Aug. 38, 1890.J 



FOREST AND STREAM. 



117 



jersey and Heikes a black, and Wack and bine moved up and 

 down the long line of traps unt'l the blue jacket let his ninth 

 hbd, a left qum-iprer, get away. Heikes not to be outdone, let his 

 tenth, a rstit quartcrer, got on*. Wolstencroft dronped his four- 

 teenth, and it is probable he then had too great a respect for the 

 sa wed-off blntidc in the black Jersey, for he dropped the bwenty- 

 ppcnd and tweutv-third, the latter al least iu mire carelessness. 

 Had be held up on these birds b° would still have been in it. for 

 Roll missed bis twenty-fourth and walked out with 33 in the last 

 tie. a winner in one of the prettiest shoots it has been the fortune 

 of the pnbl'c to see. 



Comment should be made bere on the remarkahle shooting 

 which is of late bfing done by Rolla Heike». He h»s been wit 

 nine about everytning in sight, and in the Smith trophy shoot 1 

 not only won his race, but, broke the record, which was thought 

 to he unbreakable. Two years ago ,T. E. Miller, of Cincinnati, 

 made a run of 158 single targets, and this was the record till to- 

 day. WhenHeikes fired at bis twenty-seventh bird in this race 

 to-fav p very body on the grounds noticed that the report was light 

 and muffled, a mere squid. Rolla thought the nowder and shot 

 nuist have run logethcr. It wn« a machine-loaded shell. H"W 

 ever that may he, this was bis 181*1 bird, bringing over his last £. 

 st-aigbt from yesterday. Mr. Heikes, therefore, made 'a run of 

 180 straight, with 22 to the good over Ihe record. Giving him the 

 bird he lost through the defective shell, which he wm certainly 

 due to break, and his total run would have, reached 240. There is 

 in this shoot a whole commentary on modern trap shooting, It 

 can 1 e reduced fairly to a science, or to a mechanics] art, at least, 

 it would seem. The conditions were 50 single Keystones, $>ft en- 

 trance, winner to take, the cup an* +0 per cent, of next, rear's en- 

 trance, balance to be divided 40. 30, 20 and 10 per cent. Score: 



J White IllimilOlllllIlllll 101 111 10111111111111111001111-45 



Wolstencroft. .. .11111111 11 1 1ll 1.1 llll 111111 llll llll I 111 11 111111 1110— 1!) 



James 1111111 1011 IHOlllOmi ill! 11111 101111111111111111— 46 



Stevpns 11111111111110111111111011111111111111111111111111 48 



Heikes .ni]lil]lPllll]llllllllll0linilll1Uni1llllllll-4!l 



Osb-rne 111111 '1 1111 1 ill 11 1 11111 11111111 1 1111011111 Willi— 49 



Thurmau 11 '11111011111111111111111111 11111 Ionil1l10i0llll— 46 



Prosby Ill 111 11111111111111111011 '1101 niHlim 111 1111110— 4R 



McMrtjJoby 11101111 11ll0llinimil1ionuin ililllilillliin—47 



"Renscotten 11113111111111111110111111111111111111111111111111-49 



Keisey iiiiiiiiniinnnmnoiin 1101H11 in 11I111H111-4S 



Clover 11111111011] 1101 11001 11111 limoir 11 1111110111111-14 



Erf wards 1111111010111 11 1 101 11 11111111111110111111111111111-4(5 



Whimey 11111111 H ill 1 11111.111111 '011111111 111 ill Ill 111 110— IS 



M Donald 11111111111111111110111111111111111111111111111110-48 



wmey imnniiiiiiiiimiiiiiiniiiiinniiiionunioo — 45 



Cady 1011110101111 1 111 111101111111111111101111 111011111— 44 



Miller lllllUlllllllllllimi '11111 '01111111111 111111101— 4« 



Dickey 11111111101101111111110111101111111111111111111111—46 



First tie. 25 singles, 18yds.: 



Wolstencroft 1111111111111111111111111-25 



Heikes lDlllllnilinillllinil-25 



Osborne 110101 



Ben? eotten 11111111111111111110 



Second tie, 25 singles. "0yds.: 



Wntetencroft 1111111101111011111110011—21 



Heikes 1111111 11011111 1111111101— 23 



Heikes won. All other ties cttv. McMurehv won third alone, on 

 41. This closed the shooting of the day. The places for daily 

 average were: Heikes and Benscotten first. Wolstencroft second, 

 Kels> y third; the number of birds missed in the average shoots 

 being respectively 2, 3 and 4. 



