June 9, 1887,] 



FOREST AND STREAM. 



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arrivals was W. L. Canon, of Newark, N. J., a one-armed man, 

 Who faced the traps and shot 8 pigeons out of 10 at 34yds. rise. Ml'-. 

 D, Ledvard, of Montgomery. Ala., who made several excellent 

 scores, also arrived during the afternoon. This carnival is the 

 largest ever hell* in this country. In the merchandise matches 

 alnne there have boon 149 entries, embracing rcprcsentativte&ftOfli 

 all the principal shooting clubs in the South and We5t-, While in 

 the sWeejtsta lies and special matches fully S9W men have entered, 

 inclusive ot the lift mentioned above, The heavy rain in the fore- 

 noon somewhat dampened thfl ardor of many of the sportsmen 

 who are not entered in the merchandise matches, and it was not 

 Until the early afternoon trains that the shooters in the sweep- 

 Wakes matches put in an a ppearance in as large numbers as on 

 the preceding days, 

 arc on the ground eu. 

 fcfcCTL day of the tourn; 

 articles of merchandi: 

 dav, one of the peerlei 

 won hy J. E. Miller, b 

 There Were 0W in at 



Ent 



o in the merchandise match, however-, 

 they are obliged to shoflt.tt Sb6re of 20 

 ; in order, to huVn any claim upon the 

 rod HjS pi'ilzOs. The special prize of the 

 [, #inlth shotguns, valued at $75, was 

 innati, with a' clean score of 20, 



nee, and the 19 traps were kept con- 



_ ..lUtly On the move as the 33 events were being shot. There, wore 

 K,;;ViO birds sent skyward. 



Ftrnt event, 20 birds, amateur merchandise match, sweepstakes 

 --Dean first, Aldoes second, Moody third, H. Taylor and Renaud 

 fourth. 



Second event, 10 hirds, open to all, sweepstaks— Dickey first, 

 Eager second, Bradley third. a « 



Third event, 10 birds, open to all, s\veepstake|^ieK©y» Eager, 

 Stark and McMurchy first, Allen, Perry and Wheeler second, 

 Stanton third. , 



Fourth event, 10 birds, amateur sW eepst akes— E . Taylor, KnOwles 

 and Jordan first, How-ditch. J, Clarke, Partiss and Renaud secGnd, 

 Bradley and Gerry third. A-.-Grcen fourth. 



Fifth event, lObirds, open to all-, sWeunswkeSi— Eager and Stan- 

 ton first, Perry and Dickey second. 



Sixt h even!, id hirds, amn teu"?, Sweepstakes— E. Taylor, Knowles 

 and H. Swift firsts Jbiird.au, Carey, Bradley and Moody second, 

 Bowattch and F, Hatch third, Sherman and Schaefer fourth. 



Seventh event, 10 birds, open to all, sweepstakes— Tei pel and 

 McMui-cbV first, Allen second, Miller, Budd and Francis third, 

 Wheeler, Knowles and Bowditch fourth. _ 



Wight h event. 10 birds, open to all, sweeostakes- Eager, Teipel, 

 Luther and McMurchy first, Stice and Parsons second. Miller 

 third, Budd and Smith fourth, 



Ninth eventh, 20 birds, e-xbv>rv,s merchandise match, sweepstakes 

 —J, E. Miller lirst, S/t-abton and Eager second, McMurchy third, 

 Dickey, Sheldon and Luther fourth. 



Tenth cVe'ri't, 10 birds, open to amateurs only, sweepstakes— 

 Ba¥nt v s-. BOWditch aud Francis first, Renaud, "Ward well, Warren 

 and Hughes second, Snow, Sherman, Buffmgton and Green third, 

 Hall and H. Taylor fourth. 



Eleventh event, 10 birds, amateur match, sweepstakes— Warren, 

 Knowles, Treagcr, Wardwell and Dan first, Francis second, H-. 

 Smith third. Aldoes and Gerry fourth. 



Twelfth event, 10 birds, open to ally Sweepstakes-- -Stark and 

 Stanton first, Aldoes and Eager second, Luther, Stice* Bradley 

 and Francis third, Coope'r and Wardwell fourth. 



Thirteenth event,-, open to amateurs only, sweepstakes— Ward- 

 well and M Swift first, E. Taylor. Wales and Walker second, An- 

 Oruw* 1 efever, Baxter, and Hatch third, Hall and Francis fourth. 



