April 3, 1881.] 



FOREST AND STREAM. 



217 



BOSTON. March 38. -The regular weekly shoot, of the Massa- 

 obTi8"ttB Rifle Association was held at its range to-day, with a 

 very iTge atteridauce of siiooiers. The shooting eondil ions were 

 very fine, and some high scores were made at rest, oflP-band and 

 with the pistol. Following are the hpst scores made, 200yds., 

 standard American target, re-entries allowed: 

 Al'-Coroers' Rest Ma' eh. 



8 Wilder 113 J W French 103 SEHov.ard 91 



W P Thompson. ..109 J French 100 W Conway 90 



F Daniels 10" T S Horn ! 9 M T Day 88 



T Warren 107 AH Ballard 9H AvSHunt 85 



IB Thomas 103 MRBaxrer 93 .1 B Hobbs 81 



An-0"meis' Ott-Hand Matr li. 



W Charles ?0 W Coaway 73 SE Newton 63 



ASHnnt 78 



Pistnl Match, oOydP. 



W Charles 96 AGStevea 80 A S Field 77 



MTDay 90 F D Hart 78 D Martin 7.5 



AC Sydney 83 



RAT SHOOTING. March 38.— The Atlantic Gim Club, of Atlan- 

 tic City, ». J., held their regular weekly sh-^ot at their new 

 grounds, at the Inlet. The attraction of the day was a rat-shoot- 

 ing match between C. Sander and C. Harold, ll rats per man, 21 

 yds. rise, 7yds. boundary, use of both barrels; Harold won by one 

 rat, as follo^Vs: 



Harold 12012113131—10 Sander 12102013111— 9 



EMPIRE RIFLE CLUB.-New York, March 21. -The following 

 scores were made by members of the Empire Rifle Club, of 12 Sr. 

 Marks Place, on the Standard American targ-jT, IV4 hutlseye: W. 

 RoseuhaumSr, C. Zettler, Jr , 91, W. Miller **8, H. Zettler 88. A. 

 Stahl. .Jr.. 86, F. Schneider 85, G. Hillmeyer 80, W. Maisenholder 

 78, J. Zettler 78, A. Krueger 76, A Schmidt 70. 



THE TRAP. 



Score* for publication should be mads out an the pri^itcd tuannc 

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

 secretarieg. Correspondents who f avor m with club scores are par- 

 tieularly requested to m-ite on one side of the, palmer only. 



FIXTURES. 



If you want your shoot to be announced here 

 send in notice lilce the following: 



April 9-11.— Annual Tournament of the Boiling Springs Gun 

 Club, at Rutherford, N. J. 



April 28-30.— New London (or New Haven) Inter-State Associa- 

 tion. 



May 5-6.— Algona (la.) Gun Club Tournament. Open to all. 

 John G. Smith, Sec'y. 



May 5-7.— Pittsburgh Tournament. Open to all. Elmer E. 

 Shaner, Sec'y. 



May 5-7.— Auburn, N. ¥., Gun Club TournamenT. $500 guaran- 

 teed. Professionals barred. Chas. W. Brister, Sec'y. 



May 5-9.— Grand Tournament of the Hill City Gun Cluh, Vicks- 

 burg, Alips, Open to all. Geo. H. Hill, Sec'y. 



May 13-14.— Grand Tournament of the -'^outh Side Gun Club, at 

 Watertown, N. Y. Open to all. L. H. Prentice, Sec'y. 



May 13-16.— Ha rrisburg. Pa., Shooting Association Tournament, 

 asMsted by the Inter-State Manufacturers' and Dealers' Associ- 

 ation. Three days targets. One day live birds. H. M. F. Worden. 

 Sec'y. 



May 19-31.— Washinerton (D. C.) Capital City Gun Club, assisted 

 by Inter-State Manufacturers' and Dealers' Association. Club 

 gives $1,000, Association guarantees $1,000, total S2,000. 