Thursday, Tliird Day, Aug. SI. 



Grief and woe overspread the landscape, ibis morning and 

 pretty little Corrv Valley was bathed in tears. The rain was fitful 

 all the morning, and at 11 o'clock drove the bovs awayfr^m the 

 scores and set in to drown everybody in sight. Tough luck for 

 Penrose, who has done too much good hard work to deserve to see 

 his tournament spoiled this way. The delays seemed so many 

 and so pr bable that, it was determined to drop a number o'f 

 the minor programme sweeps, and to go on with the guaran- 

 tee", championship conie°tsand team races first. 



The wind this morning had blown down the tepees of Long 

 Feather and Oregon Nick, and these gentlemen were forced to 

 divide their time between Fred Quimhv and Mr. Jeaney, who sat 

 in their door like Chatham street merchants and invited every- 

 body in out of the wet. This would be a pretty good time, since 

 fryers body has stopped shooting and cone to telling stories, to tell 

 how Fred Quiuiby got bis title of "Blue Island Champion," but it 

 is nearly dinner time and it niav be better to wait. The follow- 

 ing scrres were shot out before the deluge: 



Postponed shoot No. 9. 10 single Kevstones, entrance $2.50: 



Wnlsey 1111111111-10 Dickev 1111111110— <l 



J W> ite ...1111111111-10 McClure 110101H11— 8 



Berseotten 1111111111-10 J C Hill 1111101011— 8 



Rri^ol 1011111111— 9 J F Mallory 111O11H00- 7 



S'gler 1111010111- 9 F F Mallory 1111110111- 9 



Lirdsley 1111111111-10 McDonald llHOimi— 9 



Keisey 1111111111-10 Cady 1111111111 10 



•Heikes 1111111111-10 Crosbv 1111110111— " 



"R D Miller 1111101000- 6 Willey 0110101110- 6 



Vr Mill' r 0111011111— S Osborne 1111111000- 7 



"Jamra" ... 1111111111—10 McMurchy 1111111111—10 



Folsoui 10101 '0110— 6 "Whit" 1101 101100— p 



Stevens 1100101H1- 7 Edwards 1111101101- 8 



Burhridge 1011101111— 8 Tippy 11I110H11— 9 



Whitney 1111111101- 9 Clover 1110001111- 7 



All ties div. 



Postponed shoot No, 10. 10 single Keystones, entrance SI: 



Sitrler 1110111101— 8 F E MsJlory 1100011001- 5 



Stevens 1111111011—9 J « Mallory 1011111111-9 



Mattice 1111101110— 8 Benscotten 1111111111-10 



"White" 1111111010- 8 Crosby 1011111101— 9 



Osborne 1110101110- 7 MrMurchy H11U111 1— 10 



Buviu-idge 1111111001- 8 ED Miller 1011111111 — 9 



Bristol 1111011111-9 Tippy 1111110111—9 



Keisey 1111111111-10 TMckev 1111110111—9 



Heikes 1111111111-10 Skinner 01101H011— 7 



"Whit".... 1111101111—9 Edwards 0111111111-9 



"Wolsey" 1111111101— 9 McDonald 1111111111-10 



Ltedsley lOimoni- 8 Dr Miller 11110U111— 9 



Folsorn nnmo'O'— 7 Willey 0110110111—7 



McClure . .0" 000011 00— 3 Cadv .00101 111 11- 7 



Hile 1HOOK001— 5 Thurman 1100111111— 8 



Whitney 1111111111—10 "James" 1111111111—10 



First div.; second shot off «nd div. by -T. S. Mallory. Crosby, E. 

