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BY HAL DRAKE
KNOXVILLE, Term.—The first Tennessee State Smallbore
Championship, sponsored by the Knoxville Rifle and Pistol Club,
was held May 18-19. Seventy-nine of the finest smallbore shooters
in the country, coming from as far as Pennsylvania, Ohio, Miami,
Florida, and intervening states to participate in the eight smallbore
matches and the two aggregates.
Charlie Hamby, of Atlanta, who
is renewing his shooting activities
with a vengeance, took the Grand
Aggregate of all matches with a
score of 3160x4000. He also
grabbed the Iron Sight aggregate
matches with a score of 1584x1600,
with 96 X’s. The Iron Sight
matches were fired during terribly
bad wind conditions throughout
the day, and Hamby’s score was
little short of phenomenal. Out of
160 shots, only 14 failed to con
tact the 10 ring, and 96 of his 160
shots were in the X ring, the di
minutive marked-off center of the
10 ring used in deciding ties. By
the same process of analysis, it
will be noted that in copping the
Grand Aggregate, Hamby fired
400 shots for record, all but 31
coming in contact with the 10 ring.
This is shooting in anybody’s
language and in any competition
in the world.
Hamby won the Iron Sight, only
100-yard match, with a score of
397x400. In the Iron Sight Dewar
Course, which is 20 shots at 100
yards, Hamby was the winner un
der the same bad weather condi
tions, with 396x400.
Your scribe has seen most of
the finest smallbore shots in the
world in registered matches over
the country and feels no hesitancy
in saying that Hamby is the equal
of any man when it comes to hold
ing a rifle, and is without peer
as a competitive marksman. I have
long contended that if he lived in a
section of the country or was en
gaged in work which would per
mit his attending more major
tournaments, he would rank as the
top rifle marksman in the United
States year after year. Even as
it is, he has ranked among the
top three for quite a while.
Inks Stars in First
Registered Shoot
GAINESVILLE, Ga.—In keep
ing with their usual procedure,
those grand fellows comprising
the Gainesville Rifle and Pistol
Club held their Class “C” regis
tered Tournament May 19. These
matches were under the jurisdic
tion of the National Rifle Asso
ciation, and your correspondent
functioned as official referee for
the N. R. A. Eight matches were
fired in .22 caliber and center-fire
events. An aggregate match was
computed in both the .22 caliber
and center-fire matches. The
shooters were classified in accord
ance with the rules of the N. R. A.:
Master, Expert, Sharpshooter,
Marksman First Class (this is a
new classification, by the way, and
a very silly one, I think), and
straight Marksman.
The results ran true to form in
that Avery Burdette, of Gunters-
ville, Ala., a wonderful shot and
shooting as a Master, captured
both aggregate matches. In the
.22 caliber matches, second place
was taken by Maj. Edwin Hard
ing, Jr., of Fort McPherson, with
the score of 893x1000. Maj.
Harding, being classified as a
Marksman First Class, defeated
any number of Masters, Experts,
Sharpshooters, etc., by his consist
ent shooting in all the matches.
Second place in the center-fire ag
gregate was captured by Sgt. D.
J. Hands, with a score of 694x800.
Maj. Harding took third place in
the center-fire aggregate with
676x800.
FIRST COMPETITION
Highlight of the matches was
the phenomenal and consistent
shooting of S. W. Inks, guard at
the Federal Prison in Atlanta.
Inks lost out in the aggregates
due to faulty ammunition in one
case and defective firing pin in
another, which under the new
rules is very costly as no re-firing
is permissible in the case of a
jammed gun or a defective piece,
These two unfortunate incidents
cost Inks a minimum of 90 points.
The reason I say his shooting is
remarkable is that this was his
first attempt at shooting in regis
tered match competition. He chme
second in the first match of the
day, 20 shots at slow fire, 25
yards, .22 caliber, with 194x200,
his score tying the winner, Hard
ing, but Inks being outranked in
lieu of his second string being
lower than that of Harding under
the Creedmore system. In the
second match, Inks’ gun jammed,
disqualifying him and hurting him
in the aggregate. The third
match, Inks proceeded to take into
camp with a score of 275x300. This
being the Camp Perry course, 10
shots slow fire, 50 yards; 10 shots
timed fire, 25 yards, and 10 shots
rapid fire, 25 yards. In match
No. 9 in the center-fire with .38
caliber gun over the same course,
Inks came third with 265x300,
truly a remarkable bit of shooting
for a new man in registered com
petition and with right potent
competition.
HEDDEN IN CHARGE
Col. W. A. Hedden, U. S. A.,
retired, acted as chief range offi
cer, and he is outstanding in this
capacity, ranking with “Captain”
Edson of the Marines, back in days
of yore at Camp Perry.
Francisco Zachara, eminent Pol
ish pianist of Brenau College and
nationally known musician, shoot
ing in the Marksman class, won
first place medal in matches 2, 3,
4, 5, 6, 7 and 8, and finished sec
ond in match No. 1.
Several contests are in the off
ing between this live-wire Gaines
ville Club and the old Atlanta Ri
fle Club, recently re-organized.—
HAL DRAKE.
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COLUMBIA, S. C.—Dinah, an
ordinary alley cat belonging to
Mark Warren, local newspaper
man, has killed her second rattle
snake in five weeks near the city.
Her latest kill was almost four
feet long, but like a good re
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Washingtonians Get
Drum at Ocracoke
OCRACOKE, N. C.—Nineteen
large channel bass were taken last
week by a party of Washington
ians including Cecil Taylor, George
Curtis Peck, Harold C. Davis,
John R. Cheseldine. The sports
men were fishing from the boat
of Capt. Stacey Howard.
Trout have started to bite here,
but no large catches are reported.
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stories without the evidence. He
brings in the goods and fur
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to obtain accurate figures. The
Georgia Game and Fish Com
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