Fourteenth event, 5 pairs doubles, amateur sweepstakes— War- 

 Ven, Moody, Knowles, Barnes and Snow first, Aldoes, E. Taylor 

 and Law second. Lineman third, F. Swift fourth. 



Fifteenth event, 10 birds, open to all comers— Stark,, Budd and 

 Earley first, McMurchy and Stice second, Eager third, Dickey 

 fourth. 



Seventeenth event, lu birds, amateurs, sweepstakes- Dean first, 

 Wan-en second, Tirrel and Knowles third, Taylor and Dan fourth. 



Eighteenth event, 10 birds, amateurs, sweepstakes— H. Swift 

 first* Palmes, Treagcr, Walker and Partiss socond, Francis and 

 Snow third, Aldoes fourth. 



"Nineteenth event, 10 birds, all comers, swwpstaki-s— Easrer and 

 Budd first, McMurchy and Davis second-. Wheeler third, Stark, 

 Aldoes and Teipel fourth. 



Twentieth event. 10 birds.. Open to all, sweepstakes— Budd and 

 Eager first, Wheeler ithd Stice second, Teipol third, Wagener 

 fourth. 



Twenty-first, event, 5 pairs doubles, open to amateurs, sweeps 

 «takes==ItnuwlGS Qrst, Dan second, A. A. Greene and Aldoes third, 

 tav fourth. 



twenty-second event, 10 birds, open to allcomers, sweepstakes— 

 Earley and Dickey first, Wardwell, Budd and Teipel second. 

 Walker third. 



Twenty-third event, h pairs doubles, open to all comers, sweep- 

 stakes- Stark. McMurchy and Budd first, Stice and Eager second, 

 Wardwell third. 



Experts' Merchandise Match. 



j Miller.. .nnnniimiimii-20 Beaudry..ioiiiiiimoiiiioito-i6 



B Eager. .01111111111111111111—19 Eavlev . . , . TlOlttlt 1 111000611 11— 15 

 Stanton.. .11111111111 111101111— 19 M Smith. .01110101111 1 101 11 110— 15 



Croweii . . .iiiiiiiiiiiominiO— is stice. . . . . .nonom n 101 101101—15 



M'MurchvllUllllOOlllHlllll— IS Stark...; .01111011111011011010— 14 

 Sheldon.. ',1111101111110111 1011— 17 Cooper.. ..llOOOOimiOl 1101110— 13 

 Luther,. . .110100111111 111111 11— IT Teipel . . ..OtmtlUOltm 000010-12 



Diekcv. . . . 1 1 1111.1 1 Oil 1 KUKI111— 17 Davis 11000110010100111111—12 



Wheeler. .10111111111101010111— 16 Gilman. . .101011011031 11100101— 12 

 E Smi th... Hill 001 111 1111 10011— 16 Wagener. 11100101001001011111— 12 



Allen lOlOniUTlllinOUO-16 Charles. . .10101010010001111110— H 



Budd ,11101111011011011111-16 Perrv 1 100101 lOllOlOOlOOOl— 10 



Parsons . . .11111111101110001111—16 



Amateurs' Merchandise Match. 



