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FOREST AND STREAM. 



[Mat 12, 1893. 



Trains from Chambers street ferry will leave at 7, 8, 8:30, 10:22 A. 

 M.. 13 M., 1 and 1:50 P. M. 



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The following letter from J. Howard Brouse, auent the coming 

 tournament of tbe Atlantic City (N. J.) Gun Club, will be of 

 interest to the army of trap-shooters: "The second annual tour- 

 nament of the Atlantic City Gun Club, to be held on July 4, 5, 6 

 and 7, promises to be the largest of the season, as it comes during 

 the holidays, and just at the season of the year when people 

 want to be at the seashore. The management have received 

 communications from all parts of the country asking for pro- 

 grammes and hotel rates, and the indications are tha t there will 

 be a larger number of shooters than at any other tournament 

 this year. Some of the people that were there last year say they 

 enjoyed themselves so much that they are going this year if they 

 have to walk. The management have decided to offer a gold 

 watch charm, valued at $10, to the team making the highest 

 score. Teams to consist of 5 men from any one club and to shoot 

 at 25 birds per man, entrance $10 per team. Money divided, first 

 prize, 30 per cent, and gold watch charm; second prize, 30 per 

 cent.: third, 21 per cent.; fourth, tiffa per cent.; fifth, 7% per 

 cent. AH teams to make their entrance to J. Howard Brouse, 

 Atlantic City Gun Club. Atlantic City, N. J., by July 1. Applica- 

 tions to be accompanied by 30 per cent, of entrance money, $2, 

 and in making application to mention the day they want to shoot, 

 and send list of not more than ten men from whom their team 

 will be selected. Teams not shooting on the day selected by them 

 will forfeit their entrance money deposited, which will be added 

 to the purse and divided among those who do shoot." 



Mr. J. E. Prindle, New York passenger agent of the Norfolk & 

 Western R. R., informs us that his road will make a. sweeping re- 

 duction in rates between New York and Knoxville and return 

 during the tournament of the Knoxville Gun Club. The fare for 

 the round trip will be cut to the very low figure of $28.14, exclusive 

 of the cost of sleeping berths. The majority of the Eastern 

 shooters will leave home on Sunday night and reach Knoxville on 

 Monday night. The shoot takes place on May 24, 35 and 26. 



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Jack Parker is an untiring mauagar, and after getting through 

 •with his "Washington hustling he will swing directly to Windsor, 

 Ontario, Canada, where ho will engineer the business connected 

 with the Windsor Keystone Gun Cinb tournament, to be held on 

 May 24, 25 and 26. Tbe shoot will be a big affair, and a lot of 

 cracks from this side of the border will take part. 



The good-natured face which is showu below will be recognized 

 by all trap-shooters, young or old, as that of Wm, Wagner, the 

 major domo of shooting affairs in and about Washington, D. C. 

 "Billy," as he is familiarly called, is a crack shot at either live 

 birds or targets, aud is one of the liveliest hustlers in the country 



WILT J AM WAGNER. 



Possessed of an inexhaustible fund of good-nature be is immensely 

 popular wherever he goes. He will be in the, hey-day of glory 

 next, week during the Capital City Gun Club's tournament and 

 intends to keep the boys on their mettle from early morn until 

 dark. 



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And anent this same Washington shoot I see that a big attrac- 

 tion is added to tbe programme in the way of a contest open to 

 teams of six men from any organized club in the country, each 

 man to shoot at 25 single bluerock targets. The entry fee is S20 

 per team. First prize is $60 cash, $25 of which is donated by J. T. 

 Moylan, of the Owen House (where all the shooters will hold 

 forth); second prize is a Parker hammerless gnn, and there will be 

 numerous other valuable trophies. In another column will be 

 found the full programme for the four d ays. A number of shooters 

 from New York and New Jersey will go to Washington on Sunday 

 night via the Pennsylvania Railroad. 



