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FOREST AND STREAM. 



[Maech 10, 1892. 



birds, all sky-scraping drivers to the left or back. His 54th and 

 81st were vicious ones to the right, very high. These birds were 

 centered and cut to pieces, or they would have skated across the. 

 line on the wind. 



At much of this high work Mr. Fulford also was electrifyirg. 

 His 47th bird was stopped clean with the first and, turning, he 

 killed a high stray passing over, meeting grand stand applause. 

 His occasional clean and keen work in the deep field also was 

 admirable. He appeared to us a shooter, but ou Classed badly. 



At the halfway point Budd led by 3 birds. At 50 he just stopped 

 missing anything and got them all sorts, 14 straight, clean to the 

 end. After 60 Fulford knew he was not in it, and so said this 

 evening. At the 90 bole he had the appearance of collapse. The 

 pounding and th» strain had been too much for him. He cut 

 down his last bird well, however, and then people shook hands 

 with him and everyb^dv else. 



The score follows, 100 live birds, $200, A. S. A. rules: 



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C W Budd 2 2 1 2 3 2 2 1 1 0-9 



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After supper to-night Mr. Fulford said he had no fault to find 

 with anyone but, himself. He shewed a trigger finger badly cut 

 up by recoil, and said he had fired forty shots with the second fin- 

 der. His cheek was bruised and had a bad lump in it. He said 

 that to-morrow he would shoot his old hammerless Greener, Tibs. 

 7ozs., and he hoped to do better. He had never scored less than 

 98 with it. He thought he would win. He would bet $50 he would 



W At this juncture the ghost walked again. The safe door at 

 Billy's clankpd open and Mr. Fulford had his $50 placed very sud- 

 dent, like. Several invitations to do that again he declined 

 politely. He also declined bets, $100 to a bird, that he would not 

 kill 96, 95, 94, 93, 92, 91 or 90 birds, at each of which punctuation 

 marks the safe door uttered a harsh sound and fell apart, dis- 

 closing a large, coarse roll. Mr. Brelsford and several gentlemen 

 around New York ought to see that safe. Seeing is believiug. Mr. 

 Fulford believes all about it now, and somehow it does not seem 

 likely that he will say '•$10,000" over a whisper again till he is 

 safe with his friends back East. The West has deprecated all 

 such talk. It has vindicated its own positions bo far, and has 

 held to all its promises. We can't run a Teal good shooting match 

 ont here because we haven't got any hard birds; real trained 

 birds, you know, but we are getting on to this, and hope in time 

 to lsELm 



Mr. Fulford was pleasant and he was pleasantly received. He 

 madeno cry to-nigbt. It seems the general opinion that he is a 

 good, nice, country shooter, but he has gone too hard and square 

 against, too hard and square a game. 



Mr. Fulford's guide, philospher and friend, Col. J. Brewer, re- 

 marked to Mr. Allison in this city Tuesday morning that "Ful- 

 ford would fool around those Chicago fellows till they got all his 

 money." The Chicago fellows never wanted all his money, and 

 don't now. They wanted to see a nies pigeon match, and they 

 were and are ready to accommodate any gentieman who may 

 pine for a little excitement on the side. But Chicago likes Mr. 

 Fulford well enough to tell him that he would better get a new 

 guide, philosopher and friend. 



Mr. J. A. R. Elliott— tell me, ye prophetic shades, have I got to 

 call him "champion," too?— writes that he has $100 forfeit up with 

 the Times of Kansas City to bind $500 races with both Mr. Fulford 

 and Mr. Brewer, to be shot in Kansas City within ten days. Mr. 

 Fulford says he will not go to Kansas City, nor will Mr. Brewer, 

 but he will back Mr. Brewer on those terms, the match to be shot 

 at any neutral grounds— St. Louis, Davenport, Chicago, Milwau- 

 kee. This probably ends that match, but Mr. Elliott has had bis 

 talk. He was wired for to come up here to help shoot Fulford 

 and Brewer at a time when no definite plans were made, and it 

 seems to do him a great deal of good to have Chicago send for 

 him. Jim loves Chicago, probably not. , 



Mr. Thos. A. Marshall and Mr. W. P. Mussey shoot 100 and $100, 

 to-morrow at 12 M.. just before the second Fulford-Budd match. 

 If Tom Marshall eats as much supper to-night as he did.last night 

 he will be lucky tn get 50. 



