STRAIGHTAWAY DOUBLES CROSSING F. W. Hyndman 1101 101131101 — «9/12 Major Peake 1111 01011011 —= «9/12 Dr. Blanchard 1101 11010011 8/2 Capt. Peake 1101 1011 0001+ 47/12 Major Weeks 0011 10100110 6/2 A. W. Hyndman 1111 00001001 6/12 W. E. Hyndman 1100 1000 0101 = 5/12 L. G. Haszard 1010 1000 0011 ~~ &5/12 F. R. Heartz 1100 00001001 4/12 Major MacDonald 0010 1101 0000 £=4/l2 J. O. Hyndman 1000 10100000 3/12 Major Leigh 0000 0100 0010 2/12

Again this week the shooting action only whet the appetite of the members, and they all stayed on to participate in an auction shoot, for a silver spoon. The ‘auction’ shoot was a common fun contest of the era, and was simply an elimination match, shooting at one pair of doubles on a 14-yard rise. The idea was that each, in turn, would shoot, and those not equalling the best score made would be eliminated from the next round, and so on, until a winner was declared...Not really too much different from the miss-and-out shoot offs we hold today. In this particular match, when the first round was over, not one shooter had hit a pair, but seven of them broke one target to advance to the second round. Following the next pair of targets only two gunners were still in the game. Ernest Peake and Al Hyndman had both doubled, and would now face each other in the final. Hyndman shot first and missed the initial target but got the second. Peake called "Pull," and broke the pair, to win the spoon. There is no indication that any money changed hands during these confrontations, but I'm sure if we could go back to one of those winner-take-all 'auction' shoots, we would hear some silver jingling, and it wouldn't be the spoons.

Sterling silver spoons were a popular prize in 1911, and were given out at most special events, and the regular Saturday matches. Many of these spoons are still held today by the later generations of those

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