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FOREST AND STREAM. 



17 S 



"New London Will Catch Them All" 



Says H. a. Penrose, and if liis word is not made good it will not 

 be ttie fault of himself nor the Standard Keystone Target and 

 Trap Company, whose flfth annual tournament will be held at 

 the above place on Tuesday to Friday, inclusive, of next week. A 

 very handsome sonvrenir programme has been scattered broad- 

 cast thronshout the country, this showing well-executed pictures 

 of several "well-known trap experts, as well as of the Standard- 

 Kevstone, I.. G. Smith and Peters Cartridge companies' trophies, 

 Mr. Penrose has secured reduced rates on all railroad and steam- 

 boat lines, and has also secured a reduction in hotel rates during 

 the tournament. Tiie shooters' headquarters are announced as 

 the Crocker Uonse. Stages will be run from the hotel to the 

 grounds. Lunch wHl be serv^'d on the ground, under canvas, at 

 noon each day. , ' , xt 



The tournament will take place on the grounds of the New 

 London Gun Club, which are situated on the banks of the New 

 London Harbor (about one mile from the hotel), atlordiag an 

 almost uupqualled open foreground for shooting. The tents will 

 be arranged, after the manner of the Inter-State Manufacturers' 

 and Dealers' tonrnameuts, on the wooded slope of the hill to the 

 rear of the grounds, whUe the score will be covered with an im- 

 mease awniner that will prevent the rays of the sun from inter- 

 ferioK with the work of the shooters. 



In previous years the Kevstone tournaments have attracted im- 

 mense lists of entries and the nrospects are that the comine: af- 

 fair will exceed all previoiis efforts. The program has been carp- 

 fully prepared and presents events under a diversity of rulen. 

 An innovation will he in those events shot under the "Novelty" 

 rules which call for sixteen traps, the system being thus de- 

 scribed: Six traps will be placed in the field sixty yards from the 

 score, five yards apart, and will throw right and left mquarterers 

 and straight incomers, while the other ten 'raps will ihrow the 

 targets in the nsual manner. Unknown traps unknown angles, 

 different distances, open to all, no handicap. As this rule is en- 

 tirely novel, as its name implies, the amateur will have an f quai 

 chance with the expert. . , 



When ehro-ing the Interstate Association Handicap events the 

 iShooters will he classitied under those rules and the management 

 will make particular efforts to classify every shooter acc ording 

 to his abilities. Ten traps will be used in a straight line. In 

 shooting the Trophy, Diamond Piing and Team Bices the Ama- 

 teur Rules will govern. There will he no handicap and all will 

 shoot on an equal footing. 



The full proeram is as follows: 



First dav. StandTd-Keystoue trophy day, $300 guaranteed: 

 Event No. 1, 10 singles, novelty rule, entrance $1. No." 2, 1-5 

 Fingle. Interstate Association, entrance $3; S40 guaranteed. No 

 3. 10 singles, novelty rule, entrance gl .50; $30 euaranteed. No. i 

 15 singles, Interstate Association, entrance $1.50. No 5, 20 singlet, 

 novelty rule, entrance $2.50; $50 guaranteed. No. 6, 10 singles. 

 Intergtate Association, entrance $1. No. 7, 15 singles, novelty 



cent, to first and 5 per cent, to second for best average in expert 

 class to those shooting In all guaranteed purses on any one day; 10 

 per cent, to first and 5 per cent, to second for b st average in 

 semi-professional class, and 10 per cent, to first and 5 per cent, to 

 second for best average in amateur class to those shooting m ail 

 guaranteed purses on any one day. All averages paid each night. 

 The surplus mohev in the Novelty rule events will be added 'o the 

 surplus money in the handicapped events, and will be paid to the 



O. B. DIOKEY, OF BOSTON, MASS., 

 Captain of Eastern Team. 



rule, entrance $2; $40 guaranteed. No. 8, 50 singles, trophy con- 

 test, entrance No, 9, 15 singles. Interstate Association, en- 

 trance $2; $40 guaranteed. No, 10, 10 singles, novrlty rule, en- 

 trance |l. In the contest for the trophy there will be no handi- 

 cap. 



Second day, L. C. Smith trophy day, S!f200 guaranteed; Event 

 No. 1, 10 single?, noveltv rule, e^tranoa $1; NTo. 2, 5 pairs, open to 

 all, $3, $40 guaranteed; No. 3, 20 single.", novelty rulp, $2.50. $.50 

 guar.; No. 1, 15 singles, Intei-state Association, $1..50; No. 5, 20 

 singles, novelty Yule, $3..50, S50 guar.; No. 6, 10 .singles. Interstate 

 A-^s'tt. |1; No. 7, 50 singles, tronliv contest, $3; No. 8, 15 singles, 

 novelty rule, $150, $30 guar.; No. 9, 10 singles. Interstate Ass'd, 

 $1.50, $30 guar.; No. 10, 10 singles, novelty rule, $1. There will be 

 no handicap in events No. 2 and 7. 