 D. Miller, Wolstencroft, Dickey, Dr. Miller; third div.; fourth 

 Shot out and won by Folsom and Skinner. 



Shoot No. 1, 15 single Kevstones, entrance $1,50: 



J White 111111111111111-15 Osborne 111111111111100-13 



pndsley, ..... .0'110011010im-10 D>- Miller 111111110110111-13 



McDonald .. .111111110'1H11-14 Clover.., 11 11111 1 1111110-1 4 



'Wolsev" 111111111111111-15 "Whit" 101111111111110-13 



"James" 111010111010111—11 Stevens 101111111111111— 14 



Crosby 110111111111111-15 J O Hile 1010U1110U1101-10 



Folsom ... ....omillOOO'OOOl— 8 Sigler lllllllOlOimi— 13 



Bristol .110111001111111-12 Thurman 110101110110110-10 



FE Mallory. .111111111001111—13 Dickey 111111111111110-14 



McClure ll'lllOOHO'111-12 Whitney 111011111111111-14 



E D Miller. . . . 101111111110111-13 Windsor 111111111111111-15 



| F Mallory. . .011111001111111—12 McMurehv ... .111111111111101-14 



Keisey 01111111111111—13 Pope 111111111110111—14 



Burmdge 101011111101 11— 12 Skinner 111111111111011-14 



Willey .,.111111111111111—15 Benscotten... 111111111111111-15 



Cadv 111110111111111-14 Tippy 101011111011111-12 



Heikes .111111111111111-15 



First div.. second shot out and div. by McDonald, Crosby, Clover, 

 Whitney and Skinner; other ties div. 



Sh^ofc No 3, 10 singles, entrance $2 50; $50 guaranteed: 



'Wobey" lllUUin-10 Sigler 1111111100-8 



J White" 1111111111- 10 Skinner 1111111111-10 



'James" 1111111111-10 Dickev 1110111010-7 



"ED M'ller 1111111111- 9 "Whit" ,.1010111010- 6 



JtlcClnre 0000101111— 5 Benscotten 11110 '1 111— 9 



Cady 1110111111— 9 McMurchy 1111110111— 9 



■pflsteY 1011111111— 9 Clover 1111111111—10 



F E Mallory 1011111101- 8 Dr Miller HlllO'llO- 8 



•Folsom 1110011111— 8 Windsor 1111111111—10 



Heikes 1111111111-10 Whitney 1111111111—10 



McDonald 0111110111- 8 Edwards llllllliU— 10 



Stevens 1101111111— 9 Pope 1111110100— 7 



Willey llllllClll- 9 Keisey 1001111010- 6 



Bnrhige 101U11111— 9 Osb rne 1011111001- 7 



2 F Mallory 1100111110- 8 Tippy llllOHUl- 9 



'Crosby 1011111111— 9 



First, shot out and div. by White. Clover, Windsor and Heikes; 

 Second shot out and div. by Stevens, Cro bv, Benscotten and Mc- 

 MDrchv, after 10 straight; third shot out and div. bv McDonald 

 and J. F. Mallory; fourth div. 



This was the first s^oot after dinner. The rain stopped a little 

 oefore 2 P. M., and the events were harried off as fast as possible. 



S"OOt No. 4, 10 single Kevstones, tntrance $2.50, $50 guaranteed: 



White 1111101111- 9 Clover 1101111111- 9 



"Wolsey". 1111111111 10 Willey .1111111111-10 



Folsom 1U1111010— 8 Edwards 1 110111001— 7 



Lindsley 1111110001— 7 Whitnev 1111111111-10 



Cadv 0111110100- 6 J F Mallory 1111 1 10100- 7 



Heikes Ill ' 11 Ull -10 Windsor 1111111111-10 



Stevens UlilllllO- 9 Dr Miller nn limi-io 



Crn-div 1111011111 9 "Whit" 1011101110- 7 



F E Mallory 01111111 1 1— 9 Keisey 1101101111— H 



McMurchy'. 1100111011- 7 nickey 1111111111-10 



Benscotten IHOlilUl- 9 Tippy 10U111H0- 8 



Burhridge OllO'lllll- 8 Osborne .1011111000 -6 



Skinner 1110101100- 6 Miller 1011111011- 8 



Siglor 1010101111- 7 McDonald 1111010110- 7 



McClure 1011101111- 8 Pope 1100011110- 6 



"James" 1111111111-10 



First, shot off and won bv Windsor; second shot off and div. by 

 Crosbv and Benscotten; third shot off and div. by Folsom and E. 