.Tune 2-5.— Saratoga Gun Club Sboot. assisted by the luter-State 

 Manufacturers' and Dealers' Ast^ociation. Association guarantees 

 81.000. club adds $3,000. total S3,000. 



June 15-19.— Thirty-third Annual Tournament of the New i'ork 

 State Association for the Protection of Fish and Game, at Rome, 

 N. Y. M. R. Bingham, Sec'y. 



July 2-4:.— Third Annual Tournament of Canastota (N. Y.) Gun 

 Club. E. B. Roberts, Sec'y. 



DETROIT INTER-STATE. 



DETROIT, Mich., March 24.— A glance at tbe list of entries for 

 the opening day of this, the first tournament n£ the Int'-r- 

 State Manufacturers' and Dealers' Association, will show two 

 facts; first, the names are largel v of tho.9P not famiharly known 

 as circuit shooters; second, the numbers present would indicate a 

 very good interest taken for a shoot held iu so inclement a Feason. 

 The weather was wretchedly raw and unpleasant to-day, with ice 

 in the river, f^novv still on the ground and winter in the air; yet 

 between 40 and 50 entries came in before lunch time, and the 

 shooting throughout ttie flay, cleaning up the programme nicely, 

 was steadily engaged in by a goodly litfle party. Of the namf s 

 shown, will all be so familiar as those in the roster of the main 

 shoots last year? Many of them are not so familiar to the writer, 

 and it is said to-;iay by those who know, that many of the shooters 

 are from clubs in small towns not far distant. If these are fairly 

 to be called amateurs, and their scores would .-^eem to indicate 

 that, then the main purpose of the Association, which it widely 

 advertised in its catalogui s, namely, that of holding a shoot for 

 amateurs, would seem to be very flatteringly realized, or at least 

 as much so as could at this early hour be asked. 



Now let us eo hack. We all remember the state of afl'airs under 

 the old rapid tiring system last year, with the tremendous runs of 

 the machine shooters, which made it necessary to average 96, 9", 

 98 or over to win, and which practically drove the amateur, the 

 "lover" of shooting otit of the field, narrowing the attendance in 

 the open shoots to about 30 high sverage men. Some may remem- 

 ber the day, after Corry shoot, when the sporting press began to 

 "roast" the old machine system, and to declare it was mining 

 sport at the trap. 



Probably due to this cry of the press- and it was a just one- 

 matters were so pondered and considered in different lights that 

 ultimately this association of the dealers was formed, with the 

 sole purpose of furthering shooting at the trap, and with the minor 

 plan of keeping up, in a cheaper and easier working form, the 

 spirit of the old American Shooting Association. The very first 

 sentence the Association wrote; on its banners was, '-We are for 

 the greatest good to the greatest number." Its nest was, "We 

 shall hive two classes, the expert and the amateur, the first to 

 shoot the professional (or walking) svstem. at 5 unknown traps, 

 the second to shoot the regulnr rapid-firing amateur rules; the 

 scoring to be score|and score alike." This sboot at Detroit, with 

 $1,600 guaranteed by the friendly association, and all the profits on 

 the targets to be given outright to the home club (or "tournament 

 association"), is the first under the new experiment. "We will call 

 it an experiment by courtesy to those experts who appx-ove it. 

 Really it is the only just and proper thing to do. 



This morning, when the "expert class" was called to shoot in the 

 first event only two men responded. Those two are men as well 

 known as any in America as shooters, and withal as honorable 

 and lovable men. Charlie Budd and Rolla Feikes are known 

 where shooting is known. They have no enemies, and their friends 

 are thousand. Nothing mf an, itiggardly, unfair, underhanded or 

 ungentlemanly was ever urg<-d or dreamed against tither of them. 

 Indeed, if one were asked to select two men typical of the best 

 element of general trap shooters, he could not pick a better two 

 than these. Very well. The scores will tell the rest. Budd got 8, 

 and was shot out in the ties. Heikes eot 6, and also went out in 

 the ties. They followed this through the day, and only pulled oxit 

 about even by reason of a little surplus average money, S44 25, left 

 for their class. Below these men, in the amateur class, were 

 several men not thought justly to he clusFcd experts, but who as 

 amateurs stood to win more than these two experts at the expert 

 rules. The two experts knew they could not win. "We will sub- 

 mit to anything reasonable, ' said rhcy, "but it is throwing money 

 away to shoot in this way. To-nightwe quit." 



This placed the management in rather a hard position. Every- 

 body likes "Charlie and Roll" so well that it is extremely hard to 

 keep friendship out of sight when reasoning on a question where 

 thej are concerned. Let us tor the moment put this fi-iendship — 

 which the writer begs to claim in as high degree as any for both 

 thesemen— out of sight, and suppose these two to be sheer rob- 

 bers whom nobody likes. They find it throwing away money to 

 go on. How about the fellows who threw away money for these 

 two to win in all these past years? These two quit, btitif they stay 

 in on the old hasis don't twice two, and double and four times 

 that, quit and go away, or fail to come out at all ? Sympathy is 

 all riylit, but how about the poor devils who have patiently "con- 

 tributed to these men for years ? How about the amateurs who 

 have come out to this shoot for the specitic. reason that the experts 

 were announced to shoot by themselves'? Hosv about ti e H'r'. 5'^-, 

 6»8 to bo seen in the amateur scores below V In short, ieaving out 

 that difficult matter of loyalty to a friend, what earthly right had 

 Charlie and Roll to object ? They were about even with the game 

 as it was to-day, and did not shoot as well as they ought to under 

 these same exi?ert rales. How many of the .amateur class below . 



them quit even to-night? Are the experts not as well off, and 

 better off, than the average amateur? Because they always have 

 won right along under the old absurd system is that any reason 

 why they should insist on winning all the time? Each slrie has 

 its inning in a game of ball. Why not in a game of scooting? The 

 professionals have bf-en having their inning for years. Why 

 should tbev object to playing even for a whilt? Rolla Heikes 

 has his salary and exueneea paid to come here and sboot. 

 Ought he to complain because lie m^eses a few birds, and gives 

 some man a chance 10 win a few dollars who has paid 

 his own expenses and put up big own money to come out 

 and have a little funV Miwh of this applies to Charlie Budd, also, 

 or I believe it 10 brt so. Have rhuy pillier of them any right to 

 obj^ci? Barring the bi;is of frieudKhip, the idea is simply pre- 

 posterous and not worth a moment's thought, i-iuppose tbev do 

 quit, do r.ot others come in all the more? And is auy hardship 

 wrought up ''H them when so matiy shoots are still left open all 

 Dver the land where they are not barred? The management was 

 therefore quite right in concluding, as it is this evening under- 

 stood to have done, that the orig'nal plan of the meeting must be 

 adhered to and the two classes kept distinct. It was suggeeted 

 that the experts b<? allowed to smnd directly behind the five un- 

 known traps, thus avoiding the possibility of being "outgunned" 

 by the opposlte-anale birds, but even this was thouerht not desir- 

 able, as It is 80 desirous of carrying out fully and thoroughly the 

 experiment of induciug new shooters to come in. What our 

 friends tbe experts mav do is not now determiued, but it is hoped 

 they shriot through the wee'.*, as they are both universally well 

 liked. Besides, it will do 'em good to see just how it eroes. Ruble 

 is here and is classed expert. He only entered twice. It is too 

 risky for John. 



The grounds, at the foot of the hill near the driving park, lie 

 just at the rivet's edge and are about as cold, wet and muddy as 

 they could be, though in good weather they are fine, lying as they 

 do directly opDOSite BeUe Isle and the anchoring grounds of the 

 Detroit and Michigan yacht clubs. The management by its able 

 lieutenant, John Parker, has done all possible "toward comfort by 

 means of abundant board wallcs and plenteous shavings. It is 

 not a pleasant time to hold a shoot, but this is only the first one, 

 and the first day of that. 



