another to "Our Next Merry Meeting,” all 
     
     present clasping hands and singing "Auld Lang 
     
     Syne," concluded one of the most enjoyable as 
     
     well as one of the happiest social events of 
     
     the season. Honors were showered on Mr. 
     
     Heartz by all, and we feel that we but voice 
     
     the sentiments of the whole community in 
     
     acknowledging that he richly deserved all the 
     
     praise bestowed upon him. God save the 
     
     3 a 
     
    
   
   
    
     King. 
     
    
   
   
    
     This occasion at the Hotel Davies, and the 
     
     Examiner account of it, conveys to us the class status 
     
     the members of the Newstead Gun club enjoyed. Frank 
     
     Heartz was obviously a great benefactor of the Club, 
     
     and held in great esteem by members...and oh yes! 
     
     That bountiful menu would have cost the participants 
     
     in the order of .75 each. Liquid for the seemingly 
     
     unending toasts would, no doubt, be a bit more than 
     
     that. 
     
    
   
   
    
     The 1913 Maritime Trapshooting championships were 
     
     slated for Saint John, New Brunswick in mid June, and 
     
     were being proposed in advance literature to be: "One 
     
     of the great events in the Trapshooting game in Canada 
     
     this year." Most Maritime Trapshooting Clubs con- 
     
     tinued to follow, and advance with the Internationally 
     
     regulated game. While the Newstead Club was experi- 
     
     menting with class systems, M.T.S.A. was handicapping 
     
     by distance from the trap, with graduations marked 
     
     from the basic 16-yard rise, in one yard segments, 
     
     back to a maximum of 23. The Secretary of the 
     
     Maritime Association was Sheriff R. B. H. Davidson of 
     
     Amherst, Nova Scotia, and in May he forwarded a series 
     
     of letters, to both past President Fred Hyndman and 
     
     Secretary Teddy Coombs, to encourage Newstead partici- 
     
     pation in the Saint John Champion-ships, and to advise 
     
     the Club that its twenty five cents per member 
     
     Association annual fee was due. The Club enthusiasti- 
     
     cally paid its dues, but there is no indication that 
     
     members journeyed to Saint John, or showed any serious 
     
     interest in the nationally accepted standard trap- 
     
     shooting game. 
     
    
   
   
    
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