Our old friend Mr. Coony Cahoon, of Freeport, is in our midst, 

 as the lecturer says. Mr. Cahoon has, I regret to state, hereft 

 society of the opportunity to gazs on his celebrated, his justly 

 celebrated whiskers. 



Friday, Second Day. 



Earn was falling in the morning, to the intense disgust of every- 

 body. The crowd went to the grounds early none the less. Mr. 

 Fulford's chances were thought to have improved 20 per cent, as 

 the birds would be soft, and he had shown himself not equal to 

 the hard ones. 



At noon the rain stooped, a faint wind blew out of the nor tb, 

 stirring Mr. Oairncross 1 new drab spring whiskers from left to 

 right as he gazed toward the score. The wind would also have, 

 stirred Mr. Cahoon's whiskers, but as above stated, he had.none. 



MTTS9E Y— MARSH AI/fj. 



Tom Marshall is the mayor of Keitbsburg and member of the 

 legislature, but no one here lays that up against him, and he was 

 allowed to shoot. As was feared the last two porterhouses that 

 the Hon. Thomas had eaten proved a handicap to him, and he 

 failed to accumulate over 83 birds. In this race the birds were 

 much duller fliers than those of yesterday, but they iucluded 

 some corkers. Only one bird out of the 300 was flagged up. The 

 flight averaged mainly right-quarters, the reverse of yesterday. 

 Mr. Mussey went to 50 before he got much style, but then grew 

 quicker, and went out on his last 30 in slashing shape, grassing 

 his birds closer to the traps than either Budd or Fulford. The 

 race see-sawed and varied, and was close enough to be exciting. 

 Mr. Mussey turned the half way station 3 ahead, and it takes a 

 hard man to beat him on that basis, as his last 50 is his best 

 usually. The score: 



One hundred live birds, $100, American Association rules: 



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 This match and the following one were refereed by John Wat- 

 son, who referees the majority of all Chicago matches and has yet 

 to hear the first complaint. 



Our friend Jack Ruble, seeking a little sure money, to get even 

 on yesterday's misjudgment, put $25 on Mr. Marshall. And once 

 more the price of brick at Ruble's yard must go up. 



There is most always somebody around who thinks he can beat 

 Billy Mussey in a pigeon match, yet his record does not invite such 

 invitations particularly. 



BtTDD-FULTOKD, 8ECOND MATCH. 



At 3:45 P. M. the light grew a little stronger and the air was not 

 quite so dull and mugey. The wind was a trifle straighter. The 

 birds averaged right-quarterers, and they were faster. Some 

 few of them were as fast and strong as anyone would meet. On the 

 average they were not a very hard lot. This was Fulford's day to 

 win. 



He did not win. He broke down, and from the bottom of my 

 heart I was sorry for him, and so was every shoofpr in Chicago. 

 Mr. Fulford's friends are to blame for this. They have led him 

 wrong. They have lauded him to the skies on too brief a record, 

 This has ruined many a man and it has ruined Fulford. He was 

 overrated, and he made the mistake of overrating himself. To- 

 night he is out of the shooting world. His Waterloo has come 

 suddenly and swiftly. He is ruined unless he shall reorganize on 

 an altogether different basis and begin again. 



It is a mistake to be carried away with any one shooter, East or 

 West, North or South. There is no absolute champion. There 

 are half a dozen men in the country who shoot about equally 

 well, and when one drops out another arises. Pin no absolnte 

 faith to any one of them. Men have their good and bad days like 

 hounds and horses. Form can not be predicted. Variations of 

 form will come, and these make or lose success. Just, now there 

 is probably no man in America who can defeat, Charlie Budd, yet 

 he has been beaten and he will be beaten again, though probably 

 never by Mr. Fulford. 



We in the West have no hurrah to make and no vaunting* to 

 set forth. We like Charlie Budd because we have known him for 

 years as modest, plucky, quiet and absolutely above all suspicion. 

 His recc I'd has shown him a shooter and a gentleman. For this 

 reason we have faith in him. But we should not and shall not 

 say that he is the only shooter in the world, or the only gentle- 

 man. 



Neither is there any disposition here to exult for reasons of sec- 

 tionalism in a victory of the West over the East. Frankly, it is 

 felt here that the East was hardly fair with the Western brethren 

 in the preliminaries of this compaign, and hardly credited them 

 with the straightforwardness and sincerity which they felt. Yet 

 it is believed that no bad feeling will be engendered, and hoped 

 if there is to be any future campaign it wilJ be conducted upon 

 different lines. We can shoot and be friends. We want to be 

 friendly and nothing else. The West can take care of itself in 

 any sort of situation, but it feels no need of blnster. After the 

 salute to the Western flag, nothing more is asked. We can be 

 friends and we want it that way. 