 D. M'ller; fourth shot off and div. by J. F. Mallory, Lindsley, 

 "Whit" and McDonald; fifth money div. 



Shoot No. 9, 15 s ; ng 1 e K°vstones, entrance $3, $75 guaranteed: 



J White 111001111010111-11 Dr Miller 111111111011111-14 



Heikes 111111111111111-15 McDonald ... .1111111 111 Hill— 15 



Wolsey 111111110111111-15 Pope 111111 '10111101-13 



Folsom 011111110111111—13 Skinner 111111111111101-14 



Benscotten.... 1111U111 111011—14 McClure 011110000101101— 8 



S U ve n s 11 1 01 1 1 1 1 1 11 11 1 -14 Dshorne 1 11 01 1 1 1 1 1 i 1 11 -14 



Cadv 101111110111111-13 K-lsey l'inilllllll II— 15 



Willey 111101111011110 12 "Whit" 011110110111100-10 



Sigler 111011101111111-13 Dickey 111111111111111-15 



' James" 101 1111101 1 100'— 11 Clover 111110111100111-12 



McMurchy 111111110111111-14 .1 F Mallory. .101100110111101-10 



Lindslev.." 101111011000111-10 E D Miller 11001111101110-12 



F E Mallory... 1H111I1I111H1— 15 Whitney 111111111111011—14 



Orosbv 11111 1110101101—12 Windsor 111111 ll ! 1 11111-15 



Bu-bridge . ...111111011111101-13 Tippv lltlOllUllllll-14 



F'rstshot out and d'v. by Wolstencroft. F. E. Mallory, McDon- 

 ald, Kelsev and Windsor. Second shot out and div. by Whitney, 

 Stevens, McMurchy and Dr. Miller, third and fourth div. 



Shoot No. 8, Peters Cartridge Co. Trophy.— This was another 

 interesting shoot, this well known and handsome, trophy having 

 never yet failed to bring out a full o> try of the shooters on hand. 

 Out of the 50 there were two 49s, Wolstencroft and Clover, the 

 rest scattering. Heikes fell in th ' lucky hole of 46. An amusing 

 incident, happened here, which will serve to show the ceaseless 

 scheming and pulling for place which has marked this tourna- 

 ment almost bevoud precedent. A certain young shooter, who 

 has figured well in the scores right along, had observed that 

 Heikes was alone in the 46 hole, and thought, that a good place to 

 bp. He therefore "oncluded to drop his last bird, and held about 

 20ft. hehuid it purposely. To his intense surprise and disgust a 

 strav pellet wandered out and broke the bird, and thus he was in 

 the 47 bole, where there are several others and much less "divvy." 

 Served him right! The conditions of this shoot, were 50 singles, 

 entrance $5, winner to take cun and 40 n"r cent, of next year's 

 entry, this year's money to be divided 40, 30, 20 and 10 per cent. 

 O. B. Dickey, of Boston, won this trophy last, year, the conditions 

 ' hen bping that the winner took bis money with the cup. Score: 



Heikes 11111111111111011111111 111111111110111 HOlllOl llll— 46 



Osborne 111111110'OliiniJ 11 111111010101101111010010 011011—3: 



