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FOREST AND STREAM. 



[Apkil 8, 1890. 



NEW YOrtK, March 27.— The Barry Rifle Club grave its fourth, 

 graud prize shooting a* the Gallery Range. 2 072 Third avenue, 

 commencing cn Wednesday, M-m-cu 26, at 10 A. M. Twenty prizes 

 were awarded, amounting to 8226, Tickets, 3 shots, f 1; re entries 

 unlimited; three best, shots to count; 2in. bullseye ring target; 

 any 22cal. rifle; any sights. Shooting commit tee was composed of 

 Hugh Keys, Wm Tucker, T. Barry. J. A. Boyken. Messrs. J. A. 

 Felix and J. J. Mount joy, of lb" Gaiety Rifle and Pistol Club of 

 Philadelphia, were among the contestants, uwig their Wurfliein 

 rifles, plain open sipbts. and were hardicapped against peep and 

 globe sights, yet both the gentlemen succeeded in being prizewin- 

 ners as follows: 



MDorrler 77 72 74-2*7 W C Walsh 66 67 69 -203 



L Flack 71 71 73—215 E W Bushy 63 64 66-193 



J A Bnvken 71 71 78-215 J J Mnuntjoy 64 64 64-192 



B Walters 70 71 7'— 212 A P Hunt 73 61 57— 191 



CGZettler 68 69 73 -210 H O Keyr-s 62 62 04-188 



Geo Snellen 69 70 71-210 M Puffer 59 04 65-188 



LR Hansen 68 70 70—208 T Rarry 54 58 53-105 



BZettler 68 68 70—206 J A Felix 48 52 59-159 



Dr O'Brien. 67 68 69-204 Toney JCiser 45 47 65-157 



C Hutch... 67 67 68-203 Wesley Weeks ...39 58 68—155 



ST. LOUIS, Mo., March 27.— A heavy raiu w»s the blame for a 

 light attendance of the members of the St. Louis Pistol Club at 

 its shoot. But thirteen were present and Alexander quit high 

 with 117 out of a possible 120. Four more shoots remain of the 

 present tourney. All shooting is at a l%in, bullseye, 12yde., 

 possible in 10 shots 120. The score: 



G W Alexander - 12 12 12 12 12 11 11 12 12 11- 117 



LVD Perret. . . 12 12 12 11 12 13 11 12 11 ll-l 16 



M Summerfleld 12 13 11 11 11 12 11 U 12 12-116 



W Bauer 12 10 12 11 12 12 11 12 12 11—115 



J A Lee 10 12 13 12 12 12 12 12 10 10-114 



D L Barker 10 11 11 12 12 11 12 12 11 11-113 



F A Fodde 12 12 12 11 10 10 12 11 12 11-113 



M C Billmeyer 11 11 10 11 12 11 11 11 11 12-111 



W C Mackwitz 12 10 11 12 11 11 11 10 11 12-111 



W H Hettcl 10 10 11 12 13 12 11 10 10 13—110 



O Wallace 12 10 10 11 10 10 12 11 12 12—110 



AEBcngel 10 12 11 13 8 12 11 12 0 11—108 



B Grainger 3 9 8 8 11 10 9 12 8 9— 87 



Unseb Fbitz. 



BRADFORD, Ont„ March 29.— The riflemen of this place con- 

 tested for a prize given by Messrs. Elliot, and Roddy to-day. To be- 

 come the owner it is necessary to win three times. Messrs. Daniel 

 and Joseph Neilly were handicapped 4 points. The day was fine. 



100 200 Totals 100 200 Totals 



R Neilly 42 44 86 Joseph Neilly .45 39 84 



GTimmons ....46 40 86 John Neilly, sr. 42 35 77 



D Neilly 49 41 90 John Doolittle .43 33 76 



F Stewart 44 40 84 J A Neilly 44 24 68 



W Lowry 42 41 83 



MONTREAL, Mar. 29.— An exciting title match took place at 

 the Athletic club house this afternoon between a picked team 

 from the Athletics and one from the Victoria. Rifles. It resulted 

 in a victory for the Victorias by 31 points, they using Snider and 

 the Athletics using sporting rifles. The Athletics were not 

 satisfied with this result. Consequently another match was 

 arranged, in which each team used the rifles which had been used 

 by their opponents in the preceding match. In this one also the 

 Victorias were victorious, winningby 4 points, making a plurality 

 of 35 points in the two matches. 



