August 10, 1882.] 



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Sanderson 3, A belt was then shot, for among the teams, glass halls 

 being us- 1, tin shots each. Tue foil nvlug was the result: Carthage 

 Club, No. 1. -H. Cran lali 10, O. Stebblns 6, H. Armstrong 8, Dr. 8oru- 

 baru 7, OMorgo Karr 0; total, 81. Carthage Club, Xo. 2. — Ben Allen 3, 

 J. Roessler 5, H. Shaw 7, H. C. Johnson 2, Sam Sanderson ,*j; total 23. 

 Webb (Jitv ( flub. -ft. 1'. Asheraft s, A. A Hewlett 9, Mr. Hlokey 9, C. 

 A. Parker 0, W. S. Chinn 1; total. 35. The Webb City Club, hRviog 

 shot the most number of halls, was entitled to the belt. The Carthage 

 Club No. 1 did splendidly, and but for ouo member falling far short 

 of tho average, would have carried off the belt. Mr. Armstrong is a 



fiod shot, but for some reason be missed every ball except two. 

 ha boys will try it again. The AviUa team did not arrive. 



TORONTO OTJN CLUB.— August 5.— Score of tho T. Q. C. laBt 

 shoot at pigeons; and as it was ralningjill day tola accounts for such 

 a small number in attendance. There were two prizes in each class, 

 consisting of four ease 3 oi slutted birds, set up by tho club taxider- 

 mist, Mr. 8. Herring. The following is tho score: 



EPerryman Hill mil— 10 John Webster 11111 01110—8 



Jos Taylor 11111 lllll— 10 Wm Smith 10111 11111—9 



C C Small 01101 mil - S Wm McDowall 10010 10111— 6 



Geo Smith 00101 11111—7 Geo l'earsall 1111 01110—8 



W Villiers,,, 00101 01111— G T Taylor 11010 01011— 



WR Evans 11101 10111— 8 S Staneland 11011 01111— 8 



Chas Ay re 10010 01011- 5 JR Mills 11111 01111—9 



BPearsall 1)101 11111— 9 Jaa Foreman OHIO 11111—8 



John James Hill 11111-10 Jas Douglas 10)11 11101— 8 



WmDiron 11011 11010-7 Ueo Lesfie, Jr 1110111101—8 



Ties will be, shot at some future time. 



SECOND CLASS. 



DrWm Smith 11101 11101— H John Ayre 10001 10111- 



Chas Kemp Hill 01101— 8 J Werden... 00111 10100- 5 



T \»r Htm.,., iwiin -irt/iii i t-> tttjt mm nnj\f\i * 



NATCHEZ, Miss.. Julv 

 July 26, at Vidalia. La. 

 Gun Club and the R. E. 

 Miss., for a silver cup an. 

 each, from Card trap, scr 



ores of a glass-ball matoh shot 

 latchezi, between the Vidalia 

 le Gaillard clubs, of Natchez, 

 lonship. Conditions: Ten balls 

 18yds. rise. You will observe the 



contest was close and the shooting good : 



Vidalia. 

 JDPondleton limillll— 10 L H Lambdin. .1111011011— 8 



AWMetcalfe llliomil— 9 PW Chase OOlllOllOO— 6 



JB Willis 0111111111— 9 JC Seaman 1111111111—10—69 



E A Newton 1101111011— 8 



Lee. 



WniGriffln 1111001110- 7 JJWeleh 1101111111- 9 



JoeTuttle 1111111111—10 A J Bogar 1111110111— 9 



Wm Tuttle 1111111101—9 Fred RHeene.. .1001111110— 7— 60 



Fred W Boger 1011111111- 9 



Gaillard, 



JohnA Dioks 1111111011- 9 FJArrighi 1111111111—10 



Claude finiard llllOimi— 9 S McDowell 1101111111— 9 



TV B Dioks 1100101111—7 R H Colhoun. . ..0.1 1 m h i ',.. :s 



JohnF Jenkins 0011110111— 7 S. M. D. 



FALL RIVER, Mass. , Aug. 3.— The Fall River Gun Club held its 10th 

 competition for Mb ,-r cup this afternoon which was won for the 

 " third time by J. B. Valentine. The following are the scores: 



BaUs. Clay Pigeons. 



