remained in circulation, the Heartz Trophy would have today provided a valuable and lasting link with the

past.

Age against him, Sir Louis Henry Davies never did renew his interest in clay target shooting although, as an elderly gentleman, he did visit the Newstead Club from time to time when they were shooting at the race track, and always enjoyed talking about that late December Saturday, in 1888, when he became the first shotgunner on the Island to have a perfect day against the clay pigeons. L. H. Davies died in 1924, at 79 years of age.

Following the war in 1918, clay target shooting in Charlottetown reverted back to the casual type of sport it was prior to 1909. No serious effort was made to revitalize the Newstead Gun Club. The name died, and with it the living memories of those exciting Saturday afternoons when the smell of burnt gunpowder filled the air at Newstead, Belmont, Inkerman, the Exhibition grounds, and the Kensington Rifle Range...It was the end of yet another clay target era.

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