McMurehv 1111111111 1 llll 111 Ull 111 101 1111 II H11 11 1111001111— 4", 



Cad v .' 0111 1 1001 11.110111 101 1 111101001 1 11 1110110! ' llll 1011— 39 



"J White" 11 11101111 1 11111101 1 J OlOlflimiOl 1 0 M 10011 11 1 111101-39 



"James" 111110111110111111011111101011 11 11111 .1100111110111-43 



Dickey 11111101111 11 11 111011 111111111101 111 ill 111! Hlllll-47 



McDonald 11111111111110111101 1 II ll ll 1 1 111011 1U1H11H11111 -47 



Thurman 1111101110110111111 111 1011O1 lOllOHOlOll 100110(K1 : 0—^ 



Wolstencroft.... Hl'lll I1 1111111 llll! 11 11 1111111111111111 111110=11 — -19 



Stevens 11111111011011011111111111111111111111110111101111 



Hrosby 001 111 1011 1 1 1101111 111 110111 111 llll 111 111 1 HI 1 1 1 11 — 14 



Pope 0100111111111 HOI 11 11101111111111011111 11111111101-42 



Kelsev 11111111111111 1 1101 11 111111 1.11'H 11111 1 inillllll0-4S 



Dr Miller 11111111111111111111111111111011110111111111111111-48 



Whitney llll 1 1 1111 1 11 1 1 1 1111 1 11101 1 111 1 11 1 1 10 [ m 1 11 111 110— 47 



Clover 111111111111111111111111111111111111101111111111.11-49 



All the ties in this shoot we»-e divided except, of course, the 

 first, which was shot out by Wolstencroft and Clover, with the 

 followine result: 



Ties of 5, 18yds. 



Wolstencroft 11111 llll] 11111-15 



Clover Hill 111U 11110-14 



Wolstencroft won the Peters tronhy. 



Shooting was now continued in the guarantees, the order of the 

 programme being discontinued. 



Shoot No. 2 (billed for Friday), $50 anaranteed, entrance $2 50: 



Lindsley 1111011111- 9 Stevens 0111111111- 9 



Benscotten 1111111111 - 10 Osborne 1111110111— 9 



Windsor H llll I 1 11 -10 James 11111 1 1 1 1 1 —10 



McClure OOll'lOlll- 7 F E Mallory 1111111101- 9 



Folsom 0101010111— 6 ED Mil'er 1111 111111-10 



Heikes 1111111111-10 "Wolsey" 1111111011- 9 



McMurchy 1111111111—10 Crosby 0111111U1- 9 



Willev 1110110111— 8 J F Mallory 1101101011- 7 



"Whit" 1101110010-6 J White 1U1UH00- 8 



Dr Miller.. 1111111110- 9 Clover 1111111100 - 8 



Burbidge. .. 1110111111-9 Whitney 1111111111-10 



Cady , 1101111111- 9 Keisey IllllUHO- 9 



McDonald 1101111101— 8 Pope 011101(11 10— 0 



Sigler 1010111100- 6 Skinner 1111110010- 7 



Dickev 1111111111-10 



All ties div. 



This closed the da,y. Rain was again drizzling down, and the 

 outlook was cheerless. The day had, however, bepn a pretty good 

 one, all things considered; 33 entries in such weather being about 

 as much as one could expect. The boys are breaking in the neigh- 

 borhood of 8,000 or 10,000 targets a day, couuting ties and all. The 

 oldest of the old time kickers are kicking because everything is 

 divided and not shot out; but if all the ties were shot down it 

 would take about five aces to win anything in this eang. There 

 is the usual wail from the rounders who have won it all, all over 

 the country, and want more, that "nobody is making anything." 

 At the sport of trap-shooting to-day, it seems, one must "make 

 something" or the sport is no good. A few more years of this, 

 and one of two things will happen, the sport of trap-shooting 

 will be reorganized, or there won't be enough of it left to reorgan- 

 ize. There are no young shooters here at this shoot to amount to 

 anything. The geese of the golden eggs are being killed. Target 

 shooting 1b getting to be a mochanical art, and the element of 

 skill or chance is not in it. Thev will have it or they will quit. 

 The experts can then take what there Is left. 



In the above there is nothing of reflection upon this tourna- 

 ment, which has certainlv been gotten up upon as broad, as gen- 

 eral and as liberal a basis as could be, and which has certainly 

 been conducted with a method and a carefulness in detail so ad- 

 mirable as to compel even the most unwilling praise. But it is 

 the fault of the late drift in trap-shooting matters in general that 

 things are as they are, and now happens to be a good time to sit 

 down and look at these things fairly and think about them. 