Valentine 1100111111 11110 11111-17 



Hall 10111 11111 01101 11110-10 



Sheldon 10111 11101 lorn mmi . is 



Buffington 1 till 11103 11111 lODw— U 



Jackson ... ,. 1101111111 01100 01001—13 



The names of the winners and numbers of times won are na fol- 

 lows: 



DAVENPORT, July 37.— Shoot for the championship gold badge 

 of Delaware county. This is the second time it has hoen eoni.rsh'.-J 

 for. having been won by L. A. Davenport the first time and alse this 

 time Value of the badge is 830; was issued under the auspices of 

 the Oleout Sportsman's Club of Frankliu, N. Y. Conditions: 45 balls 

 per man. 18yds,, Davenport trap, swift — 40yds. Few entries on ac- 

 count of harvesting: 



MPMeRoon 1 0111010110111101101100 1—17 



John Davenport, Jr.O 0011111011111111111100 1—0) 



LA Davenport 1 1110111111111111101111 1— 33 



CEFuller 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 w— 14 



L. 



FALL RIVER. Mass.- The ninth competition for silver cup, at 10 



glass halls and 10 clay pigeons, took place J u]y ;.'!). ;.j,,l ,-, si; 1 1„ ,1 i 



W. H. Sheldon winning tho cup for the second time. The following 

 scores were made: 



Balls. Clay Pigeons. 



Sheldon 1111110111 lllllflll 0—18 



Jftdfcson l ioiioiiii 101111011 l— io 



Valentine 1 001100111 11 1 1 1 l 111 l— is 



Cornell. 1 111110 011 110101011 1— IS 



Bufflnton 0110101111 011101011 1-14 



Negus 1000100111 1101010 0-9 



T. S. H. 

 TOPSHAM, Me.. Aug. 3, 1883.— Regular shoot of Riverside Club for 

 club badge, 15 single and 5 pair balls, Card revolving trap, lSydi 



S St'rout , 101110011100110 11 10 00 10 11—15 



Q MLee 000100011111001 10 10 11 10 DO- IS 



A Q Goud 111111111111111 1110 111111—34 



C Keay 101111111111111 10 1110 00 10-19 



AEHall 000111101111111 11011101 10—18 



C Ureenleaf 110111110011011 11 01 10 01 10-17 



Badge won by A. Q. Goud. M. C. H. 



ADDISON, W. Va.— Below find score of a match between James 

 Borgus of this place and Lewis Thompson of Cleveland, 85 pal] 

 yards rise, rotary trap, Mr. Thompson is a voting man 17 or IS years 

 old, and is a very promising shot. Mr. Borgus is a veteran at the trap 

 and in the field. 



Thompson.., I 1111 111 1111 11 tllllOll 1 1 1— U 



Borgus 111111110110111111011110 1—31 



L. E. F. 



§H%chting at[& j^anaeing. 



FIXTURES. 



Aug. 10— Southern Y. C. , Annual Sweepstakes. 



Aug. 5-19-Quaker (Sty Y. C. Annual Cruise. 



Aug. tj-12-Araerioau canoe Association Regatta, Lake George. 



Aug. 13-HullY. C, 5ei» dentin Matches. 



i'l :■,■ , eS '. I , 'OS I',, ,. 



Aug. 12— Toronto Y. C, &'«0 Cup. 



Aug. 14— Royal Nova Soolia Y, S., Ocean Match to Chester, 1 prize. 



Aug. 10— Royal Nova Scotia Y. S., Cheater Town Cup, 3d prize. All 



Comers. 

 Aug. 18— Roval Nova Scotia Y. S„ Ocean Match to Halifax, 1 prize. 

 Aug. 19— Beverlv Y. C, Open Races. 

 Aug. 19— Jeffries Y. C., Club Match. 

 Aug. 32— Jersey City Y. C. , Ladies' Day. 

 Aug. 23— Oswego Y. C, Annual Matches. 



Aug. 23— Dorchester Y. C, Second Championship Race, Cat-Rigs. 

 Aug. 23-Qjincy Y. C, Fourth Club Match. 

 Aug. Southern Y. C, Inter-State Regatta. 



Aug. 23— Hull Y. C, Cie i ' bismpio, s.eii '.iJlfa. 



Aug. 21— Now Botlford Y. C, 3d Class S'chooners, 1st Class Sloop3. 



$100, $75, Principal Clubs. 

 Aug. 28— Beverly Y. C. , Open ife,-:sui, Jl . rblehead. 

 Aug. 29— Salem Muv "i . C. fhampionship Sail-Off. 

 Aug. fffl Hull V ('... 01 lb - ha uj oiouelu i, illar.e; 



Sept. 2-Br- ' 



Sept. 2— J( 



Sept. 2— Royal Nova Scotia Y. S.. Mayor's Cup and third prize. 

 Sept. 4— East River Y. 0., Fab Matches. 