A new gun club has been formed in New York by several old 

 members of the New York German Gun Club, which will be 

 known as the Down Town Gun Club of New York. Their head- 

 quarters are at Leopold Marecbe's, 384 Pearl street. It is proposed 

 to bold the regular monthly shoots at Dexter Park during the 

 season, the first to be held on Monday, May 16. The officers of the 

 club are: President. F. Hemmers; Yice-President, A. Goetz; 

 Secretary, W. Joost; 'Treasurer, H. Fagen. 



Ou March 28 the Colt Patent Firearms Company shipped a tent 

 and other property to Staunton, Va-, to be used during the Inter- 

 state tournament at that place. The outfit, however, did not 

 reach Staunton until April 20 and consequently it was immedi- 

 ately reshipped to Pittsburgh, which it reached in time for last 

 week's shoot. 



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A letter to H. A. Penrose from the Baker Gun and Forging 

 Company, of Batavia, N. Y., states that as soon as the company 

 gets i's new hammerless eun on the market they will have a 

 teat, etc., as well as a competent man to represent them at the 

 Interstate tournaments. 



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The people in and about the city of Pittsburgh solemnly affirm 

 that Fob est and Stream is the only trap shooting paper pub- 

 lished. Curious, isn't it, that a similar opinion should exist in so 

 many different parts of the country. 



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All communications for publication must be addressed to tbe 

 Forest and Stream Publishing Company, and not to any individ- 

 ual, S a veral reports have been delayed because this ^ule has not 

 been observed. C. H. Townsend. 



Mount Morris Gun Club. 



Mi. Morris, N. Y., May 7.— A gun club has recently been organ- 

 ized at this place and starts off with a membership of 25. Besides 

 arranging shoots, that its members may improve in the art of 

 wing shooting, tbe club will endeavor to stock the stream in 

 this locality with fish, aud will also take an interest in the move- 

 ment being made throughout the country toward forestry pres- 

 ervation. The officers of the club are: Pres., Geo. S. Ellicott: 

 Vice-Pree., A. J. Crissv; Seo'y-Treas., Chas. Gamble. At the 

 tegular shoot last Friday afternoon the following score was 

 made, bluer ocks, lfiyds.: 



C Galhraith luOlOOlOlOOllllinoiOlll 10—14 



0 Sickles lOOOOllOOOllOOIimOOlOlO— 10 



Van Dorn .1010U0011000000;00000010— 7 



Crissy OOlOOOllOKllOlOOOllOOOlO- 9 



.1 Gal braith 10001 10111111111100010010-17 



Ellicott. 101011 101 1 J 0111001 ii 1 1110-17 



Matteson 0001 0110100111 w. 



Tag-Ends of Kansas City. 



Kansas City, Mo.. Mav 7.— Mr. Fred Lord of Chicago has a 

 railroad known as the Maple L^af, or the "Diagonal," or some- 

 times as the Chicago, St. Paul & Kansas Railway. It is usually 

 among shooters called "Fred Lord's road," and I suppose he owns 

 it. Fred Lord's road was out of gear yesterday and the day be- 

 fore. A good many roads were. The Rock Maud got no trains 

 west of Burpau Junction for two days. The "Q" had" seven miles 

 of track out in one gap in Iowa. Tbe Santa Fe had a fearful ac- 

 cident at a wash-out near Fort Madison, Iowa. All lines were 

 stopped. Railroad men have not seen the like of the present 

 floods for a quarter of a century. Traffic was utterly demoral- 

 ized. Perhaps we. can not blame Fred Lord's road for declining 

 to run a night train when the run meant probable disaster. Tbe 

 day run made all the passengers glad it w as not night, for the 

 work3 of the flood were everywhere. All the same, thirty-six 

 hours added to a delay In Iowa already unavoidably too long, 

 brought, the writer to Kansas City only in time to say good bye to 

 the shooters of the Missouri fifteenth annual State Shoot. It 

 must be tag-ends only, therefore, which the writer can offer, even 

 were more needed after Mr. Budd's report of the event, which 

 covers it very nicely. 



