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FOREST AND STREAM. 



[March IS, 1890. 



THE TRAP, 



As this journal is the only one having a representative with the 

 East and West team tourists, our readers will he given the best 

 brightest, fullest, most accurate and most satisfactory reports of 

 the progress of the enterprise. 



AMERICAN SHOOTING ASSOCIATION DATES 



April 30, May 1, 2,-Colnnibus, O. 

 May 7, 8, 9.— Sr, Louis, Mo. 

 May 20, 21, 22.— Minneapolis, Minn. 

 May 28, 29. 80. —Kansas City, Mo. 

 June 4, 5, 6.— Lafayette, Ind. 



THE U. S. CARTRIDGE CO.'S SHOOT. 



{From. Our Own Representative.'] 



SACRAMENTO. Cal., Feb. 24.-Weatber raw and cold. It is 

 snowing on the mountains and the trains come down white 

 and heavy with snow. It was hardly to be expected that we 

 would have a. great crowd to-day, hut there were over 200 at. the 

 Agricultural Grounds, a well-walled racing park and fair grounds, 

 winch offered a warmish and not so very windy a place for the 

 shooting. The traps were set right in the middle of the race 

 track, and the buds went over the fence— and out, some of Hum 

 The shoot, went rapidly and smooihly. 



It was not an extraordinary match that was shot to-dav, 

 although No. 1 and No. 3 traps were thro wine might v hard bird's. 

 At the end of t» e singles the West ltd by 10 birds, and this lead i t 

 managed to hold through the doubles, thus scoring a much-nei-ded 

 victory, and cutting down the lead of the East to three matches 

 There was no "cutlery" up this time, Captain McMurchy sulci, 

 but the Westerners were just as happy. 



To-day's race shows once more that a shooter is not a shooting 

 machine, and that no man can shoot the same gait eight along 

 Whitnoy,who made a straight score under the hardest condition"* 

 in the rain of last Wednesday, to-dav fell down to 33, and Heikes 

 also touched that notch. Wolstencroft dropped a little, much to 

 Ins disgust, as he fell below McMurehy in the average race for the 

 Clabrough, Golcher & Co. trophy, of which tins shoot is the first 

 of four. Wolstencroft is doubtless the quickest and mos 1 bril- 

 liant target shooter in the States, but he shoots a very risky race, 

 as at his distance the. least inaccuracy in holdiug is disastrous 

 It may he noticed that when he misses he often drops a bunch of 

 them. To-day, for some reason, he missed a, bird or two and then 

 got mad and d idn't care, apparently, whether he hit. them or not, 

 although his score as it stands wasin third place. Cahoon and W. 

 S. Perry engaged in another of their life and death struggles for 

 the supremacy, the Freeport champion downing his adversary In- 

 one. Score, 30 single blueroeks and 5 pairs; 



Eastern Team. 



H McMurehy — 11 11110111111111011111111111 H 11 11 till H— 38 

 W Wolstencroft 111111111111101110011100111111 11 11 11 10 11—31 



WEPerry lllOlOOLllllflllllUOflOUillMI 10 II 00 11 10-29 



WS Perry lUOlOllOOlOIOlHlOllllllOllOlO 01 10 11 10 00-21 



H B Whitney... 101111111011111111111111011111 10 11 10 10 10-33-158 



Western Tpain. 

 C W Budd 111101111101111101111111111111 11 11 10 11 11—36 



J A Ruble liimimiummnmiiim 10 n oi oi 11-37 



R O Heikes 1 11 1001 11111 10 1 1111 1 1111 11111 1 U n n io 11—33 



C E Cahoon 1 1 0001 1 0 1 0001111 111 1 1 1001101 11 01 01 10 01 10—25 



j r stice lomniimiiiniiiiiiiiiiiii n 10 11 10 11-37-168 



To-night at the car we got the dispatches anuouncing that Chi- 

 cago has won in the race for the World's Fair. This set all the 

 Western boys wilder yet, and for a long time the car has been 

 anything but quiet. Captain Budd says he is going to win 'em 

 all now, and keep that big trophy in the land of progress. 