Dean 1.1111111111111111101-19 Law 01111010101110111101-14 



Buffum. ,10111 11 1 1 1 1 1 110 1 11 U— 18 Jason 001 111100111 110101 1 1—14 



Treae-er ..1111D0I111I.11101111—18 AE Mead 01011100111010111111— U 

 Aldoes .. ,01111101111111111111— 18 Sanborn.. llllllllOllO'illOlOlO— 14 

 RoehemHlUHIWllllUlllulll— 18 F S Mead.11100111 tOOlOlllOllO— 14 

 BuAlhgCnllllllllOOllllllOlll— 17 Knowles.. OllllOtOtOlllOOlllll— U 

 E Taylor .inillOOllimnmo— 17 Collins .. .001 11 1101 001 11 Hi 100-13 

 Barnes .. .10101110111111111111—17 H Swift. .11011011110101000111— 13 

 Moody ...11110111110111111111-17 Snow... .OUOlllOinOOOOlllll— 13 



Tirrell.... 00111111111101101111— 16 Gore 110.1 lOlOlOOOt 11011 01 — i 12 



Renaud . . .1 1 1ll 1 1001 1 1 11 1 01 101—16 Dan 0100 U 0001 1 01 01 1 1111 —12 



Edwards .lOlllOlllllllllllOOl- 16 Bowditeh.1000111101 1000011111— 12 

 H Taylor, 01111 111101 01 ill 1011— 16 T S Hall. .101 11 101 11 000 1101001—12 



Gerry- OtOllOlll 10111110111—15 Ward wellllHOHOOOOlOOOlOl 11-11 



Haskell... 110111 10101111001111— 15 Spangler. IOIIOOO 3 1 J 1 lOllOOlOl-- 11 



Schaefer .10111110101101111011—15 Perry 11100100001110110011—11 



■Partiss ...lllUOlllOOlOllUOll— 15 McCoy . ..OllOOOHOlllOlOOOlll— 11 

 Francis. , .101011011 1011 1110111— 15 Nichols. ..11000001 101101010100— 10 



AAGreenlilOllOllllOlOlOllll— 15 Lee 03110101 lOHlOuOl 100— 10 



Andrews.. lOlOlOlllltiOOlOlH 1— 14 Jordan. ..OOlOOlOOlllOOOllllOl— 10 

 June 3.— The fourth day in the great shooting tournament on 

 the grounds of the Wellington Gun Club was a red-letter day, as it 

 decided the winners of the first prizes in the two merchandise 

 matches, and contrary to the expectations of hundreds of promi- 

 nent sporting men, the three principal prizes will remain in the 

 East. Mr. T. G. Strater, of Boston (F. Stanton), is the successful 

 aspirant for the chief prize in the expert merchandise match, an 

 elegant. L. C. Smith sporting gun, valued at $450. Out of a possible 

 100, Mr. Strater, who has been shooting during the week under the 

 name of Stanton, scored 88 dead birds. A. L. Traeger, a 17-year- 

 old boy, has done some phenomenal shooting, and for a score of 81 

 out of a possible 100, wins the elegant oil painting valued a t $1 ,000. 

 In the afternoon he was offered and refused $700 for the result of 

 his week's shooting. The special prize, an English field gun, 

 donated by the Loekport Target Co., was won by W. S. Perrv. of 

 Worcester, Mass. The second prize in the expert merchandise 

 match, a W. & O. Scott gun, valued at $200, was won bv C. H, De 

 Rochemont with a score of 80. Thus, three of the principal prizes 

 go to members of the Wellington Gun Club, and, naturally, mem- 

 bers of the association are very much elated at the unexpected 

 result. 



About 8,500 bats were thrown from the, traps during the day, and 

 the attendance was 1,000. The scores made did hot coine'up to 

 the average of the four preceding days, through some unexplained 

 reason, but it is claimed by many of the shooters that they did 

 not take as much pains as on the preceding four days, as they are 

 saving themselves for the final events, when all the ties will be 

 shot off, and missing one bird may mean the loss of a prize worth 

 S100 or more. In the appended scores are the results of the mer- 

 chandise prize matches and the totals of each day's score for 

 shooters in these events, from which it will be seen that about 

 forty men will have to shoot off ties. 



The tournament has proved, by comparison with previous shoot- 

 ing carnivals, to have been by far the largest ever held. In 1884 

 the Illinois State Sportsmen's Association, in a grand carnival of 

 shooters, had a total of 96 entries; in 1880, at Burlington, la., the 

 Iowa State Sportsmen's Association had 86 entries; while in the 

 present tournament there are 149 entries in the two merchandise 

 matches, beside nearly 100 more in the sweepstakes. 



First event, 30 bats, amateur merchandise and sweepstakes 



match, sweepstakes— Russel first, Knowles and C. B. Paine sec- 

 ond. H. Taylor and H. Swift third, Barnes and Francis fourth. 



Second event, 10 bats, open to all corners, swe.Ppstakes=t): W, 

 Bird, Dickey-, McMurchy first, Staalob and Early second, Wagener 

 aud CrOWell third, Treager fourth. 



Third event. PI bats, amateur Sweeps takos-E: Taylor, Traeger 

 aridSwatt first, Aldoes and Clark second, Bowditch, Schaefer and 

 Bu'.Tihgton third, Dan and Partiss fourth. 



Fourth event, 10 bats, open to all, sweepstakes — Allen, Eager, 

 Budd first, Clark second, McMurchy third, Perry fourth. 



Fifth event, 10 bate, open to all comers, sweepstakes— Budd and 

 Eager first, Early, dwell, Stice and Lodge second. Perry third, 

 Stanton and Wagener fourth. . 



