FOREST AND STREAM. 



191 



with the by-laws of the game protective societies, organized or 

 to he organized under the laws of this State; the person so of- 

 fending shall forfeit and pay the sum of fifty dollars for each 

 and every offence, and may he proceeded" against in any 

 county in this State wherein 'such person or persons may lie 

 arrested, or wherein such Offence shall have been committed ; 

 and in default of the payment of the forfeit money, with costs 

 of prosecution, any person or persons so offending shall lie in 

 the common jail until the same shall be paid; one-half of the 

 forfeit money shall he for the benefit of the person prosecut- 

 ing for the same, and the remainder paid to the collector of 

 the township wherein the conviction may he had, and all acts 

 and parts of acts inconsistent with this act are hereby re- 

 pealed; provided that nothing in this act shall prevent fl 

 dents of this State from taking game or fish subject to the ex- 

 isting laws of this State. 



"5}. And be it enacted, That any member of any society for 

 the protection ot game and fish, organized under the laws of 

 this State, shall be empowered to make arrests of any person 

 or persona who may be found violating any of the provisions 

 of this act, or infringing any of the laws of this State made 

 for the protection ot game and fish, and bring him or them 

 before a magistrate for examination. 



"3. And belt enacted, That the county clerks of the several 

 counties of thin Slate be, and they are hereby directed to keep 

 in their respective offices a record of the members of any game 

 and fish protective society organized under the laws of this 

 8tate, and shall, upon the payment of twenty-five cents, fur- 

 nish to said members as aforesaid a certificate under his seal 

 certifying to said membership." 



Wide-awake pHlLABHtHjaiAMB— M$$S/f Fnrest and Stream : 

 On the 12th of this month Henrv Rihle, residing at, Penrose's 

 Ferry, near the mouth of the river aJhaylkili, was arrested 

 on compUlut of an officer of the Philadelphia Game Protec- 

 tive Association for netting reed birds, ami was taken before 

 Magistrate Shain, who held him in $300. The above person 

 has been for some time engaged in that illegal way of taking 

 birds, and the Association hope they have stopped him. 



Philadelphia, Sept. 30, 1878. B. W. R. 



Tbsnbssee. — A Kentucky correspondent whose nom de 

 plume is well known to our readers, desires the names of 

 some Tennessee sportsmen who will exert themselves to secure 

 legislation protecting the streams common to those two States. 

 Address " Jientuckian," care of this office. 



THE "PALMA" MATCH OF 1878. 



The International match for the Palma has come and gone. 

