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FOREST AND STREAM. 



[Jan. 8, 1891. 



American target, one score of 10 shots and no re-entries allowed. 

 Prize, one gold medal: 



H Severance, 7 9 8 8 8 7 9 6 10 8-80 



Boston, Jan. 3.— The Massachusetts Rifle Association opened its 

 new matches to-day for rifle and pistol. The attendance of the 

 shooters was good, hnt weather conditions were unfavorable for 

 high scores, 5) to 12 o'clock wind. Following are the scores in de- 

 tail, distance 200yds., Standard American target, re-entries al- 

 lowed: 



All-Corners' Rest Hatch. 



W P Thompson ... 107 A B Lori p g 99 D Martin 90 



•T Fraoci« 104 P W 0 bester 97 J French 87 



FOTowue 100 M T Day 95 A N Mann. 80 



J B Bobbs 100 S B Langley 98 AS Hunt 85 



AU-Gomera 1 Off -Hand Match. 



W Charles S3 A R Sharp 72 D Martin 07 



J B Fellows ft SO Sydney 71 J B Kobbs 00 



IB Thomas 70 WCPrescott 71 S B Langley GO 



C Wi lson 75 F 8 Ham 09 



Pistol Match— 50 Yds. 

 W Charles 90 AC Stevens 88 MT Day 83 



JNTER-STATE LEAGUE.- At the meeting of the Inter-State 

 League of Riflemen this evening arrangements will be made for 

 a series of tournament matches, and the teams will probably con- 

 tain five men each. The Zettler, Our Own, Lakeside, Albig, Ex- 

 celsior and Hudson rifle clubs have signified their intention of 

 taking part in the tournament. Membership in the league is 

 open to any club in the United States, and clubs affiliating are 

 not obliged to enter teams in the tournament unless they choose 

 to do so. All That clubs have to do to retain their membership 

 is to pay the semi-annual dues of $3, and the prizes awarded for 

 tournament shooting are paid for by the clubs which enter teams. 

 The objects of the league which are shown by the following pre- 

 amble to the constitution adopted at the last meeting: "Recog- 

 nizing the value of a proficiency in the use of the rifle and the 

 many advantages to he gained by bringing together for friendly 

 competition the marksmen of different localities, we, the below 

 mentioned clubs, have formed ourselves into an organization to 

 be known as the Imer-Statc League of Riflemen, the objects of 

 which shall be to foster and encourage the use of the rifle and to 

 promote a friendly feeling among ritlemeu of the different cities 

 by the arrangement of team and individual contests, tourna- 

 ments, etc." The league will not confiue itself to gallery work, 

 but will arrange for both individual and team tournaments at 

 different ranges during the outside shooting season. 



REVOLVER WORK. — The. newly organized New York Revol- 

 ver and Pistol Club held its first, regular shoot at the range of the. 

 German- American Shooting Society. 13 St. Marks Place on Satur- 

 day evening, Jan. 8. As the new target constructed by C. Q. Zet- 

 tler and adopted by the club was not yet ready, the 25-ring target 

 with the Sin. bullseye was used. The distance was 40ft., each man 

 firing a string of 6 shots, possible 150 points. The seres: H. 

 Oehl 138, M. Herrington 139, .1. Zantzer 111, Dr. Chadbourn 128, all 

 using the 88-ofll. Smith and Weston revolver; V. B. Dalv scored 

 130 with a 44-eah, A. H. lshell used a 32-cal. and scored 145 points, 

 and M. Herrington with a 32-cal. Stevens pistol made 138. At the 

 next shoot the club will use its new target. 



The annual revolver match, open only to members of the 

 Seventh Regiment Rifle Club, was decided on the armory rifle 

 ranges on Saturday night, J an. 3. This is one of the most interest- 

 ing of the many matches in the clnb. The conditions are 5 shots 

 at 5yds. at the word, and 5 shots at 10yds., deliberate aim. Misses 

 at the word penalized two points. Three prizes. S. W. Merritt, 

 F. S. Kennedy, A. Stein, H. L. Klock and R. Darling, winners of 

 these matches in 1889-90, were handicapped two points. The three 

 highest men, with their scores, were as follows: 



