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Show t . . Pigeon-Shooting Doomed. ' : IONDON. May 22. The sport of pigeon Shooting sppears to be doomed in England. At Its annual meeting on Saturday ths Horl-! Horl-! logham club, wbtoh. although snalnly concerned con-cerned with polo, wes originally started as a pigeon-shooting club, by aa overwhelming majority ma-jority carried a resolution propoMd by the prseldent. Earl Ancest.r. to henceforth abolish abol-ish iHgeen-eheotlng at the club. Many titled sportsmen attended ths meeting.- - Parliament attempted to deal with-the question ques-tion In UU. but the House of Ixirds vetoed th bill adoptml by the House of Commons prohibiting pro-hibiting trap shooting, on the ground of Its brutsHty. It is expected that after the Hurl-ingham Hurl-ingham club's . decision - the Lords will ne longer oppose such a bill. - -. h -' -'- 1 . ' " - ' ' - : - ''-".' |