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FOREST AND STREAM. 



[May 6, 1892. 



71st Regiment Matches. 



The success of the 7th Regiment members in carrying on a 

 series of winter matches in. the armory has determined one in- 

 spector of rifle practice to do something of the same sort. This is 

 Capt. Edwin Gould, of the 7lpt Regiment, and he has really ac- 

 complished a great deal under very untoward circumstances. 

 Just now the command is camping around, as it were, in this and 

 that hall, hoping and waiting for the completion of the new 

 armory. But there were the men, the trophy and the will, and it 

 did not take the energetic young captain long to find a place for 

 his men to show their skill. A request for the privilege of using 

 the 7th Regiment shooting tunnels promptly met with an affirm- 

 ative response, and on April 25, 27 and 28 the various company 

 teams of the 71st Regiment occupied their fellow guardsmen's 

 quarters. The trophy shot for was the Zrthriskie trop^v. a fine 

 work presented about a year ago by Capt. Audrew O. Zabnskie 

 and receiving its initial competition. Every company in the 

 regiment had its team of 10 men and each man fired 5 shots off- 

 hand at the 200 and 5 shots prone at tbe 500yds. target, A team of 

 each company shot on each evening, and the agg regate of the 

 three grand totals fixed the first winuers as Capt. Smith's men of 

 Co. B, with a total of 1,052. 



The scores were as follows: 



Co. B. 



Istnieht. 2d night. 3d night. 



Capt CH Smith 40 35 43 



Lieut T W Timpson 29 30 3ft 



First Sergt F D L Walker 42 37 41 



Pvt E L Flandreau 35 36 41 



Pvt R I Eccleston 33 32 31 



PvtCFBoynton 40 33 42 



PvtSCockrane 28 



Corp J E Carroll 29 



Pvt I H Parker... 23 .. . 



Pvt C G Gordon 34 36 25 



Corp H H True 26 37 



Pvt WR Hill 37 39 



Pvt E D Smith 41 89-1052 



Co. H. 



1st contest. 2d contest. 3d contest. 



First Lieut S P Fisher 32 . . 32 



Second Lieut M P Ross 43 36 36 



First Sergt A J Rober t s .29 34 37 



Sergt W Gleason 33 32 27 



CorpACFest ..39 35 40 



Pvt. W H Carter 43 34 39 



PvtGDovle 40 36 44 



PvtJDeffer 22 28 



Corp W Sutton 32 37 40 



Pvt J Carter 29 



Sergt W Longson 23 31 



PvtDS Carter 33 



Sergt A Lichtenstein .. 24—1020 



1st contest. 2d contest . 3d contest". 



Co A 312 333 3*3-968 



CoD 286 280 265 - 831 



CoF' 257 282 301-840 



Co K 298 295 328—921 



During the contests full strings at bullseyes of 500yd. target 

 were made by Lieut. Col. Dennison and Capt. Goss, Co. K. 



Co. H was a vigorous second, but had a measure of revenge by 

 distancing Co. B by just one point in the Homer trophy match, 

 fired by teams of five men at the 200 and 50yyds. targets. The 

 scoring in this match ran: 



Co. H. Co. C. 



200 500 Tl 200 500 Tl 



First Lieut Fisher 19 13 32 First Lieut Francis. ...18 23 41 



Second Lieut Ross ....21 22 43 Sergt Sands 13 20 33 



First Sergt Roberts.... 15 14 29 Corp Francis 19 17 3^ 



Pvt Carter 21 22 43 Pvt Gardiner 16 13 29 



Pvt Doyle 19 21 40 Pvt Murphy 17 18 35 



95 93 187 83 91 174 



Co. B. Co. I. 



200 500 Tl 200 500 Tl 



Capt Smith 22 23 45 Lieut Tyson 19 17 36 



First Sergt Walker.... 19 20 39 Corp Stagg 18 17 35 



Pvt. Hill 18 15 33 CorpOlin 20 17 37 



Pvt Boynton 16 17 38 Pvt Meyler 14 19 33 



Pvt Flandreau 19 17 36 Corp Mooney 11 05 26 



94 92 186 82 85 167 



Co. A. Co. K. 



