Every evening, Wilmington daily commercial., 1918-04-15
WILMINGTON WINS.
TRAPSHOOTERS'
CHAMPIONSHIP
Local Marksmen Defeated West
Chester Team in the Shoot
off for the Title.
THE SCORE WAS 473 TO All

To Wilmington belongs the honors III
the hest fight for the championship of the
Philadelphia Trapshooters' League that
has ever been staged. The local men
again defeated the West Chester gunners
Saturday by q two-tsrget margin, winning
the title, 473 to AL. The match was
held over the traps of the Philadelphia
Electric Gun Club. at Observatory Hill.
and was IN every way a classic of the blue
rock game. So close was the match that
until the last man on the teams pulled the
trigger on his final birds anybody had
q chance to win.
By winning the shoot-off of the tie the
Wilmington team brought to a close one
Of the most unique league races conceiv-
able. With West Chester in front of the
league throughout the entire season, the
Delaware marksmen continued their game
way, and in the final match OF the season
two weeks ago brought out probably the
most brilliant field of shots that has ever
been gathered IN these parts. lhey
defeated West Chester and made the race
tie by winning by 4S2 to $50.
Their win Saturday by two targets
aSain was an event that is unique IN
local trap annals. How closely the two
teams were matched is evidenced by the
fact that Wilmington now wears the crown
as the result OF being Just four targets
better than West Chester in total OF
1000
The champions took the crown pre-
viously held by the 5. 5. Whites, despite
the fact that they were far outnumbered
by the West obstetrics. The hard race
West Chester lost out IN was wormwood
and gan to the latter bunch OF shooters,
cspeciallv as in last year league race they
lost the title to the 5. ). Whites ny
margin OF only three birds.
II was a gruelIing battle all the way
SATURDAY. with no quarter asked or gwen,
but the losers took il like good sports,
despite the fact that IT was vcrltabiy
snatched out from under their extended
and confident grasp.
Altogether there were nearly $50 gun
ners present to give the surrounding nils
a little something TO echo about. W est
Chester had n score more than their
conouerors and IL WAS AN ail-dsy affair
lust as their previous meeting had been.
In the match in which Wilmington tied
the race I'D both teams averaged 90 per
cent, but Saturday they dropped two
points and both averaged slightly over
o..
Both sides came out determined TO add
the finishing touches TO the other on the
neutral grounds. To sum the entire
affair up the Wilmington squad won out
because they had 4S where West Chester
had "a 40. With o of the 10 members Of
each team finished both were tied at 42j.
To George H. Simon. OF Wilmington, went
the honors of the day. He turned IN a
csrd of IS while the hest the remainder
of the West Chester entrants could pro-
dree were 46 scores. thus handing the
victors the margin of two points by which
they clinched the league title.
There were at least two shooters who
show,>d 10 better advantage than did
anv In the other affair. These were
George Baldwin. Of West Chester, and
McHugh Of Wilmington. Both won the
honor OF turning IN straight CARDS,
breaking their entire 30 birds.
There were also pair OF 10 scores,
Herkins, of West Chester, and toord OF
Wilmington. tied each other at this count
The Is was the straw that broke the back
OF West Chester. The West Chesterlte
TO reach this lurid total was Mace, while
both Jackson and Simon had the honor
for Wilmington.
In the Il total both teams were again
even up. Swayne and MacDowell turned
in cards OF this amount for the losers.
while both Terrill and Carbon, OF the
conuuering aggregation, dropped only
three clav>. To their sorrow the West
Chester squad had one more 50 than the
Delaware team This count WAS medc
bv Conner. c. b. John Eachrls, II. b.
Elliott and W J. Elliott ior the uulurky
team, while the boIstcrous vletors VINO
broke ia were DougheTtv ~imUUton,
Beauchamp and hlnnek.
This shoot-of for the championship
winds UP the winter season among the
trimmed clay saucer bugs, but does not
bring their activities 10 a close BY any
means. Even after the delegation Of ;.
:. Whites, who were on hand TO award
the title to the victors. had performed their
little ceremony another shoot goj under
way. This was an independent, hap
hazard sort OF affair. III which only about
twice as many entered a. in the usual
club event.