It is one of the plans of the Association that each member have 

 a tent on the grounds. Not all; but many were so represented 

 to-day. To the right of the walk stood the spacious umbrella 

 tent of the Colts Patent Fire Aims Co., with Charlie Willis as 

 presiding genius. On the left was tbe ingenious tent of the Peters 

 Cartridge Co., made in form and color imitative of a shot shell. 

 To tbe right of the Colts tent was the mnrqnee of the Jenny & 

 Graham Gun Co., of Chicago, a similar one yet to the right flaunt- 

 ing the blazonry of the L. 0, Smith gun. To the left of tne Petejrs 

 tent was the square canvas of the "headquarters t'nit," and be- 

 yond that the striped marquee of W. Fred Quimby & Co. At the 

 extreme right of the score was the FoTtEST and Stream domicile, 

 and at the es'reme left that of its hated rival. The Forkst 

 AND Stream tent has a pretty sign on it, saying "Come in and 

 Sit Down." From a sense of duty I did so, but the way the wind 

 sighedthrough the open-sided house was too suegcstive of pneu- 

 monia, and I did not linger. No one went into the tents, the 

 chilly air making the heated, though ovf-r-crowded club house 

 shanty the only tolerable place to stay. The canvas structures, 

 however, picturesque, unique and various as they were, made a 

 very pretty picture. In better weather and on pleasanter grounds 

 they will be an interesting and valuable feature of these shoots. 



A number of Ohio shooters are here, and also many from Michi- 

 gan. Heikes and Oharlio Willard are over alone from Chicago, 

 and Budd from Iowa. Uncle Jake Pentz is here in business ca- 

 pacity from New York, and Tee Kay is also here. The latter is 

 lust up from a sick bed, and Uncle Jake is nearly down in one. 

 Paui North, of the Clevelana Target Co., is present, and CJhape 

 Wht-tmore got in this evening. Cady is on from New London, and 

 Penrose of course is on hand, but on the whole the East Is not 

 very well represented. Among shootera from nearer by are Du- 

 sett, of Aramada; Andrews, Sardinia, N. Y ; Courtney, Syracuse; 

 Osborn, Toledo; Moiher, Fulton, K. Y.; Osman, Pontiac; Donald- 

 son, Windsor; Kdwards, Dayton; Hannaford, Jackson; MDonald, 

 Dayton; Wright, Lansing; Waruf, Kalamazoo; Mumma, Dayton; 

 SproH?, Toledo; Ricbter, Milwaukee: North. Cleveland; Merrill, 

 Friesp, Milwaukee; Orowell. Hastings. This is not, as to-day at 

 least would show, a gathering of old familiar faces. Not, per- 

 haps, so p'tPasant as yet for that reason, since strangers are not 

 friends, but still all tbe better foi- the purposes in hand is this 

 gathering, the first e)f the regular season, now shivering in the 

 inclement air of the bleak and early spring. The following are 

 scores of to-day's shooting: 



Event No. 1, 10 Keystones, $1: 



Expert Class. 



CWBudd llOllllOH— 8 R O Heikes .OllomOlO-6 



A-^^iit^xii'' CJrss* 



Oshorn 1111111011— 9 Yager. .....OOIOIOOIOI- 4 



Meirili lUinuilO— 8 dwell. - 1111111111—10 



Buckley 1101111011— 8 Andrews 011110)011— 7 



Hichter 1101011111-8 Hebel 1111111111-10 



McDonald IIIIOIIOII- 8 Sauford OllllliOll- 8 



Edwards 1111111110-9 Courtney lllllltlll— 10 



Ford 1111010111- 8 Cole IIIUUIOIO- 



Cady 1101011010- 7 Forrest lUOllliOO- . 