200 600 TT 200 500 T'l 



Sergt. Cogan 21 13 34 Capt Goss 15 12 27 



Pvt Reilly 18 18 36 Lit-ut Keck 17 17 34 



Pvt Weiss ^0 14 34 Lieut Robinson 13 16 29 



Pvt Pierson 18 19 37 Sergt Miller 20 22 42 



PvtWinkleman 22 20 42 Sergt Stockman 18 14 33 



99 84 183 83 81 164 



F. S. and N. C. S. Co B., second team. 



200 500 T'l 200 500 T'l 



Lieut Col Dennison. ...20 25 45 Lieut Timpson 20 14 34 



Major Marsh 21 20 41 Pvt Gordon 17 18 35 



Cant Gould 21 21 42 Pvt Eccleston 13 19 29 



Sergt. MacGregor 14 12 26 Pvt Weyman 13 19 29 



Sergt Yates . . 13 }S 28 Pvt Smith 18 15 33 



89 93 182 81 79 160 



Co.F. 



200 500 T'l 200 500 T'l 



Capt Davis 16 19 a5 Corp McDermott 14 5 19 



Sergt Garth waite 16 13 29 Pvt Costello 20 20 40 



Corp Richardson 19 16 35 — — -— 



85 7o lo8 



The Seventy-first Regiment has adopted an armory button 

 similar to that of tbe Seventh Regiment, and every evening, 

 except Saturdays, for two weeks, beginning April 11, different 

 companies have tried to qualify their men. During that time 

 each company has had two chances to qualify its men, and the 

 interest taken by the men has been very great, with the result; of 

 360 Qualifications; very satisfactory, ;maeed, considering the ab- 

 sence of previous practice. 



South St. Louis Sharpshooters. 



St. Louis, Mo., April 18.— Tbe South St. Louis Sharpshooters 

 will give a tourney May 8, at their range across the Mississippi 

 River in Illinois. Broadway cable ears to Anna street. Then 

 take Anna street ferry. , ' 



There will be four tournaments given by our club at the Creve 

 Coeur Lake grounds this year— one in April, one in May, one in 

 August and one in September. Taese will be each a two days' 

 shoot. The South St. Louis Club will probably give the same 

 numher. 



The Millwaukee Sharpshooters have notified us that they hold a 

 tournament May 13, 14, 15. I think some of the St. Loui« boys will 

 take it in. Sam G. Dohmab. 



The 9:30 train of the Missouri Pacific Railroad, which pulled out 

 of the Union Depot April 24 for Creve Cceur Lake, carried a jolly 

 crowd to the rifle tournament given by the St. Louis German 

 Sharpshooters. At the close of the shoot, and after a short ad- 

 dress by our genial president, Dom. Delabar, prizes were awarded 

 according to the following scores: 



German Ring Target. 



L Schwinghoefer. .69 S G Dorman 67 H Vogel 59 



F Lendi 67 C K Dunkerley. ... 64 C Mueller 



PSchook 67 G W Alexander.. .63 R Bethmann 58 



V Rapp, Jr 67 D Wiget 60 Wm Baaer 58 



Point Target. 



SG Dorman 270 C K Dunkerley. . .196 D Wlget 165 



D Schenedewind .260 Wm Bauer 191 V Rapp, Jr 156 



Man Target. 



A Minde 94 S G Dorman 82 G W Alexander.. ..75 



D Schenedewind . .90 L Schwinghoefer.. 79 C Mersbach 74 



LSlcher 83 O Mueller 77 «i Steffen 72 



R Bethmann 82 C K Dunkerley ... .77 A Vogel 69 



Namrod. 



Garden City Rifle Team. 



The Garden City Rifle Team met for their weekly contest Tues- 

 day evening, April 26, at Geo. McCune's shooting gallery, Chicago, 

 111.; 25yds., 25 shots, open sights, free off-hand position, Massa- 

 chusetts paper target, possible 300: 



HSBurley ........ 272 A McBean 266 M Tatro 252 



WJGibbs 271 R Taylor 260 R McBean 251 



C A Hankie .269 W J Myers 260 W Frisbie. 250 



GeoMcCtme 269 Thos Ford., ..259 



In sweepstake shot after regular club shoot Hankie won by a 

 ecore of HO out of a possible 120 points. 