Third day, Peters Cartridge Cnmpiny's day, 3200 guaranteed : 

 No. 1, 10 single?, novelty rule, $1; KSo. 2, 15 sinfflps. Interstate 

 Ass'n, $?., SIO guar.; No. 3, 20 single^, novelty rule, $2.50, $50 guar.; 

 No. 4. 15 .'^ingles, rnT.*=rstate Asa'h, $1.50; No. 5, 20 singles, novelty 

 rule, $2, $40 guar.; No. 6, 10 singles. Interstate Ass'n, $1; No. 7. 50 

 singles, trophv contest, $8; No. 8, ]5 singles, novelty rule, $2. $40 

 guar.; No. 9, 10single=i. Interstate Ass'n, $1, $-30 guar.; No. 10, 1" 

 singles, novelty ml >, $1. 



Fourth day, championship day, $75 guaranteed: No. 1, 10 sin- 

 Ble-". novelty rule, $1; No. 2, 15 singles. Interita.te Ass'n handicap. 

 $3, $35 guar.; No. 3, 20 singles, novelty rule, $3 60, 540 guar.; No. 4, 

 25 singles per man, first ntatch New Jersey State League vs. Con- 

 necticut Sta*^e L-^ague, open to one team from any State aesocia- 

 tion or league, $50 oer team; No. 5. JOO single*', individual cham- 

 pionship of the UnitPd States, $5; No. 6 100 singles, team race 

 between East and West for championship of America, $60 per 

 team; No. 7. 10 singles, novelty rule, ,|1. No handicap In events 

 No. 4. 5 and 6 



Event No. 4 on the fourth day is open to one team of aC men 

 from any State association or leagui?. In ca?e more than two 

 teams enter the purse will be divided to suit the captains of the 

 several team". Enoch D. Miller, of Springflpld. N. J., will cap- 

 tain the New .Tersey State I jeague team and C. E. Longden, of 

 New Haven. Conn . will caprain the Connecticut Sta'e League 

 team. Entries will be received up to 12 M. of the day of the 

 match. 



Event No 6. on the same day, is between teams of six men each, 

 representing the Eastern and Western sections of the country, 

 Ttie purse will go to the winning team. M. F. Lindsley, of Hoho- 

 ken, N. J., will captain the Western l^earo, and can select any six 

 men living west of New England. O. ^. Dickey, of Boston, Mass., 

 will captain the Eastern team, and can select any six men living 

 east of New York. B^ich captain will have at least ten men on 

 the grounds to select from. 



Event No. 5 on the fourth day is to determine the individual 

 champion target shot of America, the prize to be a diamond ring 

 costing $200, which becomes the property of the winner. 



All trophies won by individiials at this tournamen are to he 

 held by them for one year, and b.'jnd given for their safe return at 

 expiration of said term. If winners prefer, donors will hold tro- 

 phy and no bond will be required. 



In the trophy contests, winners of trophies get the trophy only 

 this year; and the money is divided, to winners of trophies in 1891, 

 40 per cent.; second, 30 per cent.; third, 20 per cent.; fourth, 10 per 

 o«»nt. Next year the winners of this year's trophies get 40 per cent, 

 of the entrance money. 



All purses in the regular events will be divided 30 percent.. 35 

 per cent.. 20 per cent., 15 oe^ cent, and 10 per cent. All ties will be 

 divided unless majority in purse decide to shoot oft. All surplus 

 money diyide.-J ^.s fojlows: 55 per cent, added to purses; 10 per 



E. D. MItiliBR, OF SPniNnifJELU, N. -I , 

 Captain N. J. State Leagu?. Team. 



shooters winning the highest averages under the Interstate Asso- 

 ciation classification. Thus it will he seen that if the amateurs 

 do not make as high an average shooting the Novelty rule they 

 will not lose tlie opportunity of winning an average in their class. 



Western Chips. 



Cbicago 111., Aug. 19.— There has been no shooting at Watson's 

 Park of late, chiefly for the reason that there hasn't been any 

 Watson's Park. As announced last June, Mr. Watson has been 

 compelled by encroaching real estate imnrovemouts to give up 

 the lease on the old Buruside ground, and for the second time in 

 three years has had to get out of the way for south-bound 

 Chicago. He has secured grounds just beyond the old ones, 

 equally goo<l and almost as accessible; since ihey are reached b. 

 tne same railroad station, Buinside. In a short time Mr. Watson 

 will have things in running order aaam and will be furnishing 

 the old J. Watson brand of harsh, sudden pigeons. In the mean- 

 time a large slice is taken out of Chicago trap shooting. 