ST. LOUIS, Mo., Morch 28.— F. A. Cook and Sam Gassard shot a 

 rifle match last Saturday night at a local gallery for .$50 a side, 60 

 shots each at a 25yds. German ring target. The* former won, 

 scoring 1,096 to his opponent's 1,031. A return match, same con- 

 ditions, was arranged.— Unser Fritz, 



THE TRAP. 



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

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

 brightest, fullest, most accurate and most satisfactory reports of 

 the progress of the enterprise. 



FIXTURES. 



April 19.— Tolley's Trap-Shooting Contest. Grind all-day shoot; 

 opening new grounds, at Catsfcill, N. V. Geo. F. Tolley. Sec'jv 

 April 30-May 2.— A S. A. A. Tournament, Columbus, O. 

 May 7-9.— A. S. A. Tournament, Lafayette, Ind. 

 May 14-16 —A. S. A. Tournament, St. Louis. Mo. 

 May 21-23.— A. S. A. Tournament, Kansas City, Mo. 

 May 23-30.— A. S. A. Tournament, Minneapolis. Minn. 



THE U. S. CARTRIDGE CO.'S TOUR. 



I From Our Own Representative.] 



PHILADELPHIA, Pa., March 25.— The Iolauthe arrived early 

 this morning in that desolate and forbidding region which 

 lies near Powelton avenue, aloDg the Pennsylvania road's passen- 

 ger sidings. Tee Kay, the dazzling advance agent of the patty, 

 here came on board unexpectedly. He said he come over from 

 New York to write a press notice. The bovs greeted him cordially 

 uutil he announced he had side-tracked the party in New York 

 till Saturday next, for political reasons, at which news a yell of 

 mutiny arose from those members of the teams whose business 

 demands that they soon conclude the tour. For a time it looked as 

 though there wouldn't be any teams left to shoot, but calm was 

 at lengthy partially restored. Harry McMurchy decided to go on 

 to New York, running out from that citv for a visit to his people, 

 the L. C. Smith gun factory, returning Saturday morning in time 

 for the Claremont shoot. W. S. Perry left this morning for his 

 home at Worcester, Mass., and will return to New York Satur- 

 day morning. W. E. Perry is suffering severely from an attack 

 of rheumatism, which renders him nearly unahle to move his 

 head or right arm. He shot to-day under great effort, and his ill- 

 ness and urgent calls from his business office in Boston make it at 

 this writing seem doubtful whether he will h e with his team from 

 now on. Jim Stice threatened to go home, but somebody gave 

 him a chew of tobacco, and he forgot all about it. Cooney 'lowea 

 he'd stay clear through, and Charlie Budd thought that if his 

 team beat the Easterners one more race, there wouldn't be any 

 Eastern team left. This much can be said for the Western boys, 

 they are dead game, and stand punishment better than their 

 rivals. They would be the safer team to back if this race were to 

 be indefinitely prolonged. 



There was some talk to-night about shooting off the cut-out 

 matches that were billed for Portland, Tacoma and Seattle. The 

 Pittsburgh postponed match was shot off at Harrisburg and 

 this established a very awkward precedent. It is difficult and 

 indeed impossible to see why this should be done and the three 

 above-mentioned shoots not shot off, for all four of the towns 

 were billed and thoroughly advertised, as we undetstood it on the 

 car, and it was at least known and expected that the coast towns 

 were to be visited and shot. Toe non-oerformanee of the schedule 

 programme was due to washouts, which were caused by rain. If 

 Oregon rain is any wetter than Pennsylvania rain there might, 

 be reason for not shooting these cut-out matches; if it isn't any 

 wetter, then there was no reason tor shooting Pittsburgh race at 

 Harrisburg. All this gave the Western boys food for thought, 

 and they began to make it warm for folks generally. "If we win 

 every race from here to Boston," they said, "and then win these 

 three back races we will tie you, and then if we shoot off the two 

 tied races of the series, Austin and Toledo, we stand a chance to 

 win yet. We don't think we can win even the next three races 

 straight, but if we do, will you give us a show on the others?" At 

 this there wa3 a piercing wail of Eastern anguish, and all the 

 Eastern team fell in a, dead faint. It is highly improbable that 

 the Western boys will have any such show extended to them, but 

 their position is stated for their sake, and it must be confessed 

 that they have an unpleasantly awkward argument in what they 

 say. The West has had an uphill time of it for a long time on this 

 trip, but it never yet has been subdued by any guying, and never 

 yet bet to a standstill, its plucky captain and several of his team 

 being always ready for any sort of an individual race. "I'll bet 

 you fifty you can't. Do you want it?" is a frequent remark of 

 Charlie's, and when he goes down after that 18in. pocketbook of 

 his they know it means business. 



