[Jan. 17, 1884. 



FOREST AND STREAM. 



80S 



and a surplus in the treasury. Thirteen new members were added 

 the past year and two withdrawn. The next shoot occurs Jan. 18. 



BOSTON GUN CLUB.— The Boston Gun Club (formerly the Ray- 

 mond Sportsmen's Club) held its weekly shoot afcthe old range in 

 Wellington, on I lie arte: in on of Jan. IS, when several steepstake 



•■ shot with the following result: 



n -D. Kirkwood, first; W. B. Witherell and Brown, sec- 

 ond; J. K. Witberell. C. .1. Marston and J. F. Cutting, third. 



Second Event-J. S. ?siv r <r and A. W. Law. divined first: .1. Fleut- 

 ting and D. Kirkwood. se, ,',i„l ; W. B. Witherell and J. F. C. Webster. 



Third Event-D. Kirkwood took first; W. B. Witherell and Savage, 

 second: E \v. Law, third. 



Event- D. Kirkwood, first; J. F. Witherell and Harold, sec- 



oml; Sawyer, third. 



Fifth Event— J. F. Witherell, first: Harold and Kirkwood, second; 

 Webster, third. 



Sixth Event-E. W. Law. first: .1. F. Witherell, second; Harold and 

 Kirkwood, third. 



ST. CLA1 l-t s ! " ■' -"■ . i- :■' .-" ' F..1 ' 1 —St. Clair. Pa.— Second monthly 

 contest at clay-pig' ' •■ ls'-o\< s i trarj, i M? I qo c i, 18yds. rise: 



BLee ' llllllllUO-8 GFarne IOIOOIOw.— 3 



.. . . 1101111111—9 HLDaddow 0111001001—5— 31 



'■!■.'■: ''I 1101110-0 



Sproatswo,. ike . .-,;. 



iiMi',i ■■ m i t: 



o Fame 1111010001— CSproata OOHOOOIOO— 3 



C Evans 1000001101-4 P Long OOOOillOOOO— 1— 14 



ii . iron the medal. Next contest Feb. 33, 



JEKSKY CITY HEIGHTS-— At the annual election of officers of 

 the J. C. H. G. i .. eld Ed the rooms of the club, Eeumpler's Hotel, 

 Jersey City Heights, on the 8th inst., the following officers were 

 elected for the ensui. g veor: George B. Eaton, President: Justus 

 Von Lengerke. Vice Pie" idem: A. Heritage Secretary and Treas- 

 urer; I r .1. B. Curdnt, .Terr-.- Malice Vu'iioiu Hughes, Executive 

 Committee The meeting w as well attended and .meat good feeling 



,i e The treasurer's n port showed the club in splendid eon- 



■ l.ii. nds and all the paraphernalia of a good working club 



paid i.. i. ' a dollar of debt, and hundreds of dollars in the treas- 



... :- '.. s were made by Hie President, Vice-President, Secre- 



tary and Treasurer, and others. A resolution was unanimously 

 passed to enter a team for the clay pigeon tournament at Chicago in 

 Slay.— Jai ■ 



MASSACHUSETTS CHAMPIONSHIP.— Ashland, Mass., Jan. 12.— 

 C. B. Holden of Worcester, and 11. G. Tidsbury of Ashland, the pres- 



■ . 1 1 i ■ . . i . . ..it .ii .,...■ 



to-day. Holden won by a scot e of 4U out of 50, to 45. 



MALDEN GUN CLUB.— The Maiden. Mass., Gun Club held a shoot 



atit. ranee in Wellington, Jan. 12. when file throe geld badges offered 

 by the club were shot for. In the conteai Mr. T. C. Fielding won " 

 first prize, breaking seicntcen birds out. of twenty: A. F. Adams 

 second, breaking thirteen; and F. J. Scott took thud, hilling ele- 



PROVIDENCE, Jan. 14.— The following scores were made by the 

 Xarragausett Gun Club, at their three last weekly shoots. Dec. 2?, 

 club badge match, 10 single and 5 pai> s clay-pigeons; single at 18yds.. 

 double at 15yds. ; 5 traps, screened, 4th notch: 



GW Clary 1111110111 1110 010101—15 



EW Tinker 0111001101 11 11 00 10 11—12 



C B Potter 0010101110 01 11 00 11 01—11 



C II Perkins , 00)1110010 11 00 10 w. 