Shorty lOlOlOOlOl— 5 Don OOCOOOlOli— 3 



Spross 1111111111—10 Latham lllllOdlll— 8 



Mosher 0010101111- 6 Watts 1111111111-10 



Perry 0100111100- 5 Hanaford lOOOOillll— 6 



Wright 1011111011- 8 Went llOlllOOlO- 6 



Waruf llllUOill- 9 Nobbs llllUOllOO- 6 



Wallace 1011011110- 7 Cooper lOllUoilO- 7 



Renick 1111001101- 7 Tee Kay 1110011111— 8 



Robson nimoill- 9 Lynch OllOllOlni- 6 



Mumma 1111101111- 9 Parker 1111001100- 6 



Five mnn' ys in all snoots. Ties on first div. by Spross, Crowell, 

 Hetiel, Courtney and Watts. Ties on second div. by Osborn, Ed- 

 wards, Waruf and Mumma. Ties on third shot out and Wright, 

 Buckeye, Ford and Tee Kay div. Ties on fourth shot out and 

 Wallace. Forrest atd Cooper div. Ties on fifth shot out and Han- 

 naford won. 



Jt will he noticed that the experts fpll out in the ties. It will be 

 noticed also that the experts are required to shoot first. This 

 would prevent dropping for place in a class of experts who desired 

 to do that.. 



Event No. 3, 10 Keystones, $3..50, S.50 guaranteed: 

 Expert Class. 



C B Budd 1111010100-6 J A " White" 0100100110-4 



R O Heikes llOlOiOlU-7 



Amateur Class. 



Cooper lllOllini— 9 Watts. IIOIIOUII— 8 



Brummitt IIOIIIOIOI— 



Cody 0101011010— 5 



Dussett iniiiuio— 



Yager 1110111110— 8 



Shorty OOOOUOOU— 4 Cole 1111111101— 9 



Parker llliOlOHl- 8 



Forrest lUOlU'Ol- 8 



Sanford 1111111111-10 



Weudr 1111111111—10 



Hannaford lUOlOllll— 8 



Osborn lllllOllU- 9 



Don 1101010110— 6 



Shilling 1100000100- 3 



Andrews 1111111111-10 Merrill 



Ford OOiiniOU- 7 Perry 



Renick 01 II 011101— 7 " 



Lvncb 1001101011- 7 



OoweU 1111111111-10 



Richter H 00110011- 6 



Mosher llllllldlO - 8 



Robson 1111111101— 9 



Tee Kay 0010111101- 6 



Wright IIIOOIIUI— 8 



Hebel llllllllOl- 9 



Edwards IIOIOUIOI— 7 



f'ourtney lllllOllU— 9 



Mumma lllOoilllO— 7 



Waruf 11110 in 11— 9 



.1111101110-8 



- - . 00101 to 111- 6 



Spiois lOlllJOin— 8 



McDooiild limillOl— 9 



Usboni "illllOillO— 8 



^uC e 1111111111-10 



L il.um..,. OnillfJlll- 8 



Ties on Orstdiv. Ov Cro.-.eU > nd iJucvevt ; ties on 9 shot out and 

 won by i smond; third thot uTiri iiiv. bv Latham, Watts, Wrght 

 and Parker; fourth sliot and div. hy Mumina, Ford and Heiket; 

 fifth .shot and won by Perry. 

 Event No. 3, 15 Keystones, $L60: 



Expert Clsiss. 



Bud 1 lIOlIlOlUOllll-12 Heikes HOilOOlllllOll-11 



Amateur Cla=s. 