Forest and Stream and all the party have been well treated 

 by Mr. N. E. White, city editor of the daily Rficflrri- Union here, 

 and well knov>n to readers of this paper through his field trial re- 

 ports and other work. Mr. White found time to show us around 

 and promises to find time to send to the paper more news from 

 this interesting locality. Trap-shooting here is mostly at live 

 birds, as on all the Coast. A team was formed to shoot our boys a 

 live-bird race here, but the short stop here does not permit it. 



Later— At dusk this evening rain is falling. It. is snowing heavily 

 in the range over which we have to pass, and we arc warned 

 by old travelers of this region not to attempt to get over the pa^s 

 to-uight, as we niiy be snowed in and held up for a week in the 

 mountains. Major Kellogg is begging Mr. Dimick to go back to 

 San Erancisoo and lie for a few days, snooting the return match 

 with the California boys. He thinks that 5,000 people would turn 

 out to see this match, and this would probablv be the. cas« if the 

 weather were good. This arrangement, would delight all the boys, 

 who have become very fond of San Francisco. Quite aside from 

 all interested reasons, however, it would be unwise to face the 

 eastern journey to-night. By good luck the party might not he 

 snowed in and detained indefinitely, but if it did get through, that 

 result would be due to good luck and not to good management. 

 We have to-day met persons here just in from an enforced sojourn 

 of eleven days under the snow in the Sierras. An experience of 

 that kind on a railroad train is no laughing matter, and it don't 

 pay to take chances on it. The snowfall is already so heavy that 

 3 or 4ft. more would make the road impassable. Mr. Ivelle'r, the 

 advance man, reluctantly left the party last night, and it, is 

 thought he got safe over the range Ogdeu will be dropped, and 

 Salt Lake will be the next, town played, .lust: when we will get 

 there remains to be seen. It will be shortlv, if we can get over 

 the. bill. 



Among the many visitor at the car to-night was Judge O. N. 

 Post, of this city, known very well among the sportsmen of the 

 Coast as a breeder of tine Euglish setters, Judge Post has a nice 

 lot on hand now, and next year he hopes to send a good one East 

 for the championship class. This gentleman was among the first 

 organizers of the Pacific Coast Fidd Trials Club. He shows his 

 knowledge of things by complimenting Forest and Stream 

 upon its remarkable growth during the past few vears. On the 

 Coast this journal is regarded as the paper that has come and is 

 yet the coming paper. 



Salt Lake City, Utah, Feb. 27.— We reached this city last night 

 about 'J o'clock, about 12 hours late, owing to our 1 rain being snow- 

 bound in the Sierras. In fact, we were fortunate to get through 

 at all, for the snow was truly formidable and only the continuous 

 use of the great rotary snow plows kept the road clear enough for 

 the "overland" to crawl through. This has been an exceptionally 

 severe winter all over this regiou, and the snow lies on the range 

 deeper by far than is usual. We were shown places where the 

 snow was said to be fifty feet deep, and at the "summit" it was 

 thirty-five feet on the level. In spite of the forty odd miles of 

 snow sheds which the C. P. R. owns, the company has experi- 

 enced the greatest difficulty in op3rating its line this winter. Our 

 train had on far engines, and the great plow which came up to 

 the summit from the hill had four engines behind it. By help of 

 this magnificent machine we finally got through the Sierras, and 

 after all did not regret the novel experience of being held for a> 

 time powerless iu the grasp of the Titanic forces which now rule 

 that wild and wonderful country. There were thousands of 

 laborers engaged in clearing the irack. but when one gazed out 

 upon the vast and solemn scene, the best efforts of man seemed 

 unspeakably small, and one could only wonder at the sheer im- 

 pudence which suggested the idea of the iron thread which now 

 winds through the labyrinth of these forbidding recesses. The 

 immensity of the snowy garment was only in keeping with the 

 giant forms it covered. It is impossible to erive much idea of the 

 effect of such a heavy snowfall. We very often saw the laborers 

 tossing snow across the telegraph wires, on whose level they st ood 

 while shoveling. The trees were fairly drowned in snow, and at 

 the lonesome stations where we sometimes lay we often saw 

 dwelling houses entirely buried in the snow, with perhaps only a 

 chimney protruding at>ove its surface. We saw aman come down 

 a hill, mounted on a pair of the long Rocky Mountain snowshoes 

 ("skees"). He stopped, kicked off his shoes, and crawling into a 

 path Avhich only left the top of his hat showing, disappeared 

 withiD a house whose roof was buried and whose only egress was 

 a tunnel. We crawled into Truckee just after sundown and found 

 the whole town buried. The events of our mountain passage were 

 interesting, and the mountains, in their winter aspects, more than 

 ordinarily impressive; but as the editor of this paper warned me 

 before starting that not over two sticks of mountain scenery to 

 the column would go, we shall have to leave all this to those who 

 may follow in a winter journey across the biz hill. 



