. Breeder and sportsman. Horses. December 1,1900] fcJj* $re«tuw mtt» gw&vtettxum. At the Traps. Bob Welch, the crackaiack wing ehot of the Carteret Gun Club, defeated Thomas W. Morfey, of Queens, L. I., in a 100-bird match at the Interstate Park traps, Long Island, by one bird. He killed every pigeon he shot at, but one managed to carry two chargeB of lead beyond the fifty yards boundary before he passed into the happy hunting grounds for pigeons, and the official ecore reported it a lost bird. The score of ninety-nine kills in a match establishes a new amateur record*. Morfey's score at t
. Breeder and sportsman. Horses. December 1,1900] fcJj* $re«tuw mtt» gw&vtettxum. At the Traps. Bob Welch, the crackaiack wing ehot of the Carteret Gun Club, defeated Thomas W. Morfey, of Queens, L. I., in a 100-bird match at the Interstate Park traps, Long Island, by one bird. He killed every pigeon he shot at, but one managed to carry two chargeB of lead beyond the fifty yards boundary before he passed into the happy hunting grounds for pigeons, and the official ecore reported it a lost bird. The score of ninety-nine kills in a match establishes a new amateur record*. Morfey's score at the finish was 98 kills, one dead out of bounds and one clean miss. The birds were a selected lot of screamers, that despite the absence of wind, arose from the traps with the Bpeed of eo many rockets. Each man made sensational kills, and the excitement was at fever heat during the race. At the end of the twenty-fifth round each man had a full score of kills. Welch failed to atop his forty-seconl selection, a fast left driver that rose from trap No. 2 with the speed of a whirlwind. The shooter put both barrels in the right place, but the pigeon, strong as a yonng sea gull, fluttered over the wire fence about six in- ches in advance of the retriever that caught him in the air a short yard oatside. Morfey missed his next bird, and the men were again on even terms. They completed the first half of the race in the same posi' tions, and killed straight from that point until the eighty- fourth round, when Morfey failed to stop a screaming left driver that twisted oat of both chargeB and flew away as though he had urgent business in the next county. This lost the match for the expert from Queens and, incidentally, per- mitted Welch to retain the Dupont challenge trophy, valued at $500. More than $1000 changed hands on the result. Nearly 200 well known clubmen were on the grounds when the match started, and Morfey was the first to face the trap. He paused before the usual query, "
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