Sept. 5— Dpi ej estcj i i ' . '1 I es, i me u to , lee e's lie 



Sept. Hull Y. C, Club championship" Sail-off. 



Sept. 4— Quincy Y. O, Fifth Club Match. 

 Sept. 5-Jcrsey City Y. C, Ladies* Day. 



I- 1 -,. i. e-uieeee ' '., Opell tO All Match. 



Sept. 10— Quaker City Y. C, Harbor Cruise. 



lonship Match, Marblehead. 



Sept. 10— Royal Nora Scotia Y. S., Three Classes, one prize each. 



Sept. Royal Nova Scotia Y. S., Yachts dinghies, sailing race. 



Sept. Royal Nova Scotia Y. S., Chsi-loLtafown, P. E. L 



Sept. 19— Jersey City Y. C, Ladies' Day. 

 Sept. 84— Quaker City Y. C, Harbor Cruise. 

 Oct. 1— Quaker City Y. C, Closing Oruleo. 

 pet. S-Jersey CMty Y, ft, Ladies' Day, 



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SPORTSMAN'S CANVAS CANOE. 



A SPORTSMAN'S CANVAS CANOE. 



Editor Forest and Stream: 



Some of your correspondents inquire about ducking boats. 1 send 

 you a plan of canvas canoe which 1 never have seen except 

 two thatlhavo made like this, and I think It an improvement r — 

 the common canvas canoe. I use mine here in the Missouri R 

 and In the lakes about here, and have shot many a duck and goose 



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Lake a short time ago with Sir. Spalding, and we both shot 

 from her, and while In tho weeds, in the center of the lake, 

 Mr. Spalding's large greyhound bitch Eve cable swimming out 

 and was nearly drowned In the weeds, and Mr. Spalding took 

 her on deck, while I paddled all ashore, more than half a 

 mile— quite a load, two men, two guns and ammunition, about 

 twenty-five mallard ducks, ami a greyhound hitch standing on the 

 forward deck. With the sail I have On her I stem the current of the 

 Missouri River. I intend to put another such sail on her, as she will 

 carry it without any trouble, for she does not mind the single one in 

 the least, I have crossed the river in the heaviest kind of a blow and 

 not taken a teacupful of water aboard. Being made so low forward 

 and aft, she does not catch the wind near as bad, and the decks keep 

 out the water. 



I have just come back from a trip of ten miles down the river, and 

 could approach, (locks of mall ml, and all the screen T had was to put 

 a few willow twiga in the mast hole, and they made a blind to cover 

 me, sittiug in tho bottom, fuse A double blade paddle, jointed, and 

 use it single when I get near ducks. I have her painted the color of 

 the water or a drift log, and tho ducks do not seem to care for it at 

 all. Description of construction as follows: The ribs and long strips 



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there are six long strips on each side, and two more 8ft. long to fill 

 up the larger space in the middle. Where each strip and rib croi 

 they Are clinched together with a copper nail. The gunwale stripsat 

 % square, and each rib is let. into them and nailed with two coppc 

 nails. I use just 4yds. of 53-iu, canvas, and tho pieces taken off each 

 end make the deck. I bring the canvas over tho dado in the stem and 

 stern, and put In a spline; then 1 put on a keel made of oak out 

 of the canvas ami screw it to the center keelson. The eoekp 

 made of half-inch black walnut screwed to the gun-. vale strips, 

 has a piece t£ by lin. screwed on top on the sides and oaek, so 

 it leaves iljin. projection. In front I use a piece J^ln by 3in. 



The scat is man eel i oo oeie pine piece S-jh wl.Ic seises I I ,s (lie ri'is, 



and the top is rabbeted i.Sv'i, and tho topis made of 3m. by J^in. 

 pine strips placed lin. apart ami eioiu.eci together. 



The deck is raised lin. in center of boat, so that it sheds the water, 

 both sideways and endways. 



I bring the canvas around the boat and nail it on top of gunwale, 

 and the deck the same, and then put a neat J^in. half-round mold- 

 ing on top of the tacks, so that it makes a neat job. Fax WE8t 



LowEa Brule, Dakota. 



CANOEISTS ON A CRUISE. 



REMEMBER to keep the internal machinery in working order by 

 partaking of laxatives, or a whole cruise may become an afflic- 

 tion. Figs are a i. oil. so is syrup, stewed prunes, jp.ij. so ice ami frail. 

 Never indulge in spirits in the sun unless in case of last extremity. 

