Salt Lake Telegram | 1910-01-25 | Page 7 | Jeffries Outshoots All His Companions at Gun Club Traps

MIES JEffRIES MOOTS ALL AU IS 1 COMPANIONS AT GUN CLUB I TRAPS APS Champion Boxer Proves Himself an Expert With Shotgun and Rifle Before leaving Salt Lake yesterday the members of ot the Jeffries-Gotch Jeffries troupe 9 of champions champions' were the guests of the theS Salt Lake Gun club at a delightful trap shoot The champions surprised the crack shots of ot the local gun club by their expert They did excellent work with the shotgun and with the rifle In trap shooting Jeffries his lila companions A triangular match shoot was arranged between Dr B. B F F. Roller Frank Gotch and Jim slim Jeffries A block of ot twentY twentY- twenty five ve targets was shot which Jeffries won with a score of ot two twenty Gotch finished second with twenty and Dr Roller took third with nineteen The prize was a dinner which Dr Roller was forced to buy at Ogden last night for the rival marksmen and for Farmer Burns who did the coaching After shooting with the shotguns the champions tried the rifle All three were at ease with the rifle and rocks on the hillside a thousand yards distant were ere easy targets for the trio They said aid the they planned great hunting excursions through the hills when Jeffries comes cornel here to train for his big contest On leaving Salt Lake Jeffries declared that while In Salt Lake he had the best b bs s time of his entire trip In Ogden before the show Jeffries s proved himself a vers versatile tile champion He lIe played a game of pool with Tex ard Sam Berger and Frank Gotch and after an exciting game won on the purse of 50 Jeffries delighted the people of Og Ogden Ogden Og- Og den by telling them that before permanent perma perma- neat nent t training quarters were definitely de decided decided de- de upon g he would consider e een en the ti famous m Ogden canyon canon Tex Tea Rickard assured his Ogden friends that everything relative relative rela rela- tive to the location of the coming contest hda been settled and that It would certainly be held In Salt Lake The Gotch Jeffries-Gotch show v was seen en by byan byan byan an Immense audience at the New Ogden theatre tr li last night t. t theT T The Ogden g fans ft H were r pleased d with the show o and with Wh the condition in which Jeffries appeared to be After the show the champions parted company with the promoter of the coming contest Jeffries and his companions corn corn- went to Pocatello while Rickard went to Ely