Shooting began at Tacony Park, Holnieeburg Junction, late this 

 afternoon. A splendid attendauce was on hand, the number pro- 

 bably reaching 500 to 600, including a great many ladies. It was 

 doubtless young Wolsteneroft's pergonal popularity in Philadel- 

 phia that brought out much of a crowd. The Philadelphia papers 

 have followed the tour with great, interest, and there was much 

 local pride iu the fact that the Philadelphia boy had led in avefj 

 ago from the first shoot to the last, never having been headed 

 since Davtou shoot. 



At something after 2 P. M. an- awkward situation arose. By 

 some mistake or other there wore no bluerocks on the ground for 



the regular race, and none could be obtained short of the citv. 

 The. local club suggested that a wagon h e sent to t heir grounds for 

 tbeir Keystone targets and trap*. This was done, and the race 

 was begun on Keystone birds thrown from blue rocktraps. This 

 did not result well, and in the 12 hole the Keystone traps were 

 put in and the race concluded in that way," Under the first 

 arrangement some hard birds were offered the shooters. Charlie 

 Budd broke his second bird, out of No. 1 trap, as it swung 

 around sbaiplvto the left, clear over what would be the dead- 

 line m a live bird race. 



The North End Club had a team of five men on hand, supposed 

 to be Philadelphia men. A- Enoch Miller was one of their men, 

 and as he is popularly supposed to he from Jersev. the readers 

 may judge for themselves about that, it, didn't make any differ- 

 enee, anyhow. The local team was to shoot, against the combined 

 scores ot Budd. McMurchy, Stice, Whituey and Wolstencroft, and 

 these were clearly winners from the start. On account of the un- 

 speakable delays and balks arising from the causes mentioned 

 above, added to by slow trapping and by the constant scientific 

 miscues and balks arising from the worst pulling ever was at 

 a shooting match, the Philadelphia match was beyond parallel 

 the poorest exhibition of shooting at the trap seen on this whole 

 trip, and indeed, probably that ever was seen anywhere on earth. 

 The spectators could not fail to ho bored, which was certainly too 

 bad, in view of the original interest thev had shown and of the 

 applause with which they received the occasional good hits of 

 work, notably the shooting of Wolstencroft. who c c appearance at 

 the score was received with enthusiasm each time. Under the 

 circumstances, it was growing dark at the close of the singles, and 

 the local team courteously agreed to withdraw f rum the race. 

 The two teams then finished the doubles, nearly in the dark. 

 After that Mr. Miller shot out his score in the doubles, to see 

 what he could have done, aud went nut with 35. Wolstencroft, 

 whose style of shooting is not favored by conditions like those de- 

 scribed, made the lowest score he has made on the trip, and it is 

 believed is now one bird below Stice in the totals although the 

 writer has not had time to check this back. The other scores will 

 speak for themselves. Mr. Dimick, Mr. Tucker and Mr. Tee Kay 

 alternated in the referee business. Score: 

 Eastern Team. 



H McMurehv... 101011011111111111111111 110101 11 00 01 11 11-32 

 W WolstencroftlillllllUO 111111111111100111 10 00 10 01 11-31 



W E Perry 101111110101011111110011101111 11 01 10 11 11-31 



H B Whitney . . 11 111 1 1 1 1 1 11 1 1011 111 1 1 1111011 1 10 11 11 10 10-35 

 W F Quimby... 101010011001010101101011100111 10 01 00 00 00-19-148 

 Western Team. 



c w Budd moiioimiiiioimiooomno oo n to 10 11-39 



J R stice omiiiiiiiiinmiitomiiiii u 10 11 11 11-3; 



UO Heikes 11 11 1 0111^1 1 01 1 1 1 1111111111 f II 11 01 11 11 11-37 



C E Cahnon llUlOOlOllOlllOlllllOIlllim 01 11 10 01 11—31 



J A Ruble 101111111111111111011111111111 00 10 01 10 11-33-167 



North End Team. 