F O Wehoskey 0100001010 w, 



Mr, G. W. Cjry won club badge. 



Same day, Ligowsky Statehadge match; 25 clay-pigeons, 5 traps, 

 4th notch: 



E W Tinker Ill 1 1 1110101111 1101 111111— S3 



GW Care J lfilli illirrn m nomiif— S3 



Coerce Barney 1110111100111111111001111— f" 



OH Perkins llOOllllOllllllOOOllw. 



C B Potter 111100001000001 w. 



Tie: EW. Tinker, 11101; G W Cary, 11001. Mr. E. W. Tinker wc 

 State badge. 



Jan. 3.— Club badge match: 



EW Tinker 1110000101 11 11 10 11 11-14 



WHSheMon 1011111010 10 00 11 01 11-13 



HL Palmer 1011100110 0110 111110—13 



C Tal't 1110010111 10 01 10 00 10—11 



C M Sheldon 1101100100 01 10 w. 



E. W. Tinker won club Badge. 



Same Dav.— Ligowsky State Badge match: 



H L Palmer 1111111111011111101111111—23 



.1 B Valentine 1101111111111110111101111—22 



W H Sheldon It'll 11:101 1 nti n 11 1111101— 21 



CMSheldon 0111110110111101011111111—20 



Charles Tart 1001111111101111011011111—20 



Geo ire Barney 101111 1101111110011100111—18 



E W Tinker..: 0101 lOiJOl 1 .01 101 1 1101111-18 



CO Gray 1111001101100000110101101—14 



H. L. Palmer won Statebadge. 



Jan. 10.— Club Badge Match: 



EW Tinker 1111111101 11 11 10 10 11—17 



IV H Sheldon 0111011111 11 10 01 11 10-15 



C H Perkins OOOUIllM 1110 10 1101—14 



J B Valentine 1011010010 01 11 11 11 10—13 



Charles Taft... ...1111100000 10 00 01 w. 



E. W. Tinker won club badge. 



Same Dae— Match for State badge: 



W H Sheldon 1111111111111111111111111—25 



EW Tinker Ill 11110111011111 11110111— 22 



CH Perkins 1 .1, 0111111— jg 



O M Sheldon On 101 nu 01011 011 1 noniou— 15 



Charles Taft 10011101000' 11111001001)0-14 



C B Pavne llOinillllllOlOlllOw. 



J. B Valentine Oliln ' ■;..:■ ■ . 



W. H. Sheldon won State badge. 



ffachting. 



ROMANCING REPORT, 



ccently appeared in a lay paper: 



in this 1 

 and wh 



It heiivi 

 obliged 



being : 

 down ti 



being „ 

 come fl 

 pariion- 

 sbe lay 



box. \vi 

 start, si 



keels, s 

 lliiitg. i 

 story ti 



lead a 

 truth c 

 struck 



'k and Eastern 



Kitts, W. I., via Bermuda. She if 

 mediterranean. Letters receiver 

 ,g Day, soon after leaving Boston, 

 Uermuda and Hatteras, she caught 



aft through the cat 



crew were eompelle 

 .in and up the after c 



>nped midships 

 be analyzed, fo 

 of testimony tal 

 th water under 



11 the broad. Atlantic 



r pro- 



rings 111 a 

 ■as able to 

 ivy leaden 



went yacht di 

 ,-spaper "padding. 



aingly, ha 



ritteu 



a pretty rough time of i 

 green water. It is nothir 

 • vessel which is n 



of any 1 



idently v 



hich no credt 



'pt in so far as It may mis 

 taken steps to obtain th, 

 mough to say that Fortunt 

 therwe have had off the 

 ie, such a small vessel had 

 jccasionallv shipped some 

 ind we would like to know 

 nfortable iu very severe 

 amship would be. That, 

 was lirst struck is likely 

 1 the table. We have had 

 lusand ton s'-up in nothing 

 s une thing happ, 



hear 



:el... : 



•. Tlr 



elUcll 



y to thepriidei 



: the captain. But a 



patently thinks forehutch ought to have been left wide open, or the 



CENERAL PLANS OF CRUISING SHARPIE. 



crew should have bored through wood. That the yacht "laid wide 

 like a half-tide rock" we venture to believe totally devoid of truth. 

 and a piece of wilful fabrication. The same can be said of the asser- 

 tion that all hands were "stifled" in a two hundred ton vessel, with 

 the crew going in and out the companion. 



