Rensselaer Semi-Weekly Republican, Volume 34, Number 51, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 25 February 1902 — The Shooting Tournament [ARTICLE]

The Shooting Tournament

At Wednesday’s and Thursday’s two days’ blue rock shooting tournament, M. W. Thompson, of Lafayette, made high average for two days. The following averages were made: M. W. Thompson, Lafayette 84 Sam English, Barkley 83 Joe Parks, Brook 83 Mr. Hess, Brook 82 E. T. Pullins, Barkley 80 J. L. Dietrick, Waveland 80 M. Galbreath, Brook 74 At the silver medal contest, Dietrich and Pullins tied, on 14 out of 15 birds. On the shoot-off between them, Pullins fell down hard and the old veteran shooter from Waveland won by 9 hits out of 10, while Pullins could pull in only 7 out of 10. ' '