Every evening, Wilmington daily commercial., 1920-03-29
MARKSMEN HAVE
FINE DAY. SPORT
Good Weather Brought Out Many
Shooters on Saturday
Afternoon.

Wilmington marksmen answered the
-ol call at all of the clubs on Saturday.
With fine weather there was good turn
out and some fine sport resulted.
At the Wilmington Clubs traps w B.
Cochran of Avondale, Pa, came to town
with Clarence Marshall, p. II. Way and
NJ f. Morris and showed his heels to the
entire field for the ninth leg on the c. W.
Phclls SHARK" trophy and the Class A
"take-homc" trophy, by breaking As OF his
80 birds. and also won the second prize In
the lO0-bird race. breaking 92xlOO.
l.. l.. Boyce, Class G shooter, shooting
from l. Yards, won the leg on the Philip
i. du Pont' trophy with score OF 43x5Q,
and also took home the Glass c trophy for
the day.
NJ f Morris of Avondale, and ". Nj.
ArmiStcad. a shooter from Philadelphia,
who Is a member of the Wilmington Club
and formerly of the du Pont Gun Club,
tied for the Class trophy, and owing To
the fact that the two shooters rare'y get
together. n coin was tossed and .orrls
won the trophy.
NJ. ". Tcrrill won the Glass d trophy
with 3Sxi0.
W b. Martin. j l.. Wratten, " Nous
lev and ]. II. Dawson shot the hnal
match for the Henry Wilson trophy
and ]. II Dawson proved to be IN the best
form and won the trophy, which was
handsome silver pitcher.
T. b. Holmes won the double target
event with score of l9xl2 PAIR l.. l..
Boycc and Bill Swayne were the run
ners-up with scores of lSXl2 palr
Aberdeen. Md, Gun Club was suppos-
cd to have shot a five-man team race
against Wilmington. but was unable TO
bring the team on account of sickness so
several teams shot the hundred bird race
to determine who would shoot against
the Aberdeen Club when they come up,
which is expected in two or three weeks
The team which was picked to shoot
the Aberdeen Club, was the winner so
will have the opportunity to compete
Fagen Simonton substituted for }. II.
Minnick. Price jackson, who IS expected
to be one Of the high guns at Philadelphia
next SATURDAY.. led the field OF shooters on
the lOO-bird program by breaking 93 OF
his 100 birds.
GREENHILL SHOOT.
The Greenhill marksmen in the last
chance to secure a leg on the Philip du
Pont Fox gun trophy. put up one OF the
hardest battles Of the series. Phil du Pont
was the first shooter To obtain the lead,
but Immediately announced that his
score should not be counted
l.. l., Boyce with az to his credit, was
next man. but on account of winning a
previous leg, was not eligible. Until late
In the day Bill Swayne held the lead, but
was then tied by B. III. Vending and both
of them went down TO defeat at the last
minute. Bill Cochran of West Chester
turned in one target better and captured
the tenth leg on the Fox gun.
In the class trophies Cochran and Philip
du Pont tied high, necessitating a shoot
off in Class A. Vending captured the
Glass B trophy and l.. L. Boyce, high gun
m Class G, captured the prlze. W. Curiett
WIS high gun in Class ID.
w. l.. Smith carried off the double
target event and won leg on this cup.
RAILROAD MARxsMEN.
The P. B. and W. Gun Club held
spoon shoot on its grounds at Todd's Cut.
A. Worthington and j. III. Smith tied for
Glass A spoon, and Will shoot it of at
some later date j. T. Spring, Jr., won
Class b, and W Young won Glass c spoon.
]. A. Spragg donated a Hercules picture,
framed, and it was won by J. t. Spring,
Jr
CHRIsTIASA GUN CLUB.
The Christiana Gun Club held IFS
regular weekly shoot at Newport. Char
ley Griswold was high man for the day
with l7x20 in the regular event and 20x25
in the trombone handicap. A poultry
shoot will be held in the near future.