 Soft linen helmets, the brim to turn up or down, are the best and 

 most convenient headgear. In hot weather moisten the hair or hel- 

 met, or put damp cloth bisiile. Wear smoked ssuischs In a bright 

 sun. Carry along a little salve for sunburn if not already hardened 

 by exposure. Bltstei-s on tiie hands should be pricked with a needle 

 at night, the water gently squoozsi out, and a bit of sticking plastej 

 put on next morning to keep from chafe. 



Before starting be sure you have fresh water along. This should 

 be replaced whenever there is an opportunity. Also look to your 

 matches. If you ore a smoker and canuot get a light, the pleasures 

 of canoeing turn into gall. We have hoen there feu- a whole day with 

 three prime Havanas mutely appealing for sacrifice from the breast 

 pocket. Carry as little as you can possibly trei along with. Trust to 

 finding on the way what you may want, rather than paddle 100 

 pounds of duffle about for a week with no use for anything but a 

 tack, or a pin or a few inches of twine. Outfit should consist of stove, 

 with one pot and one pan only. Comb, soup, niatch.es, glass, tooth- 

 brush, clothes brash, shaviaa gear, ami ever, bladders brush sv e lis-sc 

 packed in a box 5x3x1 tsjio., by scleciing diminutive articles of each 

 kind. One towel, soft rubber drinking cup court-plaster, knife, and 

 no forks, spoons nor teacups and saucers. A stick will stir the 

 bacon, a knifo will cut it, ami there Is no danger but what it will find 

 ita way Into the mouth without implements. A combination knife, 

 fork, scissors and spoon isanexeehent article, nevertheless. 



An ax may be useful, but it should be tho smallest size in the 

 market. Small pocket compass, a $4 Waterbury watch, quinine, 

 such fishing and gunning gear as your sporting inclinations dic- 

 tate, the amieuahiim kept dry and safe, lantern, light. Lent with steep 

 pitch, rubber blanket, wn iug and sketching materials, for all good 

 canoeists should learn to jot down their adventures at night, and if 

 they will acquire common sketching they will Hud themselves amply 

 repaid by the opportunities a cruise affords for its application. Pro- 

 visions mainly ot canned goods and Brunswick soups, eggs, and per- 

 haps a little bacon with a tin of good crackers. LeaVn to take 

 coffee or tea without sugar or milk and forget all about butter and 

 you will save any amount of annoyance trying to keep such tiilles of 

 an effeminate civilization iu stock. 



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One suit is enough, but two shifts of tin I ' i ee uM be taken 



along. Shoes of soft canvas, with a stout pair for shore. A blanket 

 for the night and a rubber suit for the rain. Accustom yourself to 

 change position occasionally in the canoe; have a sponge at hand 

 for bailing. Keep the scat raised a couple of inches or else the floor; 

 paddle steadily, and not by spurts, bo not camp near marshy 

 ground. In doubtful places sleep in tho canoe. Binoculars and 

 charts add to the interest of a cruise. If you cannot swim you have 

 no business In a panpi, geo that everything jb in working order, in I 



good condition, and that you have a place for everything before 

 starting and save many a delay and spoiling things for want of 

 proper condition. Keep blocks, leaders ami hoops slushed enough 

 to depend upon the gear rendering through and sails coming down 

 in an instant. Treat the natives in a conciliatory manner, and ap- 

 pear duly impressed with what you see in ru:tic latitudes. 



NEW YORK Y. C.-ANNUAL CRUISE. 



a em i vessels ranging 



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than a languishing drift iu a broiling hot sun, interspersed with ' _ 

 ceptions, "clambakes," and other equally i relevant devices for kill- 

 ing time and filling up she inner man. if social enjoyment is the ob- 

 ject of a cruise, all hands aboard a steamer to Coney Island or 

 stowed in a long tow of palace cars bound for the Rockies would 

 seem to afford a far more satisfactory solution to the longings of the 

 p sea. In yachting tars composing I. lie rosy,- hy si II..- s e ,v York Y. C. 

 Forthat matter, t :e attractions of the em porafiou's bar-room and 

 card-tables in the heart of the city would supply all that is needed, 

 and the elaborate firewood hung about, the walls would be quite as 

 suggestive of the real tiling as tin. picayune imitation of a sailor's 

 life, the annual lily pen 1 drifting offers. Considering that the small 

 eiubs and even open boats make no bones about a run to the Vine- 

 yard and the beat home, it looks like n very paltry spirited affair that 

 huge schooners, almost too large to (ill away in some of the harbors 

 without going ashore, should rest content with the idle, pointless 

 dawdle dignified in the lay press as a "cruise,'' and believed by the 

 members of the club to be an event of such magnitude as to compel 

 tho attention of the nautical world, when thai world quietly smil?s 

 at the sight of a fleet of great yachts storting out to do wonders and 

 putting back for sheltered waters ere the open has fairly been 

 reached. Fancy the schooners of the Royal Tnames, for example, 

 making preparations for weeks, ami unreeling more red tape than 

 the men-of-war off Alexandria, an. I all for a bit or a turn down the 

 Swin and home, with half the crowd putting up helms for shelter in 

 the Greenwich reach after barely fetching down to the Nore! 