Yesterday we appeared to run nearly all the time through a 

 low desert, or broken mountain country. It was about dusk when 

 we caught the fn st glimpse of the Great Salt Lake, along which 

 we ran for a distance, This morning we find this flourishing city 

 to be beautifully located, with white mountains looming up mag- 

 nificently around it, and again tempting one to exceed the two- 

 sticks limit. This city has had a boom, and still has hopes for a 

 continuance of that blessing. The boom was doubtless due to the 

 gradual ascendancy in recent days of the "Gentile" element. 



This is no longer a Mormon city, and the glory of the Mormc 



necteel with the Mormon sway. Accordingly, it was first t< 



lemple and the Tabernacle that our new made friends at th 



KT e r d us V?""* 8 ^ tbe course of a pleasant carry-all ride 



W^mV?^- O-'r^osand hosts on this trip were Messrs! 



h! 1 M««,.F l A dl F aD r ¥' R " Ev *«t? aud we " e J' e als ° accompanied 

 by Messrs. Andrew J. Tayson & W. J. De Bruhl. 



W e explored the vast and cheerless interior of the Tabernacle 

 from end to. end of which, over 200ft , we could distinctly hear the 

 noise of a pm dropped upon the floor (an acoustic test 'which no 

 other auditorium ot the country can equaO; and we listened to 

 the soul-moving music of the vast pipe organ which, till within a 

 w2li y tn M" S i 6 laTgest I ot th1s country., The old Mormons did 

 Z lil? bull(i ' hl g organ. It was a foundation for the arguments 

 of their creed. Such music as lies latent, in its giant throat could 

 lob men of reason, and leave them prey to an eloquence even less 

 specious than that of. the Mormon teachers. But the editor has 

 allowed eraly three sticks of philosophy to the column, and so we 

 must stop on this, simply saying that, our ride through modem 

 a revelation to most of our party and a delight 



Salt Lake 



to all, for which the Salt Lake gentlemen were thanked heartily, 

 even long after they had left us at the Iolanthe. 



able attorney of this city, and Mr. Evans, the well known gun 

 "fajer^have lunoly and efficiently assisted Mr. Dimick in re- 

 preading the news of the change 



•<=*"<*■", "ui. ueuah co ne careiut in nis position for his party's 

 sake We were billed to shoot at good grounds within the city 

 limits, but although this would endanger or inconvenience no 

 one. and although the mayor and the city attorney wished the 

 iTl to .,?, 0 °, ,hc F«- a technical objection was raised to-day 

 which rendered all. the advertising and billing of no avail, and 

 \\hicn will necessitate our shooting to-morrow at Beck's Hot 

 Springs, some four miles out, to which point a special train will 

 he run. Tee Kay," our advance man, just, barely got out of here 

 this morning, after a living visit to Mr. Dimick. This hitch arose 

 JgA wSJ^'J^Sti^ft*? k^absenee Mr. Bradley himself, an 



a 



tiling the town to-day and i 

 of base. 



The weather hero is exceptionally cold and the snow a foot or 

 so deep, exceptionally heavy for this locality. This is really the 

 first town shot where we have had any taste of winter. It would 

 bave been disagreeable shooting to-dav and will he so to-morrow 

 Mot a very large crowd is expected, therefore. To-night the bovs 

 are scattered as usual, partly under invitation of resident sports- 

 men. Kuble. likes this town more, than any we have vet struck 

 and it is probable he will come back here to live. We don't know 

 why he likes it so. This is a great place for widows. An old 

 citizen can t die here without leaving 30 or 40 widows, and in 

 course ot time this accumulates, especially as under the new laws 

 these can remarry only one at a time. There are 40.000 people in 

 . his city, of whom over 30,noo are widows. The streets are fairly 

 dangerous, and Mr. Dimick is pale to-night from the anxiety at- 

 tendant upon watching his boys, and keeping the rodeo somewhere 

 near the car. 