GOL. MEADE-WINSTON. 



Col. Jack Mfade-Winston, of St. Louis, which is the same tha* 

 beat Geo. Kloinman here once and probably thinks he could do it 

 again, though probably he might not, baa, it appears, forsake'- 

 the tobacco trade and gone into the hand-loaded shell business a 

 St. Lnuis. He aptly claims for trade murk the "Wiuner Brand." 

 and will load three grades, the winner best, the winner medium, 

 and winner worst. 



MKHCHANDISE PRIZES. 



There are certain customs which by reason of their hoary ok! 

 age have attained a respect and reverence which do not belong to 

 them by any ex-'stent virtue of their own. 1 am told that there is 

 a certain holy stone in Mecc which all good Mohammedans kis 

 when they travel thither in pilgrimage. Coniinual kisMDgbaf 

 worn the stone thin. I am told also that dev ut Catholcs have 

 in similar way neariy kissed the great toe off the statue of St. 

 Peter at Rome. Evidently these people have thus kissed this 

 natural stone and this artiftrial toe in stone because they have 

 seen thousands kissing before them. Now, 1 should not like to be 

 irreverent, or to step upon anyone's toe, artificial or otherwise, 

 but really, those are jast the sort of places I shotild not want to 

 kiss at all. The antecedent thousands wouM be no argument. 



I can not see why the antpcedent thousands should be per re an 

 argument anvwhere. 1 can not see why a custom should con- 

 timie simply because it is a custom. This is no day for Mi-cca 

 stones. No temple threshold to-day is sacred but the door stone of 

 the temple of orogress. Customs 'o-day need reasons under them, 

 not history behind them. ^. . , 



These things occur to me as I look over the list of special mer- 



and buy other ornamental beer mugs and parlor lamps? Not m 

 the least. He does not even know the donor's name. He speaks 

 of the gift in tones of the utmost carelessness and contempt. It 

 is a gift pure and simple, without reason in commerce or in 

 common sense, yet I never knew a shooter who had considera- 

 tion enough to thank the donor for such "plunder"— as it is 

 usually called. „ „ , . 



The management would not beg stuff for his own personal use. 

 Why should he beg it for a use which is intended for his own 

 direct personal gain? Because it is a custom? I can see no rea- 

 son for such a custom. It might have done tor the past, when 

 shooters needed pampering. We ought to be more dignified and 

 manly than that now. We are men grown in shooting now, and 

 we ought to have the independence and dignity to shoot like gen- 

 tlemen and like men. It is time for the trap-shooter to shake 

 free from the old pampering policy, to get out of coddling arms, 

 and stand aqua,re down on his own legs. He is old enough now to 

 walk. He is old enough to see that the most honorable future for 

 his sport is one in which it shall not be mere gambling and divid- 

 ing up of unfairly obtained and still despised -'plunder;'- but 

 where it shall be a manly and honorable contest of Bkill among 

 competitors made as nearly equal as possible by a just system of 

 handicap. Sport, not a gambling scramble, that is what trap- 

 shooting should be. ,^ ^ . ^ 



"But." says some timid friend, "such talk wm ottend the 

 shooters." 



Not in the least. Such talk will oiTend no shooter of intelligence 

 who will stop for one instant to give the matter thought. The 

 custom has nothing to 'do with It. if we must eo back in cus- 

 toms, much better would we hold to the customs of the old 

 Oylmp'c games, where men contended with aH the energy of 

 their lives, not for stilf hats and ornamental beer mugs, but 

 for a simple crown of laurel. The American custom is wrong. 

 The Grenk custom was right and is right. Oive us medals, tro- 

 phies, prizes, souvenirs— honors, in short— but keep us away from 

 lawdriness, mTcenarness, from the vulgar principle of mere per- 

 sonal gain. These latter will ruin n-ap-shooting it allowed to run 

 an unthinking cours". 



The Illinois State Sportsmen's Association took the first .step in 

 the right direction this year, when it declined to do any soliciting 

 for special merchandise prizes, offering only such as came in vol- 

 untarily. It may be that in this is sounded the first note of the 

 coming cry, "The merchandise list must gu." 



NOT ONE OITN Tj¥SS, 



Not one less gun would be fired if every management would 

 hoist this motto on its banners. Indeed, that state of affairs 

 would be a relief to all concerned. No shoot will suffer which 

 abandons this old and senseless custom. No shooter will sulfer 

 who casts his vol e against it. To vote thus i3 to vo' e for a modern 

 and a higher sportsmanship. It is to take a step up, to a more 

 dignified and manly plane of sport. I fear of offending no one. 1 

 know that that plane is where trap- shooters belong, and where 



C. E. LONGD2N. OP Ni.W HAVEN, CO^^N., 

 Captain of Comi. State League Team. 



ohandise prizes of Detroit tournament. Aug. 23-26, Ar\y other list 

 of merchandise prizes would do as well. 



