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shooter ready, the referee tosses up a coin. If 

 it comes head, the shooter takes the H trap and 

 his opponent the other. If it comes tail, the 

 effect is the reverse. In club-shooting and in 

 sweepstakes as many wads are numbered as there 

 are shooters. The referee places these in his 

 pocket, and after shaking them up pulls one out. 

 The man whose number on the list corresponds 

 to the number on the wad takes the bird in the 

 trap. That wad is then transferred to the other 

 pocket. After the shot another wad is drawn, and 

 so on until all have shot, when the wads will all 

 be in one pocket, and the same thing is to be 

 done until the shooting is at an end. By this 

 means all trickery and favoritism in selecting 

 birds for certain of the shooters is made impossible. 

 I shall now append the scores of the nine 

 championship matches by which the possession of 

 the badge has been determined. The rules under 

 which it was held and shot for will be given here- 

 after. It was required to be held for two years 

 against all comers before it became the property 

 of the holder. I have held it over three years 

 now, having put it up again last spring, when John 

 J. Kleinman shot against me for it at- Joliet, 

 Illinois. 