To-night we are afflicted with a little calamity which makes 

 every fellow on the car feel badly. Tex, Mr. Dimick's wildcat, 

 who has grown up into a most delightful little pet, is sick, and we 

 don t, know what to do for him. He has all along been weak in 

 the hindquarters, not developing as he should, and indeed of late 

 showing almost an actual atrophy of the muscles of the hindlegs. 

 His walk, dauy more uncertain of late, grew vet more feeble, and 

 to-day be broke down entirely and has lain down all day, uuable 

 to walk at all. He seems to suffer no pain, and isbright and play- 

 ful so long as one does not touch his hindlegs or his back. Tlie 

 case seems one of paralysis, and it is doubtful if i.oor Tex ever 

 s up into a big, strong wildcat. To-night Mr. Dimick had a 

 physician come down to examine the little fellow, > ut he does not 

 hold out very flattering hopes of his recovery. This makes the 

 boys ieel sorry, f or Tex is a general favorite and, indeed, the pride 

 of the car. He has grown sleeker and better in color steadily, and 

 so far from his disposition being that of the typical wildcat, he 

 has been quiet, cheerful and indeed an amiable little pot. We 

 all hope he win. get well. 



There has been a great deal of figuring among the bovs of the 

 two teams, each of whom Keeps a score of his own and' watches 

 his average, closely. 



For the benefit, of those interested in the individual averages, 

 team totals, etc., the following synopsis is given, showing the 

 nding of the men and teams up to the point of their leaving 

 the coast, f, c. including Sacramento shoot. 



TEAM TOTALS. 



(Out of 600 birds shot at per man). 



West. 



Bndd 523 



Stice 553 



Heikes 530 



Cahoon 435 



Ruble 521—2562 



East. 



McMurehy 54S 



Wolstencroft 558 



W E Perry 519 



W S Perry 430 



Whitney 525-2586 



INDIVIDUAL ORDER EOR AVERAGE. 



1. W T olsteucrofi (East) 553 6. Budd(Wost) 



2. Stice (West) 553 " 



3. McMurehy (East) 543 



4. Whitney (East) out of 560 

 actually shot at 506 



5. Heikes (West) 530 



It should be remembered that O-iirnVv 



Whitney in one race, leaving him only 14 



7. Ruble (Wt 



8. W E Perry ( 



9. W S Perry (1 

 10. Cahoon j Wto 



actuallv shot ; 

 shot af 



523 



521. 



st): 519 



si) .430 



out of 520 



379 



ubbtitute for 

 ant on indi- 



vidual a verage. Tt should be borne in mind also that Tucker shot 

 as substitute lor Cahoon at Dallas, and took his place at Austin, 

 after Gaboon had tired a few shots. Suppposing the Austin score 

 to he Tucker's and not Cahoon',-., it is approximately correct, to 

 say that Cahoon shot clear through in 13 races, and made 379 out 

 of the 520. In the additions for the team totals, the scores of the 

 substitutes a>e counted in on the totals of their principals. 



In the issue of Feb. 20, it is stated that the teams were ouly one 

 bird apart on 3L«,000 shot at. This should read 3,000 shot at. 



Feb. The train to the Hot Springs started at 1:30 P M., and 

 the match was soon begun. The thermometer was 12° below zero 

 last night, and although it thawed somewhat during the day, the 

 match to-day was simpfy an ordeal for both shooters and specta- 

 tors. The snow was a foot deep on the level, and the grounds, not 

 intended for such purposes, were not provided with buildings or 

 comforts. The trappers were green, and more birds were broken 

 in the traps than at any shoot yet. About 175 of the stout-hearted 

 witnessed the shoot. The East won to-day, making up abad lead 

 the West gaiued early in the race, and snowing the West clear 

 under ou the doubles. Cahoon surpassed himself on the singles, 

 but his Style, iu the doubles may best, be appreciated by a glance 

 score. Heikes fell down. Wolstencroft dropped a little 

 again. Whitney for a second time walked out with a straight. 

 Whitney is now second on the average, passing McMurehy to-day. 

 Score, 30 single blueroeks and o pairs: 



Eastern Team. 



