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SUFFERNS, N Y , Oct. l.-Close to the foot of tlie Ramapo 

 Sffi'&SKi'^ '1 SSSS lGTCl !V ot of ualf a acres heRed\n 



Sv^rTSSH b ™» tim r 5 er ', ftre th « shooting ground* of this part of 

 Rockland county. To-day a shoot was held. The day opened 

 with a heavy shower. It cleared off by noon, and those fe w who 

 reached the shooting grounds represented the Harverstraw Ber- 

 gen County and Newark Gut, clubs. The master of ceremonies 

 was that genial crack shot Bill Taylor, brother of .lack. The 

 winners ot first sweep were Van Riper and T. G. Peck, with 

 straight scores ot kills; Post and Blauvelt tied for second Second 

 sweep \ an Riper and T. G. Peck divided Hrst; Post and Blau velt 

 , T i nrd sweep, T.G. Peck captured first, und second was 

 divided between Post, Van Riper and Elev. Fourth sweep, T. G. 

 Peck and Van Riper divided first, others divided. The sixth and 

 last sweep was a hotly contested one, at 7 birds each man Pour 

 tied for first, with six kills each to their credit— T G Peck R 

 Van Riper, K. I. Peck and W. EJey. The tie was shot, miss and 

 put. Van Riper winning. Second money was divided between W. 

 Taylor and R. Blauvelt; third went to G. H. Peck. Old veteran 

 Jacob Penfz was referee. 



ALLENTOWN, Pa., Oct. 3.— The Malmnoy City Gun Club ar- 

 nveu at Allen town to-day and engaged in a return shooting 

 match with the Lehigh Gun Club. Each contestant was allowed 

 10 shot?. 1 he local team won by the following score: Lehigh- 

 J. Nettles 1(1, J. R. Saeger 4, E.W. Masuih'Ti P C Blank 6 K Fink 

 6, M. Oehs 0. U. H. Wieanci 8, D. Brown 5. J. Bell 5 'toud M? M» 

 hanoy Oity-F. Cooper 10. M. Cooper 7, G. R.Goodman (5. M. 

 Bu'rkei-VoiV^f 1 ' 1 ' 0 ' H ' S,M,Uer 4 ' W.Baker 4, S. Wildes 4, C. 



HELLERSTOVVN, Pa., Oct. 3.-The Valley Gun Club held its 

 rail meeting here to-day, shooting three 5-bird pots and one at 

 ii Ve T b ii'r ds - , l . n the ola y h,rd shooting the score was: O. Marsteller 

 11, J Wood ring 10, W. H. Gosner 8, J. Kane 8 and G Quler 7 At 

 i l JS b,rd , 8: ^ oodr i n J?; J % 8 -. Bagey and J. Kane tied with 1 each, 

 and m the shoot off W oodring won by 5 out of 6. The shooting 

 was good and attracted a big crowd. 



CARLISLE, Pa., Oct. 1.— Several hundred persons assembled 

 on the county grounds yesterday to witness the all-day tourna- 

 ment given by the Cumberland County Fish and Game Associa- 

 O/er *» live birds were used, and shooters from all parts 

 ot the State were present. The big purses were won by Dingert 

 and Bresinger, of tfarriahurg: Cassell,tif Humineistown; Corcoran 

 of York, and Lefever, of Carlisle. 



i iv Fo EK f Ti ILL KEXT MONDAY.- A grand all day shoot at king- 

 pipl?ln p luei i or ,% WI 1 b £ "P ld b>' the Ravine Gun Club, at the 

 ? \^!hn i Rase ball Park, Peekskill, N. Y., Oct. 14. beginning at 10 

 A.M. sharp. Two sets of 5 traps each with the rapid system will 

 be used and the several events on the programme will be shot off 

 as last as possible. Shooters from New York and vicinity can 



l%t M e \v a rf V/ Utral d - epot at 8 A -¥- ^riving at Peekskill at 

 9:20 A.M.— W. H. Pierce, Secretary and Manager. 



