Omaha daily bee. (Omaha [Neb.]) 187?-1922, 1915-11-17

The visiting base ball playing trap Bhoot-
ers who invaded Omaha yesterday for a
match with a team Of Omaha Gun club
cracks came out second best In the argu-
ment on the firing line at Carter lake.
The Omaha team defeated the visitors
by a margin OF sixteen targets.
The four bah players. christy Mathew
son, Chief Bender, Otis Crandali and
Harry Davis. and George Rogers Of
Omaha made up five-man team which
competed with Don McCown, Bert Dixon.
George Redick. Ray Kingsley ana Mar
shal sharp OF the gun club, The Omaha
team broke AS targets out Of a possible
800 and the ball players broke 4ls out
OF possible 600.
Otis Crandali and Ray Kingsley dead
locked for the individual honors of the
day. Both broke nipety-five. out of 100
which is some shooting considering that
the marksmen were handicapped by the
extreme cold. bad wind and a couple
OF balky traps which insisted in getting
out Of order several times while a squad
was shooting.
shoot Perfect Events
Both Kingsley and crandall shot two
perfect events crandall shot a fifteen
target and a twenty-target event with
out miss while Kingsley shot two fif-
teen-target events without miss. Chief
Bender also shot two fifteen-target events
without a miss while George Redick went
through a twenty-five bird event with.
out "a miss, being the only one to perform
this latter feat.
Chief Bender and Redick were right
behind Crandall and Kingsley In the
race for individual honors. Both cracked
ninety-four OF the blue rocks. Christy
Mathewson performed very well consider
ing this is his first year at trap shoot
ing. He broke seventy-five rocks; Harry
Davis trailed the field with hut sixty-sis
breaks.
In addition 10 the team match a coupl,
OF sweepstakes events were staged with &
number of local and visiting shooter;
taking part
sheriff Takes Hand.
Big doings wero planned for the shoot
yesterday with 10O-target events SEIZED
uled for both morning and afternoon a
the Omaha Gun club But Monday nigh
the sheriff Of Pottawattamie county
swooped down on the club with an at
tachment and closed up the place. HI
said nothing doing when asked II th'
shoot could he held yesterday.
The attachment is the result OF a sui
brought against the Omaha Gun clul
because a little girl was hurt by a fly
4 ing target last summer. A companion
I of the tot pulled the discharging leve
which released the rock from the tral
and Il hit the girl. Suit was brough
against the club. and then the injunction
The members OF the club declare the,
were not notified OF the suit and tina
they knew nothing about II until tn
sheriff served the attachment
Pet Guns Locked Up.
The action was very disconcerting 4
the club members as their pet shotgun
were In their lockers In the club hous
and the attachment prevented them iron
rescuing them.
The morning shoot was called off an
the marksmen beat It for the Carte
Lake club so that the bali players an
omahans could settle their difference
there
Scores OF trap shooting and base bal
fans who wanted 20 see Mathewsor
Bender. crandall and Davis on the iii
ing line hied themselves to the Oman
Gun club yesterday afternoon only I
find the place deserted and the shoe
ON several miles away at Carter lake.