 In the absence of any foreign competitors, the National Rifle 

 Association of America were resolved not to allow the year to 

 go over without fulfilling that requirement in the conditions 

 which demanded an annual contest. There had been no little 

 confusion in the preliminaries, and in no small degree the 

 desire to close the controversy between the team of 1877 and 

 the directors of the National Rifle Association was of much 

 weight in determining the fact of a "walk-over." Many 

 opposed it, urging that to shoot a formal match, and put oi 

 record such scores as it was felt would be made, could only 

 result in postponing indefinitely the coming of another foreign 

 team to our shores, To this shallow view it was replied, that 

 the riflemen abroad were well posted as to doings on the 

 American ranges, and to think that they were to come under 

 any misapprehension of the task before them was lo impugn 

 their intelligence. There had been some talk, even after the 

 closing of entries on June 1, that a foreign team from across 

 the border might come and demand the right, of entry without 

 any notice at all, since the origiual conditions imposed no 

 forfeiture of right to shoot by neglect to enter. Altogether, it 

 was resolved to have a formal shootingover the ground, if for 

 no other object than to beat the record " or the American 

 team of a year ago," and a fe*v weeks ago the invitations were 

 sent through the country for such as chose to try for places on 

 the team, to at once proceed to make trial scores, and send 

 them in to the N. R. A office. Everything was done in thi 

 greatest of hurry, and many who might have entered were 

 debarred by the shortness of the notice accorded them. How- 

 ever, eight men were chosen, and on scores, too, which, as 

 the files of the Fobest and Stbeaji will show, were far in 

 excess of anything heretofore shown in such preliminary 

 tests. Hopes were raised that at the two days' match, or 

 "walk-over," that a record would be made which only the 

 most sanguine would ever think of excelling. There were 

 many adverse opinions given, and in not a few quarters the 

 hope was that the new men would break down, they were 

 accused of spoiling for a match, and all sorts of reasons, 

 flimsy and specious, were given for postponing or prohibiting 

 the. trial. The selection of days was most unfortunate. The 

 24th and 25th were first chosen, but a picnic, to which several 

 of the team wished to go, induced a postponement to the 25th 

 and 26th, and thereby gave them a pair of difficult days, and 

 a finish in the grandest sort of a wind and rain squall. The 

 team was made up of five Bostonians, a Virginia man, one 

 man from Poughkeepsie and but one ancient Creedmoor marks- 

 man. It had never fired over the ranges as a team, and, 

 the squadding was a matter of chance. Under these circum- 

 stances the score it made was remarkable. 



Two targets on the extreme right of the range had been 

 provided, and upon these, the men were arranged. To the 

 extreme right, on target VI., wereH. P. Clark, ft. Eathboue 

 C. E. Dwighl and H. T. Rockwell, shooting in the order 

 named, while upon the target " Star" the Order oi firing was 

 W. H. Jackson, J. S- Sumner, .J, S Brown and Win. Gerrish. 

 The rain of the preceding night had left a damp sod, and the 

 sun raised a shimmer, which gave the target a dancing, un- 

 certain look. 



B. G. Doughty coached upon target VI., while A. G. Davi- 

 son did lhe"same on the "star" target, Mr. J. P. Waters 

 also assisting there as spotter. 



Judge Stanton, the President of the Association, acted as 

 executive officer, aud before the shooting began made a brief 

 speech to the assembled team, welcomiug"them to the grounds, 

 and saying that, while the crowds of a great international 



match were wanting, such a spur was not needed to secure 

 the best possible effort from the men and to enable thenl to 

 sustain America's high prestige at the target. He felt proud, 

 as the President of the National Rifle Association, that the 

 ritlcmeu would not allow the sport to languish, even though 

 no teams came from abroad to urge the men to their best 

 effort. 



In reference to the troubles and misunderstandings which 

 had arisen between the National Rifle Association Directors 

 and the team of 1877, the following amendment, to the original 

 conditions of the match had been passed by the Directors, who 

 were the donors of the prize, and he would read them for the 

 information of the team men before they proceeded to shoot: 

 <?, That for the purpose of carrying out the in- 

 structions of the Association in establishing the competitions 

 for the American Centennial Trophy, the following be sub- 

 stituted for the 9lh paragraph of such conditions, entitled : 



" Prize, the American Centennial Trophy Palma. Such 

 trophy to be shot for in each subsequent year on the same 

 terms as the country of the team holding it at such time and 

 place as such team, or a majority thereof, may prescribe ; ex- 

 cept that when the trophy shall have been won by the Ameri- 

 can team, the time and place for the succeeding contest shall 

 be fixed by the N. R. A. of A. At least six months notice of 

 such time and place must be given to the National Rifle Asso- 

 ciation of America aud Great Britain, notices being sent at 

 the same time to the rifle associations of all other countries 

 that have been represented in previous competitions. Such 

 notice may specify a date not less than ninety days prior to 

 the time fixed for the match, -within which lime entries must 

 be made ; aud such notice may further prescribe that in case 

 no entries shall be received within such time the match shall 

 bo declared off for that year. In case no opposing team shall 

 enter a shoot in any competition the then holders of the trophy 

 may, in their discretion, dispense with any competition or or- 

 ganize a team to shoot the match. In case a team shall shoot 

 under such circumstances, there shall be inscribed on the 

 trophy, in the place allotted for the record of that year, the 

 name of the country of the team shooting, and the words, 

 'No other competitor,' and such team shall be entitled to its 

 custody for the year. In case no team shall shoot in any 

 year the trophy shall remain in the hands of those holding it, 

 and the space left for that year shall be filled with the name 

 of that country, and the words, ' No competition.' " 