But, the day's work over, tlv se "earty and careless boys don't 

 think of anythine. Clover put in $3.50 yesterday, broke 25 straight 

 and took out $1.97, less $1 for shells; but he isn't thinking about 

 that now. He is explaining to old Mr. Kellar, who is a, little deaf, 

 a patent multiple trap which he claims to have invented before 

 the old man dreamed of his. Benscotten missed only 7 birds out 

 of 210, and was still $8 in the hole, hut he has f -rgotten that and 

 tbe two birds he claims were scored against him, and ia happy as 

 the rest. Skinner and Enoch Miller didn't win the $]0j0 they 

 wanted, but to-night thev will probably play another one. of their 

 wond' rful games of pool, which lasts four hours, and at the end 

 of which they have less to their credit, than when they started, by 

 eason of the red ball getting "in the hole" all the time too. And 

 then the boys will get together in Roll's room, and he and his run- 

 ning mate, Scott McDonald, who isn't as handsome as he is big 

 but pretty near it," will play banjo duets until every heart forgets 

 its sorrows, and no one can dream of less than 100 straight. 



Fourth Day, Friday, Aug. n. 



More rain, and more of it. Things looked dismal. The crowd, 

 however, hung together pretty well, twentv-six entries being 

 made in one shoot. The weather being such that it was impossible 

 to do regular shooting, it was announced at noon that the pro- 

 gramme would be abandoned, and the te^m race and the individ- 

 ual championship contest for the Keystone diamond ring shot out 

 first, the remainder of the time being devoted to sweeps or 

 guarantees. 



Prior to this time, however, two sweeps were shot to-dav, and 

 the student of trap matters may find in these two little sweeps 

 more to interest him than in pages of the others. They came at a 

 time most opportune, after all that has been said and written at 

 this tournament about the hard shooting and the light winning 

 and the generally unsatisfactory state of affairs which makes 

 such a com oination possible. Mr. Penrose said: 



"Yon men have all been objecting because you don't win any- 



thing. We have given $1 400 to you in this shoot, and yet nobody 

 has won anything. Now I am going to give you a harder game, 

 and put you into the 'professional rules,' and I don't think you'll 

 get, so many straiehts then." 



There have been niauv schemes by many men to invent some 

 method by which an element, of irregularity, variety and uncer- 

 tainty could be introduced into target shoot i i-tr, whb-h would do 

 away with the dead monot-onv and mechanic-like automatonism 

 of the "rau'd-firing system" as usually a»eh. Harvey McMnrcby's 

 idea is that 5 traps, get in a straight linn awav from t he shooter, 

 "ach trap 2yds. further than the one next behind, and ' he furthest 

 24yds. from the score, would make shooting m r re interesting. 

 Eacb shot could then he detn'tnineri fey the indicator, and the 

 angb s could be changed if desired Milt Lind-ley'a idea is that 

 of two batteries, one of 5 traps and on" of 3, the 5 traps to be set 

 in a semicircle at 18yds. . the other 3 at 60yds. The 3 outsbte t, a ps 

 are all to throw incomers, the middle one a straight incomer and 

 the 2 end traps right and left, quartering incomers. A shooter 

 steps to the score with five, shells, and h» gets five, shots out of the 

 8 traps, tbe traps b<ung det rutin- d by the inriieator, 



Either of these ideas would be good. The chief trouble is that 

 not so many birds can he hr iken in a sriv»n time in that way. 



The "professional rules" of he Keystone Compmy are *an at- 

 tempt to s dve tbe s-me problem and vet ro+a'n rapidity of firing, 

 which is of course tbe i 'ea first in m ; nd to the target manufac- 

 turers. In many ways tbe=e are a very fair solution, and the in- 

 terest shown in these two shoots proves it. 



