Oct. 15, 189i.] 



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PHILADELPHIA. Pa., Oct. 10.— An interestine match at live 

 sparrows took place between six members of the North End Gun 

 Club on their grounds, at Frankford, to-day. The conditions of 

 the match were to shoot at 2.5 live pparrows each man, 20yds. rise 

 and .50yds. boundary, from 3 trapo. The birds, which had but re- 

 cently been caught,' were an exceptionally fine lot and darted oil 

 like arrows as soon as the traps were pulled off them. A large 

 number of people were present to witness the shooting, who at- 

 tested their appreciarion of the skill of the shooters by frequent 

 applause. The match was closely contested all around, resulting 

 in a tie for first and third honors, which, owing to darkness com- 

 ing on, could not be shot oil. 



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WOODSIDE, N. J.— The Woodside Gun Club will hold an open- 

 to-all tournament on the grounds foot of Riverside avenue. The 

 events will be under the expert-amateur rules, shooting to begin 

 at 9:30 A. M. and continue until dark each day. Lunch and am- 

 munition will be on band. The evenfs. in order, will be as fol- 

 lows: First day, 10 bluerocks, $1; 15, $1,50; 30, S2; 35. S3.50; 10, $1; 

 15, $1..50; 20, $2; 25, $2 50; 10. igl; 15, $1.50. Second day, 10 bluerocks, 

 $1; 15, $1.60; 20, $2; 35. $3.50; 10, %\\ 15, $L50; 20, g2; team shoot, 10 

 bluerocks per man, teams of two from any regularly organized 

 club, $3 per team; 10, $1. Extra events will be arranged to suit 

 the contestants. 



MILLER'S LONG RUN.- While shooting at Knoxville, Tenn., 

 in the Manufacturers' and Dealers' Association tournament, E. 

 D. Miller, of Springfield, N. J., scored 45 straight Keystone tar- 

 gets, shooting under expert rules and using a 12-gauge Parker 

 gun. This is the longest run ever made under the expert handi- 

 cap. 



FOHEST AND STREAM. Box 3,833. N. Y. City, has descriptive illus- 

 trated circulars of W. B. Leifingwell's book, "Wild Fowl Shoot- 

 ing," which will be mailed free on rec^uest. The book is pro- 

 nounced by "Nanit," '"Gloan" "Dick Swiveller," "Sybillene" and 

 other competent authorities to be the best treatise on the subject 

 extant. 



Canvas Canoes a/)id how to Build Them. By Parlur B. Field. 

 Price SO C67its. Canoe and Boat Building. By W. P. Stephens. 

 Price S^.OO. Canoe Handling. By C. B. Vaux. Pi-ice $1. Canoe 

 and Camera. By T. S. Steele. Price 1.50. Four Months in a SneaTt- 

 box. By W. H. Bishov. Price $1.50. Canoe and Camp Coohery. 

 By '■'Seneca.''^ Price $1. 



Secretaries of canoe clubs are requested to send to Forest and 

 Stream their addresses, with name, membership, signal, etc., of 

 their clubs, and also notices in advance of meetings and raues, and 

 report of the same. Canoeists and all interested in canoeing are 

 requested to forward to Forest and Stream their addresses, with 

 logs of cruises, maps, and information concerning their local 

 waters, drawings or descriptions of boats and fittings, and all 

 items relating to the sport. 



LARGE AND SMALL SAILS.— There is something amusing in 

 the race of Saturday, in which two men who came several hund- 

 dred miles, had with them the proper canvas for the weather, 

 while men who were but three miles from home had left their 

 largest rigs at their club houses, and had not sail enough. A 

 number of the men who were left behind by Butler and Goddard 

 had large sails home, but could not get them at half an hour's 

 notice. Both the Vesper rigs were fitted with a practical and 

 smooth-working reefing gear, and so were ready for moderate as 

 well as very light weather. Of course if it had come to reefing 

 ithe boats with moderate-sized standing rigs would have had an 

 advantage over the Vesper sails reefed to the same area; but 

 where a man is going to a distance from his club house for a 

 single race and cannot well take his whole box of sails with him 

 there are certainly great advantages in a good reefing rig. 