WHY? 



Can any one "tell just why this custom of merchandise prizes 

 still remains in these modern days of American trap-shootirg? 

 Are we MuRsulmen? Are we backwoodsmen, countrymen, knock- 

 ing together any sort of odds and ends to shoor, for, since cash is 

 not at hand? Admitted that we are, why, then, should we not 

 shoot for our own stuff? What right have we to go to nnin teres ed 

 home merchants and beg for contributions? Is it not asking 

 quite too much of local tradesmen of all sorts, to draw upon them 

 for contributions for which they cannot in natural course expt ct 

 any return by way of trade? My expectant tradesman, imp ir- 

 tuned by the tournament manager, gives from his stock (I quote} 

 "one stiff bat," "one pocket knife." "one umbrella," "one p'c- 

 ture," "one ornamental beer mug," "one parlor lamp," etc.. etc 

 I have seen loaves of bread, bottles of liniment, etc.. in such lists. 

 My tradesman is not a shooter, perhaps, but only that much 

 enduring man, a local merchant. Does the winner of the orna- 

 mental beer mug or the parlor lamp go to the donor of his prize 



M. F. MNTlSLKY, OE HOBOKK^, iN . -i -. 



Captain of Westsxii Team. 



they want to go. They do not belong in babydom to-day. They 

 do not belong in a mercenary ma^^hine system. They belong in a 

 system of active, fair and honorable competition in sport among 

 men and gentlemen. That is the plane for them. That is where 

 they belong, and where they all want to eo. The trap-shooter of 

 to-day is a man of thought, intelligence and progress. He is ad- 

 vancing with aJi the world of sport. 

 The merchandise list must go. E. Hottgh. 



Michigan Trap Scores. 



Saginaw, Mich., Aug. 16.— The West Side Gun Club tried a new 

 stylw of expert trap at their shoot Sunday for the first time. 

 They are operated by an electric pull and the appliances were 

 put "in perfect operation by John tJerman, of the electric light 

 works, the traps operating in flue style. The operation of the 

 new traps puzzled the marksmen of the club not a little and 

 more lost birds were scored than at any previous shoot. The 

 naedal for the A class was won by Edward Carpenter for the 

 second consecutive time. The scores are as follows, each being 

 out of a possible 25: 



A clnss— Carpenter 22, Brechtelsbauer 20, Keller 20, Bowden 21, 

 Bastian 18, Kindler 14, Ward 16, C. Z-choerner 20. Adams 14, 

 Cone 14, Hatcherson 17- 



B class J. Herman 20, H. G. Zschoerner 17, Wirth 11. C. Delon- 

 jay 14, C. Schoeneberg 14, Held 11, H. G. llrogmann 7, Michel- 

 son 12. 



C class- A. Delonjay 21, Wm. Brown 9, L. Herrig 8. 



Ghand Rapids, Aug. 17.— As ihe game season is near at hand, 

 the Valley City i-)un Club will probably discontinue its trap shoots 

 hereafter and confine its attention to the more exhilarating 

 sport of shooting animate birds. The farewell shoot took place 

 yesterriay afternoon at the club's grounds near the Country 

 Club and a contest for a supper was indulged in. fTauthier, the 

 winner of the State individual championship, and W. S. Cole- 

 man were chosen captains. The score by teams is as follows; 



Captain Gautbier 19, Summers 17. Davidson 16, Hansen 8, Kel- 

 sey 4. Freant 13, Knowlaon io, Pugh 10, Planes 9, Stainton 1; 

 total 112. 



Caiitain Coleman 13. Wharton IS, Gould 16. Walton 13, White 

 17, Rood 15, Temple 6, Nelson 12, Scribner 4, Love U; total 121. 



The losing team escorted the winners to Sweatland's, where a 

 .sumptuous supper was served and a general good time enjoyed. 



Money Defeats Hoey. 



Captain A, VV. Money, the well-known expert, and Fred. Hoey 

 of Long Branch shot a match ai Hollywood on Aug. 15, the con- 

 ditions being 100 live birds each, 30yds. boundary, 21yds. rise, for 

 $100 a side. The shoot began soon after 11 A. M., there being 

 breeze enough from the west to temper the sun's rays and kepp 

 the shooters comfortable. Lou Tnompson looked after Captain 

 Money while Daniel Johnson did the honors for Mr. Hoey. The 

 birds were a good lot. Up to the eig'>tieth round the race was a 

 close one, but from that point to ^he finish Money had things his 

 own way as the appended scores wUl show: 



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