5 Yds. lOYds. Total. 



Priv A Stein, Company C 28 25 48 



Priv W M Bavier, Company C 20 21 41 



Corp & L Hoffman, Company H 18 15 83 



A SCHUETZEN TELEGRAPH MATCH. - The California 

 Schuetzen Club of San Francisco, of which the well-known 

 marksman, Philo -Jacobi, is president, adopted at a recent, meet- 

 ing a number of resolutions embodying a challenge to all bona 

 tide rifle clubs in the United States. The California marksmen, 

 who are always among the first in promoting the sport of rifle 

 shooting, wish to arrange telegraph matches under the following 

 conditions: Any club in the United States which has been 

 in existence at least one year, members of the team to ha,ve 

 been Toona fide members of their association at least nine 

 months, fifteen men to thn team, fifty shots per man, to be 

 fired on a date agreed upon by the presidents between IDA. M. 

 and 5 P M., position strictly off band, palm rest permitted, dis- 

 tance 200yds., rifle without restriction to weight and sight except 

 telescopic sight, score* after starting to be completed without in- 

 tenuption, stakes 3100 a side, a judge for each club to act, as 

 stakeholder, and, together with the president and secretary of 

 the respective organizations, to forward in writing a detailed 

 statement, of the scores to the president of the competing club, 

 German 25 ring target, %in. rings, with a. 25 center of ljjjin. diam- 

 eter. This challenge will be acted upon at. the next regular meet- 

 ing of the Zettler Rifle Club, and there is no doubt that the old 

 and well known Eastern organization of sharpshooters will accept 

 it. President. B. Walther is greatly in favor of shooting the 

 match, but some of the conditions will have to be changed. The 

 California club, which is at this time of the year greatly favored 

 by the climatic conditions, can hardly expect an Eastern team to 

 shoot now on a fixed date. The weather in San Francisco mav bo 

 fine, while New York and vicinity may be blessed on the same 

 day with a blizzard or a fog. One judge, who shall watch at the 

 same time shooters and scorers, would be hardly sufficient, as he 

 could not properly supervise the work of the markers, and it 

 would need another judge to see that the men at the butts do 

 their duty. 



ANOTHER SMOKELESS POWDER.— Newport, R. I —It has 

 been learned that for several weeks several chemists have been 

 engaged at the Torpedo Station in the manufacture of a new 

 smokelsss powder, according to a formula received by Prof. 

 Charles E. Munroe, the regular chemist of the station. Several 

 experiments have already been made with it which indicate a 

 superiority over other smokeless powders, and this in two partic- 

 ulars, absence of smoke and a high explosive force. 



ENLARGING CREEDMOOR— Albany, Dec. 24.-The Creed- 

 moor Commission, at its session a few days ago, voted to take 

 fifty acres additional land on the west and north of the range. 

 The strip between the public road running back of the butts and 

 the range is included iu the land. The owners of the land want 

 $100 an acre. This the commission deemed too high, and em- 

 powered Gen. Bobbins to negotiate with them. If a satisfactory 

 settlement cannot be reached proceedings by condemnation will 

 be resorted to. 



THE TRAP. 



Scores for publication should be made out on the printed blank* 

 prepared by the Forest and Stream, and furnished gratis to club 

 secretaries. Correspondents ivho favor us with club scores are par- 

 ticularly requested to write on one side of the paper only. 



CHICAGO TRAPS. 



CHICAGO, HI., Dec. 27.— There was more interest taken in t rap 

 shooting here this season than at any time in the memory of 

 man. That is to say, an interest in live-bird shooting; inanimates 

 shooting has not yet a great hold upon this city. Doubtless much 

 of this trap boom is due to the success of Chicago in the late Kan- 

 Fas City match. Since then every Chicago shooter has carried a 

 perpetual chip on his shoulder, and the match making here has 

 been something absolutely intense. Chicago nerve has been espe- 

 cially high strung ever since, at the close of Mr. Elliott's inter- 

 view with Br'er Gawge and BrVr Abe, she sent down to Kansas 

 City the memorable telegram, "Send us up a shooter, we have still 

 a few more Kleinmans left." Chicago would probably stand be- 

 hind some of the old Calumet family in ease Mr. Elliott wanted 

 some more trouble on any reasonable basis. But talk about back- 

 ing oneself for seven hundred thousand ^dollars is still too high for 

 Chicago. Elliott is off his form right now. It is likely that Char- 

 lie Budd could beat him this week, anywhere but ou Kansas City 

 grounds, and ou good fast birds, such as were trapped here in the 

 late matches. Whether Elliott will not soon recover and be again 

 a hard customer, is another question. He certainly wants revenge, 

 but he may well bear in mind the unintentional sarcasm of Mr. 

 Low's remark to him, "I tell you, Jim, you make a mistake when 

 you fool with the Kleinmans." There is truth in that. There is 

 no family in the country which has shot so well, so steadily and so 

 long. Their style is the same always, and they never have any 

 "form." A shooter with a "form" often gets into trouble. If the 

 Kleinman boys had money to go into the shooting business on a 

 boom scale, and to back themselves ou a grand hurrah principle, 

 they could, if they cared to, soon acquire far more reputation 

 than they ever bad; but this the y will never do. Meantime they 

 have seen dozens of shooters rise and fall. They do not practice 

 much. They do not shoot a dozen birds a week, perhaps. But 

 Bo-d&y, prominent in the records of all Chicago shooters, is the 



picture of that Saturday night when champion Elliott, saw Br'er 

 Gawge and Br'er Abe get into a Calumet buggy, drawn by Br'er 

 Gawge's fall-down horse, which is a dead ringer to Br'er Gawge's 

 Prize Machine gun— 50, 30 and 25 off— and start off for home at 

 Irondale, down where the Calumet meanderetb. They had Mr. 

 Elliott's eagles in the old buggy, along with the Prize Machine gun 

 of Br'er Gawge, and the eight-times-snapper of Br'er Abe. And 

 neither they nor champion Elliott smiled as the homeward buggv- 

 ride slowly progressed to Br'er Gawge's "Q Tar. g there, bl ame you!" 



In Capt. A. C. Anson and Mr. Geo. Hofmann we are having right 

 now a case of shooters who are after each other. It has been 

 chronicled earlier how Capt. Anson took Georgia's sealp ou a 50 

 birds race, but this did not satisfy him. These two gentlemen 

 got together again last Monday, and this time, as will appear in 

 the Watson's Park scores below, George everlastingly got away 

 with the base ball chiftaiu. The race was $100, 100 birds; score, 

 Anson 04, Hofmann 77. The birds were screamers. But these 

 two friends are not done yet. Each has a family, and each has 

 backed his family to shoot more, pigeons than the other fellow's 

 family. This race will probably be shot soon. George, Al. and 

 Val Hofmann are sure of their ability to get about all of them, and 

 old Anse thinks that his father, the still older Anse, himself and 

 his brother, can just about get away with the whole Hofmann 

 clan. It is fun to hear them talk. Results later. 



Geo. Hofmann has also posted forfeit to shoot J. L. Wilcox a race 

 some time next week. 



Geo. T. Farmer and Tony Dominico had a match arranged for 

 last Tuesday. Mr. Farmer was on hand but Tony was absent. 

 He is sick in bed now, probably from nervous fright at his narrow 

 escape from a shooting match. 



The other evening, at the Possum Club, some gentlemen got to 

 talking about their skill at live birds, and became inadvertently 

 so tangled up that they had a shooting match agreed upon before 

 they meant to do it. Asa result of this a very exciting and 

 pretty race was shot, off to-day, as see the scores, Messrs. W. P. 

 Mussey and Dr. J. M. Hutchinson ("Teal") vs. Messrs. Bsn Dicks 

 and Charlie Gammon. The latter won bv a small majority, 86 to 

 84, out of 50 birds, $50 a corner. Mr. Mussey's 47 was c editable 

 in the extreme, but: Mr. Gammon was right at his heels with 45. 

 The race was there. Ben Dicks was away below where he be- 

 longed, and it is thought his temperature was not normal; Doc. 

 Hutch., however, displayed his ability to shoot a lower score than 

 anybody, and his 87 out of 50 settled it. 



On npxt Saturday, at Mak-saw-ba grounds, L. M. "Hamilton" 

 and R. C. "Stevens" will try the favorite game of 50 birds, g50. 

 Mr. "Stevens" is anxious for gore. He also shoots Mr. Mussey 100 

 birds, $100, probably on the same day or at some time near that, 

 and on Jan. 17 he is booked again to shoot Mr. Mussey "50 and 50," 

 use of one barrel only. Ben Dicks and Mr. Mussey are busy also, 

 and they shoot next Saturday down at the club, 50 birds, $100. 

 And Mr. Mussey and Mr. Stone, you know, must soon meet upon 

 the bloody sands. We are all right in it now. 



