The Oroville weekly gazette. [volume] (Oroville, Wash.) 1905-19??, 1919-05-02
TANGLED In ANOTHER TIE,

The local gun club is all balled up
| in another tie. The locals had the time
OF their lives beating out a long pro-
tracted tie with the Colfax-Palouse
team That tie ran through three
frames before Colfax-Palouse had the
courtesy to fall down and permit the
Oroville boys to slip one over on them.
Now the Oroville shotgun artists are
even up with st. John in the last
match of the season, shot Sunday. st.
John has not been making any sensa-
tional records during the tournament
and hence Oroville was inclined to feel
that the shoot was snap. The club
membership was somewhat surprised
Sunday, shooting in almost perfect
weather, when the five high scored
only III hits. and were inclined to
charge up the shortage to anything
but the fact that the members failed
to register up to their usual form.
Hedger was the only one able TO come
across with a straight string, try the
others never so hard, but that was to
be expected on the part of Mr.. Hedger
EN- in punches and when he OCCASION
ally falls down people think he misses
on purpose. Such reliables as Reed.
Lewis, Masters, Elmer, Beverley Pow
ell, Hare. Finsen and others fell short
from two to five targets below what
is expected of them. But the surprise
OF failing to make a clean score In
tho fann pf
nothing to the jolt the club received
when learning that st. John woke up
and also made a string of 121. And
that means this tie will have to be
shot off Sunday. If st. Johns wins the
shootoff on that date the members of
that club will have to toe the scratch
with perfect nerves and their best bat
ting eye, for Oroville is going to try
and win if it is in the cards, and win
on the square. The championship of
the Inland Empire tournament is de-
pendent largely upon the results OF
that shoot If Oroville wins, Oroville
stands at the head of the list. II Oro-
vile loses, then Oroville is again tied
up with ColfaxPalouse for the leader
ship, and when 1t come to shooting off
with Colfax-Palouse It is a very SER
ious proposition as those Palousers
are fiends at breaking targets.
1t will be time enough to pass out
bouquets when the final results of the
protracted match is determined Of
course the population feels proud of
the Oroville gun club. In this long,
drawn .st contest, in which t~ans
fogg. Wallace" su6Hysfda, waifsbHfg,
st. John, Garfield, Spokane, Odessa
and Oroville participated, Oroville did
not lose single match over the traps.
The club did forfeit a shoot owing to
weather conditions that absolutely
prohibited human being from hand
ling gun in the open, and the forfeit
bars the club from a clean string OF
victories. But the locals are not pro-
testing against the decision. Failure to
shoot means the loss of that contest ac-
cording to the rules of the game, and
the club has consistently stood for and
by the rules, accepting the forfeit
with a good grace as the same hard
luck might have fallen to some other
club in the list. The local paper is the
only groucher in the bunch, and that
grows out of supersensative sympa-
thy for the home team. Furthermore,
the grouching is not intended to be
serious, but is INDUCED in more in the
nature of an explanation as to why
the club shows one game lost in the
total records. With the excellent rec
ord to the credit of the Oroville team
it is placed in clas with the north
west teams, where 1t probably will be
assigned in next years shoot.
Following the regular match Sum-
day was a handicap event, 25 targets
shot for the Dupont sterling silver
trophy, and in the shoot Charlie Pow
ell won out, making the splendid rec
ord for an amateur shooter Of "a out
of possible 25 at the extreme back
position of % yards. The following Is
the score of both events: