Sept. 18, ISW.J 



FOREST AND STREAM. 



177 



nameR of the men who wanted it. I confess, it makes me tired, and 

 if I am so permitted by a continuance of health and editorial for- 

 bearance, I am , within the next five or (en years, going to make 

 somebody else feel tired too, either of shooting iu this absurd 

 and babyish way, or of reading about It. In company with others, 

 i have sat day after day. day after day, behind these lines of traps, 

 and heard the bang, bang, bang, '"dead, dead, dead," of this 

 "system." until I am mortally weary of it. Not, a thing to break 

 the monotony. Nol a bit of interest in any shot fired. Not a, bit 

 of fnn in it. Nobody shooting for fan. Everybody making a busi- 

 ness of it. Every shot netting the management, say five cents, if 

 the shooter buys his shells ( Al. Bundle is charging five cents per 

 bird, and is obliged to, to keep even), but every shot a nail in the 

 coffin of the true theory of gunnery and good sport. Yes, and 

 before long the managements will realize that each stmt is a nail 

 in the coffin of their own financial interests. Someone has to 

 make the break. The time for Ihe break has come, all the think- 

 ing shooters say that. Wry well; this paper can be the first, and 

 is the first, to kick over the traces which of late have found trap 

 shooting loo close and tight, to pure business?. If 1 understand 

 sport, it moans fun and not business, and if I understand the 

 functions of a sportsman's paper, they are to further the fun. 

 sport, skill, and to hack the buinesses devoted thereto. Now, let 

 some one Come out and give a tournament which shows some prr- 

 Eressive thought, some enterprise, and, if necessary, some sand. 

 The walk-around was good in its day. It did much to spread trap 

 shooting, until it was taken bold of and worked to death by the 

 experts. Let some management come oat now and give the. 

 shooters a, game in which skill, chance, nerve ard calculation will 

 be placed first, and machine shooting made impossible. 



Let us see next year a shoot contrived on line's of modern and 

 progressive thought. I believe this paper would Fend a man a 

 thousand miles to see and study such a shoot. The shoots of to- 

 day don't need much study. Corry shoot I liked because it showed 

 a faint inkling of a desire to do something progressive. Why can 

 not North, and Penrose, and McMurchy. and Budd, and Linds- 

 ley, and Heikes, and McDonald, and such men get together and 

 get, up an idea for a new sort of shoot, one which will not bore an 

 innocent spectator to death? They cam do it easily enough and it 

 is time they did. There is no fun iu sitting around and seeing 

 these same fellows trying to rob each other year in and year out. 

 1 want to see somebody rob them. There are numbers of shooters 

 who wouldn't mind trying that if they had the ghost of a show to 

 doit. There is no fun to-day. 1 kick. Let us all kick, loudly, 

 harmoniously, concertedly, until we have kicked all the ha-v out 

 of this present bugbear of modern "tournaments," or robbing- 

 bees. 



Well, since Al. has fallen from grace and used tile walk-around, 

 we ought to expect to see. the same old scores oughtn't we? That 

 might be, except for the fact that the new bluerock trap, with the 

 rigid-arm carries, is used. 1 think the management of the blue- 

 rock will agree with the shooters thit this trap does not yet 

 deliver its birds with quite the unvarying regularity of the old 

 trap. There has not heen much breakage or delay, but once in a 

 while a bird would go out which was a regular "quail," as the 

 boys call them. Even these little irregularities, the least, bit out 

 of the regular machine shooting line, has balked some of the 

 shooters and cut. down their averages. For that reason the fact 

 of slight irregularity is hailed with pleasure, as one more pr< of 

 of the theory forninst machine shootery. We have heard here of 

 the dissolution of the Standard Target, Co. injunction in the suit 

 of the Peoria Target Co. Paul North thinks the Cleveland people 

 will now get a rehearing and gain permission, with the Standards, 

 to use the old pivoted carrier. The result of this fight is not yet, 

 but it all goes into the assertion that this is a momentous year in 

 target-shooting history. 