II McMurehy. .111111111010111111110111010111 11 10 10 11 10-33 

 W WolstencroftlllOonillllllllllllliiniiiui 11 10 10 10 11—34 



WE Perry Ill 1 1 111111 1011101111011011 11 1 11 11 10 H 11-35 



W Perry HOllOlllllllllUillOlllllOOol 11 10 10 10 10-30 



HB Whitney. Tlllllllllllllllllllllllllllll 11 u n n 11—40—172 



Western Team. 

 C W Budd .. . .11111111011111111 111111111 1111 10 11 10 11 10—36 



J A Ruble .111111101111101011111111111111 10 10 11 In 11-34 



li O Heikes 11111110110U11011101111011110 01 ft lit n 10-31 



C E Cahoon .. 11 1111111011011)11 mill] 11111 11 HO tin 00 01-30 



jr stice iiiiiiimoiiiimoimmmi n 10 10 11 n— 36— 107 



Messrs. H. W. Spencer and Matt Browning acted as judges, and 

 Mr. S. A. Tucker officiated as referee. 



We leave for Denver at 7 A. M to-morrow, arriving there Sun- 

 day, shooting Monday. Kansas City Wednesday. 



En Route, Utah, March 1— There should he added to the regular 

 report of Salt Lake shoot the account of some events that trans- 

 pired after the copy was sent in. It seems that the management 

 of the shoot at this city was fairly taken in charge by Mr. Bradley 

 and Mr. Evans, who were much disgusted by the manner in which 

 ' he City Council had acted in the matter of rescinding the orig- 

 nal quasi-permission to shoot within the city limits. Thes« two 

 gentlemen made arrangements for all the n«w advertising mat- 

 ter, for the grounds at Beck's Springs and for the special train 

 which ran out to the grounds. They personally sold quantities 

 of tickets for the round trip, the price of which, with admission 

 to the groutids, was six bits, and such was their activity and abil- 

 ty in the matter that they paid all the back expenses outright 

 and hauded Mr. Dimick a little balance besides. This is a sample 

 of the kindness with which the Western men have treated the 

 party, and it shows what snortsmen really are. Not content with 

 this, however, Mr. Bradley and Mr. Evans last night brought 

 down to the car a great quantity of books, etc., which \ 

 sorted are found to provide for each member of the parry a 

 tiful set of views of Utah scenery, a similar ne t of view's i 

 Lake Cityanf 

 f the Mc 



i en as- 

 i bean- 

 Salt 

 a copy 



Our friend, the daily reporter, has been getting in his accus- 

 tomed work on. us in about every city where we have shot, and 

 usually displaying an ignorance more amusing than fatal in 

 regard to shooting matters. For instance, the Salt, Lake Tribune 

 this i morning remarks, m its story of the shoot. "The traps were 

 set loft, apart in an east, and west line, the shooting being north 

 and from lb to 181t. south, according to the make' of gun used, 

 some make being handicapped." This is far more lucid than the 

 remark ot a San Francisco reporter, who said the target match 

 was the best out of 15, Hurlingham style." 



\esterday Ruble appeared at the score with a six-iuch space 

 about his eyes blackened with burnt cork. This was inteuded to 

 mitigate, the glare of the light upon the snow. It gave John a 

 very weird look, and at once won for him the title of "Piute 

 John," which sticks to him this morning. 



At Ogdeu, this mornhg, an obstreperous engineer hacked down 

 on us nearly full tilt, and shook things up so lively that a lot of 

 clishes were broken and the deck load given a bad list to star- 

 board. 1 his was at breakfast time, and the worst damage done 

 was the spilling ot the nice pot of sassafras tea which Sisters 

 lucker and istice had just had brewed. These two worthies 

 couldn t get through the day if they didn't have their sassafras in 

 the mornmg. 



We ace delayed this morning, and at noon are just above Og- 

 deu. The Weaver River looks delightfully troutful. The scenery 

 is grand, and before the day is past we wilt see some much 

 grander. We pass through lower W> oming, thmugh Cheyenne 

 and thence to Denver. We do not shoot at Cheyenne. 