The Revolver in Canada. 



The CanadAan Militia Gazette rightly takes the. rifle associations 

 of the Dominion somewhat to task for the fashion in which revol- 

 ver competitions have been treated in the making up of meeting 

 programmes. It says: 



Strictly speaking it may be no part of the business of a "rifle" 

 association to concern itself about revolver practice. But as the 

 rifle meetings everywhere are attended so largely by officers and 

 others whose weapon is the revolver rather than the rifle, the as- 

 sociations have acted the useful part of auxiliaries for encourag- 

 ing the attainment of proficiency with the former also. True, the 

 work has been gone about in a very half-hearted manner, and the 

 revolver competitions at our central meetings have been very 

 tame indeed— the least interesting of all being that at the D. R, A*, 

 meeting last year, when only about ten or twelve competed. The 

 reason for thi3 complete lack of interest was the adoption of the 

 rule calling for nothing Ipss than the immense calibre of .44, and 

 a 7}4 inch barrel. This announced attempt, to popularize tbe use 

 of a "strictly military" weapon having so signally failed, it be- 

 hooves the executive of the D. R. A. either to declare that, the 

 revolver match serves no useful purpose and will not have a place 

 in the programme, or else to take steps to popularize it. 



The National Rifle Association of Great Britain is naturally and 

 properly followed by ours in nearly every respect concerning the 

 firipg conditions, and if no exceptions were made of the revolver 

 competition we believe there would be very general satisfaction. 

 Ii England hitherto the fault has been rather a lack of definite 

 restriction, this year an improvement has been made, which still 

 leaves the conditions sufficiently liberal to satisfy all. There are 

 two classes of weapons provided for. The first comprising mili- 

 tary revolvers (bead sights not allowed); the second, any revolver 

 of not less caliber than .32, with no restrictions as to weight, 

 length of barrel, sights or ammunition. A minimum trigger pull 

 of 41bs. is called for for both classes. 



The English target also is more closely defined than before, and 

 is found rather more liberal than ours. It is to be circular, on a 

 square card, with six divisions, coimtine respectively 7 to 2 marks, 

 and in diameter 2, 3, 634, 9^£ and 12 inches. On our target- 

 there are seven divisions, counting from 7 to 1 point, and in 

 diameter respectively, 1% 2$£, 4, 5^4, 7. 9)4 and 12% inches. 



It is specially provided that "No claim for a second bullet hav- 

 ing passed through a previous bullet hole without leaving any 

 trace of a second circle shall be allowed until some method is de- 

 vised by which such passage of a second bullet can be proved. 



Actual Size-247 out of 250, 



Made bv E. J. Travis, March 17, on ranges of Wurfflein Rifle 

 and Pistol Club, Philadelphia, Pa. 



Rifle vs. Revolver. 



Toronto, April 23.— A ir atch of a rather novel and interesting 

 nature was fired this afternoon between a team of six members of 

 the Q. O. R. of Canada Revolver Association and the same num- 

 ber of the Toronto cluh of the Dominion Off- Hand Rifle Associa- 

 tion. Conditions, seven rounds, Q. O. R. C. R. Association target; 

 ranges, tbe revolver team at 25yds , the rifle team at 75vds. Team 

 aggregates, Q. O. R. C. R. A., 147 points; Dom. Off-Hand, 166 

 points, being 19 points in favor of rifles. 



All ties divided unless otherwise reported, 

 FIXTURES. 



If you want your shoot to be announced here 

 send in notice like the following: 



May 5.— New York County Gun Club monthly shoot, at Dexter 

 Park, Long Island. 



May 6.— Crescent Gun Club, Dexter Park, Long Island. 



May 6.— Union Gun Club, fifth monthly prize shoot and open 

 tournament at Springfield, N. J. 



May 7.— South Side Gun Club, Newark. N. J. 