Everything about tbe old grounds is about the same as usual. 

 "Wick" is here, helping in the mmageuient, and so is Gus Dick. 

 The same, old lunch table is here, and the same old wait of an hnur 

 and a half before you can get anything to eat. and the same old 

 coffee, warmed over^from last year — 1 Thought last year it was as 

 bad as coffee ever could be, but it wasn't; and the same old coop 

 of Cincinnati live birds, and the same old street car, cleaving the 

 deep, rich Cincinnati air at the rate of a mile and a half an hour. 

 A critical observation leads me to believe that "Wick" is a trifle 

 better looking this year than he was last. Al Bandle does not 

 show much the more frost in his tar-colored forelock by reason of 

 being a married rnau of late. But he has grown severe, very 

 severe. He has been heard to tell the performer on the horizontal 

 bar. who assuages thirst at 5 cents an assuage, that "if that feller 

 Wick comes around here and wants any beer on the management, 

 you make him payor throw him out. That don't go no more 

 now. We got to figger close this year and stop the leaks or we 

 don't make no money, see?" 



Nothing startling was done to-day, except that it looked as 

 though it, was going to rain, and didn't. Tee Kay was promised as 

 an attraction, but his spirituelle form didn't materialize. Charlie 

 Budd got the glory this time, running about 85 with only two 

 misses. Charlie's late practice on the Iowa Grangers has done 

 him good, and he is slowly recovering from bis long siege of the 

 "grip" and its attendant consequences. He telegraphed to Al to 

 "hold the guarantees open till he got there." Al is still holding 

 'em open, and hoping for more crowd <o-morrow. Ruble is here, 

 I am pleased to state, but his shooting is impaired by the fact that 

 he has grown color blind. He is unable to distinguish a colored 

 person from a white, one: or so at least the Eostoria boys sav. The 

 ranks to-day showed a U. S. uniform, Orderly Sergeant Weeks, 

 from Newport barracks, appearing for some target practice. This 

 was his first live-hird shoot, and tbe scores will show he did very- 

 well, for tbe only bird he missed fell dead out of hounds. Follow- 

 ing are the scores: 



Shoot No. 1, extra, 10 single bluerocks, entrance $1; 15 entries: 



Heikes 1110111111-9 Taylor 1101011111-8 



McDonald 1111110111-9 Crosby 1110111011-8 



Benscotten 1111101011-8 Bandle 0111101111-8 



Brigden 1 101110111-8 Nemo 101110111 1-8 



Snehcer 1010011111-7 McMurchy 0111010111—7 



Allister OOH0010010-2 Randall. 1000111011-6 



Jack 00<i001im-6 North 1111100111-8 



Ruble llOOlllH 1-8 



Heikes and McDonald div. first, Benscotten, Bandle and North 

 second. Spencer and McMurchy third. 



Shoot No. 2, extra. 10 single bluerocks, $1, 18 entries: 



Bandle .0100011111— 6 Taylor 1101011011— 7 



Benscotten 1111111101 - 9 Jack 1111011111- 9 



North 1111111111-10 Randall 1101111111—9 



Spencer 0111101111— 8 Ruble 1111011110— 8 



Heikes 1111111111—10 Allister 0010101101— 5 



McDon aid 1 11 1 1 1111 1—10 Crosby 1101011 111— 8 



Brigden 0111010101—6 Strawn.. 1010111101-7 



Nemo 1101010103— 5 See 1101011111— 8 



McMurchv 1111111111-10 Smith .1001001110 - 5 



North, Heikes, McDonald and McMurchy div. first, Benscotten, 

 Jack and Randall div. second. Spencer and Ruble third. 



Shoot No. 3, 10 single bluerocks, entrance 81.50, 21 entries; 



North 1111111111-10 Budd 1111111111-10 



McMurchy 01CO111111— 7 Jack 1110111111- 9 



Heikes 0111111011- 8 Spencer 0100101111- 6 



Bandle 1111111111-10 Benscotten 1111111001— 8 



Brigden 1100101111— 7 Randall 1011001001— 5 



McDonald 1101111011— 8 Crosby 1111111100- 8 



Taylor 0100)01001 — 3 Ruble 1011110110- 7 



Nemo 11111)1111—10 Strawn 1110011111- S 



Schaller 1001111000— 5 Albert 1111101011— 8 



Smith 1001101111- 7 Allister 1000001011— 4 



Frank See 1101001111— 7 



North, Bandle, Nemo and Budd divided first. Jack won second. 

 Heikes and McDonald won third. 



Shoot No. 4, 15 single bluerocks, entrance' S3, 21 entries: 



"Bs-Qs-O'tex . , .]iLUijii:;:::j!i-~U J,'x'>- !11! lllin.UUiLi-12 



Heikes 111111110111111-14 McMurchy . . .111011111111111-14 



Bandle 110111101110111 - 13 Spencer 011111100111101 -11 



Ruble 110111011111111-13 Strawn 011010111111111-12 



North .11 11100111 1 1011—12 Smith 011101011111111-12 



McDonald 011111 111001111— 12 Budd 111111111111110—14 



Nemo ,. . .0110(0011111010— 0 Brigden 111101101101111—13 



Allister 100010010101101— 7 Randall 01110001101110— 10 



See 110010001010110- 7 Albert . ..101101101011010- 9 



TaUor 111111011111011—13 Crossby 101000111101110- 9 



Scbaliei 011110111101001—10 



Benscot- u, Heikes, McMurchy and Budd div. first. Ruble, Tay- 

 lor and Jack div. second McDonald won third. 



Snoot No. 5, programme, 15 single bluerocks, entrance $2, 19 en- 

 tries: 



Budd lllllllLlimil-15 Tavlor 01 1 1 11 10 1 011 1 01—1 1 



Bandle 111011110110101—11 McMurchy. . . .101111011111111-13 



Schaller 110001110010111— 0 



North 111111111111111— 15 Strawn 010111111011111—12 



Benscotten. .. .010011111110111—12 McDonald 100111111111101-13 



■ Spencer 111110111111111— 14 Jack 111111111001111-13 



Crosby 001100101111100— 8 See 111011110101111-13 



Smith..,., 111110100111111-13 Ruble 111111111111111-15 



Heikes 1 mil 11111 1110-14 Nemo.... .....111111110100111-12 



Brigden 101111111111111-14 



Budd, North and Ruble div. first. Spencer, Heikes and Brigden 

 div. second, McMurchy, Jack and See div, third. 



Shoot No. 6, programme, 10 single bluerocks, $1 .50, 20 entries 



Taylor lOtmiOU- 8 "" McDonald .1111111111-10 



Nemo .0110101111- 7 North 1111101111-9 



t «{* 11011 11 101- 8 Benscotten 1111111011— 9 



Schaller 1101111101-8 Brigden 1111111111-10 



Heikes 1101111111— 9 Spencer mi'linou- g 



Smith.. 1111110111- 9 See 1110110101-7 



McMurchy 1111101111- 9 C F Smith 0000000010- 1 



Handle 1111101111- 9 Ruble 1111111101- 9 



P"dd 1101111111—9 Strawn 0101101000- 4 



°*8?&->- W :- ......1100111011- 7 Albert 1111111110-9 



Me Donald and Brigden first. Bandle, Budd and North second 

 Taylor, JacK, Schaller and Spencer div. third. 



Shoot No. 7. programme. 10 single bluerocks, S1.50, 21 entries: 



North .1111111011- 9 Budd 1111111111—10 



Bandle 1111101111— 9 Smith 1111011111- 9 



McMurchy 1110111111- 9 Allister 0001111000- 4 



MgDonald 1111 11111 1— 10 W- eks 11 10010110— 6 



Heikes 1111101111- 9 Benscotten 1111111111-10 



Jack 1111111001— 8 Ruble 1110111111— 9 



Schaller lllinmO- 9 McPhee 0111111110- 8 



Taylor 1111011110— 8 Strawn llUHolll— 9 



Nemo 1111011.1.00— 7 Spencer 1111111111—10 



gee 1101010100- 5 Crosby 0110101001- 5 



Brigden 110 11 10111— 8 



McDonald, Budd, Benscotten and Spencer div. first, Bandle, 

 Heikes and Ruble won second, Jack, Taylor, Brigden and McPhee 

 div. third. 



The. grounds were now cleared for the live-bird shooting, in 

 which much greater interest was manifested. The birds -were 

 about an average Cincinnati lot, with but tew good ones. Nearly 

 all had to be. "flapped up," but once in a while a good one got out. 

 It is still too warm here for strongbirds.it is probable also that 

 the coop provided is not well enough ventilated. Score: 



Sboot No. 8, programme. 7 single live birds, $5, 21 entries: 



Heikes 1110111—6 Jack 3211131—7 



Benscotten 0110111—5 Cliff 0100031-3 



McMurchy 1111311-7 Ruble 1121031—6 



Budd 1212231—7 Vincent 2111111-7 



Smith 1112011— fi North 1111111—7 



Weeks 1113211-7 Scott 0101021-4 



Schaller 0011121-5 Taylor 2311211-4 



Spencer 222211 1—7 M iDouald 1 111100— 5 



Allister 0122000 -3 Bandle 1211102-6 



C f oshy 1 1 1 11 1 1-7 Tom 0020111 - 4 



Brigden 0211221—6 



McMurchv, Budd, Weeks, Spencer, Crosby, Jaek.Vincent, North 

 and Taylor div. first, Heikes, Smith, Brigden. Rnblo and Bandle 

 div. second, Benscotten, Schaller and McDonald div. third. 



Shoot No. 9, extra, miss and out, live birds, eu trance $3, 17 en- 

 tries: 



Jack 0 Heikes 0 



Bandle 21.111 Viuoent 0 



McMurchy 11111 Cliff 220 



Budd 11210 Schaller 11210 



Smith 1310 Ruble H113 



Spencer .. .12111 Wick 11211 



Weeks 11110 North mil 



Allister 0 Benscotten 11112 



Crosby 21111 



Bandle, McMurchv, Spencer, Crosby, Ruble, Wick, North and 

 Benscotten div. $34.50. 



It was now dusk, and the hoys went to town over the dizzy 

 curves of the grapevine street car route. At ten o'clock to-night, 

 at this writing, rain is falling steadily and the prospect for a wet 

 day to-morrow seems a csrtainty. 



Wednesday, Second Day, Sept. 10. 



The morning broke, rainy. It rained dismally all the forenoon 

 and more than half the afternoon. The grounds became sloppy, 

 and the shooters crowded under the big shelter tents in wet and 

 draggled bunches. Yet the top entry to-day, £3. was two names 

 higher than that of yesterday. "Edwards," of Dayton, and Dr. 

 Miller, of Amanda, were, new comers to-day. It is now nearly 

 certain that Al's shoot for this year is not to be a larere one. Yet 

 he told the writer to day that in 1888. on Saturday, the sixth day 

 of his shoot, he had 27 entries in a live-bird race, at $25 entrance, 

 and in the same week had ashigh as 97 entries in alive-bird event, 

 at $6.50 entrance. There has been more talk about such matters 

 as these at this shoot than at any I have ever attended, certainly 

 more than enough to warrant the position taken earlier in these 

 columns. To get at the matter in the best possible form, I to-day 

 went, to numbers of the most prominent shooters here, and put to 

 each the question: 



"What do you think of the rapid-firing system, as affecting the 

 success of modern tournaments?" 



The following are the answers, condensed: 



Al Bandle— "I believe the rapid-firing system should be abol- 

 ished, and I am sorry now I started it here. It is the first and last 

 time. I think it has hurt our shoots all over the country. I favor 

 5 traps, unknown to shooter. I think we must abolish the rapid- 

 firing system, or it will abolish us." 



Ed Tavlor— ' The rapid-firing system is no good on earth. It 

 makes shooting easier, instead of more difficult. It is babying our 

 shooters." ^ 



Harvey McMurchy— "It is the worst thing we could do. We are 

 going backward instead of forward. We are wanting easier in- 

 stead of harder shooting. It ruins a man for field shooting. I 

 like the five traps, unknosvn angles, much better. 



Rolla Heikes—"! am in favor of almost any other system. I like 

 the old five traps way the best. I don't like the Keystone profes- 

 sional rules." 



W. S. McDonald— "It is too mechanical. It helps the manage- 

 ment of a shoot, but it don't help the shooter." 



J. M. Babcock (of Meadville, Pa.)— "It kills a club quicker than 

 anything else, this rapid-firing svstem." 



Dr. Miller (of Amanda, O.)— "It is no good and we ought to quit 

 it. I favor unknown traps and angles." 



T. E. Brigden— "I prefer unknown angles; the harder they are 

 the better for the shooter." 



C. W. Budd— "The walk-around is destroying trap-shooting as 

 fast as it can." 



E. D. Edwards— "It is responsible for the falling off of at- 

 tendance. It is breaking up shooting in the country." 



Paul North (of the Cleveland Target Co.)— ' It is as bad as any- 

 thing could be. Our shooting interests are going to pieces under 

 it. It looks good for the manufacturers, aud 1 ought to favor it 

 for that reason if anybody ought, hut I believe that it would be 

 much better in the long run if we should do away wii h it. It is 

 killing off tbe crop of shooters, and that must be our goose of tbe 

 golden eges." 



"Wick"— "It is a rotten system. It hurts shooting, aud unfits a 

 shooter for the field." 



J. E. Whetstone (of Cincinnati)— "I am an old timer, and not 

 in it to-day at all, but for myself I don't like this mechanical 

 business. I prefer unknown angles." 



J. N. Dupuy (of fronton, 0,)—"T have come down here just to 

 watch this shoot. I shoot a good deal at the trap up home, but I 

 am not shooting here. What is the use of my going in when 

 Heikes, and Bandle, and Budd and all those fellows are in a race? 

 I have no chance with them, and I can shoot cheaper and with 

 more fun if 1 shoot somewhere else, and don't hand over my 

 money to those fellows. I don't want any walk-around, thanks." 



J. A. Ruble— "The walk-around system is tne only system to 

 shoot under. It makes tbe most money." 



E. S. Benscotten— "It helps sell more birds and more shells. T 

 don't think the system is at fault, but I think the angles are too 

 easy. I would rather see five sets of three trap3 pulled oy indica- 

 tor. Am in favor of the walk-around." | 



Wm. Crosby— "The walk-around is the only system to run a 

 shoot by. A shooter comes out to shoot, and he don't want to 

 wait, all day. I don't think this system to blame for our light at- 

 tendances. I think we are baving too many shoots all over the 

 country. Stop all the shooting for two years, and I bet you there i 

 would be big tournaments then." I 



Thus it may he seen, that out of 17 shooters interrogated only 3 

 had any "word of commendation for the system, which has of late : 

 heen so general. Among these shooters are the majority of those 

 who are most interested in shooting as many matcPes as possible 

 and the representative of at least one big target company, whose 

 interests might be thought to be favored by this system. It is 

 plain that the paper which heads a crusade against this perni- 

 cious machine system will not he alone. The best and most promi- 

 nent shooters of the country will be with it.. How long •shall the 

 short-sighted business interests of tournament managers be 

 allowed to thwart the actual wishes of the shooters? Aimee the 

 men above named are the very ones who could best devise a better 

 system. We may well wish that they and the few other thinking 

 shooters of the circuit would form a little independent congress 

 and declare rebellion; not an American Association, with sky- 

 scraping theories of reform-arid tow facts to -show as results, but 

 a plain, horse-sense, gathering of the practical shooters A move- 

 ment-Tike that^a simple-resolution- of the shooters of the circuit " 