DemeKCol, March .?.-The great and hospitable city of Denver 

 lurnisncd a good crowd and magnificent shnoting weather to the 

 pilgrims to-day, and in return therefor the latter gave as Hue an 

 exhibition ot shooting at the trap as ever was seen in the country, 

 the score ot the W estern team. 191 out, of ?00, is unequalled in 

 team shooting at singles and doubles, and Manager nimiek re- 

 marked to-day, "You may read of another score like that, hut 

 you will never see it shot." Denver made two suudy attempts 

 to-day to win the money offered by the managemeni, but failed 

 in each instance, thus making the fifth failure of the same sort 

 by local men during the trip. The five Denver shooters would 

 50 bad they tied their five competitors, and Mr. Couip- 

 ton. who shot so plucky and elegant, a i ace against the eolo.sal 

 and imperturbable Jim Stice, would have made $23 could he bave 

 added two more birds to his score. Thus there were really three 

 events £,V ot , off during the afternoon, and each bad interest in 

 nself. The shooting was at the baseball park, on Broadway, on 

 land 11 Very accessihle atKl admirably suited for the purpose in 

 Harvey McMurehy has been laid up for two davs with a severe 

 ase of inflammatory rheumatism, which has attacked his right 

 land and made it impossible tor him to do any shooting. Mr. 

 Quimby was thereforo substituted for him upon the Eastern 

 team to-day, and it in his shooting be did not get them all, he 

 beat his Dayton score and many a score made by others of the 

 teams in constant practice. It was not the fault cf any one man 

 on the Eastern team which lost the race to-day. It was the fault 

 of the Western team, all of whose men shot clear above where 

 they were suppose,! to belong. When the result was announced 

 the Eastern men looked injured and publicly announced them- 

 selves victims of misplaced confidence. Wolstencroft, W E 

 Perry and Whitney shot in their 90 per cent, gait and Perrv raised 

 his recent scores, but ir was no use. Budd is coming up every 

 day now, and to-day would have made his straight had his last 

 double been thrown at the average height. This bird skated just 

 a bit too low for Cnarley, who snapped at it when it was only a 

 toot over the ground. Ruble won $10 on the side by his 30 singles 

 Heikes shot in his old form, and Stice was prettv well, thankee! 

 1 he sassafras tea is doing great work for Jim. But the event of 

 the day was ' CooueyV work. To-night "Coonev" is the hero of 

 the car. He shot in good shape, and his 36 is the best score be has 

 made on the rim. Cahoon has gained perceptibly iu the last two 

 shoots. If he ever does get up where be ought to he shooting 

 there will be grief and woe in the Eastern camps. An artist for 

 a daily paper here made a sketch of "Cooney" in the act of break- 

 ing a left quarterer and bearing a pleasant smile. The artist also 

 sketched Jim Stice, looking north and made a great hit in his 

 sketch, barring the fact that he cut off the portrait below the 

 knees. He said he was only making a siDgle column cut then, 

 but would issue a supplement and show Jim's overshoes 



The shooting began a little before 1 P. M., the first event being 

 the race between Denver team and the U. S. Cartridge Co.'s team 

 The light was perfect and the air quiet. The trapping was verv 

 rapid and sat isfactory, and the blueroeks behaved uicely to the 

 last degree. The traps were screwed down low, just above 0ft., 

 and tiie flight was over aOvds. The Denver men thought this 

 harder than the shooting they had usually had. It is no boy's 

 race these teams are shooting. Following is the score, 15 single 

 blueroeks and a pairs: 



!!Denver Team. 



B Haywood Ill 1 11011 1101) 1 10 10 00 00 10-15 



G H Hotchkiss OllllimUOlOl 11 10 11 00 10—17 



*"Tuff" limiUOHllll 10 11 10 10 10-20 



D Ramsey HJOiniinmO 11 10 10 10 11-20 



D L Mec tiling 01 1 1 0 1 1 1 1 10 1111 01 U 10 00 11—18 - 90 



„ tr. 8. C. Co.'s Team. 



C W Budd 111111111111111 10 10 10 10 10—20 



J R Stice 11111111111111 11 U 11 u 10-24 



R O Heikes 11111111111111 11 U 10 U 10-28 



W H Wolstencroft 11111111101111 11 10 10 10 11-21 



HB Whitney. 11U111110J111 11 II 11 11 10-23-111 



Mr. Chiis. M. Hampton, of Denver, and Mr. W. S. Perrv. of 

 Worcester, acted as judges; Mr. C. W. Dimick referee. Af ter' this 

 event the regular team race was begun, 30 single blueroeks and ", 

 pairs, Mr. Dimick referee. Score: 



Eastern Team. 



