The Coconino sun., 1925-03-27
FLAGSTAFF GOT THIRD
CORNER OF TRIANGULAR
CLAY TARGET SHOOT


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had been unable to shoot on the sched-
uled day.
Three Flagstaff squads of five men
each shot first in the triangular con-
test. Phoenix followed with three
squads, then Williams with two Each
man shot at so targets.
1t is true that a stiff breeze bother
ed the Flagstaff boys good deal and
had died down pretty much when the
others took their places. But, aside
from that, Flagstaff would very like
~ have been beaten anyway, because
they were off form, every man of the
Is shooting below his average for the
last few weeks. We sure did pick a
nice time to fall down.
The high five men of the three
teams and their scores follow:
Phoenix: Barrett 40, Truman 30,
Halpner 48, Collins As, Edens AZ. To-
tai 241.
Williams: DR.. P. A. Melick IS,
Charlie Wade a., Shaul Al, Earl Mel
ick 43, Cliff Ray az. Total 221. Fos-
ter and Boyd of Williams each broke
az targets also, but shot in the second
squad. Ray, shooting in the first
squad, therefore is listed among the
high five.
Flagstaff: Wild Raudebaugh AZ, Pete
Solberg Al, Buster Raudebaugh 43,
Frank Gold AZ, Ed Raudebaugh AZ.
Total 218. Dannie Campbell, peg five
man in Flagstaff squad 1, also broke
~ targets, and so did John Nichols in
Flagstaff SQUAD and Paul Babbitt in
Flagstaff squad 3.
An amusing development was the
shooting of Buster Raudebaugh, who
went in toward the last with a mixed
squad and 20-gauge gun and by
breaking 43 birds got into the high
five list over the head of his dad. The
latter bought Buster the gun on the
spot and is prouder of the feat than
if. he had broken so straight himself.
These were other Flagstaff shooters
(alleged) who tried to get into the
high five and didn't: Frank Goodman,
DR.. Hendrick, Ed Babbitt, Del Strong,
Loren Cress, Joe Schmidt, Joe Py-
land, Jack Fuss, Ray Downer. Mrs.
Hendrick also had practice trial at
so birds.
Williams men who also shot: Char
lie Button, Douros, Whitfield, Hudson,
Dermont Melick, John Juhl, Ambrose.
Phoenix also-shot men: Gillespie,
who had broken his last It's birds
straight and dropped four out of his
SO at Prescott; Watson, Wilson, Dave
Peters, George Peters, H. p. DeMund,
Charles DeMund, Joe Lobit, Morrell,
Heileman, Sine.
Preliminary to the three-club event
above, the two postponed contests
were shot off, Phoenix beating Grand
Canyon and Williams beating Jerome.
Personnel of Grand Canyon and
Jerome shooters: Grand Canyon
Shirley, Williams, Nelson, Ennis,
Good, Kennedy, Baughn, Spencer,
Scheck, Claude Melick. Jerome
Gardner, Walsh, Reisinger, Scott,
Garroutte, Hawkins, Fitzgerald, Jones,
Harris, Robinson.
Flagstaff people among the specta-
tors Mrs. John w. Francis, DR.. r. s..
F1ett, Mrs. W. B. Raudebaugh, Dr.
and Mrs. M. O. Dumas, Mrs. Frank
Goodman, Mrs. L. w. Cress, Jimmie
Turpin, Frank Miller, Mr.. and Mrs.
Frances Decker, Mrs. Ed Raudebaugh,
Miss Violet Raudebaugh, R. E. Tay-
lor Jr., Miss Mary Lamport, DR.. and
Mrs. v. S. Mcclure, Miss Lucille Big
ham, DR.. and Mrs. A. j. Mackey, Dad
Hollar, Clarence Sullivan, Billy Grant,
Mrs. C. III. Burns, Miss Guillat, Mrs.
Shelby Lewis, Ray Prochnow, Jack
Parsons.
Mrs. c. A. Ray, E. r. Byers, Lar
rv Williams and several other Will
hans people also sat among the spec
tators.
At the banquet that night, DR..
Swenson,. who with Ray Vyne, field
captain, had done SO much to make
the event a success, presided. Ro-
maine Lowdermilk, the cowboy poet,
on behalf of the Arizona Republican,
under whose sponsorship the tourney
just ended had been run, presented
silver trophy cup to Wild Raude-
baugh Of Flagstaff, who, by breaking
240 of the $50 targets he shot at dur
ing the state tourney had captured in
dividual high gun honors. Mr.. Raude-
baugh made a short, neat speech OF
acceptance, as did Tom Edens, the
latter on behalf Of the Phoenix club.
Frank M. Gold of Flagstaff, secre-
tary of the state association, spoke In
felicitious vein, complimenting the
Phoenix club on winning, the Prescott
club on being such fine hosts and the
Flagstaff club on being better eaters
| than shooters. Lyle Abbot of Pres
colt, Dannie Campbell Of Flagstaff
and few others spoke