May 7.— Sewaren Land and Water Club, at Sewaren, N. J. 



jyiay 7 — SweepBtake shooting at Watson's Park, Burnside, 111. 



May 7. — New Jersey Shooting Club, Claremont, N. J. 



May 7.— Dexter Park Shooting Association, at Dexter Park. 



May 7.— Verona Rod and Gun Club, Pittsburgh, Pa. 



May 9 12.— Texas State Sportsmen's Association tournament at 

 Dallas, Texas. 



May 10-12.— The Ohio trap-shooters' annual tournament, Colum- 

 bus, O. 



May 10-12— .Maukato Gun Club tournament, at Mankato, Minn. 



May 10-12.— Geueseo Gun Club tournament, at Geneseo, 111. 



May 10-12.— Williamsport Rifle and Gun Club, fourth annual 

 tournament, at Williamsport, Pa. 



May 10-13.— Nebraska State Sportsmen's tournament, Grand 

 Island, Neb. 



May 11-12.— Cortland County Gun Club, kingbird tournament, 

 Cortland, N. Y. 



May 12.— Unknown Gun Club, at Dexter Park, Long Island. 



May 12.— Newark Gun Club, Bloomfield ave., Newark, N. J. 



May 14.— New Jersey State Trap Shooter's League, at Ruther- 

 ford, N. J. 



May 16. -Paterson Rod and Gun Club, regular shoot, at Pater- 

 son. N. J. 



Mav 16-19.— Capital Gun Club annual tournament, at Washing- 

 ton. D. O. Arthur S. Mattingly, Sec'y. 



May 17-18.— Oregon State Sportsmen's Association tournament, 

 Salem. Ore. , ,. „ 



May 17-19.— Grand tournament at Indianapolis. For programme, 

 etc., address Chas. Polster, 149 Indiana avenue, Indianapolis. 



May 17-20.— Annual tournament of Kansas City State Sports- 

 men's Association, at Council Grove. G. W. Cleck, Sec'y. 



May 19.— Essex Gun Club, Marion, N. J. 



May 19.— Falcon Gun Club monthly shoot, at Dexter Park. 



May 19-20.— Big Four tournament, Burlington, Iowa. 



May 20. -Marion, N. J., 50 live birds. 850 entry. Name of 

 shooter, with 810, to be sent to C. H. Townsend, 318 Broadway, 

 New York. ^ _ ' 



May 20.— Jeanette Gun Club, at Dexter Park. 



May 20 —Parkway Gun Club, Dexter Park, Long Island. 



May 20.— Atlantic Rod & Gun Club, at West End, Coney Island. 



May 23-25.— Altoona, Pa., first annual tournament, at WapBon- 

 onock Shooting Park. For programme address W. G. Clark. 



May 34-26.— Iowa State Association tournament, at Des Moines, 



l0 May 34-26.— Knoxville Gun Club, annual tournament, at Knox- 



^May^l&tf.— Windsor Keystone Gnn Olnb tournament, at Wind- 

 sor, Ontario, Canada. 



May 25.— Glenmore Rod and Gun Club, Dexter Park, L. I. 



May 26.— Emerald Gun Club, at Dexter Park. 



May 26-27.— Harrisburg Shooting Association, third annual 

 spring tournament, at Harrisbiarg, Pa. 



May 26-27.— Carmen Gun CLub tournament. Carmen, 111. 



May 27.— Linden Grove Gun Club monthly shoot, at Dexter 

 Park, Long Island. 



May 30.— Canajohaiie Gun Club, king bird tournament, at Cana- 

 jnharie. N. Y. 



May 30. — White Plains Gun Club tournament, White Plains, N.Y. 



May 30. — Op-n shoot and team match for Connecticut Keystone 

 Trophy, under the auspices of the Bridgeport Gun Club, at Bridge- 

 port, Conn, 



June 1-3.— Minneapolis Guu Club tournament, Minneapolis. 



June 6-11,— Eighteenth annual tournament of Illinois State 

 Sportsmen's Association, at Chicago. W. L Shepherd, Sec'y, 



June 7-9.— Interstate Manufacturers' and Dealers' Association 

 tournament, at Brooklyn, N. Y. 



Jtme 13-18.— New York State Association's Thirty-fourth Annual 

 Convention, at Syracuse, N. Y. Chas. H. Mowry Sec'y. 



June 14-16— North Star Gun Olub tournament, Minneapolis. 



June 15-17.— Waverly Gun CIuo tournament, at Waverly, la. 



June 16 18.— Sportsman's Association of the Northwest tourna- 

 ment, Seattle, Wash. 



June 21-23.— South Dakota State Sportsmen's Association tour- 

 nament, Brasford, S. D. Professionals barred. 



June 22 — Brightwood Gun Club tournament, Brightwood, Ind. 



July 5-7.— Atlantic City Gun Club's tournament, at Atlantic 

 Citv. N. J. 



July 6-8.— Lafayette Gun Club tournament, at Lafayette, Ind, 



July — . — Interstate Manufacturers' and Dealers' Association 

 tournament, at Watertown, N. Y. 



July 21-22.- Independent Gun Club tournament. Plainfield, N. J. 



Aug. 9-12.— Pennsylvania State Sportsmen's Association's an- 

 nual tournament, Reading, Pa. Walter D. Eller, Sec'y. 



Aug. 1012.— Missouri Stale Amateur Association tournament, 

 at Lexington, Mo. Added purses. Address G. A. Sturges, Sec'y. 



DRIVERS AND TWISTERS. 



Tite grpat attractions the coming week for trap shooters are the 

 tournaments of the Williamsport (Pa.) Rifle and Gun Club; Texas 

 State Sportsmen's Association, at i)alias; Ohio Slate Association, 

 at Columbus; Mankato (Minn.) Gun Club; Geneseo (111.) Gun 

 Club; Nebraska State Association, at Grand Island; Cortland 

 County (N. Y.) Gun Club, and New Jersey State Trap ShooterB' 

 League. This gives a variety of places that will suit shooters 

 from all over the country and give them all a chance to try their 

 skill and nerve in fast company. 



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When the writer arranged the conditions for the fifty-bird 

 match that, took place at John Erb's grounds in Newark on April 

 27, it was considered more of an experiment than anything else, 

 and friends assured him in strict confidence that he would he 

 '•unable to get more than three entries." The results proved con- 

 clusively that the "friends" were wrong, as seven men took part 

 in the shoot. This was perfectly satisfactory to the projector. At 

 the request of a number of shooters, among whom may be men- 

 tioned Al Rnst and John Rothaker, of Philadelphia; M. H. Fox, 

 of Trenton; Allen WiUey, of Hartford; M. F. Lindsley and E. Col- 

 lins, of Hoboken, and H. E. Smith, of Newark, another big shoot 

 has been arranged, the conditions to be as follows: Fifty live 

 birds per man, $50 entry, 28 and 30yds. rise, modified Hurlingham 

 rules to govern, shoot to take place at Al Heritage's grounds, 

 Marion, N. J„ on Friday, May 20, at 10:30 A. M. If there are seven 

 to eleven entries there will be three moneys; twelve to fifteen en- 

 tries, four moneys; sixteen to nineteen entries, five moneys; 

 twenty or more entries, six moneys. Those shooters who desire 

 to enter are requested to send their entry along with «10 forfeit 

 money to C. H. Townsend, trap editor Forest and Stream, 318 

 Broadway, New York city. 



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The majority of the New York and New Jersey shooters who are 

 at Pittsburgh this week will go directly from that city to Wil- 

 liamsport, Pa., to attend the tnree-days' shoot of the Williams- 

 port Rifle and Gun Club. This organization offers a splendid 

 programme and is certain to draw big lists of entries. The 

 awards of average moneys to the highest, aggregates in the 60, 70, 

 80 and 90 per cent, classes will give a winning chance to every- 

 body. The regular purseB will be divided as usual into 30, 25, 20, 

 15 and 10 per cent. Targets at 3 cents each will be deducted from 

 all purses. The big event of the second day will be a contest for 

 teams of two men each, 15 singles per man. S3 entry per team. 