The rapid firing system as seen at tournaments is under the 

 "amateur rules." In it, both traps and angles are known, and 

 each taken in rotation. In tbe "se.m'.nrofe««'on'»l rates" the same 

 full battery of traps is retained, and I he same system of rotation, 

 but while the traps are known ihe angles are changed. In the "pro- 

 Eessional rules*' the full battery of traps and t herniation in posi- 

 tion is retained, but the trap is determined by lot. ou' of that ball" 

 of the battery, or out of those traps, which be to the right, or left of 

 the middle line. If the shooter is te the left f the line, he knows 

 that he will g^t some trap out of Nos l, 2, 3, 4 or s. etc.; if to tbe 

 righi, it will be out of Nos. 6, 7. 8. 9, 10, etc. Wli'oh of those traps 

 it will be be does not know, and that is determined by the indica- 

 tor. He mav stand behind No. 1 tran, call "pull," and get No. 5 

 trap. He may then move up to No. 2, &p6 get No. 1 bird And so. 

 His birds are thus offered to him at distances constantly chang- 

 ing. Deprived of the knowledge of the exact wbrreahoms of the 

 bird, he is obliged to shoot quick, and to use skill, judgment and 

 calculation. In other words, be has got to be a shooter and not a 

 machine. Su h conditions as these put the Held shooter and the 

 young shooter much morenear'y on an equalitv wi'h the profes- 

 sional than the so-e 'Bed 1 amateur" rules, which 1 a ve been ahused 

 and ridden to death by th"' nr >tessionaie until they certainly 1 ave 

 no charms to invite the amateur to a tournament. It is a further 

 and very great merit to the "professional rules" that under their 

 system of rotation a match can be shot, off at them almost "s 

 rapidly as under the common system. They are, indeed, tbe rapid 

 firing system followed with unknown trips and unknown dis- 

 tances. 



So much for these rules. It was positively fuunv to se«> the 

 cracks go to pieces under them. Shooters who had broken 98 out 

 of 100 here this week came out of th° ln-bird sweep with 2 or 3 

 birds scored against them. Farmer Heikes. who broke 180, or 

 more likely 240 straight, only got 5 out of his 10. and was received 

 with applause as he retired from the score. Not a straight was 

 scored by anybody. Look back over the scores through the week 

 before to-day, and dozens of straights of ail tenerihs will stare one 

 in the face on every page. Rolla Heik -s broke the record on 

 straig' ts here this week. Let us hoi-e that ue broke also tbe old 

 regime of ta rget shooti tig. Hi« little record of 5 o U t of 10 is more 

 interesting news than his record of 180 straight, and in the end 

 may mean more money to him and to the target manufacturers. 

 It has got so that tbe publication of these longVtores of straights 

 is frightening a way the younger shooters from tournaments. We 

 havejiotto have more variety ard fewer straights at our big 

 tournaments, or the day of big tournaments will fade. 



To the credit of the Kevstonft C uripanvit must l >e said that 

 they seem to be the first managers to recognize this and to at- 

 tempt to make improvement. Let ushope that thev will succeed, 

 and that in their next tournament they will insist, upon at least 

 an equal division of time between the "machines" and the shoot- 

 ers. There is nothing like looking on ahead a little, and it is com- 

 ing to be a conviction in the m'nds of many most interested in 

 shooting that there will be a good deal more money for shcote T s, 

 dealers and manufacturers in locking up some new sv stems which 

 let in the shooting public, than in clinging too closely to the old, 

 which simply forms a clo^e communion of a clique who can't, win 

 any money themselves and won't let anybody else win any. Fol- 

 lowing are the scores. They disclose the little known f»'ct that 

 our machine shooters can't shoot. There has been a good deal of 

 laughing and joking about this to-day: 



Sweep No. 1, unknown angles. 10 singles, $2: 



Sigler 0111111001—7 Dickey 0110H01U— 7 



Li n d si e y 1 11910 1 010 -6 Crosbv 1 11 0011 ' 1 1—8 



Thurman 1110010110—6 McClure 0000001100 -2 



Osborne 1101111011—8 ED Miller Ill'OllllI— 9 



Cadv 1111100100-6 "Wolsey".. 0111111110—8 



"J White" — , 0101101001—5 Windsor 1111010111 8 



Kelsev 0111111111-9 Tippy, 101 101 in 1 — H 



McDouald 0111011110—7 Stevens 100100H01-5 



Skinner 0011110011—6 Edwards 0100111001—5 



Whitney 1111011111—9 Heikes 1101001KX)— 5 



Curtin 10I01U010-5 Willev 0C01110001— 4 



James 0001110111-6 Burbridge 1111011010-7 



Keisey first. All ties div. 