Spross 111111101111101-13 Crowell lUlOOlOlOH 110-10 



Kichter UllimUlllU— 15 Tee Kay 100110011011011— 9 



Jaeer 10(X)1001ini011— 9 Webb lOOIlOOUllllOl— 10 



An<lrBwe COlIlOUI 111101— 11 Wright 111110111010111—12 



Hebel 100111011011111-11 Litbam lillOOlllllOHlU— 10 



Cooper 110011110110111-11 Forrest .111111111101111—14 



Wat ts 111001111111110-12 Ed wards 0001111 110101 11 -10 



Sanford 010101111110111—11 Mummi 101111111111111-14 



Par ksr 1100 1 11 11010111-11 Osmun 0111 11111011111-13 



Merrill 111111111111011-14 Brum ett ... .inCOlOlllOrn 1-11 



McDonald .. .111111001001101-10 Cole 11011101101] 1 11 -]2 



Wendt llOlOlllOimOi'-lO Mosher IIOOOIOIIOIOIXIO- fl 



Lynch 101011110111110-11 Dussett 0111 UlOlllU 10-12 



Shoity 101 11 01001 111 1 1-11 Reinick UUOllOOOllliO-iO 



Oadv lOOlllUOlOOlOl - 9 Ppi-ry 000001101010111-7 



Osborn 011111111111111-14 Whiteshurger.Ollllllllllllll— 14 



Hannaford... 111001111111110—12 North 011011011110 01—10 



Courtney Illl010<:ii011111-ll Rohson Ill 011111111011-13 



Waruf...,. . .111110111001111— l:i Schtlling.- 001110110010001-7 



Buckeye 110111111110111-13 



First div. by Merrill, Osborn, Forrest and Whitesburger; second 

 div. by Osmuu and Robson; third shot and div. hy Waruf. Wr'ght 

 and Hannaford; fourth shot and div. by Parker, Hebel and 

 Shorty; fifth div. 



Event No. 4, IS Keystones, $4, .§73 guaranteed: 

 Expert Clasp. 



Budd 110110010101110- 9 Heikes 011101110100010- 8 



Amateur Class. 



Dusett 110100101111101-10 0.'5mun 110111111101101-13 



Bucktve lUOl 01 11111 001 -11 Cooper. HlllOlllllllll-14 



Robaon lllUllllllllOO 13 H <nn"ford . . .011111111111010-13 



Wendt 110111111011110—13 Wright 010100111110111—10 



Yager 111111011110110-13 Warnf .1111111' Ollllll— 14 



Parker lOUOllOlOOlOll- 9 Spross IIOOIKXJIIIIIOI- 10 



Andrews 11001H11111110-H Merrill 111011100111011—11 



Osborn IIIOIH 111111 11-14 Lalham 110110000111111—10 



MoBher 110101110110001- 9 Richter 011111111110111—13 



Don Ill 110101100101-10 Crowell HI 1111011101 11—13 



Edwards 111101111101111—13 Ody 110101101101111—11 



McDonald 110111011101111—12 Mumma 01 10011 10111101-10 



Courtney llllllUOllOl 011—11 North 011101111111101—12 



Perry llOlllllOOlllOO-lO Sanford 1 11110111111111 -J4 



All ties div. but fifth, which was shot out and div. by Spross, 

 Mumrna and Perry, 



Event No, 5, 6 pairs Keystones, $3: 



Expert Class. 



Budd 11 10 11 10 11 10- 9 Heikes 10 10 01 11 10 11- 8 



Amateur Class. 



Oshorn 10 00 10 10 11 11— 7 Mumma 10 11 10 10 11 11— 9 



Edwards ... 10 10 11 10 11 00- 7 Sanford 01 10 10 11 10 00- 6 



Richter 01 01 00 10 10 10— 5 Hebel 10 10 UO 00 11 10— 5 



Merrill 00 00 10 10 01 11 - 5 Perry 10 10 10 01 CO 11— 6 



Andrews ...11 00 11 10 10 10— 7 Duselt 10 00 10 10 10 10- 5 



Freise 11 11 10 10 10 11— 9 Cooper 10 10 10 10 10 11— 7 



Webb 10 10 10 10 10 10— 6 Spross 11 10 10 11 00 11— 8 



White 10 11 11 11 11 10-10 Cady 00 10 10 11 01 11— 7 



Parker 10 ll 11 10 11 10— 9 Crowell 01 10 10 11 10 10— 7 



.lager 10 01 10 10 11 10- 7 Robson 10 11 01 U 10 01— 8 



Buckeye 10 10 10 10 10 11— 7 McDonald . ..lO 00 11 10 11 00- 6 



"■^Tiite" first, second div. by Friese, Parker and Mumma; third 

 div. hy Spross and Robson; fourth shot out and div. by Buckeye, 

 Cooper and Crowell; fifth div. 