Roll Organ wins the live-bird medal of the Gun Club of Chi- 

 cago for 1890. Percy Stone and Eddie Steek tied to-day on the 

 target medal. The club shoot this afternoon was in'bresting. 

 There were nine shooters in a sweepstakes, and all nine killed "9 

 birds out of 10. 



Kansas City shooters may be interested to know that the boys 

 of Chicago have chipped iu and given Henry Kleinman an order 

 on the Jenney & Graham Gun Co. for a $150 gun. They have re- 

 quested him to buy a gun that will occasionally go off, and that 

 will not. shoot all over a forty-acre field. This is ra ther a clever 

 thing of the boys, and shows the respect in which "Hank" is held 

 here. It seemed due to Chicago's self-respect that there should 

 be one good gun owned by the Kleinman family, and the boys 

 themselves seem to be, rather careless about that, "not caring much 

 what sort of guns they shoot. 



Mr, J. A. R. Elliott says he is coming back to Chicago to live, and 

 is going to start a live-bird park here on the most approved mod- 

 ern principles. He thinks there is money in this between now and 

 World's Fair time. 



While gathering a bird for his brother at Watson's Park, about 

 three weeks ago, Charlie Willard slipped and fell, bruising his 

 side and spraining bis hand, from which latter injury he is very 

 slow in recovering, the hand being still quite useless. 



Jan. i— We have been having a sort of field day herein Chicgo 

 of shooters and those interested in shooting. During the week 

 several gentlemen prominent in such matters have been in town, 

 and there has been quite a little stir consequent therein. Harvev 

 McMurchy blew in trom Smithville early in the week, and has 

 been in constant circulation hare ever since, the sciuiillant gleam 

 of his diamond being noticeable in all the main sporting goods 

 places in the city. He left for Cincinnati and Fulton, N. Y., last 

 night, after being nearly drowned in the clammy deluge which 

 met the shooters who attended the big New Year's shoot at Lake 

 George club grounds. The weather v. as abominable here yester- 

 day. ' Mr. H. A. Penrose, manager of the Standard Keystone Co , 

 also was on hand all the week, attending to business matters of 

 importance. He joined Mr. McMurchy at the Lake George shoot, 

 and shared his fate at that moist entertainment. Mr. Fred 

 Kimble, of the Peoria Target Co., was also in town this week. Up 

 at Billy Mussey's one evening t be boys had the pleasure of meet- 

 ing, at the same time, Mr. Kimble, Mr. McMurchv, Mr. Penrose, 

 and Mr. W- B. Lefflugweli, author of "Wild Fowl Shooting." as 

 weU as big Jim Stice, now with the Peoria folks, and J. W. Budd, 

 of New Jersey, and dear knows who all else, twenty or thirty of 

 them. By the way, Mr. Kimble goes to California for a trip soon 

 after his arrival home this week. Mr. Lefflngwell reports a quiet 

 season in game matters in bis country, but was handing out pro- 

 grammes of the Clinton Gun Club tournament, Feb. 3, 4, 5 and 6, 

 which he says is going to be one of the finest, offering live birds 

 and targets and a screaming good lime. Mr. Leffiugwsll is look- 

 ing well. 



All Chicago, at least, though not all Dayton certainly, will be 

 glad to know that RtflaHeikes is to come here to live, taking the 

 Western office of the Standard-Keystone Co., with quarters at 

 the Jenney & Graham Gun Co.'s. Rolla will move up next week, 

 it is understood, and there will bo plenty of friends here waiting 

 to shake hands with the blonde gentleman from Ohier. Chicago 

 gets the best. 



While Mr. Penrose was here he made public for the first time to 

 Forest and Stbeam a bit of news which is as yet not fully for- 

 mulated even, but whicli is certainly good news to the trap-shoot- 

 ing fraternity of the country. This is the organization of the 

 Inter-State Manufacturers & Dealers' Association, an alliance 

 whose object may be briefly stated to be the common sense 

 encouragement of trap-shooting. This association will eventually 

 contain about 15 subscribers; ai present the only names ready for 

 announcement are those of Henry Squires, of New York, W. 

 Fred Quimhv. of Mew York, (ho American Wood Powder Co., of 

 New York, Fob est and Stream, of New York, the Hunter Arms 

 Co., of Fulton, N. Y., the Jenny & Graham Gun Co., of Chicago. 