 ~-can save or help' our trap-shooting, and nothing else cat t. Ic 

 may seem startling when we say that 30 men are doing all the tar- 

 get shooting at the tournaments of the country; but do you folio w 



back the scores, and if you can penetrate all the assumed names 

 and the like, you will find this to bo very nearly the truth. The 

 managements are catering to these 30 men. They want these 

 30 machines to come and break so many birds at $30 a 

 thousand. Well now, do you call that shooting, and do you 

 call that sport and do you think that is what trap-. hooting 

 should be tq-flay? For my part, I know these men well enough. 1 

 want to see. an occasional new face at the shoots. Do you call 

 that an unfounded wish? Do you call it so, when more" than 20 

 out of 30 circuit riders are right now, to-day. in this very column, 

 echoing the same wish? If" I were a tournament manager in this 

 progressive country of America, I would tatremv pooketbook out 

 of my eye for about five miuutes, and see it I couldn't find k way, 

 even if it did cost a sacrifice of money at first, either to kill these 

 30 shooters or keep them from killing all the other shooters. The 

 most ridiculous part of this whole business is, that it is not these 80 

 shooters who are at fault, so much as the managers who allow 



a week is my per cant. Only about $30 or .$40 a week for each 

 shooter, besides his traveling expanses." Now, how long can 

 shooters stand that? It is only those who have, salaries and ex- 

 pense money given them for the purpose. l~Mg down into the his- 

 tory of your 30 machines, and you will find about half of them 

 that are shooting under inducements. It is business for them. 

 You and I must shoot tor f un? t) U t it is business for them. We 

 bet on another man's game, and he fakes our money without tbe 

 least compunction. Perhaps he is in a "'combination" against 



-. .i(v|j-ouuuiius iu-ua), j-iju pri eeuiage OI 



lft management is against even the 30 shooters of the elect. 

 II Ley can't make any monev under it. The percentage of the sal- 

 aried shooters is against those who are not salaried. The per- 

 centage of the machine shooter is against the shooter for sport, 

 the percentage of" the "ring," or "divide," is against the single, 

 square shooter. All four of the above percentages are against 

 the young amateur who would like to sb >ot, but has too much 

 sense to try tinder such circumstances. Here is your trap-shoot- 

 ing to-day. How do you like it? It is time for the independent 

 congress of practical shooters. Let us hear from them. The 

 managers will do just what they s«y, if they say it hard. 



Such, in a measure, was the thought of the bedraggled crowd 

 who gathered under the wet tents to-day at Al. B uidle's sixth 

 annual, one of the best and most p ipular shoots of the circuit 

 and now reduced to a gathering of about 20 men, among whom 

 not one in trod action was neces-ary. 



. 1 ought here while I think of it. to correct a misstatement made 

 m the report for yesterday, already sent in. Al. is not charging 

 5 cents for birds, but 3. "It was 'Wick' who told you 1 was charg- 

 ing 5 cent'', wasn't n?" asked he. "Well, he got rattled. It's 5 

 cents for beer. He was thinking of beer. Five cents for beer and 

 3 cents for birds, same old prices. Wick was thinking of beer." 

 The wind blew, and the rain fell, and still the villains pursued 

 her. Score: 



Shoot No. 1, extra, 10 bluerocks, 23yds. rise, unknown angles, $1 

 entrance, 13 entries: 



Bandle 0010000101—2 Benscotten 1111110111—9 



McMurchy 1111101100—7 Dr M'ller 1110100010—5 



Bfetkes 1001011101-6 Jack 0100101110—5 



Albert 0010101000 3 Brigden 0011011111—7 



Smith 0000101111—5 John 1010011100—5 



MeDouald 11110O1001-6 Ruble 1000100100-3 



Strawn 1001010100—4 



Benscotten won first. McMurchy and Brigden div. second. 