The weather was simply awful this week, including one elec- 

 trical storm. Only two good shooting days offered. In suite of 

 this, the shoot was a success, more especially so through Kansas 

 City enterprise. St. Louis sent four shooters. Jefferson City 

 sent two men, St. Jo four, Cameion not a single man. Top entry 

 was fifty- f hrec. 



Missouri shoot is essentially a live bird affair. About 5,000 birds 

 were shot this week, an averace of 8S5 daily. The King traps, 

 spring pull, were u=ed. Shooting was in squads of 5; but the 

 traps were filled after each shot, so it was 5 unknown traps for 

 each shooter. 



The target events did not amount to a great deal, the lierhter 

 shooters holding back from the strong class of experts. There 

 was no handicap. In one 50 targets race there were 3 meu who 

 got 48, one 47, one 46. This fcept the timid out. The target entries 

 did not swell till the big guns let up a ;little. The bluerock folks 

 had a set of 5 traps, and the TJ. S. Pigeon Co. also had a set of 5 

 traps, the latter a present to tbe park, which since Jan. 1 ha$ 

 been in the hands of Messrs. Kinnan & Bennett, who bought out 

 Mr. Elliott. 



Tbe birds averaged.'good through the week,barring;those shot in 

 the rain and those left at the clo«e of the shoot. A novel method 

 of starting slow birds was adopted. There were no flag ropes at 

 all, but the trappers had a basketful of croquet balls, and when 

 the bird refused to fake wing he early wished he bad, for the un- 

 erring croquet ball of Billy the Kid was apt to threaten him with 

 sudden death if he didn't fly. 



St. Louis sent over only four men, but they took away some 

 glory. Col. Hageerty, with the diamond, won the St. Louis Gun 

 Club medal, which bv custom has always carried the State cham- 

 pionship. In the 4-men club teams shot St.. Louis tied the O.K.'s 

 and won in the shoot-off, eight teams entered. St. Louis also 

 shot into the divided tie in the 2-men team shoot, in which there 

 were nineteen teams. 



A great deal of discussion arose over this St. Louis medal and 

 the involved question of the championship. The conditions call 

 for only ten birds, too few to make the race a test of skill. Under 

 the terms the winner takes all the next year's entry, there befog 

 only one money. This would appear a good winning, but it is a 

 grave question if this system of gambling on futures, though a 

 common one in State tournaments, is not radically wrong, and 

 moreover in practice it worked very badly this year. There were 

 only five entries this year and two of these only, Mr. Haggerty 

 and Mr. Elliott, stayed in after the first round of ten. Such a 

 shoot does not represent a State championship. It will be seen 

 that Mr. H. C. Myer, who won this medal last year, won next to 

 nothing for bis shooting, and was not paid pro rata for his skill 

 actually displayed in comparison. Tbie latter should be the test 

 and the winning should base itself thereon. This matter was 

 taken up at the convention, and Mr. Myer offered a resolution 

 providlugfor tbe establishment of a definite State championship 

 race, the conditions of which Ishall be twenty-five single birds 

 under prevailing rules, entrance fee the price of the birds, and 

 the club or clubs under whose auspices tbe tournaments shall 

 hereafter be held to provide a suitable trophy emblematic of the 

 State championship, which shall become the individual property 

 of the winner of that race each year. The resolution was dis- 

 cussed at length and unanimously adopted. Independence has 

 the shoot next year, and the Independence Gun Club will offer 

 tbe winner of the new championship match either a gold watcb 

 or a suitable medal. The St. Louis medal may now be said to be 

 practically out of existence as a championship factor. I am dis- 

 posed to favor a system which determines the winnings at the 

 time when the winning is done, and which gives a winner some- 

 thing tangible to keep. The band-me-over State, medal is not a 

 very useful object to the manwhowics it. St. Louis is sa tisfied 

 with thenew arrangement. She will bring back her medal next 

 year but probably with three moneys at< ached, division to be 

 made on actual entry. The convention will fix upon some plan 

 to remunerate Mr. Haggerty next year, when his winnings would 

 be determined under the old system. 