LIMIT OF WEIGHT OF CENTERBOARDS.-It is a fact that 

 has escaped general notice that the limit of weight for center- 

 boards, which has been in the A. C. A. rules since 1882, has this 

 year been dropped from the rules, and no limit is now to be found 

 in the book. Of late this clause of the rules has become a dead 

 letter, the prevailing fad since Pecowsio's advent in 1886 being for 

 JLigbt oenterboards. It does not followi however, that the limit, 



eOlbs. for toial weight of all oenterboards, is no longer necessary; 

 already canoeists have learned that too thin a board is a bad 

 thing, and thicker boards are used now than those of even last 

 year. At the same time canoeists are awakening to the fallacy of 

 the absolute rule laid down by some, that all ballast is bad in any 

 canoe, and it is probable that by next season the use of lead in 

 moderation may be quite general. If ballast is to be carried at 

 all, and there is ample proof that it is necessary to some models 

 and under certain conditions, a fair portion of it can be better 

 stowed in the form of a gun-metal board than any other, and 

 knowing the predilections of canoeists for the greatest extremes, 

 it would not surprise us to see a 751b board put into a 30ln. canoe. 

 Just now the tendency in yachting is to sling a very great weight 

 of ballast low down beneath a comparatively shallow hull, as Mr, 

 Watson has done in the Clyde centerboard boats, and as Mr. Herr- 

 eshoff is doing in a new keel racer. There are extremes enough 

 in canoeing to-day, and in order to prevent any further ones the 

 old limit of weight should be restored for the general purpose 

 class at least. 



A NEW CANOE SAIL.— The peculiar battened spritsail de- 

 vised by Mr. N. G. Herreshofl and used successfully by him on sev- 

 eral cat-yawls, has some features which make it specially adapt, 

 able to a canoe. A sail of this pattern has just been rigged on 

 the Torment by Mr. Smythe, of the Brooklyn C. C, and was used 

 in the race of Saturday. A somewhat similar sail, with one sprit 

 and batten, was used a couple of years since by Mr. Baden-Powell, 

 but the details dittered from the Herreshofl rig. 



"GLORIA AZTEC."— The new canoe Aztec, built by T. Mc- 

 Whirter for Com. William Willard Howard, of the New York C. 

 C, made a very creditable showing on Saturday, coming in ahead 

 of all the local boats, and being third in a fleet of 13 starters. On 

 this occasion she was sailed by Mr. Schuyler Schieffelin, his per- 

 formance being specially creditable from the fact that he had 

 never sailed her before this race. 



A CENTERBOARD-KEEL CANOE. 



IN this handsome design, for which we are indebted to Mr. C. 

 W. D. Dyer, a Holyoke, Mass., canoeist, now a student at the 

 ^^'o^cester Polytechnic Institute, the attempt has been made to 

 produce a canoe that, while conforming to the A. C. A. rules, 

 shall be faster and more powerful than the usual type, approach- 

 ing more nearly the modern yacht models. At the time the de- 

 sign was made, last February, there was no limit on the draft of 

 a canoe, while the centerboard was limited to 601bs. weight and 

 fixed keel ballast tf) 361bs. In order to carry the greater weight, 

 the lead shown in the plans would be fitted with a pin and lifting 

 rod, so as to be raised and lowered, though in use it would be kept 

 housed in the keel. Since the design was made, the A. C. A. 

 rules have been changed so as to limit the draft to lOin., while all 

 limit of weight has been taken from the centerboard, so that if 

 desirable even more lead might be carried. In order to comply 

 with the rule the rabbet has been carried very low, leaving only 

 the required IMin- of keel exposed. 



Tbe keel being so deep should be of some light wood, clear 

 spruce or even white pine, in preference to oak. The construc- 

 tion is clearly shown in the large section, but the keel might well 

 be made a little deeper and hollowed out on top to the exact 

 curve of the timbers. Toward the ends the timbers would be in 

 two parts each, with heels rabbeted into the keel and dead woods. 

 The details of construction are very clearly shown, additional 

 particulars being given in the following tables. Tbe sail plants 

 large, being intended for racing, for which use the bucket cock- 

 pit and a 4ft. sliding seat would be put in. For ordinary use the 

 draft is much greater than yet carried, but for open and deep 

 waters this would be no serious objection. 



DTMENSIONS OF CANOE ZIP. 



Length . T 16ft. 



Beam extreme 3ft. 6in. 



L.W.L 3ft. 3in. 



Draft ift. 



Freeboard 5]4\n. 



Sheer bow Sin. 



stern 5in, 



Depth, deck to garboard inside 1ft. IMin. 



Crown of deck 3in. 



Fore side of stem to forward mast tube 1ft. 



after mast tube 12ft. 



forward bulkhead 5ft. 8in. 



after bulkhead lift. Bin. 



fore end of weU. , , , , , . 6ft, 9in. 



after end of well.., . ' , . , lift, 8ln, 



TABLE OP OFFSETS. 





Heights. 



Hale Breadths. 



a 

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Diagonals. 



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Keel. 



Deck 



Deck 



16in. 



14 in. 