Capt. Jacksou made no response, but proceeded at once to 

 take advantage of the fair weather conditions, for at the mo- 

 ment the flags huDg fiat and still against the poles, with now 

 and then a slight movement as a puff came from the 8 o'clock 

 quarter. The sun shone down hot and strong, and the wind 

 was tricky and shifty ; but the opening was a good one, and 

 from Sumner's 75 to Dwight and Rockwell's 67 the scores 

 were well grouped. Dwight, with his Maynard, was unfor- 

 tunate in having loaded a lot of cartridges before he started 

 from his Virginia home, and a thousand miles by rail aud 

 water had, he thought, caked the powder and rendered the 

 fire uncertain ; in some shots he declared he could distinctly 

 feel the explosion of the fulminate aud then the ex plosion of the 

 powder. The "uuaccountables" which he put in at each range 

 on his first day are disagreeable facts, the reasons for which 

 have not becu clearly determined. Mr. Dwight insists that the 

 fault was not in the weapon, and that his feat of 218 and 319 

 on two successive days will be repeated by him. The men 

 and their style of shooting are worth noting. Of course, none 

 of them fired in the old prone position. 



Jackson, who led off on target "Star," is a large, finely 

 built man, and bad on the dark red team uniform of last year, 

 aud used the old Yale position, with his gun resting across 

 his left leg and the butt-plate lucked close into his right arm- 

 pit. Sumner, the champion of the match, is a slight, long- 

 bearded man, below the medium height. He crosses his legs 

 at the ankles, and with the heel of his rifle in his right arm- 

 pit, rests the barrel on his left thigh. He is a stove-dealer at 

 Newton, Mass., and a marksmau of barely a year's standing. 

 Brown is a powerfully built man, shooting, like Jackson, 

 wilh his left, hand across his breast. Gerrish is a young man, 

 lacking the judgment of the older shots, but a good holder. 

 He rests his left upon his right unee and puts the rifle barrel on 

 top of it. These four men have shot together for months upon 

 the Walnut Hill range, near Boston. On target VT. Bath- 

 bone, a gaunt old man in his shirt sleeves, fired in the Yale 

 position, his left hand grasping the rifle barrel near the breech. 

 i.:oi..-iDeJ i..,;i:k, of r''.''.i^h:;eep:"-ie, ; mere boy m tmnu-, I'll., an 

 old rifleman, crossed his legs like Fulton, but keeping his gun 

 to his armpit. C. E, Dwight, the West Virginian, used the 

 old Fulton position pure and Biniple, with his" left hand grasp- 

 ieg the heel-plate of his gun. Rockwell, the handsome man 

 of the party, with his moustache and goatee, had an easy po- 

 sition, like Col. Clark's. Ah of the men, with one exception, 

 used the Borchard Sharps Rifle from the Bridgeport Armory. 



The story of the day's work : The 800-yard range was 

 finished before luncheon, and here they were five points be- 

 hind the corresponding score of last year's winning team. 

 During the 900 yards score the wind on the dial was from the 

 7 o'clock quarter, but i o varying in force that the men found 

 difficulty in keeping within the bull's-eye, but at the finish 

 they were ahead of the score of last year, and this encouraged 

 them for the 1,000 yards' work, where again they were ahead 

 of the record of 1877, and the day closed with a majority of 5 

 points. The actual shooting merit had been far ahead, for corn- 

 pared with the first day of 1877 this had been a perfect puzzler. 

 lu the one it was merely set and hold, iu the other there wasa 

 continuous strain on the judgment and attention of the men. 

 Had it not fired another shot the team of 1878 had shown it- 

 self the superior of any team yet organized either in this 

 country or abroad. Besides the weather they had a score of 

 obstacles to contend with which would have thrown any ordi- 

 nary squad into utter confusion and ruin. The men had been 

 chosen in a hurry, had assembled and proceeded to work 

 without anything like an organization. To the majority of 

 them Creedmoor was a terra ivicognita, and its tricky winds 

 were a sore botheration. The men approached nearer to a 

 fortuitous concourse of atoms than a homogenous working 

 organization able to give a long, strong pull altogether. With 

 various weapons never brought to a standard in windage or 

 elevations, the men, except as aa association of coaches, 

 could afford each other but little assistance, and a point, or 

 two of carelessness put the finishing items to the long list of 

 misfortunes under which they suffered. Rathbone put in a 

 bull's-eye on the wrong target. It was a mistake more dam- 

 aging probably to himself than to the team as a body, and it 

 would not be 'out of the way to ask whether in firing matches 

 of this character it would not be well to use screens, to keep the 

 men on their own targets. It may lead to greater care lo keep 

 the present open line, but losses will bappen aud a defeat on 

 the record with a virtual victory on the field is provoking. 

