Richmond times-dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1914-current, 1917-04-23
WEST END GUN CLUB FIXES
II HANDICAPS AND CLASSES
Nnny Cups md other Prizes offered
Shooters Mt Local TrnpS-IIow
Scn Are Chased.

llandicapS for members OF tho west
/ End Gun club were fixed by the handi-
cap committee at a recent meeting.
and last night were announced By NJ.
y. Hart. secretary of the club. The
following ella SificationS for the 1917
season We're made: Class A. 50 per
cent and over: Class T.. so to Si,2 per
, cent. Glass e. 80 TO 79a per cent.
class u. % To 60? per cent. Glass r..
13.9 and under.
Distance handicaps To be used in the
presidents cup and the News Leader
, cup matches--5o TO - per cent men.
thirteen yards; 81 to 80 per cent men.
fourteen yards: 80 To 81 per cen; men.
fifteen yards: 90 To 20 per cent men,
sixteen yards: 80 10 - per cent men.
seventeen yards. 40 10 81 per cent
men, eighteen yards. so to 50 per cent
men. nineteen yards; NJ to, 90 per cent
men. twenty yards: 90 to - per cent
men, twcnty-One yards: 81 to Zoe per
cent mon. twenty-five yards.
To b" eligible to class cup finals
not less than 300 targets must he shot
III the regular weekly club matches.
the FIRST five Nigh guns finals which
shall he u iif,y-bild match. added birds.
. based on not scores III qualifying
rounds. uiu"ty-two. Class cups are
donated by Nowlan. Jahnkc. I.umsdcn,
Huchanan and Hotel Kueser, division
as was last season.
The presidents CUP. donated by Colo
mel Barton iT. Grnndy. to he shot ut
fftY birds on the distance handicap
basis. 80 targets TO be shot in the
regular weekly club matches to be
eligible.
News Leader cup. donated by the
News Leader. To be shot under the
same conditions az the Gruudy cup.
West End Gun club hich-avcraEe
cup, donated by the club for the best
high average made for the season on
/ not less than $50 targets shot in the
regular weekly club matches.
/ Long run trophy. gold watch foh.
donated by the Hercules Powder Com
/ pany. to be awarded TO the shooters
I making the greatest number of longest
/ runs IN the regular weekly club
/ matches during the season.
4 Silver and bronze watch fob tro-
:. phics. donated by the Hercules Pow
/ der Company. TO be awarded to the
shooters making the best scores on an
added bird handicap basis. 80 per cent.
| the first 400 targets shot at to count.
Monthly silver spoons. to bc award :
! ed to high man in each class using not
less than 100 targets during the month.
! Class shooters will he advanced each
month by averages made. No shooter
can win more than one spoon in any
| ono class. except Class y. and more
than two spoons during the season.
New shooters coming in during tho
! season Will be classified for class cups
on the average made in their first go
targets shot at in the regular weekly
| club matches
| The following classiicatioits for
1917 were announced last night:
Glass "N'-Dr. 4. J.. Hillsman. w. !.
Hammond. Jr.. NJ. -. Hart. J.. RueGer. w.
| II. EAncs, w. 4. Hammond. Sr.. Joseph II.
crenshnm. Charles IA. Cooke. John e. r:asley.
Weldon G. Blantou. John b. Swartwout.
class b. !. Flpreno; Pr z. IT.
". b herman. u. $: Hawes. = y. Hotch-
class CT. q. Cnbcl, r. II. Grundy.
| +. q. Jones. c. Il. Moore, William Rueger'
| .lr.. Z. d. Larus, cary Sheppard. 4. e.
| Young. G. w Williams. S. J. boswell A. l..
GlaSg9w. u. NJ Garrett. J. f.. Sheppard.
| j. g. TiSnor
| Or. w. -. Porter. Archer Anderson. .Ir.. W.
q. Bragg, John Il. Cary, Thomas H. Ores
". Russell ;Ionek a. G. Kesser. Colonel
S. Tanner p. p: Watt;
NJ Anderson; Hal S. DnEdale. NJ, G. Branch.
r., g Mead. Percy Montague. Jr., John
ArtniStcau. Thomas Gresham Sold,