Pack 1 101 01 1010101 11 01 1 00 ! 001111101-19 



Armstrong 011011 tuOll 11001111 1 1101 1 11111—23 



James 01 11 1 101110 1 010 1 01 1 1 Oil 1 11 1 111-23 



Buekwalter 111111 1 1 11 1 1 Jul 1 101 1 1 01 Id) I ill— 26 



Miller llllllUllllliaillllllimiOl-29-120 



At the beginning of the race Mr. Dimick announced that the 

 firm of Wm. H. Wolstencroft & Sons had placed in his hands $25 

 in gold, to be given to the winning team in the regular East and 

 West match. This $25 Charlie Budd dropped into his pocket 

 satchel with the remark, "All you Eastern ducks can win is tin 

 ware and crockery; when it comes down to shooting for genuine 

 stuff we down you every time." 



The East to- day made toe lowest score that has been made by 

 either team on the trip. It made the next lowest at Harrisburg. 

 The West has won three races straight and is far and away ahead 

 on the total of birds broken. The East is trying to figure just 

 how it happened, having always insisted that the West could not 

 beat their regular team. A little addition and subtraction on the 

 late races will show that a straight score or two could have been 

 thrown in for the Eastern team and still have left ihem defeated, 

 substitute or no substitute. Moreover, the matter of a substitute 

 shooting cuts no figure at any rate, for it was expressly agreed by 

 the teams after Dayton shoot that the team that shot should be 

 held to be the full team. It looks bad to throw all the responsi- 

 bility on a substitute if a race is lost, but it looks still worse to 

 hide behind a substitute when counting total scores. The Day- 

 ton shoot, a great victory for the West, should in proper system 

 have been counted, substitute or not, and it was only hedging 

 that prevented it. After that shoot the teams jointly agreed to 

 consider the substitutes as man against man, and all for the 

 team. That should have been the plan from the first, and it i=t 

 the only ftasible and fair one. Once adopted, talk about it should 

 have ceased. This much is said out of sympathy for the Western 

 team, of which tho writer makes bold to say it has had mighty 

 little from any other source. Newspapers do not invariably 

 holler fer the top dog. 



But all this talk has never had the slightest effect on the pleas- 

 ant personal relations of the boys with each other. They talk and 

 argue and howl and shake money at each other, but that is all 

 there is to it. It would be hard to find a more peaceable crowd 

 than that which gathered to-night under the auspices of the North 

 End Gun Club at the comfortable Holmesburg hostelry. Jollity 

 and good fellowship prevailed in the extreme, and one more occa- 

 sion was added to the manv of the trip in which sportsmen's hos- 

 pitality was seen at its best. There were preseut this evening, 

 besides the members of the shooting party, the following gentle- 

 men: Messrs. Jas. Wolstencroft, N. Swope, W. H. Pack, Milt. 

 Lindslev, S. Richards. A.L. Luui\ W. Wilson, W. H. Worrell, O. 

 S. Buckius, A, J. James. J. Thurman, H. Thurman, H. Jacobs, N. 

 Bancroft, W. H. Soule, J. F. Armstrong, Geo. Elmer, J. Shallcross 

 and E. D. Miller. Representatives were also present from the 

 Press, the Times, the Record, the Enquirer and the Ledger. Fes- 

 tivitities. speech-making, etc., were kept up until the drivers of 

 the carriages called the party out to hurry for the last city train. 



New York. N. Y.. March 27.— The lolanthe was pulled into New 

 York on the limited fast train. They boys were accompanied by 

 Messrs. Milt, Lindsley, Enoch Miller, Capt. Cranmer and Tee 

 Kay. Shortly after the atrival the car was deserted and the boys 

 were scattered on their three days' vacation, Mr. Quimby going 

 directly to his home and meeting the party later at his store, 

 which seems to he a natural sort of rendezvous for the shooting 

 craft. 



New York, March 39.— Few days on the whole hip have offered 

 worse weather for the teams to face than that met to-day. The 

 spirit of the recent great cyclone seemed still hovering in the air. 