H ARRISBURG, Pa.-The first annual fall tournament of the 



Oct 1 7 IS and f 19 be beld at the baseball grounds, 



Jvlffi&$&\ IIL ~7^ Pl v, o ria blackbird and live pigeon tournament 

 will lie held here Oct. 10 and 17. 



FLY. 



TVKE accompanying plans of the canoe Fly, whose lines appeared 

 X last week, show the interior arrangement and the leading 

 fittings. The canoe is used ror match sailing almost entirely , and 

 consequently the requirements of crusing have been little con- 

 sidered m the planning. The well is square at the after end and 

 pointed forward, hemg 17?4in. wide inside. It is but little over 

 4ff. long, while the greater part is taken up by the centerboard 

 trunk, leaving little room to sit below, but as the sailing is done 

 entirely from the deck, this is a small matter. There are two 

 bulkheads, one, forward of the trunk and one immediately abaft 

 the well, each having two circular openings or hand holes' about 

 tin. diameter, closed with a flanged cover held in place bv a 

 si rew. the flange being lined with rubber; the whole arrange- 

 ment being modeled on the ordinary hand hole plate of a steam 

 boiler. Tne compartments are quite latge. but are not used for 

 stowage. The well contains only a plain flooring, there being no 

 foot steering gear or fittings ot any kind below deck. The deSk 

 furniture is also very simple; at the stem is a small socket plate 

 let into the deck, into which a ring about tin. diam. drops, being 

 used for the painter, and in sailing for the snatch block that 

 takes the halliard. The mast tubes project about 2in. above the 

 deck, each being carried up through a deck plate. Two travelers 

 are provided, for mam and mizen sheets, the former made of two 

 pieces ot rod, about Jqjn. diam., as shown in the section, tit itedbv 

 a length ot tubing just large enough to slip over thewire The 

 ends are passed through the coaming and secured by wing nuts 

 The mizen traveler is one of Mr. Butler's most ingenious inven- 

 tions, a metal tube 6in. long pi voted so as to swing in any direc- 

 tion in a horizontal plane. The two parts of the mizen sheet are 

 led through this tube, as shown, the result being that the mizen 

 boom can be trimmed down flat without at the same time beino- 

 hauled m to the exact center line of the canoe, thus giving a verv 

 much more effective angle to the sail. The details of the traveler 

 with those of rudder, tiller, etc., will appear next weeK ' 

 The canoe is constructed ou the ribband-carvel method and 

 resembles very much that shown in Mr. Stewart's two Pearls 

 The keel is of oak, lJIm. wide at rabbet amidships, with a keel" 

 son of white pine 3m wide and Urn. deep. The stem and stern 

 are of steamed oak. The planking is of Spanish cedar s,„in. 

 thick, with but three si rakes to the side, as shown m the section 

 The ribbands are each J^in. wide and %\a. deep, slightly rounded 

 on the back The timbers are Hin. wide and fan. d. ep, spaced 

 6in. In building the ribbands are first run along the moulds then 

 the ribs are bent to shape and jogged into the ribbands, the re- 

 verse of the method described in "Canoe and Boat Buildin<* " 

 after which the frame is planked up. This makes a very strong 

 and light canoe, with perfectly flush seams. The deadwood of 

 stem and stern, as well as the keel, is very carefully rounded 

 away, while every care is taken to preserve a fair sweep of the 

 lines from the stemband to the after side of the sternoost The 

 stem is protected by a carefully-shaped casting of brass, makin^ 

 almost a knife edge to the stem. The metal fittings are of alum- 

 inum specially made for the boat. The centerboards, of which 

 several kinds are used, are of steel or brass, the latest one being 

 made of two thicknesses ot sheet brass, about * ie ih riveted to 

 gether along the edges. In the tipper and after angle a small 

 auxiliary board is fitted, filling the space between the keel and 

 board when the latter is down. By this means the width of the 

 main board is considerably reduced. The deck is of Spanish 

 cedar, some of the Vesper canoes being decked with butternut 

 It is laid on beams spaced 9in., with 2^in. crown. The coaming 

 is :<4in. high amidships. 8 



PADDLING CANOES IN THE A. C. A. 



