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THE GAME BREEDER 



a day. Mr. Frederick W. Goodwin of of twenty-five. Mr. A. B. Brundage, of 



East Boston, gives a record of twenty- Danbury, Conn., tells of thirty-four as a 



four killed by a cat in one day. Miss day's work for one lusty cat. 

 Mabel McRae, Boylston, has a record (To be continued in our next.) 



A TRAPSHOOTING SCHOOL. 



By George Frank Lord. 



The mere mention of a trapshooting 

 school will cause sportsmen to sit up and 

 take notice, as the saying goes, for while 

 there have been and still are places where 

 tennis, golf and other sports are taught 

 novices, this country has never boasted 

 anything in the form of a shooting 

 school. Anticipating the many queries 

 which will follow the announcement of 

 the starting of the trapshooting school, 

 E. I. duPont de Nemours & Co. send out 

 the following information concerning 

 same: 



The school will be operated at Atlan- 

 tic City, N. J., the greatest year round 

 pleasure resort in the world, and a place 

 annually visited by more sportsmen than 

 any other city. The convenience of the 

 sportsmen has been considered in deter- 

 mining the location of the school, which 

 will be right in the center of activities, 

 on Young's Million Dollar Pier, at the 

 end. 



The purpose of this new shooting 

 school is threefold, viz., to teach the 

 proper care and use of firearms ; to in- 

 struct men and women in the art of 

 trapshooting, and to provide a place 

 where the thousands and thousands of 

 "gun bugs" who yearly visit Atlantic 

 City may enjoy their favorite sport, en- 

 gage in trophy contests, team races, etc., 

 in a place easily accessible and at a 

 moderate cost. 



The school will be in operation about 

 March 15th, or by April 1st at the out- 

 side. The equipment will consist of one 

 Ideal Leggett, and one Western McCrea 

 automatic trap, standard targets being 

 used, twenty gauge guns of practically 

 every make, and competent men in 

 charge. The targets will be thrown 



against a background of water, targets 

 and shot falling into the Atlantic Ocean. 

 Standard trap loads will be on sale, but 

 only twenty gauges may be used. The 

 targets will be thrown about forty yards. 

 A person desiring to use his own gun 

 may do so, but only factory loaded am- 

 munition can be shot on the range. 



The services of Hertry Hewgill Ste- 

 vens, famous professional and known to 

 everyone in the trapshooting game as 

 "Hank," have been secured and he will 

 be in charge of the school as manager, 

 and will act as personal instructor at no 

 cost whatever to anyone desiring his 

 services. Mr. Stevens has been shooting 

 since 1888, and nearly thirty years ag 

 competed on the trapshooting team of 

 Rutgers College, of which he is a grad- 

 uate, against the Princeton, Yale and 

 other college teams. In the year 1903 

 Mr. Stevens turned professional goin 

 first with the DuPont Powder Company 

 and later representing one of the leading 

 Eastern gun and ammunition manufac- 

 turers, traveling for them in practically 

 every section of the country. He is now 

 back with his first employers. 



Mr. Stevens is well equipped by per- 

 sonality, experience and ability to fill his 

 new position. He has made for himself 

 a host of friends everywhere, who will 

 always remember him as the genial 

 "Hank." One of the original Westy 

 Hogans, he has done much to insure the 

 present success of that organization. His 

 experience covers every phase of the 

 gun and ammunition game, and all kinds 

 of game shooting as well as trapshooting. 

 It may be well to say also that he coached 

 the 1913 Princeton College trapshoot- 

 ing team, which won the intercollegiate 



