Evening star., 1920-05-21
SCORE
Wins FIRST EVENT
Boylston, FIorida's Cham
pion, High Gun in "Dixie
Special"

ston OF Leesburg, Fla, champion OF that
state. won high gun In the Dixie Spe-
cial," the opening event Of the second
day Of the -meet Of the American Trap
Shooting Association. first southern zone
handicap tournament. at the Washing
ton Gun Club.
Bob Lewis. champion of America,
broke seventyfour targets, but, be-
Ing professional. was ineligible. j.
B. Pennington, Tarboro, n. c.; Ed. Hill
yer, 5r. Of Alexandria, Pa, and B. f.
Donnelley Of Chicago tied for class A
trophy. with seventy-one targets. The
shot-on will be later in the day.
Frank Serbert of New York and
r. c. Pittman of Whitaker, n. c.,
trophy. r. Bonner of Chicago won
the class trophy with 72 targets, and
B. Wagner of Baltimore, Md, finished
first in class D. with 81 targets.
One hundred and nine marksmen
shot in the Dixie" which was at IS
single targets, Is yards rise, five
| events of Is targets each.
AT / o'clock the traps were set for
the preliminary handicap" Twenty
squads. registered for this event, shoot
| ing at 100 single targets, handicap. 1928
yards One hundred dollars will be
i added to the purse. The winner will
receive trophy from the American
| Trapshooting Association. Amateur
1 CIcuil6u with SeCOHu anu
| third highest totals will receive
! trophies also.
| Southern Handicap Tomorrow.
I The Southern Handicap, feature
number of the meet, will be contested
for tomorrow. This event calls for
100 single targets, handicap, 1928
yards. Entrants, SO, the price of tar
get included. Two hundred dollars
will be added to the purse, and the
winner of first money is guaranteed
500 or more. The number of moneys
into which the rest of the purse will
| be divided will depend upon the num-
| Der of entries.
| The Southern Overture. which pre-
J codes the main event. will begin at l
| o'clock sharp tomorrow. This event
| is at seventy-five single targets, six
| teen yards rise. five events at fifteen
I targets each.
| The winner of the Southern Over
ture (high gun over all. irrespective
OF the class), will receive trophy
The high gun in each Of the four
classes will also receive trophies.
Big Day for HiIlyer.
Yesterday was a red-letter day for
Ed Hillyer, jr., of Alexandria, Pa. The
champion trapshooter of the keystone
state not only won first honors in the
Washington Introductory, thereby TAX
ing down the high-gun trophy, but
Maplewood hundred championship
medal and 500 in gold at Maplewood
n. H., July 3. 1920. by winning the
shoot-off from p. r. Earle of Star, S. c.,
with whom he was tied.
When the score sheets for the Wash
ington Introductory were totaled it was
found that Hillyer and B. S. Donnelley
of Chicago were tied for first place,
4 with 146 targets out of a possible $50.
In the shoot-off Hilyer bagged
On STRAIGHT a fo I Q
Donnelley was ineligible to try for
the "Maplewood." having qualified
once before. but Earle. who had tied
Hillyer with 9s targets. joined the
prizes was three-handed. Earle
! brought down IS of 20 targets. and,
as runner-up to Hillyer. is eligible to
attend the Maplewood tournament
should The winner decide not to go.
High Score for Tomlin.
F. S. Tomlin, professional of Glass
boro, n. J., registered high score in
the Washington Introductory. with
/ 147x150 targets. but was ineligible
al Owing to Hillyer's winning the
prize for high gun over all. he was
not elegible for class prize in the
Washington Introductory, which gave
the class A trophy to Donnelley
F. M. Roseberry of Baltimore, Md {:
r. w. Lee of Phoenix. Md; F. Bill
never Of Cumberland, Md, and F. r.
Holt Of Norfolk, Va, with 141x150
targets. tied for the class B trophy,
and in the shoot-off (Holt defaulting)
Roseberry came out on top, with 19x
20 targets, the two others making
1Sx20 targets.
Glass trophy was won by E. G.
Ford of Philadelphia, with a score of
141x150 targets.
Glass D trophy went to Basil wag-
ner of Baltimore, Nd, who made 127x
$50 targets.
Eligibility to the Maplewood tourna
ment was figured on 100 targets on
the days program, the last ten tar
gets in event No. and the fifteen
targets each in events 5, s. Z, s, 8 and
Records Of d. c. Men.
E; W. Ford of Washington, D. c.,
made the clean score of 100 straight
targets in these events. but being
professional was ineligible.
The Washington men competing in
the washington Introductory includ-
ed A. V, Parsons. III; J. A Brown.
Monroe. 1873; r. P. Livesey, 139: r. D.
Morgan, 142; E. w. Ford, 143; Mai.
r. Coyle. 50; E. J. Britton, 119; C. c.
Fawsett, lit; J. c. Wynkoop. 113;
Miles Taylor. 12o; William Harper
Dean: 1873; a: B. stine. 1o5; c. S. Will
er. 1873: L. A. Sheppard, 126; S. r.
Golibart. 12S: G. A. Emmons, 122; A.
F. Stearn, 53x75: p Messina, 53x75,
and T. Messina. 52x75.
| stray Shots.
On the invitation of Lester German.
the old New York pitcher, kid"
Gleason, John Collins. Buck" Weaver.
Urban Faber and Harvey McClelland
of the Chicago White Sox visited the
club yesterday. The ball players were
greatly interested in the clever shoot
ing of Mrs. Curtis King of Memphis,
and when the kid spied Fred Clarke
who was in the same squad with Mrs.
King, he umped over the ropes and
caused the shooting to stop for fully
five minutes, while the two old .tiEaers.
recalled bygone days.
4 Gleason insisted that the whole
squad, consisting of Mr. and Mrs.
King, Clarke and S. L. and J. f.
Dodds attend the National-White
SoX game after the shooting. The in
vitation was accepted.
Mick" Boylston. champion of Flori-
da, has no use for trophies He had to
be begged to shoot-off his tie with w.
w. Posey for third prize in the IS
Posey have it," said Mick There's
whole crate of those dew-dabs in
an express Office down in Georgia l
have never gotten out"
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