A performance of the kind would be received with ridicule 

 throughout Oi-eat llrilain, and the club anil its yachts relegated to 

 oblivion. Yet it is just about such an undertaking which is yearly 

 dignified into an adventurous voyage of 'Kngnitude and danger by 

 the columns of attention bostowo.l upon the affair in the local press, 

 and we regret to say that the glamor of noise and fireworks and 

 that s'-rene contentmont arising from bountiful feasts aud liberal 

 potations free of expense to the partaker has likewise reduced sun- 

 dry sporting contemporaries to a dutiful state of submission and 

 Euflery of tho cliromo sport nnd counterfeit s.iilorizing indulged in 

 :oin year to year by tho Now York Y. C. It lias been proposed in 

 some quarters that the owners aud "guests" get out and walk while 

 tho yachls drift along and that the interesting and exceedingly nau- 

 tical p.tstimes so destructive to the innocent c am un.1 productive of 

 coin Co fireworks professors be varied by needlework in the evening, 

 combiuiug tho useful and ornamental iu decorating the sails in alle- 

 gorical delineations worked in silk, commemorative of captures 

 made among tho fair at the various fandangos attended. But the 

 owners are not altogether to blame for their preferences, for duck- 

 puddle driftings in many cases emanate trom a secret misgiving 

 about tho capacities of their over-rigged vessels for aught else. 



Propose, for example, a cruise iu squadron to Uermuda, anil whewt 

 what a whistle would be passed around. T.m mere iu. u'ion there 

 of seems ridiculous enough, for to ask tho New York squadron to 

 venture upon such a thing would be much like requesting a consump- 

 tive to meet the omiuent artist Mr. Johnny Sullivan without gloves, 

 and apt to end in tho same result, being inco.ninen tally knocked out 

 of time, But if such a propositi ei brings a shudder to tho gentle 

 sailors of a society club, it is by no means an uu. eascnabl 



yet a motion which cannot readily be carr 

 nent club abroad. There are some few s< 

 gankation tolerably well fillet for rem 

 they would first have to go int) tho rlggei 

 sticks docked a good piece and sundry t 

 bobstays anil preventers supplied to make 

 a regular sea-coing craft and thenrovisi 

 woafheretill generally followed. Hugo h 

 closed up, ballasl secured, boats fit for sol 

 the cranky "While Hall" nondescripts, am 

 and ends attended to. to say nothing about 

 tion of the sail lo bring il under control of 

 ening of the hull an l an outfit of nautical 

 The general run of yachts, including the 

 maulfestly unfit to veuture beyond the re 

 fugo. It Is not expecting anything untisu 

 they should he found prepared for a sea \ 





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been able to comprehend, unless there is something 

 the make-up of our yachtsmen themselves, which is 

 vessels they sail. If tho New York Y. C. aqua Iron is to be excused 

 from an ocean voyage on the plea that drifting along shore la more 

 interesting work, owing to the proximity of shelter, summer hotels, 

 festivities and rambles ashore, it is at once a confession of the very 

 eharge woare maklug, taat yachting is not vet pursued us a spori. 

 resting for popularity upon its own merits, but rather as a maart of 

 accomplishing very different ends- The vac lit is not sailed for the 

 pleasurable exercise of body an 1 niiu 1 m her management, but only 

 as a toolset to carrying owner and "guests' from place to place, 



i, get out of it hy a luxurious m 'no 1 of conveyance to take you 

 Into the naxt place with the 1 -a a r.>«ih> d-lav. toe p.us-,uge bei.,g 

 looked upon us a necessary evil accompanying the ownership Of a 

 palace afloat. In this Iignt, a voyage to Bermuda, to Halifax, Mount 

 Dessart or even to Boston, seems a ridiculous proposition inoeed. But 

 if the sport is followed witu the i lea of gaining as an amateur, the 

 life, adventures, trials and experionoes of a seafaring man, it is per- 

 fectly iucoinpreheusibiq howanyoaewltn ambition in that direction 

 can iind his thirst quenched by such a very diluted dose of (he rea4 