 Heikes and McDonald div. third. 



Shoot No. 3, 10 blue-ocks, $1.50 entrance, 18 entries: 



Bandle 1111111110- 9 Miller 0111011100- 6 



McDonald 1101101111—8 Sutton 01 1100 Hit— 7 



HHkes 1111111111—10 North 1111111101— 9 



McMurchy 1101111111— 9 Jack 1110111111— 9 



Smith mOlllllO— 8 Budd 1111111111—10 



Benscotten 1111111111—10 Ruble 0111110111— 8 



Strawn 0111011111- 8 "R D" 1101111111- 9 



Brigden 1100111011— 7 Taylor OOllllllll- 8 



John 1111010111— 8 Vincent.. 1110111110— 8 



Heikes and Budd div. first. McMurchy and North won second. 

 McDonald and John won third. 



Shoot No. 3, programme, 15 bluerocks, $2, 22 entries: 



Benscotten.... 1111111 10111111—11 Brigden 111111111011111—14 



Heikes 111111101111101—14 Strawn 101011110011113— 11 



Bandle U1011UI11I110-1H Budd 111111111111111-15 



McDonald 111111111)1)111—15 Snencer 110101111110100—10 



Jack 101101101111111—12 Randall 111010000011 01— 8 



Smith lit LOU i.llll >01 i:j M liet 010001101011001- 7 



North 110111111111111—14 Vincent 101111111110101-12 



McMurchy . ... Ill 1111) 101 11 1 1—14 Ruble 111111111110111—14 



John 111011111101111—13 Albert 11 1111111111110-14 



Taylor 111100110111111—12 Latshaw 11111111)111000-12 



Crosby 101011000110100— 7 R D 01101110111 ) 0 11-11 



McDonald and Buddfiist, Heikes and McMurchy second, Ban- 

 dle, SmHh and John third. 



Shoot No. 4, first guaranteed nurse, 20 bluerocks, entrance $5, 

 $100 guaranteed. $40 to first, $30 to second, $20 to third, $10 to 

 fourth, 31 entries: 



Heikes.... imniUliniOnill— 19 Crosby.... 01111111111110110011-16 

 M'Mure'y 11101011111111111111-18 Strawn... .101010111011111011 "1-15 

 PenBCOt'nlllTlinilll10!0lin-l8 Taylor. .. 01111110110111111011— 16 ' 



Bud d 111111 1 10111 11 1 11101 -18 Vin cent .. .0111111 01 > 0111010000-12 



Norr): lull !'l n) : 10101110111-15 Jack 11010110111111011111—16 



M-DonaldlOOllllOll 111 1011111-16 Ruble 101111111111111.11101-18 



Smith ....111 11 01 1111111111111—19 Bandle. .. .11011111111111111111— 19 



Brigden... 11111011 10111 111 1101-17 Prill OOmilllllllllllllO— 17 



Spencer. . .01010111011011111111—15 Sutton. . . .11000003000001100000— 3 



John 0101 101 1 010110101 110—12 Miller 01 OllOOlllllllOOOOl— 12 



Da vi s 1 1 11 1 111 1001 1 1010 1 11-16 



Heikes, Smith and Bandle div. first. $40; McMurchy, Benscot- 

 ten, Budd and Ruble di% r . second, $20; Brigden and PriU div. 

 third, $20; McDonald and Crosby fourth, $10. 