To-night Mr. Fulford has no better friend than Charlie Budd, 

 and if Charlie were not constitutionally tongue-tied he would tell 

 him so. Mr, Fulford's visit to Chicago has been a good one for 

 him, and his defeat is the best thing that could have happened to 

 him. For my part, I never want to see these two men shoot to- 

 gether again, and I never want to see a match again which, 

 dramatic as this of to-day, shall yet so strongly appeal to my sym- 

 pathies. It is due to the West that this report should be written 

 as it is, but I beg it will be believed that the shooters of Chicago 

 have no wish to taunt the Eastern shooters, or to ridicule the gen- 

 tleman who was plucky enough to come out here alone and shoot 

 in a strange country, when he had so much to lose. 



The malch itself may be reported briefly. It was settled from 

 the second bird, which Fulford missed. Fulford sat in his chair, 

 pulling up and sighting his gun, a weapon which he had shot in 

 long races before and should have known. He shot half a dozen 

 practice birds with his hammerless, missing oue. He began the 

 race with his hammer gun, from which he bad removed the 

 leather pad. In his second string of 30 he missed 15 birds, Budd 

 still showing his gait of the day before, though losing two scorch- 

 ing hot ones to the right, both dead out, the hardest birds I re- 

 member ever to have seen, I believe. Fulford on his 39th bird 

 changed back again to the hammerless gun. He asked permis- 

 sion to shoot a practice bird with this. "Certainly," said Mr. 

 Budd. He killed, and the race went on. as see the score. At his 

 44th bird he changed yst again, took up Mr.Organ's Greener, using 

 Mr. Mussey's shells. It was known now that the race was over, 

 and everybody wished heartily it was ended. Fulford missed 3 

 straight. No one spoke a word. Then, as it came his turn, he 

 said, "I'll let it go at that." 



He was reminded that he had one more shot to fire to even the 

 score. He took up his hammer gun, fired and missed. It was an 

 awkward moment, but the sympathy expressed was genuine. The 

 score: 



One hundred live birds, $200, American Association rules: 



C WBudd. 



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2 2 1 0 2 0 2 2 1 0-7 

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In 506 birds shot at yesterday and to-day only three failed to 

 start promptly on the pull. This does not c <unt Mr. Fulford's 100 

 in practice, though I am told none was flagged in that lot either. 

 If necessary we can get harder birds. Thev were not trained at 

 all. With a cold day and a keen wind the shooting would have 

 been much harder, A 90 man on these grounds is lit company for 

 any one. The man doesn't live who can kill 98 to the 100 here. 



A little informal supper was offered Mr. Fulford and Mr. Budd 

 to-night, but Mr. Fultord did not appear. He made a social mis- 

 take in this, as he was out all the evening later. The supper was 

 pleasant, the Hon. Thomas in the chair. Mr. Marshall said he 

 was afraid to go home, as one of the qualifications for office in 

 the Mississippi bottoms district was a reputation as a shooter. He 

 would consider any allusion to low score as a personal to himself, 

 and wonld call the gentleman to order. He scouted the appella- 



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tion of "yellowleg," and said he would show the bovs something 

 about ducks, if they would come and see him. 



Lateron.it being learned that Brewer could not get hereon 

 Saturday, Mr, Wilcox declined to retain the forfeit posted by Mr. 

 Fultord to bind the match with Brewer against an unknown, and 

 it was returned to Mr. Fulford. So also, if he wishes, will be dis- 

 posed the Chicago half of the forfeit. Brewer may come here the 

 first of next week, but he will shoot no race here, then, or at any 

 other time, with Charlie Budd or with any Chicago shooter. 

 Plenty of reasons for this he can have by applying at this office, or 

 at any other place in Chicago. 



I asked Mr. Fulford whether he cared to say anything about the 

 late matches between himself and Brewer in the East, in reply to 

 the very general talk that they were hippodroming on fixed 

 matches. We talked some time and he said finally that he did 

 not wish to make any statement in regard to that. In this I 

 think he made a mistake. I hope for his later denial in full of all 

 such charges. We are fain to believe him an honest and good - 

 hearted man, hurt mostly through wrong judgment on the part 

 of his friends and wrong treatment on the part of those whom he 

 thought to be his friends. 