 The quota of additional subscri tiers is fast being made up. The 

 plan of this association will be to give a system of tournaments 

 at inanimates, twelve and perhaps more in number, iu conjunc- 

 tion with the. local clubs. Each tournament will be practically a 

 benefit performance for the club whose grounds are used. The 

 subscribers will arrange a liberal system of guaranteed purses 

 for the shooters. All purse surpluses will be either donated to 

 the club or added the competition moneys. All the money- made 

 by the tournament, on targets, gate receipts, etc., will be given 

 outright to the club, conditional upon its devotion to building 

 clubhouse or making improvements about the grounds, etc. 

 Everybody knows that there is money in a well-conducted tour- 

 nament and the liberality of the above arrangement, is obvious. 



The first tournament will be held in Detroit, next March, one 

 will follow at New London, Conn., then one at Saratoga Sprinsrs, 

 N. Y„ then one at Elkhart, lud. The ircuit may go as far west, 

 as Kansas, and as far south as Georgia, plans as to this being still 

 in abeyance. Ea.ch shoot will be a thoroughly systematic, and 

 well conducted tournament, the guarantee as to that lying in the 

 fact that Mr. Penrose is to be in charge. It will he also as much 

 as possible a pleasant, social event for shooters and their friends, 

 and nothing will be lost that could tend to make it attractive and 

 picturesque. Each subscriber is to have erected on the grounds a 

 tent of his own, of whatever quaint design he may elect, and to be 

 occupied whenever possible by a representative. The supervision 

 of all arrangements of this kind will, as aU Western men will be 

 glad to knowt, be under the. charge of John Parker, of Detroit, who 

 will travel as advance agent and superintendent. System will 

 rule every, detail. Even those little valued but useful members 

 of society, the reporters, will be remembered, and each night will 

 have, handed to them the complete scores of the day neatly copied 

 out. and tied with a pink ribbon. What a soap this would be for 

 Fred Fodde, of the St. Louis Republic! He always did hate copy- 

 ing. This is the plan, at least for those legitimate papers that are 

 on the. inside. Some of them won't be in it. Forest and Stream 

 is right in it all the time. Now isn't ail this perfectly lovely! And 

 moreover, since it is to be conducted on a plain, practical, inex- 

 pensive basis, is it not already practically successful? The shoot- 

 ers of this country, especially the n»w shooters, the young shoot- 

 ers, have never 'before had offered to their attention anything 

 more worthy of investigation at least. 



The Inter-State people are of course confronted at once by the. 

 old specter of classification, and this they propose to numask 

 forthwith or ruin their cause iu the attempt. The experts of this 

 country are not only practically, but thoroughly, known to-day. 



At all the InteT-State tournaments the wolves will he separated 

 from the lambs with whom they h a ve heretofore mingled. The 

 experts will be classified from their known reputation, and not 

 from any temporary possibly madc-to-orde.r record. Once made, 

 the classification will be adhered to. AH experts will be obliged 

 to shoot under the "expert rules," viz., unknown angles, unknown 

 traps, no faults of gun or shooter to excuse, everything t.ongh as 

 possible. Under these conditions the experts can fight it out. 

 The amateurs have the old rapid-firing rules. It would seem that, 

 a determined effort is to be made to prevent that alarming growth 

 of "mechanical shoo* rag" which seemed so threatening to the best 

 interests of shooting last season. There is a peculiar satisfaction 

 in the reflection that this journal was the first to raise its voice in 

 the fearless condemnation of mechanical shooting at the trap, and 

 it is doubtless much due to its efforts that the old system has been 

 reconsidered in relation to these interesting preparations now 

 before ns for a practical, just and popular form of trap shooting, 

 which is something long wanted but hitherto not found. 



We still hear of wars and rumors of wars here. They do say 

 that a purse is mysteriously formulating itself here, twice several, 

 hundred dollarslarge, to back Abe and George Kleinman in the 

 invitation to one J. A. R. Elliott to come up and take "all or any 

 part of it," as Jack Brewer or Dick Irwin would saw. This ought 

 to be easy work. George Kieinman's race with Elliott was the 

 first luO-bird race- he ever shot in his life. Abe Kieinman's race 

 was the first of any consequence, if not the only one, he has shot 

 in 15 years. These men don't talk at all. They don't have any 

 "form." And the monev behind them is a-growin'. 