 Shoot No. 9 on the same day will be at 25 siDgle*, as will be Event 

 No. 4 on the third day. The grounds of this club are splendidly 

 located in the most picturesque part of Lycoming county and 

 affords some unsurpassed scenery. The members of the club are 

 determined to give everybody a good time during their three- 

 days' stay. 



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At Marion on Saturday Al RusMhe well known Pennsylvania 

 expert, broke 23 out of 25 bluerocks under expert rules. This is a 

 good score under any conditions, but is a remarkably fine one 

 under these conditions. He used a 12-gauge Parker gun and 

 American wood powder. 



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The Auburn Gun Club is anxious to know when the Interstate 

 Association will announce positive dates for the tournament to be 

 held at Auburn in August. The dates will possibly be the 9th, 

 10th and 11th. 



Harry Whitney, the old-time "boy wonder," of Phelps, N. Y., 

 whom the writer his had the pleasure of meeting at various shooLs 

 in New York State, is one or the most modest youngsters in the 

 business, although away beyond the bayhood stage. He shoots 

 about as stiff a gait as ever and generally manages to be in the 

 vicinity of the cashier's box about the time the winners are called 

 for. When Harry started in on his shooting career— at Syracuse 

 in 1882— he was a shaver of thirteen summers and the same num- 

 ber of winters, and was called "built in a heap," being about as 

 broad as he was long. At Syracuse he astonished the talent by 

 his work at glass balls. During the three dajs he made the 

 highest average, had tbe highest number of straight scores and 

 also scored the longest string of consecutive breaks. At the State 

 shoot at Buffalo he won the R. V. Pierce diamond badge, in a con - 

 test at 15 live birds, 21yds. rise, one barrel, gun below the elbow 

 until bird was on the wing. Whitney and two others tied on 15 

 kills each and shot off at 5 birds, 26yds. rise. Here Wnitney and 

 Luther tied again on 5 kills each, tae okher man being shot out. 

 On the final shoot-off at 5 birds, 31yds. rise. Wnitney won, making 

 5 kills to Luther's 4. 



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The Boiling Springs Fish and Gun Club, of Rutherford, N. J., 

 are always endeavoring to stimulate the shooting interest of their 

 members, and are about to inaugurate a new series of contests. 

 On the second Wednesday of each month hereafter the members 

 will take part in a series of live bird contests for prizes valued at 

 850, and on the first Saturday of each month they will shoot at 

 oluerock targets for a whole stack of cash and merchandise 

 prizes. The grounds are being put in first class condition, and 

 will be in apple-pie order on May 14, when the club will engineer 

 the fourth" monthly contest of the New Jersey Trap Shooters' 

 League, in conjunction with which they will run an ail day tour- 

 nament. 



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In connection with the arrangemeut of the above tournament 

 I wish to congratulate the Boiling Springs people upon their fore- 

 sight in using two sets of five traps instead of the old siyle of one 

 set of five. When the New Jersey League first started the writer 

 advised the use of two sets of traps, claiming that at least 3,000 

 more targets could be thrown than by the use of the 10-trap 

 system. In shooting the 10-trap system ten men are obliged to 

 wait for one man to shoot, while by shooting from two sets of five 

 traps each, two men are blazing away all tne time. Another draw- 

 back of using the 10-trap system at tnese shoots is that sweepstake 

 shooting has to stop entirely while the team contest is going on. 

 At Rutherford one set of traps will be used for sweeps while the 

 other is being used by the teams. 



The fifth monthly prize shoot and open to all Keystone tourna- 

 ment of the Union Gun Club will take place at Springfield, N. J ., 

 to-morrow. In the club contest each member will shoot at 25 

 singles, from unknown angles. 



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The White Plains (N. Y.) Gun Club informs us that a clay- 

 pigeon tournament, open to all, will be held on their grounds on 

 Decoration Day, beginning at 10 A. M. Tnese grounds are well 

 equipped for trap events, and the members will assure a pleasant 

 welcome and lots of sport to all who visit them. 



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The dates for the kingbird target tournament of the Cortland 



