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THE CLEVELAND MEETING. 



Since the last issue of this journal, 

 two important shooting- nieeting-s have 

 been held, one at Cleveland, Ohio, 

 under the management of the Cham- 

 berlain Cartridge Company, and the 

 other at Pittsburg, Penn., under the 

 management of three of Pittsburg's 

 best known shooting men, Elmer E. 

 Shaner, Chas. M. Hostetter and Dr. J. 

 W. Dickson, the two last named men 

 being- far better known by their nouimc 

 des giierrc of "Old Hoss " and "Jim 

 Crow." Each appellation is a fitting- 

 one, the equine one especially applied 

 to Hostetter on account of his colty 

 friskiness, and Dickson's on account of 

 his swarthiness, he being black eyed, 

 black haired, and with a skin as dark as 

 a Spaniard's who is not of the saiigrc 

 azule. The Cleveland affair called out 

 over a hundred contestants, and was 

 remarkable on two accounts. The first 

 surprise was in the magnificent shoot- 

 ing done by some of the men taking- 

 part in the events. Naturally, this 

 phenomenal work was done by the 

 great shooting cracks of this country, 

 and at that manner of contest, inani- 

 mate target events, there are no men in 

 the world that can equal them. E. D. 

 Fulford, of Utica, this state, led all 

 others in the three days' work. Shoot- 

 ing in all the events, with the targets 

 shot at numbering 330, he broke 304, 

 obtaining an average for the whole 

 shooting of 92.12 per cent. Rolla O. 

 Heikes, of Dayton, Ohio, was the 

 closest of seconds, for he was but a 

 single break behind the New York 

 crack, and breaking 303 out of the 330 

 shot at, and an average of 91.81 per 

 cent. The third man was Sim Glover, 

 also of the Empire State, his home being 



at Rochester. Glover was a single break 

 behind Heikes, his record being 302 

 smashes out of the 330. The fourth 

 man was of the Buckeye State, Worth- 

 ington, of Cleveland, better known by 

 his shooting name of " Redwing" than 

 by his more correct appellation. His 

 score was 291, and his average 88.18. 

 Charlie Budd, of Des Moines, Iowa, was 

 fifth, with 287 breaks, and an average 

 of 86.2 1. Then followed in quick suc- 

 cession but in slow descending scale, 

 but each with an average of over 80 per 

 cent.: Dennis Upson, "Edmonds," 

 Alkire, Grimm, Rike, Vail, McDonald; 

 Neaf Apgar, the well known trap shot 

 of Evona, N. J. ; Frank Parmlee, of 

 Omaha, Neb. ; vSheldon ; Flick, of Ra- 

 venna, Ohio, the one-armed crack of 

 the state; Snow, Fleischer, Sargeant, 

 Raymond, Cicotte, Trimble, Powers, 

 Wood, Parker, Grant; Fanning, repre- 

 sentative of the Gold Dust Powder 

 of vSan Francisco, Cal. ; Graham, of 

 Sault St. Marie; vSeth Clover, of Erie, 

 Penn. , and G. E. W. When one stops 

 to think of the work done by these 

 men, it grows more wonderful the more 

 the record is considered. Thus, out- 

 side of the five men whose work is 

 mentioned in detail, we have no fewer 

 than twenty-five others with records 

 running from 86.21 down to 80. If 

 our's is not a cotmtry of shooting men, 

 the writer knows not where to look for 

 one. 



THE PITTSBURG AFFAIR. 



The other tournament referred to — 

 the Pittsburg affair — came off as an- 

 nounced, Tuesday, Wednesday and 

 Thursday, June 23, 24 and 25. There 

 was $500.00 in cash added by the Pitts- 

 burg Gun Club, under the auspices of 

 which club the meeting was held, and 



