Norwich bulletin. [volume] (Norwich, Conn.) 1895-2011, 1919-01-18
PlNEHURST SHOOT STARTS
1919 SEASON ON IT'S wAv

The 1919 trapshooting season Will
be ushered in at Pinehurst. n G
the week of January 20, when the
Pinehurst Country Club conducts it's
18th annual midwinter handicap tour
nament, which affair, by the way is
the first registered shoot of the wear
Plnehurst is the pioneer resort in
the promotion of trapshooting as a
sport for its guests and sportsmen in
general. Beginning in 1893 the tour
nament progressed yearly until the
war put kink in last season. Even
then the 1918 tournament was a good
sized one. In the II years of CONNIE
tition 923 shooters have participated
and the number of targets thrown
was 779, 255.
When c. w. Billings. who was can
tain of the American Trapshooting
team to the Olympic Games in 1912
won the Midwinter Handicap in 1908
the shoot had 80 entrants and threw
lb,S0O targets. One year later the en-
tries ran to 4S, then dropped back to
3S, then to 80, and in 1912 leaped to
%. The next year the contestants
numbered so, then IS. then fell back
to IS. then leaped to 1870, then to 176
and fell back last year to 126. For
the past three years the number of
targets thrown has exceeded leo. 000
Newccnlb a Dual Winner.
The Midwinter Handicap. which is
the biggest event of the tournament
in point of interest, has only been won
twice by one individual. Charles II.
Newconb, OF Philadelphia. captured
the event in 1911 and repeated in
1914. The event was won in 1909 by
H. T. Edwards. in 1910 by DIR. D. L.
culver. OF Jersey Cisy. \. j.: in 1912
by Harry Kahler of Philadelphia: in
1913 by J. Z. Jennings, of Canada: in
1915 by sam Huntley of Omaha. Neb.;
in 1917 by Ira Gailbraith, of Frankfort.
H.; and in 1918 by A. G. Healey. of
| Windsor, Ont. kahler's score of 90
| from y yards is the best Huntley
broke IS from % yards.
Indications are that the tournament
this season VIII bring out a larger en-
try list than in 1917. for special part
les are bling made up in all the larger
cities of the East and Middle West
Trophies costing more than $1,000 will
/ be given in the regular events. The
shooting beginning on the 20th. at
! $50 in the morning, will be continued
! on the 21st, 22d, 23d, 24th and 25th at
1 the same hour. The events are so ar
ranged that the S hooters can get
/ through in time for golf, motor OF
/ hunt in the quail preserves.
Schedule of Events.
Two hundred targets will be thrown
daily, the Goth being practice day
! Registered target events begin or
the DIST The final hudred targets or
the 22d is for the Pinehurst Prelimi-
nary Handicap and the final hundred
| on the oath decide The Midwinte,
| Handicap. The Consolation Handica3
will be the first 100 targets on the
25th. The last 100 targets will be a
IS yards for the IS yards champion.
ship of America. This title and troph,
is now held by George n Fish. OF
Lyndonville, n. Y, who won it at tn,
Westy Hogans shoot last fall witt
50. Targets in this event are throw
so Yards
There will be Geo registered target
at IS yards and 200 additional in tn,
, handicaps. In the GOO at 16 yard!
there will be a team race between tn
East and West, the West, the Western
boundary line of Michigan. Indiana
Kentucky, Tennessee and Mississippi
being the dividing line. Scores Of tn,
five high men will count The first 10t