| Show Sporting matters Trap and Trigger The programme for tho two days tournament of the Gun club scheduled for i he 27th and 2Sth of March wIll bo out In afpv days apt Calllson has collected 2SO with an much more Insight In-sight which will be put up nt prizes In the special events on the pro gramme Many Inquiries have been received re-ceived from gun clubs of neighboring Stated regarding the louriiaiiunt which will without doubt be the big gqnt shoot ever held in the Stale The I Ogden Provo American Fork and Helper clubs will be In full attendance while a fpw of the best shooters from I other clubs will be present The local boys will have a hard game to hold up I their end at the shoot AS the boys allover all-over the Satc arc shooting as well as they arc here t I S The trap has been out of condition the past week and many blue rocks have been broken In not being thrown out properly The machine was thoroughly thor-oughly overhauled yesterday and if It still persIsts In making trouble a new j 1 trap will be sent for i The weekly match rabbit shoots between be-tween the Murray Sandy and Hunter boys during the present winter has resulted re-sulted In leanlng out nearly every rabbit between the Jordan river and the lake a a The duck season will open for one month commencing on the first and It will be one of the best spring seasons I for many years Owing to the mild weather many ducks remained here Becks lake is covered with thousands I of ducks that can be seen any day In the Week a a There has been shooting at the mouth of the Jordan river all winter for duck It Is In Davis county and from general reports a hunter is safe In that section One year ago a party was arrested for having killed over 200 pounds of ducks during the closed season and was not fined one cent Salt Lake sports do not understand the meaning of It or why shooting is allowed to go on at the present time when there is a law against It o a a It IB hoped that tho quail season will i be opened up for at least fifteen days I before spring The birds are so plentiful plenti-ful along the hillsides that there Is i quail enough for everybody There is talk of circulating a petition to the Legislature to open up the law on the i birds a a a Seven oC the twelve men who took part In the Gun club shot yesterday afternoon scored over forty birds The trap acted worse than ever and several sev-eral dollars worth of blue rocks were broken before they wqre released to be shot at The trouble In the trap cannot be located Capt Calllson won medal A for the third consecutive week winning by one bird yesterday Parker and J P Sharp tied with for tyfive birds each for second place and Brockbank and Ncwcomb tied for third place with fortythree birds Mr Ames of Bingham was the only visitor present to take part in the shoot The scores made were as follows Birds Dead Lost Calllson EO < G 4 Parker 50 15 o J F Sharp 50 5 Brockbank 50 43 7 Nowcomb 50 J3 7 I Joa Sharp 50 42 i S John Sharp Jr 50 41 9 James Sharp 60 3S 12 Barrntt 1 50 S3 17 Mitchell 0 32 3S Woodruff F0 2o 25 Ames 50 20 SOOn SO-On the Diamond Word wag received from Dan Hickey manager of the Rio Grande team who Is now In St Paul that he would lie here the present week and the league meeting that had been scheduled for today could take place next Sunday at which all the teams could be present Hickey is signing up several dark horses which he will spring on the public pub-lic the coming season a a M Manager Cllpplnger of the Short Line team has signed up six players the names of whom he Intends to withhold with-hold until he has congregated his entire en-tire team a K o Manager Moineckc of the Park City team Is incorrcspondence with several prominent pitchers and catchers in the East and says that he will have a battery bat-tery the equal of which will not be seen Hi the West this year Among the Horsemen As soon as the weather opens up sufficiently suf-ficiently to allow training the track Hal Brown will ship to Denver five of his best race horses where they will compete at the 10000 meet scheduled for June Al Splcer has been giving the horses road work for the past three weeks and they arc now in condition for the track Altoka is much stronger than last season and Mr Brown believes be-lieves he will carry off first prize in the trotting events a a a John McCoy is negotiating with several sev-eral parties to rebuild the Agricultural park track for the prcsnt season and promote semiweekly horse races there the prepcnt year T J Montgomery may lake charge of the alders park track to give big monthly meets BasketBall Affairs The LyD S college basketball team will be strengthened the present wook Taylor Ray and Roy Romney III bo added to the teamall three of them being expert playersi President Augustus Au-gustus of the league stated yesterday that thetwo ftomnejs could not Play the present week as under the existing exist-ing riilesy seven dttys notice had to be given the jSresfdejnt If a i new member were tp eadded to any team The Y M C A and L D S College will meet for the second time In a league game Thursday night at Social hall At present these two teams are the best in the league a a S The Qqulrrh girls will play the L D S College girls Thursday night at Social So-cial hall The L l D S girls bayonet been defeated yet > a a a President Augustus of the basketball basket-ball league Is looking for good officials The game Is new here and there are very few wjioumderstand the rules a o M The athletic exhibition by the Y M C A gymnastic classes which was scheduled for tomorrow night has been postponed until Wednesday night A match game between the Y M C A and All Hallqrn basketball teams will be played In connection with the exhibition ex-hibition An Invitation has been sent to the Legislature to attend the exhibition exhibi-tion and Augustus IH working hard to secure good work from his students Helper Gun Club Helper Feb Inclosed find score at Helper at regular club shoot Owing Ow-ing to storm only two members were present and a match of 75 birds was shot Stewart won by four birds killing kill-ing 67 put of possible 75 The boys here are practicing for the tournament at Salt Lake In March and expect to make a creditable showing for their club at that time W S Stewart 11111 Olllt 11111 inn non 11111 10111 11111 oilll mil 01111 moo 11111 11110 urn Hits 67 miss S B T Montgomery 11110 01110 11101 11011 inn S inn 11101 mil 01111 01111 louo urn inn imo 01111 Hits G3 miss 12 |