 The weather was raw and chilly and the gusty and tempestuous 

 wind at times almost reached the proportion? of. a gale, Decent, 

 shooting was out of the question. The irregularity of the. wind 

 was its worst feature. There was no calculation possible for the { 

 flight of any bird. It was as apt to jump up as to duck down, and 

 if the wind caught it fairly there was no telling where it would 

 finally alight. The bird out of No. 1 often swung so far to the left 

 that it. was broken, or more often missed, over or inside of a 

 "dead line" drawn at theline of the traps. The birds were thrown 

 higher than usual. No. 2 trap being the only one which had its 

 bird down to the average height used on the tiip. The keen wind 

 drove the shoo ers quickly within doors, and although sw< ep 

 shooting was kept up steadily all the morning and up to the time 

 of the beginning of the tegular team race, the comfortable club 

 house was far better filled than the grounds. The latter, except 

 directly at the house, were covered with water almost to the 

 swimming point. A heavy growth of tall grass gives these 

 grounds the appearance of a snipe marsh, and offers a bad sur- 

 face for double shooting, especially toward evening. The un- 

 broken birds, of which t here were very many, fell out in this 

 watery expanse with a dull, sickening squash, casting up a beau- 

 tiful and silvery spray uoon the cinders of the beach. 



With the exception of St. Louis, grounds these were about the 

 worst grounds seen on the trip, and with the exeeption perhaps 

 of the Milwaukee day, this was about as uncomfortable a speci- 

 men of weather as has been met. There were probably between 

 200 and 300 of the best New York and Ne«v Jersey shooters on 

 band, and not eveu this cold and blustering day could cool the 

 ardor or suppress the jollity of these. The left hand set of traps 

 kept going even during the regular match shoot, and one or two 

 of the local teams engaged in that shoot were sometimes absent 

 from the score, trying to earn a dollar or so on the side sweeps 

 The constant fusiiade which all this implies, mingled with the 

 roar of the constantly passing trains, made a scene far from 

 quiet and called for stentorian qualities 1n the referees. The 

 character of Claremont grounds is well-known to any Eastern 

 shooter. Their great convenience and easy accessibility from 

 the city make them highly desirable. Beyond that, they have to 

 recommand them a gool equipment, good arrangement, good 

 club house and a good superintendent. More than all, they bring 

 together good sportsmen. To-day the old-timers were all out in 

 force, as well «s the younger men. Major Taylor, of the Ameri- 

 can Association, Capt. Cranmer, "Uncle Billy" Sigler, Enoch 

 Miller, Milt Lindsley. Ed. Collins, Justus vera Lengerke, R. H, 

 Brietitnall, Chas. H. Johnson, C. M. Hathaway, N. Apgar, Phil 

 Daly and many others were among those met, always including 

 of course "Uncle Jake" Pen cz, well known and beloved of the 

 boys. 



Under the conditions above recited, it properly should not be 

 wondered at that the team scores to-day reached low ebb at 132. 

 that heing the score on which the East and West tied to-day. A 

 great, uiaoy club members reading this will exclaim, "We can 

 pick five men out of our club who can b=at that ! " Very probably 

 they could, under ordinary circumstances; but under these 

 actual circumstances, very probably they couldn't. Ten of the> 

 best target shooters known around the village of New York 

 undertook to h-at the joint team seore. and they couldn't do it. 

 The scores of these gentlemen mav be compared with their 

 ordinary average, and some idea of the. difficulty of the shooting 

 may 1 hen he had. The victory of the U. S, championship teams 

 is all the more noteworthy since it was thought thev would be 

 defeated. The local men insisting on a ten-men team the more 

 strongly when they learned that Stice and W. E. Perry, two of 

 the strongest men of the combination, were to be absent from the 

 race. Following is the score, regular race, 30 single bluerocks 

 and 5 pairs :— 



Eastern Team. . 

 H McMurchy... 001111001100110111100111011110 11 11 11 01 10—87 

 W WolstencroftlUllllllOUUIlinillinUlilOl 00 11 00 U 10-30 

 WFQuimby.. ,0101101111001011 01 110111001001 10 10 10 10 10-22 



WS Perry 000111 1 1 11011 11111031 11 11 110U 10 01 10 10 10-28 



H B Whitney.. .00001 MHO 0 tlOOMMlllllllO! 01 U 01 00 10-2G-132 



Western Team. 