Harvey McMurchy wdiile here tried hard to get a live-bird or 

 combination match with anv Chicago man against Charlie Budd, 

 but he couldn't do it. Charlie is too well known in Chicago, and 

 is rated high enough to pass the ambitions of Chicago's most am- 

 bitious. Sometimes I think the shooter who can shoot and win 

 without altering the size of his hat, who can talk without bluff or 

 bluster, who can lose without explanations and lie a gentleman all 

 the time, is the man who ought to he called cbampiou of America- 

 I do not love some sorts of champions, who are lovely onlv in 

 their ability to shoot, and not always in that. In Chicago Charlie 

 Budd was always very popular, and Chicago never forgot, how he 

 was forced to lose what after all is only the empty title of "cham- 

 pion " The mere abiding title, the win-or-lose championship, is 

 something they cannot take away from him. And anyhow, Har- 

 vey will have to go further before he gets a race. 



What Messrs. Organ and Mussey call a piece of robbery is the 

 match lately concluded in which Charlie Gammon has backed 

 these, two gentlemen against the de.fi. issued to him by Mr. W. H. 

 Hasuell on behalf of himself and Mr. R, A. Turtle. This will be 

 50 or 100 birds, §50 or $100 a corner. 



There is a sort of a prospect that Mr. C. E. Willard and Mr. P. 

 F. Stone will shoot a similar race with Mr. C. B. Dicks and Mr.W. 

 P. Mussey. This community is becoming dead game in the ex- 

 treme, and the man who hasn't a match on can claim no status at 

 all in Chicago shootingdorn. 



I believe I said not long ago that Washington Park Club never 

 allowed a score or notice of a match to be published. Well, Mr. 

 Chas. Lester and Mr. Walter Dupee, of the Washington Park 

 Club, have just been having another little go, 10 live birds, S20, 

 and this time Mr. Lester beat Walter, who found too late that the 

 ammunition he had ordered was not on hand. 



But about that Lake George shoot on New Year's day. The 

 hoys bad a terrible time of it. About a dozen of them spent the 

 night previous at the club house. Sleep was a thing not dreamed 

 of. Mr. L. M. Hamlin, better known as "Ham." bad provided 

 himself with a number of giant fire crackers, each as large as 

 one's arm, and these at spasmodic. intervals he delighted to ignite, 

 terrifying the occupants of the frail shanty \yy the announcement 

 each time that he had done so. The jar of the cannon crackers 

 nearly set the house off its foundations and made a panic, among 

 the tenants of the not too large abode. After the, crackers were 

 gone, Mr. Hamliue celebrated till morning with a. shotgun. The 

 early train brought down other shooters, about 25 in all being 

 present, and in spite of the dismal weather quite a. lot of shooting- 

 was done, 590 birds in all being shot. Two individual races. Mal- 

 colm— Sheehan and Holden— Pfeffer, were shot, each at 25 birds, 

 $25. The former resulted in a tie, and the latter was nearly so. 

 Fred Pfeffer, however, lost three out of his last four birds, and 

 this gave the result to "Husky George." In the sweeps McMur- 

 chy got all his birds straight. Frank Place and Charlie Willard 

 also were in good shape. Following are scores: 

 Malcolm— Sheehan. 



O p Malcolm 1 11 0222 < !'2022mH22<O2S0-a 



J H Sheehan H201220.22111111 002121211—21 



Holden -Pfeffer. 



Geo Hold en 11 22123101 02 1 02 1 222 1 01202—20 



Fred Pf<-ffer 1021081313100212213320100-19 



Sweep, 10 live birds: 



HA Penrose 1222122110- 9 FA Place 1212221111—10 



H McMurchy 1121212222-10 O P Malcolm 1121210011— S 



B B Wadswortb . . ..2120201210- 8 Fred Pfeffer 1122000210- 6 



L M Hamline 0211001110- 7 H Foss 1022021210- 7 



C R Dicks 02211 22222- 0 C E Willard 1221122110-10 



R 8 Cox 0121121012— 8 



Ties on first and secoud div., third lniss andout, Wadswortb won. 



Sweep, 10 live birds: 



Willard 1112012111- 9 Pfeffer 1221121110- 9 



Place 2U2212022- 9 Wadswortb 01 13111011— 8 



McMurchv 2111222211-10 Holden 1221121110— 9 



Penrose 0OOU211U1— fi Hamline 1011110120— 7 



Dicks 0121121111— 9 Mslcolm 1221111011— 9 



Cos 1110222121— 9 Patterson 1111112222—10 



McMurchy won first, Holden, Willard, Place and Malcolm div. 

 second, Wadsworth third. 