Sixth event, 10 bat", amateur sweepstake match— Swift and 

 Clark first, Hussell. alld Moody second, Wardwell, Schaefer and 

 SleniVud third, C. T. Snow, Traeger and Swan fourth. 



Seventh event, 20 hats, experts, merchandise and sweepstakes 

 match, sweepstakes-Slice and Perry first. Eager and Faulkner 

 second, Teipel third, Dickey, Cooper and Wagener fourth. 



Eighth event, 10 bats, open to amateurs only, sweepstakes— 

 Moody, Russell aud Schaefer first, Knowles second, H. Taylor 

 third,' Ward well fourth. 



Ninth event, 10 hots amateurs only, sweepstakes— Wardwell 

 and H. Swift first, E. Taylor and Traiger second, Renaud third, 

 Moodv, Gerry, Nichols fourth. 



Tenth event, 1U bats, open to all, sweepstakes- Stark, Stice, Gil* 

 man and Wagener first. Eager and Dickey second, Clark and 

 WjtaBelei' third, Cooper add Peri'y fourth- 



Eleventh event-, 5 pairs doubles, open to all eiihiel's-. sweepstakes 

 —Tinker and Perry first; McMurchy, .Davis, Barnes and Teipel 

 second; Stice third, Gray imd Warren fourth; 



Twclfth.cvbnt, 10 birds; amateur, sweepstakes— Russel, Warren, 

 Aldoes, Clark and tDean first, Bancroft and Bowditch second, 

 1,'i iiaurl, Gerry and Green third, E. Taylor, Moody, Rich and 

 Baxter fourth. 



Thirteenth event, 10 bats, open to all, sweepstakes— Dickey, 

 Tinker and Miller first. Parsons, Teipel and Budd second, Stanton, 

 Gilman and Perry third. Dodge fourth. 



Fourteenth event, 10 bats, amateurs, sweepstakes miitch^Clark 

 and Renaud first, Bancroft and Francis secbiPh Dab and Russell 

 third, A A. Green fourth: . 



Fifteenth event-, 10 bats, open to amateurs, sweepstakes— Dan 

 first-, Law, Russell and Barnes second, H. Taylor third, Snow, 

 Baxter and Clark fourth. 



Sixteenth event, 10 bats, open to all, sweepstakes— Wheeler and 

 Diekcv first. McMurchy, Luther and Stanton second, Parsons 

 third, Miller fourth. 



Seventeenth event, 10 bats, open to amateurs only, sweepstakes 

 —Bancroft first, T. Snow second, H. Swift third, Law fourth. 



Eighteenth event, 10 birds, open to all, sweepstakes— McMurchy 

 and Teipel first, Stanton, Dickey, Luther and Budd second, Eager, 

 Bradley and Wheeler third, Wagener fourth. 



Nineteenth event, 5 pairs, double, opoh to iitnatcurs Onlj.swOeb- 

 stakcs= Knowles first, Nichols, Schaefer and G firry second, Rem 

 alio, Wardwell and Law tliifth, Barnes fourth; 



Twentieth evbnt,. ill bats, straightaway, open to all, sweepstakes 

 -StiintOh first, Dickey and Luther second, Budd, Eager and 

 Teipel third, Wagener and Nichols fourth. 



Twenty-first event, 5 hats, straightaway, amateur sweepstakes- 

 Francis and Bowditch first, Bancroft and Schaefer second, Karnes 

 third. 