C W Budd 01101111111111111110101101.1110 01 10 10 10 01- 29 



S A Tucker IJOlllQOOOOl I LlM i 1000111011(10 00 10 10 10 10—22 



R O Heikes 111111011111011110111101111110 00 11 10 11 10 30 



CE Gaboon... .inlOlOillOllllllllOtlMMOlllO 10 00 10 10 11—25 



J A Ruble.. llllOOOlOOlllllllllllOllllllll 01 10 00 00 00-26—132 



Joint team total . . .264 



New York and Jersev Team. 



E D Miller JlOlflQOiUOOlO' 'GOOIIllllllll 10 II) 10 11 01-24 



J Von Lengerkeni0O10l0miOl1inil0l01Ol(IOU 10 00 11 10 10—24 

 R H Brietitnall. 11010100 0000111(10001011011101 10 11 10 10 11—22 



E Collins OlllOIOlOOmillOll'llnOlOlOO 01 11 10 10 11-27 



n H Johnson — 011 001 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 111 1 01 111 J 01 1 1 0 1 11 in 0) 10 00-28 



W Sigler 1001 1100010111 101 1101 111011101 10 10 10 10 11-26 



Capt Cranmer.. OOitnoilKMlIO! 11111 HOlOliOOl 10 11 00 10 10-26 



M Lindsley mini imn LOOM 01010111010110 10 11 10 01 11-27 



Maj J MTayloi'.nnOiOllimiOllllOlOlllllOOl 10 11 10 00 10-SK 



C M Hathaway. lllGOlUOlllllKXIOOlllfjOOlilll 01 01 10 00 10-24-355 



Mr. Cannon assumed the cold job of refereeing the race through 

 the singles. Mr. Dimick appearing for the doubles. 



A prize of S25 in gold was offered for the winning team by For- 

 est and Stream, the tie for which will be shot of at New Haven. 



It will ha observed that a regular man was absent from each 

 team. W. E. Perry has heen almost incapacitated by a severe 

 attack of rheumatism, and yesterday morning, upon receiving 

 dispatches from his home iu Boston demanding his presence, left 

 for that city. Stice stated that he was called to New Haven on 

 business, and returned the same evening. 



At 8:30 this evening the sportmen of New York tendered the 

 management and teams a banquet, which in simple elegance in 

 many ways surpassed anything of the kind vet seen on this trip 

 of pleasant surprises. The scene of hospitalities was at SiPg- 

 hortner's restaurant, at Lafayette Place, which in the belief of 

 many has points of superiority over any resort of its kind in the 

 city. It would be in bad taste to comment further upon the good 

 cheer offered the travelers, but one cannot comment enough upon 

 the character of the little assemblage gathered to receive them. 

 The whole scene was a commentary upon the sportsmen and the 

 sp ortsmanship of to-day. The evening was one of Atticwit, in 

 which the president and toast-master, Mr. Elliott Smith, and 

 that well-known sportsman of Virginia, Mr. John S. Wise, figured 

 lai gely. There was present also Mr. E. R. Dirniek, brother of Mr. 

 C. W. Dimick, and member of the firm ot W. Fred Quimby & Co.: 



Mr. W. R. Hobart, of the South Side Club; Mr. C. M. Hathaway 

 aud others, including Mr. Fitzgerald of the New York Sum. The 

 place at the table of each gentleman was indicated by a tasty 

 card, bearing as a centerpiece the figure of a Climax shell, on 

 which hi8 name was writteu. The inscription on the card was: 



"New York's welcome to the Eastern and Western teams 

 March 29, 1890. They have attaiued the pinnacle of fame— the 

 Climax of success." 



The management, captains and several members of the teams 

 added their remarks to the timely speeches of Air. Elliott Smith. 

 Mr. Wise and others, and the pleasant festivities kept up until 

 the travelers were forced to hasten to the carriages iu order to 

 catch the train for New Haven. 



The only purely comical event of the evening was sprung by a. 

 young dailv reporter who was on hand long enough to ask what 

 was the "boundary used in the team race." He was informed 

 that there was no limit. It would have been well for this gentle- 

 man had he heard Mr. W. S. Perry's recent answer to a query as 

 to what was his favorite load. "My favorite load," said the 

 Worcester man, as he scratched his chin, "is three drams of 

 whisky aud an ounce and a quarter of Muscatel ! " From this 

 it may be seen that Mr. Perry uses a lighter load than any other 

 man on his team. 