The convention decided to hold the next shoot at Independence. 

 This point is well chosen, being only a few miles from Kansas 

 City, but far enough away to avoid jealousy of a second term for 

 Kansas City. The officers for the ensuing year are J. .1. Owens, 

 president; R. D. Mize, recording secretary; Chas. R. Thomas, cor- 

 responding secretary; Oscar Cogswell, treasurer; all of Independ- 

 ence. Mr. F. P. Dallmeyer, of Jefferson City, was chosen vice- 

 president. These officers will later choose a board of directors. 



I have called these tag-ends of the shoot, but I find it impossible 

 to keep from among them a little scoop, of the exclusive sort 

 which is always somehow following Forest and Stream around. 

 This is about that new shooting park earlier whispered of. The 

 contracts are closed for the purchase of ten acres of ground 

 between Kansas City and Independence. The purchase is made 

 by a stock company composed of the united gun clubs of Kansas 

 City and Independence. Tlie park will be the best and most com- 

 plete of its kind in this section. It will have bowl 1 ng alleys and 

 quoit grounds, a rifle range, and all modern improvements in bird 

 and target shooting. There will be a fine club house, a telephone, 

 a resident manager, and all things needed for a place of practical 

 access for sportsmen in search of manly amusement. The new 

 tract is well chosen, near a pleasant grove. It is six miles from 

 Kansas City, reached via cable to the dummy line of the K. C, I. 

 & Park Ry., and in time is nearly as convenient as the old Elliott 

 Park, against whose famous side-bill so many alien shooters have 

 leaned in vain. The grounds will be controlled absolutely by the 

 corporation. 



An amusing incident occurred the other evening, in which Dr. 

 Pitts, of St. Louis, Mr. E. D. Fulford and Dr. W. F. Carver, the 

 noted wing-shooter, all figured. Dr. Carver happened to be in 

 town this week, and had his guns arrived he would have engaged 

 in the tournament festivities. He was not known to the gentle- 

 men abov r e mentioned, but all three fell into a shooting discus- 

 sion in the hotel lobby one evening. The unknown shooter made 

 a few statements of a positive nature, and Dr. Pitts and Mr. Ful- 

 ford lit into him. They cited Dr. Carver as a shooter of small 

 worth, and pulled his record to piecs, Mr. Fulford started in on 

 Jack Brewer, and about what he said can be easily guessed. The 

 unknown just listened, and finally went to bed— not that his re- 

 tiring early had anything to do with the listening. The next day 

 the wily Doctor, who had seen himself as others see him, appeared 

 out at the ground arrayed in all his English glory, flowered vest, 

 trousers with four different-colored streaks in them, etc., etc., and 

 it quickly leaked out who he was. Then Mr. Fultord wished he 

 bad said less about Jack Brewer, and Dr. Pitts was glad tbe 

 stranger had not accepted his proposition to shoot 100 birds, $100, 

 as made the evening previous in the heat of the discussion. 



Dr. Carver will have a chance to get a little race here if he 

 wants it, for $1,000 to $5,000. grounds to be staked out anywhere 

 in this vicinity, any time within 60 days. Certified checks to the 

 above lie quietly backing the willingness of Jim Elliott and his 

 friends to go against or be gone against in an entanglement of 

 this kind. 



Missouri State shoot this year brought out about as hot a class 

 of shooters, take them straight through, as ever assembled at a 

 tournament. It was give and take among tbe good ones, and 

 mostly give. 



Capt. J. H. McGae, one of the best known shooting characters 

 here, refereed the shooting, and settled all cavil by bis usual re- 

 mark, "That's what I said," Capt. McGee is now fifty-five years 

 old. He organized the first gnu club ever known in Kansas City. 

 That was in 1866. Since then he. has been shooting and engineer- 

 ing shooters, and is much sought after as a referee. 