Amateur Merchandise Matt!!!; , 

 Russell. ..11111111111101111111- 10 A EMcacllltllOldl 10110111011-15 

 Sanborn -11111 HUH (Hi lOlll-lO FS Mead.lllllllionooiiinoill— 14 

 Pom ...... Otlfl II 1111111111111— 19 Schaefer. .1101111 100U11I0111I1—14 



Kiiowlcs.. 1111 1111101 10111 1111-18 Renaud... 01111110111110101010-14 

 CBPaine.llllUlllllOUlOim— 18 Dean .. . .00011010111111111011—14 



Traeger ..10111111111011111011—17 Law 01110101110011011111—14 



Andrews. 111101111 11011111110-17 Haskell... 11011110100110111101— 14 

 H Swift. ..11111111111011001111-17 Warren ..11011010100011111111—14 

 H Taylor. 11111011011101111111— 17 Rochem't 10110100110011111111—14 

 Buffum... Oliinoiilll 11101 111-17 M'Laugh'niOoioicOoiliomOtil-rj 

 Collins., 10111001111111111111-7 Morse,....l«llll0l00ll100inil-H 

 Moodv.... 11 H1 10101111.1111101—17 E Tavioi.iVlotOlOOIH 111100011-12 

 PaW, -. -.11111011111101101111-17 J S Snow. 01011011011111001001-12 

 WitrdwellOl 11 1111111011 111011-17 Gerry ....0010111011100(1110111—12 

 McCoy ...1101110111111100(111-1(1 Nichols... 01 1011.1 1010101000101— 11 

 Partiss .. .11101111 1 11110110011— 16 Bancroft, 00^10011010101111110— 11 

 TirreU.... 0111 1111 100111101111—16 Aldoes.... 001 1 1 1 01 000 11 0001 1 1—10 

 BufTingt'nll 101001 111111 110101-15 Swan .... 1 1 00000 IO0I001 01 lOl 1 - Tl 

 T Hall. ...11101110110110111101-15 Jayson . . .lhOOOliOOHOOOlOOlOl- 9 

 Barnes ..,11111110010101101111—15 Dimock. ..OI00110010I00011C011— 9 



Francis.. .11110111101111011100-15 Gore 10100010011110010100- 9 



Experts' Merchandise Match. 



Stice 111111111110011111111—19 Early... .OII101OHI1011111110— 15 



Perrv IOIIIIIIIIIIHIIIIII— 19 dwell.. .OlllltO'.OIHltlllOOl— 15 



Gilman ...lllllllOlHOllllltll— 18 M'MurchvllllOllOlOHOOllllll— 15 



Eager 1110111111111H110U— 18 Stark OUlllHl 11101101001—15 



Luther. . . . 11111101 1111 11 11101 1—18 Budd 11 11 110000110111011 1— 14 



Faulkner.. 111111111 11101011 111-18 Tinker,. . -.0111101100111 1011110=44 

 Allen.... .1011101101 11 11111111=17 Sltl.ntou . . ;1()011 ill 1 1 11 10100101— H 

 M Smith, ,l1l1tl00llll0tllliil=i7 E Smith. . 1 1 1 101 1 1 1010001 101 11 — 14 



Teipel »,;,-.liu10lll0llllillli1l— 17 Davis 10101110101111H1100-1 1 



Dickey.... 11 U1010111111111001— 16 Sheldon... OHllllllOUflMlMOO-ia 



Cooper 11110111111110011011—16 Miller 10010110101111001111—13 



Wagener.. Ill 111 11100101101111— 16 Charles. . .1001111000110111101 t—i3 

 Wheeler... 01110101011111 110111— 15 Parsons.. .0111000011011 1101110—12 

 Merchandise Match, Amateurs— Total of Shooters. 



Ligow- Amer- Blue Peo- 

 skys. icaus. Rocks, rias. 

 A L Traiger, New Haven, Conn, 14 10 

 C H DeRochmont, Newburyp ! t,15 18 



E Tavloi 1 . Cincinnati, O 11 18 



J Haskell, Lvnn, Mass 14 14 



H H Francis, Randolph 15 16 



E M Moodv, Loekport, N Y 13 12 



H S Taylor, Exeter, N H 17 10 



Reneaud, Lvnn, Mass ..<...]£ 1? 



.1 S Barnes, Watertown, N Y. , , , 18 12 



H Swift, BOstOn.: :;..;.; .15 14 



E L Bufflngton, Fall River 1(1 12 



J N Buffum, Melrose, Mass 7 16 



J H Andrews, Spcncerport, N Y.l 4 15 



W A Gerry, Somerville, Mass ...14 16 



F W Partiss, Dion, NY 12 12 



E J Wardwell. Cambridge 11 16 



E L Law, Cambridgeport 15 13 



H G Warren, Boston 15 14 



AE Mead, Knoxville, TeUu.,...ll 15 



J S Snow, Cambridgeport 12 12 



TBHalVEall River. 12 13 



TirreU, Brockton, 9 10 



F C Dann, Marlboro 10 17 



R H Aldoes, Brockton 11 15 



Collins 13 14 



E B Sanborn 10 10 



R F Schaefer, Boston 13 6 



McCov, Boston It 7 



W E Perry, Somerville 7 9 



Jason 5 14 



J N Nichols. Boston 11 12 



AW Gore, Cambridge 11 



S Morse, Jr. Wellington — .... . 8 



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Experts' Merchandise Match- Total of Shooters. 



