Show mgiiics Hay Suggestions Although the beautiful month of ills May has not made its debut with the traditional wreaths of rosembowered 2SSORS smiles it will bring us tho days of summer sum-mer and of all sorts of outofdoor sports eft Among these we Ogdeuites used to enjoy I ifleSh the gun and the rifle practice The oldest organization of shots was the Ogden I I iiiiip Shooting Club in which J W McNuit A Greenwell the HurIbuts Doc Smith 3 J M Walker Sol C Towslee W D Howe Dick McCarty M H Beards ley J G Tyler and other wellknown citizens used to be prominent and which held regular monthly matches for different leltcr Mill dif-ferent pretty and valuable prizes such Fair as gold medals several of which are still worn with pride by their lucky and k Con plucky winners The Ogden club also used to meet on tho field with cte Salt Lake and Park City crack shots and won laurels in many a hot contest Where is it gone to now True many of the members ZIE3J3 named above have left the town others have put their trustry gun in a dark corner re cor-ner but I should think there still are enough old members left to continue the like City good record of the past and add to it new honors with fresh members 3LL Then there used to be the Ogden Rifle Club in which the Browning boys and IELD Dr Ulrich played leading parts and lecretary which held regular weekly target practices prac-tices to improve in sharpshooting Should the departure of Dr Ulrich and O the mission trip of one of the Brownings have given the death blow to that once so brisk and active organization Let us hopo not Last though not least there flourished for three summers the Amateur Shooting Shoot-ing Club composed of young men and P P E adolescent boys the Greenwells in the front rank They used to compete in shooting glass balls or clay pigeons in E to Ji I weekly practices and matches Where are they |