As for the "advocates" of lead keels and "sharp bows," whatever 

 such a purely relative term may mean, it is not over probable they 

 will take their cue from a newspaper reporter, who, as we happen to 

 know, has never in his life been to sea in a vessel with outside bsllast 

 and has uever even as much as seen such a vessel at sea. Just how 

 valuable suggestions from such a source are one need not emphasize 

 As for the tons of testimou} tnai ,. .,, ., ... 1 , .., theaccountis all the 

 other way. Our columns are filled with authentic and disinterested 

 evidence the world over in favor of depth and low weight. A person 

 who still talks about "skinning around in smooth waters" is. by his 

 own testimony, wholly unaware of what the fleet of cutters do about. 

 British shores and in the Mediterranean, and hardly competent to 

 play critic with much success. It is to be regretted that such self- 

 'icthiE compositions enu bo palmed off bv a reporter upon the 

 - -' even a lay journal, as no good can accrue from the circula- 

 ubbish which demonstrates a perfect verdancy with sea life 

 aad a liberal expausion of the truth in the anxiety to give vent to 

 personal spleen. The Harveys, the Watsons, the Webbs, all experi- 

 enced builders and seagoing yachtsmen abroad and in our Eastern 

 waters "seemingly have no conception whatever" of their business 

 1 the fury of the sea to which they have been brought up from 

 ins for a penny-a-liner, who would leave fore- 

 ific gale, to dictate the model of our yachts. It 

 Id day when advice from such a source produces 

 Wc have thought it worth while to give the 

 •-- -heck whatever influence it mav have bad iu 

 imposed upon even by a lubber who would 

 hurricane and expect dishes to 



editor o 



babyhood. _. 

 hatch .-.pen in a ter 

 will be a tolerably c 

 more than laughter. W 

 quotation this notice to 1 

 circles which might be 



keep foi-ehatol, open in :. 



table. For truthful testimon 

 draft, we refer to the 

 llsbed in these columns, 



jonceruiug outside ballast and deep 

 raising experiences now being pub- 



A SMALL CRUISING SHARPIE. 



a that 



small sharpie of more 

 it finished for a gentle- 

 icing shore. Simplicity 

 ith as much efficiency 

 of tlar bottom. The 

 lasiderablv increased 

 Iship frame is kept 

 ' itt has 



the 



WE publish this week general pi, 

 OlSO Odcd C ' ' ,h. '„, . 



man fond of smglehaul sailing and 



and moderate first cost have been a 



and power consistent with good spaed in a be 

 displacement of an ordinary sharpie has been 

 to gain in room and weight. Althoi 



lend Hat on the floor, deadrise frc 

 been adopted to obviate "poundm- »„ cue c 

 coder to close readily in the run. The Hour line ago 

 marked bv the lowest ho', in th,, -h ..-.- pion and the 1 

 at the side i;,v too line alcove, the shaded portion betv 



Healing 'he 'deadr.se ..1 th" "„..... 00, . [..; ,| , .s, ,,■,;,. 

 of which SOOlbs. is represented by ballast 

 the sail area an iron keel is attached [rem below, 

 sired to ascend a creek for exploration this keel can h- 

 unscrewing the nuts on the bolts holding it in plac 

 breadth is located lift from forward, v. here the boa 

 across deck and 3ft. 3in. across the bottom. There 

 at after end of cabin hatch. The boat it 

 af+ to reach the store room 

 bulkhead. A berth and lo 



-,. . 1 . . - 1 =- '.'.■:■ 1- = 



ted circle. Length on lo.Vlig. - b-ln.o.. .,ee.- all lift.. 

 side th" cabin hatch, measure iein. -,vi c The 1 "g n 

 hard which first hoists and then peaks up a !"g.,f mi. 

 a 13ft. yard, travi ling with . ■ sup a id a iwn b pol 



Sail area ISSsq ft , with on i Mi s of reef n 



foot. The boat ea n b- steered from deck or bv sit t inc- i 

 hatch. Draft 21m. with keel. Least freeboard 14in. TI 

 and finished in bright hardwood; sicl.es of cabin house 

 pieces of ash. hatches and deck fitttngs of ash and mahogony 

 cost about $270, 



1 able the 



tked. 



• been fitted 



_ . hatch 



baft, the cabin 



the port 



teiled 



tie of single 



Total 