T G Strater, Boston 17 18 20 19 



J R Stice, New Haven 16 18 16 15 



G C Luther, Syracuse, N Y 13 17 17 17 



J E Miller, Cincinnati 13 16 18 20 



H W Eager, Marlboro 16 15 12 19 



M C Smith, Syracuse 16 15 10 15 



CW Budd, Des Moines 18 16 18 16 



WH Sheldon, Providence 16 15 17 17 



W H Allen, Brockton 14 13 17 16 



O R Dickey. Boston 14 15 15 17 



H McMurchy. Syracuse 12 16 15 18 



S A dwell, Jackson, Mich 12 16 16 18 



E T Smith, Worcester 15 18 11 16 



J Q Earley, Manchester, 13 16 14 15 



B Teipel, Covington, Ky 13 14 17 12 



A F Cooper, Exeter, NH 11 18 14 13 



H G Wheeler, Marlbo?fe 14 12 15 16 



C Wagener JAdteney, NY 17 11 15 12 



C M Stark, Winchester, Mass... 16 12 13 14 



W S Perry, Worcester, Mass 17 12 12 10 



J J Parsons, Indianapolis, Ind.. 8 14 17 16 



W Charles, Exeter. NH 13 13 16 11 



W D Gilman, Worcester, Mass..l2 10 13 12 



Beaudry, Marlboro, Mass 14 9 10 16 



D S Davis, Worcester, Mass 13 5 11 12 



June A.— A few minutes before 6 o'clock this evening the echo of 

 the last gun fired died away at Wellington, the judges called 

 "dead bird" for the last time, and The largest and most successful 

 trap shooting tournament ever held -was at an end. The weather 

 during the week has b> en anything but favorable to good scores, 

 yet those made will compare very favorably with the scores in 

 any previous tournament ever held in this country. 



It was a gala day, the attendance being 2,130, and of this number 



Bats, 

 17-81 

 14-80 

 12—78 



14- 76 



15- 76 

 17-70 

 17-78 



14- 76 



15- 75 

 17—74 



16- 74 



17- 74 

 17-74 

 12-71 



16- 71 



17— 70 

 14-69 



14- 68 



15- 68 

 12—67 



15- 67 



16- 65 



17- 65 



10— 64 



17- 64 

 19-64 

 14—63 



16- 61 

 19-57 



9-52 



11— 50 

 9—49 



12— 48 



14— 88 

 19-84 



18— 82 



13— 80 



18— 80 



17- 79 



14— 79 



13— 78 



16- 77 



15— 76 



15- 76 



14 — 74 



15— 73 



17- 73 



16— 72 



15- 72 



16— 71 

 15-70 



19- 70 



12— 67 



13— 66 



18- 65 

 15—64 



14— 85 



est ti> the reader, solne idea of the cost of the six days' shootinf 

 th the Contestants, may be gleaned from the fact that each shot 

 fired at a clay-pigeon costs fhc shooter on an average 8 cents, 5 

 cents for the bird and from l i% to 8^ cents for powder, shot and 

 shells, aside from all other expenses incidental to the .shoot, such 

 a -. <-ar fares to and front the range, implements used iti kccpiia; 

 the guns in good conditions; etc. Hence simnly shooting in this 

 mei : qhabdinb match cost the Shooter from p to $10 for pigeons, 

 powder and. shot alone, outside of his entrance fees and an" occa- 

 sional sweepstakes match. The championship match between H. 

 W. Eager and C. W. Budd was the chief attraction of the day, 

 and all other contests were declared off during their shoot. The 

 match was for a purse donated by the committee, and the condi- 

 tions were that each man should shoot at 50 blue rocks and 50 

 Ligowskys thrown from three traps. Budd scored a total of 85 

 and Eager 79, as will be seen by reference to the detailed score ap- 

 pended 



One of the events of the afternoon was the contest of the re- 

 porters for a #25 engraving of Tait's sporting picture, offered hy 



G. 11. Litchfield, president of the Ivanhoe Gun Club, of New York. 

 The judges selected informed th« scribes that tbey were to have 

 10 shots each, and that if, at the .end of an hour the v failed to 

 knock the bark off a bird, they would have to toss up to see who 

 was to get the prize. Although the birds shot at were of the ordi- 

 nary sjze, the .reporters wei'c able to "Ond them'' as thev sailed 

 through. the air. John Low, of the Boston Globe, broke '4 out of 

 his first 5, and, as the others were unable to tie it with 10 shots, he 

 concluded hot to spoil his score by shooting anymore. Following 

 is a summary of the sweepstake matches to-day: 



First event. 10 birds, amateurs only, sweepstakes— Dan first, 

 DeRochmont and Knowles second, H. Taylor and Bowditch third. 