Quite a party leaves for Mak-saw-ba grounds at Davis, Ind., to- 

 morrow, to witness or participate in the live-bird matches of 

 interest there. E. Hough. 



MISS ANNIE OAKLEY. 



MANY kind words of pleasant reminiscence and many sincere 

 expressions of regret met the announcement published in 

 our last issue of the death of Miss Annie Oakley in a. South Amer- 

 ican city. The report reached us through the regular press 

 channels, but prompt denial of the report followed its publication, 

 and it now appears that some annoying blunder has occurred in 

 connection with the announcement. Our correspondent "Picus," 

 from Ellicott City, Md., writes: 

 Editor Forest and Stream.: 



In your issue of Jan. 1. 1 notice the report of Miss Annie Oakley's 

 death at Buenos Ayres- This is, I presume, the city in South 

 America, and may not. mean tbe well-known ladv who was with 

 Buffalo Bill's Wild West, and I truly hone it is not the wonderful 

 "Little Sure Shot." Iu connection with thi*. and as a counter re- 

 port, I wish to say that I had a letter from Mr. Butler, dated Dec. 

 12, in which he sa.id that his wife (Miss Oakley) had definite en- 

 gagements for shooting upon private game preserves in the neigh- 

 borhood of London, which would keep thein busy until after the 

 N»w Year, and I send you with this a clipping from the Kentish 

 Express and AsMpr'd iWtcs. which shows Miss Oakley's where- 

 abouts as late as Dec. 17. All who know Miss Oakley will join me 

 in hoping the report of her death untrue. Picus. 



The clipping referred to is as follows: "Marvelous Shooting.— 

 At the Royal Oak Hotel starling shoot on Wednesday LOec. 17] 

 the company, which included some of the best shots in the south 

 of England, were unexpectedly gratified by having tbe opportu- 

 nity of witnessing some of tbe wonderful shooting feats of Miss 

 Annie Oakley (Mrs. Frank B. Butler). This lady, the 'Little Sure 

 Shot' of Buffalo Bill's u-oupe, which is now at Strasburg, is on a 

 vacation visit for a. few weeks to Mr. and Mrs. Graham, of the 

 Royal Oak, they being old American friends, Mr. Graham having 

 shot four or five matches with her during his sojourn in t lie S tales. 

 Gentlemen will have tbe opportunity of seeing her performances 

 at the next few meetings, and of taking part against her at her 

 own game at the traps. TWe feats she performed on the ground 

 seem scarcely credible. Tims, it Mr. Butler or Mr. Graham held 

 out in their bauds a visiting card edgeways to her, at a distance 

 of from 10 to 20 paces, she invariably hit Hie edge of the card with 

 a bullet from a pistol. With a Holland 3-20 bore double rifle she 

 hit successively with bullets two marbles thrown in the air; aud 

 with a 10-shot repeating rifle she split at the first shot a piece of 

 brick as it was thrown up, and then knocked to pieces with a sec- 

 ond shot one of the fragments as it descended. Half-pence and 

 coins tbe size of a sixpence were also steuck with bullets in the 

 same way. Thirteen competitors came, out for the handicap, and 

 it was won by Mr. Frank Tanton, of Great Chart, 35yds., who 

 killed 7 birds out of 9. Mr. Tanton 's win was a feat for a local 

 snortsman, inasmuch as he beat two of the. best shots in Engia ml 

 —Ben Read, of Nottingham, and Robert Patch, of London. Mr. 

 j Tanton's brother also holds a trump card in the handicap. Over 

 ! a dozen sweep-takes were subsequently shot off, and a pleasant 

 ! dinner party afterward sat down at the Royal Oak." 



C. R. SHELTON.— Clark R. Shelton died Monday. Dec. 29, at 

 ! his home in Newtown, Conn. He was the inventor of the auxiliary 

 I rifle, which was manufactured by tbe Winchester Arms Company. 

 : He first proposed the use of the rubber butt to rifles for the pur- 

 pose of preventing the recoil, and was the originator of the out- 

 ride elevator for fire-escapes, which is constructed on tbe -r, .1 

 principle as those, used insjdo of buildings. 