Shoot No. 5, second guaranteed purse, 20 bluerocks, entrance $5, 

 $100 guaranteed, $40 to first, $30 to second, $20 third and $10 to 

 fourth, 23 entries; 



Heikes . . ..11111111111111111101-19 Ruble . . . .11100011111101111111-16 

 McDoualdimiOIOlimm 1 1ll— IS Vincem 1 JJ ■ j, i , 1 n i - i. : 

 Bandle.. ..11011111111)11101111-19 Day's.... .11111111011001111010—15 



M'Mure'y Olllimoim0111 n ll— 16 Prill 11101011111111010101-15 



North . .".llul1.iiiii!UiMi!i;ll0hl-il Strt. wn. - .ObiUl 101111110111111-15 

 Buck) 101111 111111 1111 1001— 17 Tavlor.. .01110100011101' 01101—12 



smith .iii..Rimonooirioi:i-Ji J*<* ... .nui.mi.iiK'imoi-i. 



Spe ncer... 11111111011111111100— 17 Miller 1 1 111 11 101 J 1 Lit 11010— 16 



Bensc'it'iilimimillllllllll— 30 Randall. .10001011111111111010—14 



Brigden ..11000111011111011101—14 R D 1 01101111100 11 1 lib 0—13 



Crosby ...10011011111111111101-16 -Merrick ..10011110100011010110—11 

 John. ... ..11001111111110111110-16 



Benscotten won first alone, $40; Heikes won second alone, $30; 

 McDonald and Bandle div. third, $20; Spencer and Jack div. 

 fourth. $10. 



Shoot No. 0. 

 McDonald.., 

 McMurchy.. 

 Heikes — . 



Spsucer 



Miller : 



Bundle 



Mernck .... 

 Smiih... ... 



Scott 



Budd 



Vincent . . 



Heists and 

 Mcitouald, S 



i programme. 15 single bluerocks, $2 21 entries: 



Hill 11101111101-13 North 111111 111011 111— 14 



1 Brigden 000111111.111110—11 



Jack OilOO; r.] 1 i j i.lUO — in 



Croshy 1101011110111 10-11 



Sr l0 i.Je yJL'JKNol' 01111- 3 



John ...JiJiJuriioililljll- 7 



Benscotten 111111110111111—14 



Ruble 0 1 1 1 1 11101 11 1 11—13 



Strawn. 101111110101111-12 



.. 1 1 ll 11 1 111111 ' 1-1 5 To m .101100111111110-11 



.100101010011000—6 



Budd won first. North and Benscotten won second, 

 >nith and Ruble won third. 



..010011011110111—10 

 . .111111111111111- 15 

 ..1(11110110111111—12 

 ..111101111010111—12 

 .111)11011001110-11 

 ..010001010 , 01100- 6 

 .111101111111101-13 

 .0111011110010)0— 9 



Shoot No. 7, extra. 15 single bluerocks, $2, Si entries: 



Heikes 110111011111011—12 North .111111111111111—15 



McMurchy.... 111110111101111—13 Merrick 101101010010101— 8 



McDonald... .111101111)11111-14 Crosby 111101110110111-12 



Baadle Ill 1111 111 loll 1-14 Brigden 101111111111101—13 



Ruole 111111111110110-13 John 110010110110011- 9 



Sijeuce.r .. CJUll'V.imi] J. Jf.ck J.i:.lJ.LlljlIN]-lj 



Smith Ill 111110110L11 - 13 Tom lOlOOlOllllOOlO— 8 



Budd Ill) 11111101 11 1-14 Miller 0111,01110111111—11 



Benscotten.... Ill 101111111110—13 Strawn 111111100111010—11 



Scott 1009110101 10011— 8 Alkise 001111000111011—10 



Vincent 111010111111010-11 



■ North won fir^t f.kme; McDonald, Bandle and Budd div. second; 

 McMurchy won third. 



The grounds were now cleared for live birds, and amid a soak- 

 ing rain the last shoot of the dayTiegarv The- birds were wet and 

 draggled 'and onlv with the u' most diffieulty could be persuaded", 

 to fly. The affair appeared rather pitiable. When weather is 

 sucli that birds fly with much reluctance, it is a question whether 

 a match 3hould be continued. Score: 