Had not Mr. Fulford been defeated so sadly, or had he wished 

 to go on shooting, it was intended, since seeing him shoot yester- 

 day, to match against him Geo. Kleinman, A. J. Atwater and W. 

 P. Mussey, men who last week as they stood were not presump- 

 tuous enough to think themselves in his class. 



"I'll say good bye to you for six months, gentlemen," said Mr. 

 Fulford, "bntlnext fall I'm coming out again and want to shoot 

 again with Mr. Budd." 



Charles Budd will be here a day or so, visiting. He has always 

 been very popular here and will now be more so than ever. For 

 the race he shot under these circumstances, he ought indeed to 

 have won $2,500 to $5,000. It was worth it. But there was no Ful- 

 ford money to be seen of any conseq uence. Charlie's share of the 

 little purse made up to place as stakes will amount to little in 

 comparison to what a race like this should net him, and still the 

 stakes were enough to form a sportsman's race, and that is all 

 Chicago wanted. 



And now our talk is done and the battle has been fought. Let 

 not the East think the West is over-jubilant; we are a little sorry, 

 too. But it should be remembered that, 



First, Chicago is the only city having a World's Fair, 



Second, Chicago is willin' to learn. 



Meantime, the safe door at Billy's swings idly in the wynde. 

 There is a little money in there now, and some of it came from 

 the East. Don't fool with that old safe door, good friends in the 

 East, for somehow she's gettin' might easy on trigger. 



E. Hough. 



Anent Gun Handicaps. 



Editor Forest and Stream: 



Nothing more forcibly exhibits the stupidity and unfairness of 

 the gun handicap generally accepted than the following extract, 

 from the Chicago Herald's report of the Budd-Fulford match on 

 March 3: 



"Fulford waH handicapped by the heavy charge in his shells and 

 by the fact that in the forenoon he had practice d at 100 birds. He 

 grassed 86, and when he came to the traps in the afternoon his 

 face on the right side was cut and swollen from the kicking of his 

 gun, and his trigger finger was sore and almost cut to pieces. He 

 used a 71b. looz. Greener hammer gun, and his shells were filled 

 with 5^drs. of wood powder, an extremely heavy charge. Toward 

 the close of the match he was compelled to use his middle finger 

 to pull the t rigger," 



Now, I believe that trap shooting is a source of pleasure, so I use 

 alO-gau?e gun weighing nearly lllhs. I let the gun take up the 

 recoil, not myself. During the summer I frequently fire 250 shots 

 in a single day, wearing only a gauze undershirt or a thin flannel 

 shirt; no coat, no vest. I load this "cannon," as the 12-bore men 

 contemptuously call it, with the enormous charges of 3drs. of 

 black powder for inanimates, and oYa and idrs. (right and left 

 barrels respectively) of nitro powder for live birds. At the end of 

 the day there is absolutely no bruises, discoloration, or injury of 

 any kind on face or body. Yet a man shooting a feather-weight 

 or medium-weight 12-bore, loaded with fmm 5 to 5j^(!)drs. of 

 powder, and the same amount of shot I use, lM<>z.. pronounces my 

 gun an "unsportsmanlike cannon," and then bathes his black- 

 and-blue shoulder with arnica and adorns his cheek with sundry 

 strips of court-plaster! Was anything ever more absurd'/ 



This arbitrary limit to the weight and caliber of the gun is im- 

 pertinent and presumptious. It savors of the "Great I Am." It 

 Is a notice to the world that "we," the very elect, know it all, and 

 that the rest of us must sit at their feet and drink in wisdom. 



A sensible, and therefore fair, set of rules was sent out some 

 vears ago, making the load, not the gun, the basis of a handicap. 

 Its absolute fairness took away from the 12-bores their deliberate 

 steal of two yards, so there was an instant and fearful howl, and 

 tc-day those rules are practically never used. But this very pro- 

 test conceded everything. It was a confession that with equal 

 charges the 10-bore was the better weapon. Hence we are entitled 

 to elect whicn we prefer. How would it do, say, to make the good 

 old cross-bow the "gentleman's" standard, and so dishonestly 

 handicap all guns tnat they could not win? It is pathetically 



Fitzsirnmons in his "gentlemanly" dispute with Mr. Maher at 

 New Orleans. "Good Lord, deliver us" from a continuation of 

 this foolishness on the part of many and dishonesty on the part of 

 others. 