Editor Forest and Stream: 



It seems now about the time in the course of human events and 

 canoeing tor the Association to do something in regard to pad- 

 dling canoes. After such an unsatisfactory race as the cham- 

 pionship this year, not only to the participants but as to its con- 

 ditions, and as we are m the future to have a valuable trophy for 

 that race, now is the time tor the Association to make as strict 

 m canoef 11 lOT paddling ca noes as we have for our sail- 



Last year and the year before the " disgruntled kickers " had the 

 standing rig and the sliding seat to worry their wits and bra ns 

 about, calling all. sorts of names. This year thev have before 

 them a startling vision of a shell planked, veneered deck cotton- 

 stuffed center board-does anyone know what it isif— withlts 

 mast tubes too small for a match and its rldioulous substitutes 

 lor centerboard anci rudder, etc.. upon which to vent their wrath 

 and fling tbeir scathing criticisms. Last year I sailed a boat with 

 standing sails ana sliding seat, and this year I am the nossessor 

 of one of the above described crafts. Surely 1 must be ffiSES 

 in hard luck. These criticisms that have appeared at such length 

 m the Forest and Stream do not do the boat justice so lest the 

 veracity of the critics be questioned, I am thinking seriously of 

 having the necessary alterations made; to make the crime fit'ihA 

 punishment, as it were. 

 Let us look at the conditions of the championship race 

 "Canoes noted as decked must be properly equipped sailing 



CciHOSSi 



"Open canoes must use the single blade paddle." 



In the opinion of the committee, as was given after the race 

 decked canoes must be such as are used ordinarily in sailing and 

 which weigh anywhere from 701bs. to 1251bs., and these were to be 

 matched against racing open canoes weighing anywhere from 

 31)lt,8. to 401bs. Could you expect a race with any such conditions 

 or werevre expected to bring forth a race of giants to paddle with 



Can any one he blamed for entering the race in as light a boat as 

 lie thinks will come withm the requirements, with such con- 

 ditions as these / 



I race for the excitement and fun I derive from it and there is 

 as much excitement m paddling races as the, e is in sailing or 

 rowing or any other kind of racing, except when you are away off 

 in the back ground trying to get a move on a sailing canoe in a 

 paddling race. 



It seems to me that this race was all wrong from the start the 

 matching of sailing canoes versus open paddling canoes, the 

 o ?v3 vi i° y «>ngle, and the committee's allowing the 

 decked boats to start in the race when they did not consider them 

 properly equipped sailing canoes. 



Let us encourage paddling, not discourage and handicap it in 

 t litis vv&y > 



How easily this can and should be done. 

 r.J^ * 1 s . lnt roduce anew class of canoes, the decked paddling 

 canoe with the double blade. s 

 Is there any reason why we should not have it? 

 It is the fastest boat and fastest blade. 

 ,J am 1 8Ure there are many who would enter the, races if they 

 ,T^m.2 v r d r tc V. paddl ° "V- 1 boat lmilt tor paddling and a boat 

 strength! relatlve Proportion rn its weight to their weight and 



<h ^ n ama ? race in the fastest boat he can build, only limiting 

 the boat, of course, as to dimensions and its weight, to 351bs. 



"fl reason why we should not have racing paddling 

 canoes as well as racing sailing canoes? 



J*** r j£ al1 F he C!U >oes in the championship races in the last two 

 IZZ * aVe been cauoes butlt to win that race or were racing 



Reford!° men Wi th tbe 8aiHug can0CS stitk t0 &a11i! »K and the 

 • meQ 1 witn U ? 6 Paddling canoes could not go into the Record 

 Sntw'* C h 83e t bul thcy conld *° iD f or the championship in 

 rf?SL e i?t D tanu , om an " wv would have good races, plenty of ex- 

 citement, and what we want most, more entries. * 



Is tins not reasonable? 

 as r u 1 i!!« P Tr; ll A e J a f llmy boat may not be so much of a scapegoat 

 M tea to ffl a g °° d CaUSC - Alex. E. PotLm. 



