGCiuSon was the high scratch
gunner Of the shoot. He took the event
after a shootoff against j.. II Wander
vcer and r l.. SPOTS. All three gun
ne~s had So out Of a possible 100 tar
gets. Il was the first time there has
been n triple tie for the prize. The
high handicap gunner was j. !. Brand
enberg. who won with q total OF sS out
Of 100 targets. The scores in both
events show the difficult conditions under
which the glnners shot.
Rrandonberg also was the winner OF
N. club trophy. The accumulation cup
went to u. +. Mcmahon. The high gun
in the shoot for the Travers Island prize
was Il. VI. Higginson. Not one of the
events was won by a straight score.
The distance handicap went to II. T.
Leahy. the Brooklyn nimrod There also
was a special shoot that was annexed
nv w r. Delehanty.
FIFTEEN gunners practiced NJ the trans
- he NenOnsit Gun Club yesterday
a''srnoon in anticipation OF the big shoot
o. the organization next Saturday fol
che championship of Long Island. The
curners decided a shoot at 100 targets In
a suappy breeze from the east. The
winner was W. V. Geiss, who had q
total Of 50. shooting with a handicap
o. IL.
Bloomfield. y. T.. Feb. 27.-In tn
club tournament for the February trophy
a. che Bloomfield Gun club grounds to-
DAY George Collins won in Class a, with
q: G. J. Ernest. in Glass b. with Is. and
Charles Fredericks. in Glass c. with IS
The three will shoot off Sunday for the
trophy at so targets.
LAKEWOOD. Feb. 27-Fortune smiled
on J. Luther Bright in the so bird handi'
cap event OF the Laurel House Gun Clut
shoot this afternoon when he and j. ;
Woolley tossed a coin to determine th'
winner OF the event. Bright and Wool
ley. the former with a handicap OF II
and the latter with one of II. made gross
scores OF 40 breaks. The other score'
were ph!lip Randolph, Is, S-36 Johr
Fell. II, 24-36 J. q. Holman. "a
1914: Dr. G. q. Kayser, 30, 6-3S; An
drew j Murphy, 50. l0-45 j s. Wool
ley. 81. l2-49 Edward j. Westhall. 80
5-il J. /. Bright, 80, 1913.
ORANGE. Feb. Ely a wide margin
-scoro, 743 to 610-a ten man team %
the Essex County Country Club defeated
the Log Cabin Gun Club of Plaint"ld a
Hutton Park here this afternoon. Fac
team used 1000 clay targets. O. u
Mum won a take home prize. DIR. ID
". ~ t'ltfIIN was HN~N '"' 80" 49,
club. monthly prizes and the season po!n
trophy. G. II. DAILY won a leg on TN
q ". STANLEY trophy, and Adrian Rike'
got the January club prize. The country
club will meet a team from Bartusro
Golf club here next Saturday. The mrs
Of three legs for a trophy will be shot
PoPT W~AsHISGToN, l." T., Feb. 81
Charles T. Hyde won two Of the - tirf
events a. the traps Of the Port wash
.n-.on Yacht Club this afternoon anC
Ted .r another. lie also tied IN the l0t
bird aandicap, IN which the scores OF M
r'h'- four events were counted. ii. II
shannon was high gun man OF the day
lie broke Sc out of 100 targets In IN
'a1e ~ a strong northwes, gale, Charles
f.. HYDE won the weekly event with
'ocI score Of 81 with hts handicap o
4 u, also won the leg on the yearly
yur ,y breaking % for a full score, an'
tied with ~ H. shannon, w. j, Walsl
and 4 TIL. TAv ~. grnalal nrfzp ThI