Second event, 10 birds, 5 traps, open to nil, sweopstakes— Shaef"* 

 fer, Barnes, Clark and Shumway first, E. Taylor, Renaud arid 

 Moody.second, Knowles third, Bowditch and Lee fourth. 



Third event, 10 birds, experts only, sweepstakes— H. McMurchy 

 first, .1: R. Stice second, Wheeler and Teipel third. 



Fourth event, 10 birds, open to amateurs only, sweepstakes — 

 Bowditch, Francis and Sampson first, Knowles, Wardwell, Clark 

 andH. Swift second, Shumway, Gore and H. Taylor third, Brad- 

 ley fourth. 



Fifth event, 10 birds, open to all comers, sweepstakes— Wheeler 

 and McMurchy first. Wagener, Budd, Knowles and Teipel second, 

 Luther, Miller and Wardwell third, Early, Dickey, Gillman and 

 Cooper fourth. 



Sixth event, 10 hirds, amateur sweepstakes— Barnesand Francis 

 first, Linueman, Clark and Wardwell second. H. Smith and Dann 

 third, Aldoes fourth. 



Seventh event, 10 birds, open to all, sweepstakes— Stice and 

 Luther first, Mian ton. Teipel and Stark second, Budd and Charles 

 i hi hi. \yhecler fourth. 



Eighth event, 1IJ birds, open to all comers, sweepstakes— Teipel, 

 Wardwell and Barnes first, Earley and McMurchy second, Stan- 

 ton, Eager, Knowles and Dick third, Budd, Wagener and Faulk ner 

 fourth. 



Ninth event, 10 birds, open to amateurs only, sweenstakes— Dan 

 first, Barnes and II. Swift second. Lineman and Moodv third, 

 Dodge. Wardwell and Curtis fourth. 



., Tenth" Oven I. 1.0 bats, amateurs, sweepstakes— Ba rnes and J. S. 

 Snow first Moody, Shumway and Shaeffer second, Francis, Frank 

 lin and E. Taylor third, Wilbur and Bowditch fourth. 



Eleventh event, 20 birds, fancy hip match between H. P. Arker- 

 son, of Texas, and Ben. Teipel. of Covington, Ky. Won by Teipel. 



Twelfth event, 20 birds, 10 Ligowskys and 10 blue rocks', sweep- 

 stakes— Teipel first. Miller and Crowell second, Early, Barnes and 

 Cooper third, McMurchy, Dickey and Stanton fourth. 



Thirteenth event, 20 birds, open to experts for special prize of 

 $1 50— Barnes, De Rochemont, War ren and Partiss divide 40 per 

 cent.; Aldoes, Clark, H. Swift, Moody, J. S. Snow and Short divide 

 150 pet cent.; Gerry, Dean and Sanborn divide 20 per cent., and 

 Ti aegei 1 , Frauds, Meacham and Law divided 10 per cent. 



Fourteenth event, 10 birds, experts, sweepstakes — Stice, 

 McMurchy and Budd first. Tinker, Wheeler and Dickey second, 

 Teipel, Luther and Stanton third, Eager fourth. 



Fifteenth event, 10 birds, open to all comers, sweepstakes— Gerry, 

 Swift, TirreU and Francis first, Knowles second, Aldoes, Dan, 

 Weymouth and Blake third, Dean and Renaud fourth. 



Sixteenth event, 10 birds, members of press— Low, Globe, first, 

 Stetson, Associated Press, second. Stearns, Herald, third. 



Seventeenth event, 5 pairs doubles, open to all comers— Tinker, 

 McMurchy and Teipel first, Budd and Early second, Knowles 

 third. 



Eighteenth event, 5 pairs, amateurs, sweepstakes— Law, Ward- 

 well and Barnes first, Franklin. Knowles and E.Taylor second, 

 Dan, Warren and Norris third, Moodv and Dodge fourth". 