Event No. 6, 20 Keystones, 85, $100 guaranteed: 

 Expert Class. 



Budd UOmOlOllOmiOOll-H Heikes... 11110111101001101111—15 



Amateur C!a=s. 



CroweU.. -00111011011110111111-15 Ed wards?.. 11111111111111111111-20 

 .sanford ..01001011111111111111-16 Andrews .11111111110111111111-19 



Friese 1111011)1000010011111-13 Cady 10111111111110111111—18 



Dussett . . .1111000111101111 1011-15 Osborn . . . .11111101111111111110—18 

 Wright... 11011111111111110110-17 Osman ...01111)01111111100111-16 

 Cooper.... 1101 lOOlUlllil 11101-16 Merrill... .11111101111111111011-18 

 Mumma.. 1111111101)011101111-17 Backeve.. 11111110111111110111— 18 

 McDonaldlllIH01111)01111111-18 Richter.. .UlllOllllOllllllOll-17 

 Forest. . . .11111111110111011111—18 Spross. . . . 11111111111111111111-20 

 Parker... .lOOmilliil 111101001—14 Oourlnev. 00111111111111111011—17 

 Brooks . , . .01001110101101011110—13 Robson . . ..010111010101111 10111—14 

 Waruf. . 11011101111111101110-16 



First and second div.; third shot ofE and Cady won; fourth and 

 fifth div. 



Event No. 7, 15 Keystones, Si, $75 guaranteed: 

 Exp-rt Glass. 



Budd 110111000101111-10 Heikes 101011111000100- 8 



Amateur Class. 



Sanford 110010111101111-11 Waruf 110111111111111-14 



I isborn 111111111111111-15 Cady IIHOIIOOIOIIIO-IO 



Courtney 1 ID II 1101 101 10 -12 Friete 111011001101111-11 



Merrill 111010111101111-12 Edwards OllllllUlllllll-lS 



Mumma 111111101011011—12 And re .v s . . .111110101 111011— 12 



Parker 111110100111101—11 Dussett 11111 lOlllOmi— 13 



Buckeye 11111 lOllllllU— 14 Cooper lllllllCOllOlOl— 11 



Richter 101111001111111—12 p.-rrv 111101011000111—10 



Osman 111101110111111—13 VVright lOiilllllUlllOll— 11 



Cro v.'ell 01 1 101 llllUl 11- 13 Forest 1 11110111111111— 14 



S pross llllllllUOOll 1-13 Sch illin g 1 00111011 111101-11 



McDonald . . . OOIIOIHOIUOOO- 8 



Obiiorn first: second div.; third shot and div. by Osman and 

 Crowell; fourth shot and won by Richter; fifth shot and div. by 

 Sanford and Cooper. 



Event No. 8, at 10 Keystones. $1: 



Expert Class. 



Budd 1111010011—7 Heikes UUOlllOO— 7 



Amateur Class. 



Mumma 1111111011— 9 Latham 1010111111—8 



Buckeye OUllllUl— 9 Spross 1111110111—9 



Courtney OllllOllOl— 7 Forrest IHOlllUl— 9 



Hannaford IXHIIOIIU— 7 Osman 1011011111—8 



McDonald IIOIUIIIIO- 7 Edwards 1001110101-6 



Merrill 1111011111—9 Watts 1111011110—8 



Schilling OUOOOUOOl— 3 Wolfutz . _ 1001111000—5 



R'chter llllllllOl— 9 Andrews 1111001011-7 



Brooks 1111111111—10 Sanford 1101111101-8 



Osborn milllUl- 10 Cooper 1101011111—8 



Friese OOlllllllO- 7 Weisinger ,0011(XI0111-5 



Wilcox OllOlOllOl— 6 1 iurett ,1011111111—9 



Perry llUOllllO- 8 Weight 0111101011-7 



Hebel OOOOllllOl— 5 Paiker UllOlOOlO-O 



CroweU 0111101111— 8 



First div. by Brooks and Osborn; second shot and div. by Buck- 

 eye and Snross; third shot and Crowell won; fourth shot and div. 

 by Budd. Hannaford and Friese; fifth div. 