In the field choose a light weapon. If for upland shooting, a 12 

 or 16- bore of 71bs. or less; for trap or duck shootinsr, where the gnn 

 is not "toted," a 10-gauge, not far from lOlbs. either way. The 

 present standard, 13-gauge, 71bs. 15oz , is "English, you know," 

 but it is an abortion in this country, being too heavy for field 

 work and too light for trap and ducks. 



In making handicaps, let the chai-ge govern the penalty im- 

 posed. If Sirs, of powder and lJ4oz. of shor, will do better work in 

 the 10-gauge, confess it and buy one. If the work in a 12-gauge is 

 equal, stand at an equal and honest distance. Quit bruising your 

 shoulders and cutting your cheeks and whimpering about "iien- 

 tlemanly" weapons vs. "cannons." In short, be men and sports- 

 men. Fairplay. 



Knoxville's Anticipations. 



Knox ville, Tenn., Feb. 29.— The members of the Knox ville Gun 

 Club are beginning to become enthused anticipating the pleasure 

 (and profit (?) to their puxses) attendant on our next tenth annual 

 three-days' shooting tournament, to be held probably the last of 

 May. This season of the year is most suited for such an occasion, 

 when ihe boys' fancies lightly turn to thoughts of guns, traps and 

 targets. No more enthusiastic club exists than in our beautiful 

 mountain city, famous for its scenery and cordiality extended to 

 all visiting brother sportsmen. Our club grounds are situated in 

 a level plat on top of a gently sloping knoll, and have a perfectly 

 clear sky background for each trap. No complaints are heard 

 here of "Could not see the target." With this great advantage 

 high scores can be made, and at our last September tournament 

 Miller and Parker broke the world's reaord on straight breaks, 

 Mr. Paul North witnessing same as referee part cf the t'me. Look 

 out for dates to be announced later, and we assure you a pleasant, 

 social visit and good b'g purses and merchandise prizes. A few of 

 the boys celebrated the 23d uit. with a ssve«p or two, just to see 

 how steady their nerves were when "the stuff" isup The follow- 

 lowlng Bcores were made, exuert traps, electric pull, 5 traps, r apid- 

 firing system. No. 1, known angles and traps, $2 50 entrance, 4 

 moneys: 



Goss.. 10111111Uini0101imiU-22 



Wilson 11 1011101111 0101O1001 1101 — 17 



Connor 0110001 OIIOOIKKDIUOOOOO— 10 



Duncan OUlOomooilllllllOllOll -is 



Price 1001111 11 11011 lOOulllfllll— 19 



J E Ross 1000111 liriOUOUOOlllOOl— 17 



Morris 101111101111110H010111U— 20 



S Van Gilder 1111110011111111111111111—28 



C Ross lllllOllOimiOlOOlHini -20 



No. 2, same conditions as above, 15 birds, SI. 50 entrance: John 

 Ross 11, Goss 10, E. J. Ross 9, Duncan 10, Wilson 0, C. Eoa.s 12, ft 

 Van Gilder 13. Morris 11, Connor 13, Price 9, Jacques 15. 



No. 3, 15 birds, $1 50 entrance: John Ross 12. Goss 10, Duncan 12, 

 C.Ross 14, E. J. Ross 11, Wilson 9, Morris 10, S. Van Hilder 14, 

 Connor 7. A, E. Meade 14, S. B. Dow 10. Jacques 13. 



No. 4, 20 birds, S3 entrance: Duncan 16, John Ross 16. Wilson 12, 

 O. Eoss 16, E. J Ross 17, Goss 11 , S. Van Gilder 16, A. E. Mend 16, 

 Jacques 17. Morris 14, S. B. Dow 10 Price 13. 



No. 5, 20 birdp, §2 entrance: S. Van Gilder 19, Goss 9, C. Eoss 12, 

 E. J. Eoss 14, A. E. Mead 10, John Eoss 18, Wilson 15, Jacques 17. 

 John Conner 15, Duncan 14, Spillman 6, Slocum 14, J. R. Price 14. 



At the annual meeting officers were elected as follows: S, B. 

 Dow. Pres.; T. C. Eldridsre, Vice-Pres.; S. Van Gilder. Capt,,; J, C. 

 White, Treas.; R. Van Gilder, Seo'y, who will he pleased to re- 

 ceive all communications and furnish programmes, rates (rail- 

 road and hotel) to all visiting sportsmen for our tenth annual 

 May tournament, Jacques, Sec'y. j 