Nineteenth event, 100 birds, 50 Ligowskys and 50 blue rocks, 

 championship match between C. W. Budd, of Des Moines, la., 

 champion Jive, bird shot, and H. W. Eager, of Marlboro, Mass., 

 champion inanimate target shot for a purse subscribed by mem- 

 Pers of the Association: 



Budd, Lig.s 01011111111101111111011111111110111111111111110100—42 



Budd, bl. rocks...llll01111101111110111001101011111111illlllllllllll— 43 



85 



Eager. Lig.s 01111111111111110011011101011011101011111110110111-38 



Eager, bl. rocks.lllllOllllllOllllllllllllOllOlOllllllllllOOlllOlll — 41 



79 



Twentieth event, 10 birds, amateur sweepstakes— Partiss and E. 

 Taylor first, Barnes, Bardwell and Andrews second, Warren 

 third, Gore fourth. 



Twenty-first event, 10 birds, amateurs only, sweepstakes — Dan 

 first, Weymouth, Swift and Gerry second, Wilbur, WardweU and 

 Knowles 'third, Sanborn and Dean fourth. 



Twentv-second event, 10 bine rocks, open to all, sweepstakes — 

 McMurchy and Luther first, Wardwell second, Stark third, Stan- 

 ton and Teipel third. 



Twenty third, 5 pairs doubles, open to all, sweepstakes— Mc- 

 Murchy and Dickey first, Wheeler and Stark second, Teipel and 

 Dan third. 



TAUNTON, Mass., May §0.— T. F. and G. P. A. Match at 7 

 clays, Ligowsky clay-pigeon trap, 16yds., 5 angles, N. G. A. rules: 



Hardy 0010011-3 E Leonard 1011001-4 



Snow' 1111010—6 Barstow 1H1101-6 



H. vward 1110001-4 J J Davis 1110100-4 



E Roweu 0101001-3 Smith 100UOO-3 



Hall 1101101-5 G H Davis 01U101— 5 



A Davis llllUl-7 F Scudder 0110110—4 



Ties divided. 



Match at 5 bats, 18yds. rise: 



A Hardv 10101-3 J J Davis 10101—3 



Snow 11111-5 Smith 01101-3 



Havward 11001-3 H Dauforth 11000—3 



E B'owen 11111-5 L Dow 10101-3 



Hall 11111—5 Walker 110U-4 



A Davis 11110—4 E Waterman 10100-2 



E Leonard 11101-4 G H Davis 11100-3 



W Barstow 11111—5 Scudder 01111-4 



Ties— Snow and Hall divided first, Scudder and Davis second, 

 J. Davis and G. H. Davis third. 



Match at 15 clay-pigeons, 16yds. rise: Class A— G. A. Deane 

 first on 13, C. T. Snow and E. Bowen divided second on 12, G. H. 

 Davis and J. J. Davis divided third on 11, Scudder and J. T. Hall 

 divided fourth on 10. Class B— W. H. Rogers first on 10, A. T. 

 Keith second on 5, Hayward and King divided third on 4. 



Match at 7 blue rocks, blue rock trap, 18vds. rise: 



J T Hall 1111100—5 G L Smith 1101111—6 



B F King 0101000—2 B E Lincoln 1010011—4 



A Hardv 1010110-4 C T Snow 0111111-6 



A Davis' 1110101-5 J J Davis 1100111-5 



G L Walker 0100101-3 F M Scudder 1101101-5 



W Barstow 1110111—6 A Presbrev 1011101—5 



G A Deane 1100100-3 F S Keith 1010011-4 



E Bowen 1110011-5 W H Rogers 1011010-4 



G H Davis 1101111—6 A T Keith 0100101-3 



On shoot off Snow took first; Halh A. Davis and J. J. Davis sec- 

 ond; Keith third. 



Match at 5 blue rocks, blue rock trap, 18yds, rise: 



JT Hall 01111 — 4 W Barstow 11000-2 



C T Snow 11101— t G H Davis 00111-3 



F S Keith 11001-3 G L Walker 11110—4 



B F King 11100-3 F M Scudder 010U-3 



A Hastv 00011-2 A Davis. 01011-3 



A T Keith 11001—3 G A Deane HH0 — 4 



E Bowers 00111—3 



On shoot off Hall first, Brown second, third divided. 



ALGONQUIN GUN CLUB. — A few members of the Algonquin 

 Gun Club assembled at their grounds, Manitor Park, Decoration 

 Day, for a practice shoot, at blackbirds, 20yds.: 



,1 Flanna 11111 Hill 11111 10111-19 



H Otten 11010 111)1 11111 1111L- 18 



PRadsinsky 11111 111)1 11101 10100-16 



F Turnly . . . , ... 10101 110U 1H10 10111-15 