 Besides, such cross firing is dangerous to the men iu the butts, 

 and the screens suggested would be fair all round and allow 



each team to put all its work on record and avoid the present 

 unexplained failures and "goose-eggs." 



The gem of the day's work was Summer's 221 iu the possi- 

 ble 225. It was simply magnificent, and carried out. too, almost 

 entirely upon his own judgment. Potty-one bull's-eyes in 

 forty-five shots is almost good enough to suit anybody, but 

 there is perfection yet ahead, and while neither of the quartet 

 of centres made by Summer were over six inches from the 

 bull's-eye, they were out of the black and therefore altogether 

 despicable. A little flickering Of the wind at the finish, and 

 perhaps a slight unsteadiness' at the prospect of something 

 well nigh infallible seemed to trouble Mr. Summer toward the 

 finish, and his four centres Bt the finish have a very inartistic 

 and unprofessional look. If they are to have any place at all 

 iu the record it is surely not at the end of so brilliant an 

 effort. 



The scores of the day were : 



nKTAILET) SCOKE— SEPT. SB, 1878. 



J 8 Sumner— Borehard-Sliarps Rifle. 



BOO 5 5555565555555 S— 76 



BOO, 6 5 fi 5 4 fi 5 o 5 5 5 B !> 5 8— M 



1,M0 ....•> 555 5 555455554 4— 72— 221 



W il Jackson— Borchard-Sliarps Kifle. 



S00... 5 18 5 5 5 5 5 5 5 5 8 5 5 6-74 



9i'0 5 5545636465564 5—70 



l|OU0 5 5555653 5 85566 8— 73— 317 



H F Clark— Bnrehard-Stiarps Rifle. 



B00 6 5555555564B55 4—73 



90' 3 55845 5 55555 5 6 5-72 



1,000 3 4545455555555 5—71—516 



J S Brown— Bncliard-^liarps Rifle. 



800 5 5455566355435 6—69 



»»0 ., 4 4453855465564 6— 63 



1,000 8 B55 5 465455565 5—73—210 



11 T Rockwell— Borchard-SliarpB RiOe. 



9110..... 6 66542544455 5 5 4—67 



900 5 8545554555555 4-70 



1,000, 5 5 3 5 4 6 6 5 5 4 5 4 5 5 4—69—206 



W Geriish— Burebard-Sharps Ride. 



800 4 455545 14.=- 5 5 53 5-63 



900 4 554 4 354546555 5-0S 



1.000 5 5646565464436 5—69—305 



R Ralhhone— Booliard-Sharps Rifle. 



800 S 545665 4 53455 5 5—70 



9'" 1 .6 55564453554 5 4 6-69 



1,000 4 6 4 5 5 6 6 4 4 4 4 5 5-69— 198 



O B Dwight— Maynard Rifle. 



800 5 5654545055555 4—17 



«00 2 55 5 0635555444 5-63 



1-000 5 4586564404 4 4 4— 58-1S7 



SOfljards. 900 yards 1 ,000 yards 



563 663 644 1660 



There was no disguising the fact that the second day was 

 not to give the marksmen even such a chance as they had ex- 

 perienced with on the first day, and as for comparison with 

 last year, when, on that memorable Friday in the. middle of 

 September, the Americans rolled up 1,679 points. There 

 were d jzeus of points difference in the weather, but, as this 

 does apt go upon the report, the men set to work to beat the 

 1,679 down in plain black and white. 



There was no change in the arrangement of the men, and 

 through the 80D yards score the light was dull and heavy, the 

 clouds threatening rain in the strongest manner, and the wind 

 too, was blowing at a stiff rate froin the 7 o'clock quarter, not 

 very changeable as to direction, but very much so as to force. 