«I?Si.Srai?^?TS? the two canoes that were disqualified dealt 

 principally with Mr. Johnson's craft, certainly a poor suecimen 



vit Ca M^^ lm twith 11,0 evidcnt intention of exiling the 

 rule. Mr. Putnam's canoe was not as bad, but taking the two 

 together wc still think that the protest against them was m ule 

 ?^°°J fl? Un l S - The splintered deck of Mr. Johnsons canoe, 

 torn oft after the race, was lying about the float for several days 

 a pretty good evidence of the build, of tiie canoe. We have 

 mXw 8 ^'n P0S f ed 1 ! e absurd division which matches decked and 

 Xm4 n t°n^°S e ^ ler 111 P addl >n?; races, and the still more absurd 

 t6 2 ^^^^V^K^T* 1 ^ only the s^gle blade in 

 an open canoe. There is no shadow of reason for such disi inc- 

 tions, and no good can result now from classing decked sailing 

 and open Canadian canoes in a paddling race, or for compelling 

 the use of the single blade m the principal paddling races. Tneii 

 a V pl ' eacllt £or a paooJing class of canoes. u„ 

 hampeied b> any sailing gear, and to meet l his the regulations 

 of the new paddling trophy should be framed. While SS 

 n n nt tHnl'r SZh?'** ireinents a good serviceable canoe should 

 net bo Its* sight of, and in addition to a maximum liar;, r.f Lngth 

 and a minimum limit of beam as at present, it will prohably be 

 necessary to impose a minimum limit of weight. The best W 

 V J,rt Tn ng canoe8 "ow used are the open Peterboro, 15 to 16ft. 

 ^ w^l « 01 ".-that have lately become so popular in the States, 

 X 0 ^i a? , ? , c a n y da . and by weighing several of these of 

 average light build, such as are sold and used for general 

 purposes, it will be easy to determine a reasonable 

 ffi^f^' b ^ t lirait wiU Probably be not over 



16ft . length, not under 28m beam, nor under lOlbs. weight. 

 1 he hniu mentioned by our corrcspotidetit, 351bs., is very good for 

 a racing craft, but would not be fair to men who wish to enter in 

 ordinary light service canoes not built and used specially for 

 racing. Nark a, a strong cauoe fitted for sailing, weighed 551 bs 

 without her movable board and trunk. With no limit on weight 

 »m s ol f oon ! e ? a S - D anish cedar "shell" canoe, decked with 

 Silk and n t tor nothing but racing. On a weight of 401 h S . there is 

 ample chance to build a fast racing canoe 16x28, with a light deck 

 it desired, that, through superior model, could outrun anv of the 

 Cegula r Canadian open canoes, as was proved by Na rka The lat- 

 IT^™!' dfeP and V-shaped in her bottom, rather than flat and 

 U-shaped like the Canadian canoes, cut the water like a knife, 

 !', 0 U ea n ne all PPle, and was capable of far greater speed than 

 the flat Canadian canoe, built to skim over the water. The re-u- 

 lar decked sailing canoe is out, of the paddling championship "for 

 ever; no honest sailing canoe can be built to race against the rac- 

 ing machines which a continuance of the present conditions will 

 bring forward every year. A very good proposal was mad e at t he 

 meet to make no canoe elegible for a place on the Record unless 

 she has entered m one sailing, one combined, and one paddling 

 race. This would offer some needed inducement to the sailing 

 men to paddle, and insure that with some of them at least the use 

 ot the double blade would not become entirelv a lost art The < 

 single blade, though not , he equal of the double in point of speed! 

 has so many advantages in its way that its use should not be dis- 

 couraged entire y by the Association, but a special race for single- 

 blades only might be a permanent and interesting feature of the 



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NEW YORK C. C, FALL REGATTA. 