Toward dusk Messrs. Heikes, McDonald and Parker shot a lit- 

 tle 20 bird race to decide the ownership of a gun ease offered hy 

 Mr. John Brooks. Messrs. HeiKes and Parker shot with one 

 hand, McDonald witu both. The latter won. Score: McDonald 

 16, Parker 15, Heikes 14. 



lo-day Mr. G. C. Osborn, of Toledo, who holds the L. C. Smith 

 cup, indicative of the championship of Ohio, shot all through in 

 the amateur class. There were also otliors whose scores to-day 

 average over 90 The only fair and proper thing to do is to put 

 such men up in the expert cla^s, not so much to console the other 

 experts as to protect the amateurs with whom they do not belong. 

 In regard to rfais point the management announces that at the 

 close of the next shoot following this all such shooters must go up 

 and stay up, but one shoot dot s not constitute such record. This 

 is perhaps as fair a way as can be devised, though the usual loop- 

 holes of the cliissificatior) system aiv. visible tc-day. This one day, 

 or this one shout, should not, however, be asked to decide the 

 merit of the plans and intentions ot the Inter-State Assrciation. 

 We shall need to go further into the season before much is said as 

 to that. 



Second Day. 



Wednesday broke clear and rather cold. The temperature mod- 

 erated about noon and it was a fairly good shooting day. The 

 attendance was not so large to-day as vesi-erday. but the entries 

 hovered around 40, which is very fair. This shoot is nt.t attended 

 so largely as the spring rournamunts of the last two years, but 

 there may t^e auy of a half dozen reasons for that. The guaran- 

 tees have filled nicely, aud the shooting has b^-en so steady that 

 the management ought to have a neat little sum to hand the home 

 club. The surplus money for averages in the expert class has 

 amounted, countiug yesterday and to-day, to a little over $85. 

 This, of course has been divided by Heikes and Budd. Char- 

 he admitted to me tc-night that he had won more m tbe expert 

 class, counting in this average money, than he could have made 

 in tne other class. In homely Western phrase, it would seem that 

 there "isn't much kick coming" to him ana Rolla, after all. 



To day both our friends, the experrs, improved, and Charlie 

 Budd got the hang of the game enough to shoot i'lto some toppish 

 ties, where he staid in, too. He won enough to clear all his en- 

 trance fees, he says. It is very'pleasant 10 say that both he and 

 Rolla Heikes stood in ard shot all day and did not quit the shoot. 

 They have both been cheerful and pleasant under their hard con- 

 ditions, have done no "Kicking." and have given their friends 

 reason to be proud of them. Tuey will not be losers on this 

 week's work. Financially, tlieir time may come later, when the 

 expert class is fuller of material which they can shoot out. They 

 are getting valuable practice to-day. So far as any earthly in- 

 terest to a spectator Is concerned, this shooting at tbe unknown 

 angles makes the only feature of marksmanship worth noticing 

 here. The monotony of the old system goes on and on. but when 

 experts step to the score the crowd all comes to watch them. 

 Why? Because they are doing shooting, and not smashing. 



Another tent was added to the semi-circle to-^ay, the spacious 

 and high wan canopy of Henry C Squires. This is the showiest 

 of tents now on the srrounds. In color it is a dark green and in 

 shape unique. The top and sides are covered with" inscriptions 

 pertinent to the Greener gun and the Squires specialty, and they 

 tell me that all this is from the hand of 6. Harry Squires, the in- 

 genious and able framor of Mr. Squires's meritorious new.=paper 

 advprti.<ements. The ground was in a trifle better shape to-day, 

 and the tents were better patronized. Tbe idea of having up 

 these tents is a good one, and tn suitable localities thev will make 

 a good and attractive display. The members of the Inter-State 

 Association are now all thus represented on the grounds with ex- 

 ception of three, the U. S. Cartridge Co.. the American Wood. 



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