LWL 



lOin. 



8in. 



6in. 



























No. 1. 



No. 2. 



0 



1 1 



8 



2 1* 



0' 



01 



0' 



0' 









01 



01 



1 



1 lO-i 



3" 



2" 





l* 



0' 









3 



3 



e< 



1 9' 



6' 





43 





1' 



0' 





52 



33 



3 



51 



1 8^ 



93 



77 



65 



5 



3» 



l* 



01 



72 



45 



4 



41 



1 7* 



US 



10' 



8' 



&■> 



45 





0' 



91 



55 





3' 



1 6« 



1 1 



11' 



105 



8« 



62 



33 



12 



10* 



65 



6 



23 



1 6' 



1 3 



1 1= 



1 0= 



10^ 



V 



42 



1" 



m 



73 



7 



1^ 



1 5" 



1 25 



1 2= 



1 12 



11« 



92 





15 



1 05 



7' 



8 



13 



1 5" 



1 2' 



1 2' 



1 2 



1 05 



101 



52 



15 



1 12 



82 



9 



1 



1 a* 



1 3 



1 27 



1 2'' 



1 1 



104 



55 



1« 



1 1* 



83 



10 



05 



1 5= 



1 2' 



1 25 



1 1' 



1 0^ 



102 



52 



15 



1 11 



82 



11 



03 



1 5' 



1 2» 



1 3 



1 1 



113 



8' 



45 



1' 



1 02 



75 



13 



0' 



1 6= 



1 12 



1 0* 



11^ 



9» 



7 



3" 



13 



111 



6' 



13 



0 



1 6' 



113 



103 



9^ 



74 



5 



25 



11 



93 



5' 



14 



0 



1 7' 



8° 



73 



62 



4" 



3 



15 



0« 



6' 



4.* 



15 



0 



1 9 



4' 



35 



2' 



3 



12 



0« 



03 



3f' 





16 



0 



1 10" 



Qi 



01 













01 



01 













Stations 1ft. apart, waterlines 3in. apart. All measurements to 

 outside of planking. Heights measured from lowest point 

 keel. Measurements in inches and eighths. 



MARINE AND FIELD CLUB RACE, OCT. 1 O. 



EVEN Gravesend Bay,'one of the few good pieces of water for 

 canoe sailing still left about New York, is not exempt from 

 the whims and vagaries of the wind, and on Saturday last it 

 served the Marine and Field Club rather a poor Inrn by doling 

 out the breeze very sparingly for the greater part of the after- 

 noon. Although tliere was wind enough for a race when it finally 

 came, there was a general disappointment over the light weather, 

 as both racers and spectators wished to see the fleet in a whole- 

 sail breeze. Perhaps the most disappointed of all in one way was 

 Mr. Paul Butler, who had brought his new Bee from Lowell, in 

 company with Mr. Goddard with the Wasp, in order to test the 

 new boat in rough water, something that he has not been able to 

 do since she was launched. Gravesend Bay on this occasion was 

 as smooth as it could possibly be, but in the end both canoeists 

 went home tolerably well satisfied, having finished first and sec- 

 ond out of a fine fleet of thirteen starter?, including most of the 

 local flyers. The race was arranged by Mr. Wm. Whitlock for the 

 Marine and Field Club in order to bring together the leading rac- 

 ing boats at the time when they were in the best possible form- 

 better in most cases than at the meet. Two handsome prizes were 

 oflEered, the race being open to all canoeists. The starters were 

 as tollows: 



Bee Paul Butler Vesper. 



Wasp D. S. Goddard Vesper. 



Aztec Schuyler Schieffelin New York. 



Eur-^lda W. S. EUiott Marine and Field. 



Bonnie O. B. Vaux New York. 



Eclipse F. L. Dunnell Brooklyn. 



Torment H. C. Ward Brooklyn. 



Seabright W. T. Wintiingham Brooklyn. 



Bubble Wm. Whitlock New York. 



Kismet C. J. Stevens New York. 



Guenn H. L. Quick Yonkers. 



Rival Fred. Fricke Red Bank. 



Ohingachgook Oscar Hesse Red Bank. 



It will be seen that the fleet was a notable one, the principal 

 local boats being present in addition to the two visitors To 

 make it complete there was needed only Toltec, Tempest, Cricket 

 Uno, Beta and Lieda. Mr. Schieffelin jailed Aztec in the absence 

 of Com, Howard, Mr. Quick sailed Guenn, Mr. Whitlock trying 

 his new Bubble, which had Just arrived from the builder after 

 some material alterations made since the meet. 



Uoth Butler and Goddard had their large reefing rigg ot UOft., 



