Evening journal., 1919-11-10
TRAPSHOOTING

G. I. Sylvester was high amateur in
the registered shoot OF the Greenhill
TrapshOoting Club here Saturday aft
ernoon, getting 40 Of his $50 clays.F. S
Tomlin, the GlassbOro, n. j.. crack, cap
1ured second place with score Of 1873
Prize for high professional score went
TO George n. Fish, with a break OF
fi3. which was also the highest score
Of the day. Homer Clark. OF Alton, Ill.
took second place with i39.
Class "A" trophies went TO Sylvester,
frst; Tomlin, second, while Marshall and
Cochran, of the West Chester Club, tied
for third, with 1856. j. Kaiser was win
ner in class "B"; Walker finished second
and "Vic" du Pont won third place.
In Class 60" Jensen won high hOnOrs
with break o. 1872; w. MinnicS cap
tuned second place vita l3l, AMI DIR
Belts finished third with l3O
Cannon with break OF lis Finished
first in Class 3D." Reybold and Evans
finished second and third respectively
The long-run prize was capturad By
NJ. ). Conner, of Ayondale, with 81
straight. Scores;
On May 10, 1906, on the grounds of
the now defunct Wawaset Gun Club, a
handsome trophy IN the shape OF
shield, and known as the Wawaset
Championship Trophy, was first put up
for competition. On that date it was
won by the late A. B. dol" Richard
son.
The conditions called for 100 single
target per man, l6 yards rise, and the
competition was open to any shooter
who resided within a radius OF 2OO
miles of the Wawaset Gun Clubs
house in Wilmington. The conditions
also called for a total of eighteen con-
tests, on the completion of which all
those who had one or more wins on
the trophy TO their credit were to be
entitled to shoot off for permanent
ownership at 100 targets per man on
the grounds of the club.
When the club passed out OF exist
ence, w. NJ. Foord and Edward Banks
the trustees of the trophy, placed IT
in care of the Wilmington Irapshoot-
iDg Association.
The quota of eighteen contests hav-
ing been completed, the eighteenth
and last at the Delaware State Shoot
of the current year, the Wilmington
Trapshooting Association now an
nounces that in accordance with the
conditions governing the trophy, it has
named Saturday, December l3 next, and
the clubs grounds at Bellevue, as the
date and place for the holding of the
final competition. A special program
will be arranged for that date, with the
above shoot-of as the chief attraction.
The sad death of Mr.. Richardson in
1917 has removed him from the list OF
eligibles. There are, however, ten
others left, each of whom ought to be
able to offer some sort of an argu-
ment as to why the trophy should go
home with him the afternoon OF De-
cember l3, 1919. The list of those en-
titled to take part in the final compe-
tition is as follows: Z. :. German,
w. NJ. Foord, j. NJ. Hawkins, II. L..
Worthington, @. II. Newcomb, George
S. McCarty, H. S. Welles, H. c. Izzy"
Hoffman, II. c. Krout- and Edward
Banks. Mr.. German got his name on
the shield five times, Messrs. Foord,
Hawkins and Welles each couple OF
times, all the others once each.
Thanks to the generosity of N. Q.
Wyeth, the famous artist of Chadd's
Ford, Pa, the trophy is something de-
cidedly out of the ordinary, the center
being occupied by a copper reproduc-
tion of the head of the we'll known
Indian Chief, "Sitting Bull" the re-
production being made from clay
model, the result of Mr.. Wyeth's ar
tistic skill.