SHORT SAYINGS Of THE SHOOTKKS. 



J. A. R. Elliott— I shall shoot only one more race for the cham- 

 pionship cop. It is an expensive luxury. Mr. Rolen, of this city, 

 will be mv last opponent. I did not find Mr. Fulford a hard man 

 to Vieat. We had $164 gate money in our match, and this Mr. Ful- 

 ford insisted be divided. 1 tried before the shoot to arrange that 

 the winner eh "u'd take the gate, but he would not concede. T 

 will shoot Dr. Carver for any sum up to $5,000 or even more. He 

 always says the stakes are not large, enough. Did you say Chicago 



was afloat? That's a good thing, but it would be better if the 

 blame place was sunk. I'm coming up there before long, though. 



J. A. Bolen — Yes, I am to shoot Mr. Elliott for the cup, and I 

 hope to make a score as high as the lowest in the dozen or so 

 races he has shot for it and won. Of course I have no cinch, but 

 if I hold my gait I have a fighting show at least. (Mr. Bolen is a 

 wealthy coal merchant here, and during the tournament has 

 shown himself familiar with the traps. The match will probably 

 take place in early Ausust.) 



Dr. Carver.— I have not been shooting much of late, and I don't 

 care to go into any matches. My guns are not on hand yet, or I 

 would try a little whirl in the sweeps with the boys. 



Uncle Jimmy McGee — J don't like this idea of having so many 

 different sets of shooting rules, all over the country. Our rules 

 here don't agree with the American Association rules. I think 

 we ought all to have stuck to those and improved them to a point 

 where all the large cities would use them in common. These oddB 

 and ends of rules are no good. I want to say a word for a single, 

 univeral set of shooting rules for American shooters. Then we 

 could tell something about, the shooting we read of. 



Official scorer Jimmy Whitfield— The Forest and Stream new 

 trap type, showing flights, is the best thing out. You remember 

 I had some such idea three years ago, only I would have had signs 

 <ind letters iustead of arrows. Isn't this a hot old shooting crowd, 

 though? They don't scare 'em up much hotter. Wait till I score 

 this fellow. 



Dick Merrill.— The lightning the other night scared all the 

 waiter girls out into tbe halls at my hotel. I crawled under the 

 bed. I never saw such thunder in my life. 



IF. T. Irwin— I am training a kennel at Coffeeville, Kan. We 

 have lots of quail as well as chickens there, down in the Nations. 

 I have got a big race on hand now. with Mr. Elwell, 100 birds at 

 $250 a side. I hope I'll beat him, I'm sure. We have had some 

 good shooting around Coffieville. 



E. W. Kinnan (of the park owners) —We have shot about 3 600 

 birds a month since we took hold of the park. Every thing is 

 going will, and we find the shooters here a grand lot. 



Frank J. Smith.— Only one Kansas City. Get in my buggy and 

 I'll take you over the boulevard. Kansas City will hold the cup. 

 She'll be full of something good if Jimmie Elliott shoots safe next 

 time. Aint but one Kansas City. 



The Secretary.— We are not using the figure 2 in our scoring, 

 but employ only 1 and 0. The second barrel is used so often for 

 safe' v that the figure 3 means nothing. 



Billy Rieaer.— This is no baby shoot. We sent out programmes 

 announcing that the shoot was open to the world, barriDg four 

 State events. We had no handicap. When they asked me to 

 bar or handicap the experts, I said I couldn't do it. This is a 

 men's tournament, and don't you forget it, and we shoot accord- 

 ing to schedule. That's the only right way to do. 



Walter Halliivell.—Yau ought to git around a little earlier next 

 time, so you'd have more chance to say good-bye. 



Referee J. H. McGee. 

 "That'3 what I said." 



Karl Guinnottc.—l don't know nothin' but shoot. Don't ask me 

 to divide. See? 

 Charlie Budd.—l guess we'd better go on to Grand Island. 

 Bolla Heikc.s — T guess we'd better go on to Grand Island. 

