Every evening, Wilmington daily commercial., 1918-09-02
TOML|N STARS At
YORKLYA SHOOT
George Fl. Simon Highest Gun,
With a Straight Run of 81,
Beating Chas. Newcomb.

Fred s. Tomlin, champion trapshooter
of New Jersey and the man who tied for
| the national amateur championship IN
| Chicago couple of weeks ago led he field
| of Is gunners in the registered tournament
! at Iorklyn Saturday, getting l43 out OF
! $50 targets, which was enough To nose
out former national amateur champion
and present Pennsylvania champion, G.
| II Newcomb by one target. Frank Walls
tied with George II Simon, and in the
shoot-otf Of p targets Walls won, break
ing "a out of p, while Simon shattered %
The trophies were distributed in the above
| order
WI Il. Cochranc won the fifth trophy
in Class \ with li0 score. In Class u
four gunncrs tied with l3t Bill Elliott
won IN The shoot-oH, breaking all p tar
gets Lindsay. of phlladclphia came next.
Horace Clifton Of toatesvllc. and Bull
Williams Of PhlladcIphia, were still tied
at the end Of the first 25 and IN the toss.
Horace won the third trophy. letting
Williams have undisputcd possession Of
fourth trophy
I Malln. Of iorklyn. was the class III
Class g. Tie was high by bird. getting
1870 Phi du Pont was next with l29 /.
& Marshall and Jack kaIser tied for
third trophy and Marshall won tho toss.
In Glass ID. Danny Dougherty claimed
the honors. having no close competitors
He took first trophy Billy Edmnnson. OF
Newport and Jesse t''lid'l Griffith. OF
ph iladclphia. were tied for second and
third trophies They tossed for choice
and Billy won leaving thrd place for the
KID
In tho professional class Ed Banks won
first trophy, with l4i, Fred Shear being
winner Of the second trophy, four birds
hchlnd J. r. Bcauchamp took thlrd
trophy with i36 Bcauchamp WAS figured
10 have morc than lighting chance 10
land 10 trst place, hut ~ his seventh
event hc missed siN hIris which caused hls
downfall
George II Simon Icd the long run, hay
ing an unhrokcn string of 81 Charlie
Neucomb came ncNt with 5G unfinished
There were very few high runs, owing to
the fact tha cross winds PLAYED havoc
with tic flight of he targets
While several familiar faces who have
attended hc shoot fnr wears were missing,
nevertheless the event was considered
most succc9~ful More than q ZOO targets
were thrown and all the profit Was do
mated to the local Rcd Gross. 80 that he
shoot had 4 patriotic side aa we'll as pro-
vidlug recreation for some T. or moro
business men
an rnT GREENnIII. cLVR
st the GrcnhIll Club. IN the 7l-targct
event. Il 4 du Punt wus high man hy
accounting for - tIrd~ Walker agaIn left
Ills ratht foot ~ home and as result only
81 ~ hl- birds were called dead In the
1u-tarcct event. shepherd led the field
with a srorc of IL " q, Wood Was run
ncrup. nith a score ii & ni his stnng of -
HARRY llnch Reed and Douucv turned
IN good scores. III ~ptc of the freak,
targets
r u. 4 v. .t>>fRS
The 7 r. 4 " cam Club held IT,
wcckl1 ~hout ou Tho grounds ~ Todd
cur WITH lhrlit stamps IS prizes he
bovs from thc Pu-,y ANA Jones ~hlpvard
were out and had vcr, enjoyable after
noon " Nvat defeated l. Coruog ~ 3
7O-iargct match for the klcitz trophy.
- and - while T. Cornog broke - aud
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