Grand Forks herald. [volume] (Grand Forks, N.D.) 1916-1955, 1919-01-07
PINEHURST SHOOT
STARTS THE 1919
SEASON ON ITS WAY
(By Peter p. Carney, Editor National
Sports S%yndicate.)

The 1919 trapshooting season will
be ushered in al Pinehurst, N. c., the
week. Of January 20, when the Pine
hurst Country club conducts its 18th
annual mid-winter handicap tourna-
ment, which affair, by the way, is the
first registered shoot of the year.
Pinehurst is the pioneer resort in
the promotion of trapshooting as q
sport for it's guests and sportsmen in
general. Beginning in 1908, the tour
nament progressed yearly until the
wal put a kink in it last season. Even
then h 1918 tournament was a good
sized n In the IL years of COM
petition 923 shooters have partici-
pated and the number of targets
thrown vas 1926.
When c. w. Billings, who was cap
team to. the Olympic games in 1912,
won the Mid-winter Handicap in 1908
the shoot had 80 entrants and threw
$1,000 targets. One year later the
entries ran to 48, then dropped back
to 38, then to 80, and in 1912 leaped
to 70. The next year the contestants
numbered 80, then 80, then fell back
to rs. then leaped to 1870, then to It's
and fell back last year to 1875. For
the past three years the number Of
targets thrown has exceeded 100, 900.
Newcomb a Dual Winner.
The Mid-winter Handicap, which is
the biggest event Of the tournament in
point of interest, has only been won
twice by one individual. Charles H.
Newcomb Of Philadelphia captured
the event in 1911 and repeated in
1914. The event was won in 1909 by
H. 7. Edwards. in 1910 by DR.. D. l..
Culver of Jersey City N j.; in 1912 by
Harry Kahler Of Philadelphia; in
1913 by J. E. Jennings of Canada; in
1915 by Sam Huntley of Omaha.
Frankfort, ILL.,, and in 1918 by A. G.
Healey of Windsor, Ont. Kahler's
score of SO from Fl yards is the best.
Huntley broke IS from % yards.
Indications are that the tournament
this season will bring out a larger
entry list than in 1917. for special
parties are being made up in all the
larger cities of the east and middle
west. Trophies costing more than
events! The shooting beginning on
the Goth, at $3.50 in the morning, will
be continued on the 21st, 22nd, 23d,
Gath and 25th at the same hour. The
events are SO arranged that the shoot
'ers car get through in time daily to
golf, motor or hunt in the quail pre-
serves.
Schedule of Events.
Two hundred targets will be thrown
daily, the Goth being practice day.
Registered target events begin on the
21st. The final hundred targets on the
22d is for the Pinehurst champion
ship. The final hundred targets on
the Esd constitute the Pinehurst Pre-
liminary Handicap and the final hum
dred on the Path decide the Mid
winter Handicap. The Consolation
Handicap will be. the first 100 targets
on the 25th. The last 100 targets will
be at 18 yards for the 18 yards cham
pionship of America. This title and
trophy is now held by George N. Fish
of L%yndonville, N. T., who o it at
the Westy Hogan's shoot last fall with
80. Targets in this event are thrown
so yards.
There will be 600 registered targets
at 16 yards and 200 additional in the
handicaps. In the 600 at 16 yards
there will be a team race between the
east and the west. the western boun-
Diary line Of Michigan. Indiana, Ken
lucky, Tennessee and Mississippi be-
ing the dividing line. Scores of the
: five high men will count. The first
100 targets on the oath will be a Red
Cross event, for which special condi-
lions will be announced. The handi-
Gaping will be done by a committee
selected by the shooters.