Sweep No. 2, unknown angles, $2: 



Dickey 1111111011— 9 McClure 0101001111— 6 



Stevens 0010111111— 7 Kelsev 1111011100— 7 



Lin'isley OlOOO'llOl— 5 Skinner 0110111111-8 



Dr Miller 1110000111— 6 Whitney 1010111111— 8 



James 1110110011— 7 Dickey HHIlllll— io 



J White 0110100111— 6 Tippy 1011110011— 7 



FE Mallory 0010111101-6 Cadv 



Wolsey 1001111110— 7 Ge"rge 1000111010 - 5 



Miller 1101110101- 7 Heikes 11 IblHll- 9 



Keisey 1 111011011- 8 Tippv 0101101101— 5 



Segler 0 01111011- 7 P-pe 10011 lltll — 8 



Sigter 1010100011— 5 Windsor OIlOiiOOll- 6 



Sievens 0111 '00111 — 7 Irwin 0101100111— 6 



"James" 0110100111— 6 



Dickey first. All ties div. 



There was considerable kicking among the old-timers at the 

 above style, of shooting. Benscotten remarked with tears in his 

 eyes that one feller might get easier birds than the other feller, 

 and then what was the other feller going to do? It wasn't cinch 

 enough for Ben. Too bad. Ruble was different. He bent his 

 great hrain to devising some wa y to beat this game. Ruble shoots 

 aLefever. You can break a Lefever, put in a shell, keep your 

 finger on the trigger, close the gun, and have your shell in the' gun 

 with the gun not cocked. Then ^ ou can step up to the trap, call 

 "poll," fail to discharge your gun, show it to the referee un- 

 cocked, and get another bird out of the same trap. By this way 

 you get a known angle in a race of unknown angles. It is a good 

 deal of trouble, and not a very pretty thing to do; hut this did not 

 deter Mr. Ruble, who worked the racket very nicely. The rules 

 should be rearranged to balk the games of gentlemen like Mr. 

 Ruble, who always have time and brains for purposes of this 

 sort. 



Another very interesting event was now called up. in the East 

 and West team race. Mr. O. R. Dickey captained the Eastern team 

 and Rolla Heikes 'the Western, The conditions were 100 singles, 

 $5 a man, six men to the team, birds donated by the Keystone 

 Mfg. Co. Score: 



East and West Team Race. 

 Eastern Tea m. 



O R Dickey 1111111 Hi lllilllllllllll 



(ot Boston, Mass.) 0111111111011111111111111 

 111 110111 11111 111 lUl 1110 



„ TL . louoiioiii imimn 1111— 93 



HB Whitney HOllllllllllllOllllllPO 



(of Pbelps.N. Y.) 11'lllHllOllllllllHlin 

 1111101111111111111111111 

 , , 1101111011111111111111111-93 

 F D Keisey .1110111111111111111110111 



(of E. Aurora, n. y.) loiiininiin minimi 



inn 1011111111 mi mm 

 iimnmnDiiimiiin— 96 



E D M'ller Ull 1101111 1111 1 11 1 ! hlOOl 



(of Springfield, N. J.) lUllOllOiniiOdOil] ill 



111 1 I 111111001 i 11 10111111 



muiio mnimoiioin- 86 



H McMurchy 11101111111111111111111111 



(of Syracuse, N. Y.) 1111111111111111111111111 



iiiiiiiimiiiiiiiimm 

 m lioimiinriimioiim- 96 



W H Wolstencroft Oil 111111111111111111 ill 



(of Philadelphia, Pa.) llllimillimmiimil 



iiiniiiimniiimiioii 

 uiioiiiiimminiLuii— sr-sei 



