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The American Aiii^ler. 



this naturally attra6ted quite a delega- 

 tion of the highest shooting cracks. 

 Among these were such men as E. D. 

 Fulford, Rolla A. Heikes, Charlie 

 Grimm, Fred Gilbert, Frank Parmlee, 

 Neaf Apgar, and Charlie Budd. The 

 affair of the greatest interest was the 

 annual handicap target race of the club, 

 which was for $50.00 in cash, beside 

 the entrance money, and for a hand- 

 some silver trophy, presented by the 

 E. C. Powder Company. The conditions 

 were a hundred singles a man, with an 

 extra number of targets allowed the 

 weaker men. This allowance, made by 

 competent handicappers, by the way, 

 was not made known to the contestants 

 either before or during the shooting. 

 The contestant shot right along until his 

 hundred was finished, and then shot up 

 his allowance. When the allotment was 

 reached, the command "Out" advised 

 him that, in -so-far as he was personally 

 concerned, the race was over. The event 

 found a half hundred men ready and 

 willing to shoot under the conditions 

 named. The race was won by one of the 

 most popular sportsmen of Pittsburg, 

 John H. Schaffer. Having an allowance 

 of but a half dozen targets, he made the 

 handsome score of 98 breaks out of the 

 106 shot at. John Winston, of Washing- 

 ton, Indiana, was second — 42 ; had an 

 allowance of six, the same as Schaffer's, 

 and broke 97 out of the 106. Neaf 

 Apgar, starting in as scratch man, that 

 is, without allowance of any kind, was 

 third, with 95 oiit of the 100. A remark- 

 able bit of shooting is that of Apgar's. 

 95 per cent, is seldom reached by even 

 the best of the men in this sort of 

 shooting. 



THE MAGAUTRAP. 



At the Cleveland tournament, under 

 the management of that well-known 

 sportsman, Paul North, was shown this 



automatic revolving trap. Every man 

 that the writer has met who was present 

 at the shooting refers in terms of the 

 highest praise. Its work was really 

 phenomenal in its excellence, so much 

 so, that the shooting men say that it is 

 going to revolutionize trap shooting in 

 the United States. The writer under- 

 stands that this Magautrap is not to be 

 placed upon the market for sale, but is 

 only to be leased from year to year. 

 The price for its use the first year being 

 $50.00, this cost including the putting 

 it in position and the little building that 

 houses it from the weather, and which 

 is large enough to hold in comfort the 

 man who operates it. 



THE AMERICANS ABROAD. 



A little allusion to the work of that 

 little coterie of American shooting men 

 taking part in the different events now 

 going on in England and on the Con- 

 tinent may not be out of place in this 

 monthly record of shooting matters. 

 Their work has been of the best. When 

 one considers that many of these con- 

 tests have a good deal over a hundred 

 entries, the superiority of our marksmen 

 becomes apparent; for the United 

 States, at the most, has not yet had, 

 at any one time, a half dozen represen- 

 tatives to shoot in these contests as 

 Americans. George Work, the well- 

 known sportsman, of this city, led off 

 at Hurlingham by running out 20 

 straight kills, a phenomenal feat, sel- 

 dom equalled and never surpassed. 

 He captured first money, amounting to 

 close on $700.00, and won, in addition, 

 a breech-loading gun, worth some 

 $200.00 more. Being a very popular 

 man, both at home and abroad, the 

 vi6lory was accentuated by a loud out- 

 burst of applause. It may well be 

 imagined the American contingent was 

 not silent when their companion cap- 