 T H i E regatta of the New York C. C. was held on Oct. 5 at the 

 X- club house. Stapleton, Statem Island, a number of ladies being 

 Rte^ff Wo18 ' The wind was very strong from £ 

 L., Wiiile the flood tide was running swiftly. The race for keel 

 ffi^? e a novelty, as these craft have long been out of 

 fashion, hut the club possesses three old keel boats, the Fence 

 Cat and Kitt, wake, each 16ft., and Mime, lift., which have raced 

 tZt % thVOl }?\ the 3U1D 5 m f}'< 30 a special race was made for 

 . Fenc f °at was sailed by her owner W.W. Howard, Kitti- 

 wake by O L. Norton, and Mime by E. C. Delavan. The course 

 wajs triangular, to a buoy off Clifton, then to a buov in mhbehan! 

 nel and home Fence Oat was very well sailed by Mi'. Howiird 

 and won easily, beating Kittiwake by 8m. Mime did not finish' 

 Neither Vagabond nor Eclipse hafi reached the club house from' 

 I^J^M^ °n Saturday, so the only starters in the unlimited 

 race weie: Atom, C. B. Vaux; Nenemooska, C. P. Douglas Elli- 



^fiW^TT^^^W^ H ' °' Bailey Sylph b D. 

 Oessler; Sea Urchin, B. H. Nadal. 



aSSS stal 'twas near the dock in a very strong tide, and while 

 Atom and Nenemooska got away promptly, both Ellida and Ran- . 

 d 2E„ W ? e Ca h Ug > t h l th % tlde and carried away from the line 

 before they had gathered way, not crossing the line for several 

 minutes alter the others. Atom won in 28m. 5s., beating Nene- 

 mooska by lm.. 30s. Ellida sailed fast and made a good showing 

 in third place m spite ot her bad start. In the maneuvering race 

 Nenemooska beat Sea Urchin. The tandem paddling brought Out 

 the Collins Bros., of Baypnne,.in the She, a borrowed canoe, as 

 their own had not arrived, Stewart and Douglas in the Nene- 

 mooska, and Gessler Bros in Sylph. She was first and Nene- 

 mooska second. The paddling race was won bv Mr. Douglas in 

 the Nenemooska with H. S. Farmer in the Wind second. Mr E 

 W. Fdinger paddled the She, coming in first, but not going over 

 the designated course. The upset race and duck chase did not 



If-]^,?^ AT TRAVERS ISLAND.-Roslyn. L. I , Oct 4 

 -MMor Forest and Stream: I notice that in your report of the 

 fcf^SS^ra S1 X el1 last Saturday by the New York Athletic Chib 

 at Travers Island, no mention was made of the yawl race over 

 the same course and at about the same time. \Suck being the 

 case, will you kindly publish the following facts? Through the 



^^^^^^^'^^ F1 ^ et ' who « also a mem! 

 berof theN. i. A. C, I was invited to enter mv sharpie yawl 

 vtft k inclly offered to the yawls of 'the Mosquito 



Fleet by the N. Y. A. C The Gnat was duly entered, appeared at 

 t^SS w'A a Y ng forber so , le antagonist the yawlC'ossaek 

 f P ,t a i ^ti P°^r 4ft - l0 ? 8 '^ than he rself. Yawls Hyacinth and 

 Lestris, of the Mosquito Fleet, were also on hand but did not 

 enter, because one of them had "carried away two halliards and 

 had no spmaker boom." while the other was "not in trim » and 

 her owner stated he "wanted to start for the Norwalk Islands" 

 fc>o rather than spoil a race or appear diseourteons to another clnb 

 that had extended its invitation to tbe Mosquitoes, I concluded 

 to sail against the much larger boat. We were duly started and 

 timed by the committee five minutes after the canoes. Cossack 

 ]ed °ver tbe line, was passed by Gnat just after turning the flag 

 off Wen Island. At the outer flag Gnat was four minutes ahead, 

 and *eld her lead until thefinish. which was made by Gnat about 

 6 o'clock The captain of Cossack when within about lOOvds. of 

 the hmsh line lowered sail and was towed up to the landing stage 

 w^ Same tnn £ remarking to me. "They won't give it to you," 

 t T 6 fa tf tS iSPlS 8 * 1 *^ ai ; e ' appears to me a singular 

 t° , say - VviU add that shortly after the canoe rac? was 

 ?S ™.^ e a w ryb , 0dy a A d everything except the two yawls van- 

 ished, probably to catch a tram, or a crab, or something.- 



