Evening journal., 1917-09-15
Western Shots WIN
INTERSECTIONAL title
Capture Annual Champion
ship From East by Six
teen Targets
BEAUCHAMP TOPS
EASTERN SQUAD

ATLANTIC CITY, n. j., Sept. i5.-The
West outshot the East In the intersec-
tional championship at the annual
tournament OF the Westy Hogans at
Venice Park. The western team broke
2273 targets in the three days race u
1850 targets, which included this after
noon. The western shots smashed 225I,
being defeated by but sixteen targets.
The East won the championship last
year with a grand total Of 24i9 In 2JOO
targets.
b. 6. Donnelly. OF the South Shore
Country Club, Chicago, who won the
Westy Hogan championship on Thurs
day, captonod the winning team
Voolfolk Henderson, Of Lexington
KY, was high gun on the quintet, with
HIS scores OF ass. Charles II. New
comb led the fasteners. L. r.
Beauchamp, Delaware champion, top
ped this squad.
Going straight IN his last hundred
targets, Frank 6. Wright, Of Buffalo,
was high amateur yesterday and won
the Atlantic City cup, lie dropped iis
in the days program Of $50 targets 70
top the CLASSY field Of, more than 250
shooters The Bunalosn gains per-
mancnt possession OF the trophy by
Yesterdays victory. lio also carries
home a gold purse for yesterdays per-
Torrance. Voolfolk Henderson was
second high amateur, breaking ii7 out
OF $50 tai gets I'm the days shoot while
J. J. Chlploy, Of Greensboro. S. c.. was
high In the long runs registered with
a straight score Of Up.
/ Henderson was high amateur for the
three days choot, with his scores og-
ercgsting l5s out ef 40. and he won
tho Continental Hotel trophy c. n.
C0durn, Of Mechanicsburg TO-. and r.
; w. Shoots, another Ohl0an, was sec
ond with ij6 down. II. Huseman. Of
Rochester. was high professional IN
the regular program, 3l3x320. owing
TO the heavy entry yesterday, profcs.
SIGNALS did not shoot. Mrs. Harry
Harrison, OF Rochester, was hieh
among the women IN the field.
In tho drawings FOR the ties in M
Westy Hogan amateur championship OF
Thursday, c. ID. COburn, Fred Harlow
A. l.. WINS, r. W. Shoots. II. Fender
i CAST who had scores 81 90, and G.. 5
lGodcharles, ]. Il. Minnick, Ed Hellye
and j. l.. Snow, who returned with IS
took prizes In The order named yester
day.
The eighleen-yard championship a
100 targets was notFm OF yesterday n
scheduled because of tho great fcl,
who spent the whole day In finishing
The regular events. Frank Wright, o
Buffalo, challenged George y. Fish, f0
the dupont trophy. which is emblema
tic OF the championship. and the del
automatically puts the trophy in opel
competition. 10 Will now likely be ar
ranged for next season and probabl,
at Atlantic City.
The Westy Hogans, a. their snnus
meeting yesterday, voted 90 return q
Atlantic city again next season 10
their twelfth annual tournament. Al
effort will no made 10 get accOmmo
daiions along the beachfroni. Nea
Apgar. who has headed the orraniza
tion since its formation, In 1907. was re
elected president.
other officers are: Vice president
NOVEL; Hawkins, Harrisburg; trcasur
en-, j. Leonard Clark. Of New Yorl
and sccretsrN G.. n. Benjamin n Ne,
. York. Benjamin succeeds Bernir
Ellsoser, of York, Pa. who resigned
Charles T .Summerton. OF New York
Frank II. Huseman, OF Rochester; J.. D
Cornell, OF Roanoke, and r. A, Davis. q
New York, were admitted as new mem
bers.