Novel System of Scoring
Article printed in the Toronto Star on Thursday January 10, 1901
Jack Wayper, the Noted Trap Shot, Has Devised a New Scheme for the Hespeler Gun Club
Hespeler, Jan. 10 -- The Hespeler Gun Club has inaugurated a new system of live-bird scoring. It is an idea of Jack Wayper, the noted trap-shooter, who is a member of the club. Mr. Wayper claims that the present system of scoring is unfair, for it a bird is shot inside the boundary line and falls a couple of feet outside there is no score, whereas should it fall a foot inside, the shooter scores a bird. Mr. Wayper thinks a pigeon falling outside, which is gathered behind the dead line by the shooter, within the three-minute limit allowed, should count its killer halt a bird. The Hespeler Gun Club in its shoots hereafter will allow this rule. It was tried for the first time, with the following result.
A. Hergett, Waterloo -- 1 0 0 1 1 0 0 1 0 1 1 0 1 0 -- 7
J. Wayper, Hespeler -- 1 1 1 1 1 1-2 1 1 1 1 1 1 1-2 1 -- 13
O. B. Ellis, Hespeler -- 1-2 1 1 1 1 0 1 1 1 1 1 0 1 1--1 1 1-2
M. Andrick, Waterloo -- 1 1 1 1 1 1 - 2 1 1 - 2 1 1 0 0 1 - 10 1-2
E. Bowman, Hespeler -- 0 0 1 0 0 1 1 0 0 1 0 0 0 0 - 1