 Dick Merrill — I guess we'd better go ou to Grand iBland, 

 Charlie Grimm.— I guess we'd better go on to Grand Island. 

 Kansas City.— Coma again, boys. 



The Boys.— Sure. E. Hotjgr. 



Kansas Citv, Mo., May 7. 



FirstJDay, May 3. 

 The day was ideal for shooting, the birds trapped were a good 

 lot, the arrangements for carrying out the programme of the 

 tournament were perfect and the sport of a high order through- 

 out. 



Among the noted shooters present were E. D. Fulford. C. W. 

 Budd. of Des Moines, la.; (Sharles Grimm, of Clear Lake, la.; 

 Richard Merrill, of Minneapolis; Paul Fraucke, James Bitchellor 

 and W. E. Evernart, of St. Joseph; F. B. Dallmeyer and J. M. 

 Doehla, of Jefferson City; L. Steiger. O. Steiger and M. Love, of 

 Moberly; Harvey H, Dixon, of Joplio; and A. D. Brasher, of 

 Orick. Kansas was represented by W. T. Irwin, of Coffeyville; J. 

 H- Hersbey, of Osage Cily; and R. S. Dinsmore of Troy. Captain 

 James H. McGee was selected as referee aud James Whitfield as 

 official fcorer. Owing to the large number of entries in the live 

 bird events but two of the three on the programme could be 

 brought off. In these two shoots the moneys were well split up, 

 all the expdrts getting a piece. The shooting was exceptionally 

 good throughout, many clean scores being made. Elliott was in 

 good form, killing his ten straight birds in each of the shoots. 



No. I, 10 singles, entry 82: 



Scott 1110111110-8 Elliatt 111111110— 9 



Dixon 11101111111—9 Grimm 0111101101-8 



Moore 01011000H— 5 Basher... llOHOlOOO— 5 



Merrill 1111101111— 9 Bryant 0100111111-6 



Budd 1111101111—9 



No. 3, 10 singles, entry $2: 



Fulford 1101111111— 9 Merrill 1111101111- 9 



Jones 0011111000- 5 Elliott 1111111111—10 



Wagner 0101010111— 6 Hallowell 011U0111C— 7 



Ervin 0100100110- 5 Dun- mote 1001111011- 7 



Scott 0010111100- 5 Dickson 1111011111— 9 



No. 3, 15 singles, entry $3: 



Fulford 111111111111211-15 Batcheler 001101 101111011—10 



Dickson ■.111011111111111—14 Grimm 11111011L111U1— 14 



Elliott 111111111111011—14 Budd 111111001111110-13 



Merrill 111111111011111-14 



No. 4, 10 singles, entry $2: 



Fulford 1111100111— S Budd 1111111111—10 



Hallowell 1111011111-9 Ervin lOOllllUl- 8 



Grimm 0111111111— 9 Rosen 1101110111— 8 



Jopes 0101101100- 5 Dixon illUllOll— 9 



Hughes lOmiQliO— 7 Moore 1100111010— 6 



Merrill 1111111110— 9 Scott 1110111101— 8 



Elliott 1111111111—10 Bryant .1101101101— 7 



No 5, 10 3ingles, entrance $2: 



Dixon 1111111101— 9 Dinsmore 1U0111111— 9 



Halleweli ..1111011110— 8 Merrill 1111111111— hi 



Budd ..Hl'OlOOll— 7 Erwin 1110111111— 9 



EHiott lillllllOl— 9 Moore 1111111100— 8 



Grim .1111011111- 9 Bryant "..0111101100— 6 



Fulford 1111111111—10 



No. 6, 10 singles, entrance $2: 



Dixon , ...1111011111- 9 Dinsmore 1101101111— H 



Elliott 1111100111— 8 Fulford 1111111101— 9 



Merrill- 1010111111-8 Budd 1111111101- 9 



Bryant D01101110— 7 Grim 1111111111—1 » 



Erwin 0111111111- 9 