W F Qniniby . . . 1011 1 llOtOlll 1 1 1001 1011 1101111 10 01 11 10 10-28 

 W WnlstencrofionnilllllOlOlllllllllllimi u a li li m_3ii 



WEPerry 1111 111 1 11 1 101111 1 1 1(11 1 llJOl 31 11 110110-30 



WS Perry 1 1 111 0] to 11 111 101 1 1 11 101 1 1 1 1 1 0 11 01 10 11 11-33 



H B Whitney. . .HU 110111 lllllllllllim 111 11 11 10 10 10 H-S0-169 

 Western Team. 



0 WBudd 11U1 111111111111111 1 1 1 1 1 1111 1 11 H U 11 10-39 



J A Ruble 111111111111111111111111111111 10 11 U 11 10-38 



ROHeikos 1111111111111 11 ill l lllllioi 11 1 11 11 11 11 U-3y 



C E Cahoon 1 1 101 011 11111 11101 11 111 1111111 01 11 11 10 11-36 



J li Stiee 111111111111111011111 111 11111 1 11 11 n 11 11-39-191 



Mr. Comptou shot, iu with the team, in turn, 3 birds down. Fol- 

 lowing is his score: 



C C Compton 101111110111111111111111111101 11 11 11 11 H-37 



Mr. Compton's score would have beaten any man on the East- 

 ern team, although it would have beaten only one man on the 

 Western team. Mr. Compton is to be complimented on his pluck v 

 race, and he fully won the general applause he received. 



Mr. S. A. Tucker, who took Mr. Quimby's place at the blueroek 

 stool to-day, to-night is triumphantly calling attention to the 

 style he showed. "I pulled the Western boys through in great 

 shape, didn't IV" And then Tuck "lays it all off" with his hands. 

 Tuck can t, talk at all if he can't use his hands, The bovs caught 

 him and tied his hands one day, and he nearly strangled to death 

 trying to say something without gestures to it. 



To-night the Iolanthe receiving room is full of guests, as usual, 

 and among these are Mr. Charles King, editor of that very bright 

 young star in Western sporting journalism, Sport* Afield; Mr. 

 Harry Bostwick, of the gun trade, to whom all of the party are 

 indebted for courtesies; Mr. E. E. Pray and many others. Den- 

 ver sportsmen have shown themselves thoroughly Western, 

 heart y and hospitable. Mr. John Lower, also of the gun I rade, 

 has put many of the boys under obligations, and indeed there are 

 so many gentlemen who have done the same thine that it is un- 

 safe to begin mention of them. 



To-day 1 am in receipt of the following letter forwarded from 

 Forest and Stream all the way to Portland, Ore. (where we 

 didn'r. go), and thence to this point: 



"Red Hook., N. Y., Feb. 17.— Mr. E. Hough: We have read your 

 letters in Forest and Stream so often that we fed pretty well 

 acquainted with their author. Prosumiue r on this acquaintance, 

 and your good nature, we wish to »sk a favor. Please he so kind 

 as to tell us, through Forest and Stream, the distance the blue- 

 roeks are thrown in the matclfes bet ween the Eastern and West- 

 ern teams of experts. The rule on t he subject has a wide range. 

 The. 'lesser lights' in the shooting fraternity would he glad to 

 know what the practice of the experts is— R. J. Carrold." 



In reply to the above. I would refer to the comment made on 

 the birds in to-day's race. The disrauce thrown is rarely under 

 50yds., and I have seen them go over 60. The rule says "between 

 6 and 12ft," in height. As the experts of this party shoot them, 

 the height of the birds at the stated distance runs, Ishould think, 

 about 8ft. on the average. The birds are thrown hard and low, 

 and are not "se>f t snaps," for exhibition purposes, and those who 

 watch the scores should remember this. I believe I have stated, 

 or should have done so, that this Is the target regularly shot on 

 this tour. 



We pull out ar 9:15 this evening lor Omaha and go thence to 

 Kansas City, The Kansas City boys are all up H r Chicago getting 



added beaten just' now, and we can't' go down there and beat them till 

 as matters ol interest to the pilgrims, rather than any idea of they get back. 



proselyting, for our entertainers aa-e of the Gentile sect. • 1 must mention hurriedly one thing that has just transpired 