 Jaeksou led off with some hope and much trepidation, but he 

 caught a bull, and here was plainly evident the want of team 

 organization ; for, with such a lead, every member of the (ruin 

 should have followed suit, whereas but four of the team 

 opened with bulls. The men were evidently striving, for such 

 a score on such a day was simply superb ; 584 iu the possible 

 600 showed the finest sort of work, and two perfect scores at 

 the same distance is enough to stamp the team as of first-class 

 material. At 900 yards the sun came out hot, while the wind 

 began to freshen up into a gale, and as much as seven points 

 were allowed on a 7 o'clock wind, while elevations ran very 

 low indeed. There was some irregular firing, but a score of 

 ."544 in such a wind was fully ten points better than the s-ie 

 of last year, while it stood ten points behind. 



It was evident when the 1,000 yards range firing opened 

 that it was to be a nip-and-tuck race to see whether the end of 

 the match or the coming storm would arrive first. But luck 

 was against the men, and with his first shot at 1,000 yards 

 Rockwell discovered that his rifle was disabled, and then 

 came the exhibition of bad management somewhere in the 

 team ; for, with no extra gun to] take, Rockwell sat helpless 

 during the hour and a half while the other men fired their 

 scores, expecting to borrow Jackson's rifle when that gentle- 

 man was through with it, both of them forgetful of the well- 

 known rule which prohibits the use of the same rifle by two 

 competitors in the same match. Dwight, using a single car- 

 tridge shell, which he loaded after each discharge, was de- 

 tained behind his squad, and finally at 4 o'clock, when the 

 storm of rain and wind burst over the range, currying away 

 tents and stools, washing the target faces into graybacks, and 

 forcing all to make short cuts for the semi-shelter of the club 

 house. The squall was over in less than au hour, but left the 

 range dark, and an attempt to finish the scores of Messrs. 

 Dwight and Rockwell only succeeded iu giving the bitter gen- 

 tleman a miss. It was evideut that there was nothing but an 

 indefinite postponement, and Judge Stanton, as executive offi- 

 cer, at JaBt so ordered it, when it was evident that the ele- 

 ments were to give no mercy. 



DETAILED SOORK— SEPT. 26, 1S78. 



W H Jackson— Borclmrd-Sharpa Rifle. 



800 6 5855555555555 5—75 



,?00 5 6 8 3 5 6 3 5 4 6 6 5 4 5 5-69 



1,000 5 55 5 55655345B5 5— 72— 21G 



H F Clark— Borctiard-Sharpa Rifle. 



800 6 56655555 5 5655 6—75 



900 5 54543 5 5555664 5—72 



1.000 35554555556556 2—69—216 



J a Brown— Bore'tar? -Sharp* Rifle. 



S00 4 5655645555565 B— 73 



800 3 35 5 654546566B 5-69 



1.000 4 5 4 6 1 4 5 4 6 6 4 5 5 6 4— OS— 210 



J S Numuer— Borchard-Shurps Rifle. 



SlO ,5 4565565 5 55554 6—73 



900.. ..4 4 4 o 6 5 4 6 5 5 4 5 5 5 5-70 



1.000 5 3 4 6 5 5 3 4 4 4 6 6 5 6 4—66—309 



R Hatlilioue.— Remington llifle. 



800.... 3 5 5 5 5.-1556 S 5566 5— 7U 



000 1 5 4 H 8 4 4 6 5 3 4 5 5 5 4r-B3 



1,000 5 4 5 5 4 3 5 5 5 4 5 3 6 6 3—66—202 



Wrn Gerrish— Borehard-Stiarps Rifle. 



800 3 664356554 5 665 5-69 



,900 5 5 3 5 3 4 5 4 4 5 5 5 5 5 6-6S 



WOO 4 5 5 4 6 3 3 2 5 5 3 4 5 3— 56— 193 



fi pwlgnt— Boruliard-Shnrps Rifle. 



800 3 55 5 556 5 565585 6—73 



9°0 • 4 6524463555554 5-66 



1,000 4 3B864455S35 