So many things happen on a t.riplike this that much of it seems 

 like a dream. Perhaps it was the recent failure in materializa- 

 tion of the much-talked- of New Yorok live- bird race that caused 

 an actual dream which befell one of the party. 



"I thought we were all at a big live-bird shoot," said lie, "that 

 looked a good deal like the California shoot, and Mr. D raick was 

 refereeing. It was!my turn to shoot, and my turd, instead of flying, 

 walked out on ihe ground, and 1 pasted him sitting. He jumped 

 up in the air. and I killed him with the second barrel, and boll • 

 bred for 'judgment!' Mr. Dimi k,he just looked thoughtful aud 

 said he didn't know what to do about it, for he didn't think the 

 new American rules covered any case like that. 'But I'll bet you 

 fifty,' he said to me, 'that that's the only case on earth they don't 

 covnrl' And then I woke up." 



Now, a story like that reminds one of all sorts of pigeous, in- 

 cluding clay-pigeon*, and that, reminds one of the historic wager 

 made between fee Kav, the New Jersey lily, and Al Bundle, the 

 Cincinnati beautv. Tee Kay bet Al Bandle $10 that he "could 

 break 10 Bundle clav-birds straight." 



"All right," said Al, "I'll go you.' 1 So Tee Kay laughed, he felt 

 so funny. So he piled up 10 clay-birds iu a pile and jumped on 

 top of them with both feet. As he weighs about 3501 bs. it was a 

 safe presumption that he had won his crooked wager. But Al 

 smiled with a confidence born of experience. 



"Hold on!" cried he, as Tee Kay started for the stake holder, 

 "let's count the birds first." Trev did so, and to Toe Kav's dis- 

 may they found that only 7 of the birds were broker! It is 

 probable that this story of Tee Kay's bet will still be told among 

 trap-shooters a hundred years from now. v unr,^ a 



E. Hoixih. 



ROCKY MOUNTAIN TOURNAMENT. 



DENVER,, Co]., March 13— Editor Forest and Stream: Accepting 

 your kind invitation under date of Feb 28, therewith pre- 

 sent a synopsis of the programme to be observed on the occasion 

 of our second annual tournament under the auspices of the Rocky 

 Mountain Sportsmen's Association. 



The tournament will open at Cheyenne. Wvo , on the morning 

 of Tuesday, June 17, with a very attractive programme, extend- 

 ing over four dayB. We will run three sets of 'arget traps, five 

 each, and one set of five ground traps. An abundance of live 

 birds is promised and will undoubtedly he on hand. 



The citizens and sportsmen of Cheyenne with true Western lib- 

 erality have subscribed and paid in §1,200, which will be used as 

 added prizes in connection with liberal entry moneys in each 

 shoot. This will be so divided that the chances are reasonable 

 for any shooter to get out whole and have all the shooting he 

 wants. American shooting rules have been adopted by the Asso- 

 ciation, which emoraces Colorada, Wyoming, Utah and New 

 Mexico. No member can participate in the tournament shoots 

 unless he holds a card reading as follows: The Rocky Mountain 



Sportsman's Association. Shooters' average per cent.. 1890. 



This card, when signed by Mr. W. E. Ostrander, Acting Secretary. 



entitles Mr. . of tHe Club, of . to all privileges of 



the Association for the year ending Sept. 5, 1890. , Acting 



Secre' ary. 



This, we trust, will bar from any contest the amateur tourna- 

 ment parasite, who has done more to injure trap-shooting than 

 any other one cause. 



Shooters are classified by their own club's secretary, but in 

 many cases will have to be reclassified on or after the first day's 

 shoot. 



On the evening of the first day of the tournament tho annual 

 meeting of the Association will be held, officers elected, papers on 

 sporting subjects will be read, committees appointed lor the en- 

 forcement or alteration if necessary of game and fish enactments, 

 and such other work as may properly bslong to such an organiza- 

 tion. 



Among other of our sportiug friends wo shall hopefully expect 

 the presence of Foisest and Stream, to whose representative, iu 

 behalf of the Association. I extend a cordial imitation. 



The railroads will take good care of delegates, as they have done 

 in years past* O. M. Havpsos, Pres't R. M, S. A* 



