The new trap was set up as the single unit had 
     
     been, except that they took away the screen and shot 
     
     at a 15-yard rise rather than the usual 20. Six 
     
     members shot at eleven pairs in this ultimate 
     
     challenge, and Fred Peters showed the others the way, 
     
     breaking 16 of the 22 targets. Sharpshooting Bill 
     
     Hobkirk found that two targets in the air at once were 
     
     not quite as easy as one. The results of the first 
     
     doubles shoot were as follows: 
     
    
   
   
    
     Fred Peters 01 10 11 1110111010101111 16 
     
     Bill Hobkirk 00 11 0110 00 111110101010 12 
     
     Eustace Haviland 00 01 11 0100 111010111000 11 
     
     Ernest Blanchard 00 10 00 11 00 00 00 00101000 5 
     
     Rowan FitzGerald 00 01 01 00 00 00 1100000010 5 
     
     Fred Hyndman 00 00 00 00 10 00 00 01 01:00 00 +3 
     
    
   
   
    
     The Club held two more shoots before they ran out 
     
     of targets, a doubles event in late June, and a 
     
     singles shoot at Arthur Peters' on July llth. 
     
     Attendance was only fair and the President, in his 
     
     wisdom, decided to curtail all activity until after 
     
     the wildfowl season in the fall. By then, it was 
     
     hoped the availability of clay targets would improve. 
     
    
   
   
    
     In late October a special committee from the 
     
     membership was set up to establish a handicap system 
     
     for the shooting events, and to look into a prize 
     
     programme for the new season. They handicapped the 
     
     members, based on last year's scores, making the 
     
     better shooters take more targets on a graduated 
     
     scale, and the scores supposedly would be equalized by 
     
     adding the difference to the final score. 
     
    
   
   
    
     It sounds confusing, but these serious gentlemen 
     
     took a very intellectual approach to everything they 
     
     resolved, as evidenced by their insistence that one 
     
     other handicap rule be included--that Bill Hobkirk, in 
     
     all matches, be allowed only one barrel, or one shot, 
     
     at each target. Regarding prizes, they reasoned that 
     
     they had now been shooting clay targets for over a 
     
     year, with little incentive other than the personal 
     
    
   
   
    
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