Oct. 6, 1893.] 



FOREST AND STREAM. 



305 



Eighteen consecutive shots. 

 REVOLVER TARGETS BY W. E. CARLIN, 



Conlin's Gallery. 



Mb. Conlin announces during the fall and winter season of his 

 twenty-eighth year, new matches, flrearms, targets, prizes and 

 records from England and Prance. During the month of October 

 a medal will be awarded to the best record of three scores on 

 British target at KOyds. with revolver. The gallery is at 1255 

 Broadway. 



The opening revolver match of the season commenced Sept, 13 

 and closed Sept. 24. The new British revolver target reduced was 



REVOLVER TATGBia BY W. B. CARLIN. 



used, 13yds., off -hand, trigger pull, Slbs. The match was won by 

 W. E. Carlin with a score of 125 in a possible 126. Conditions were 

 the tbree best targets, not necessarily consecutive. The revolver 

 used was a Smith & Wesson .Meal., round ball and Bgrs. powder. 

 A continuous revolver match will commence Oct. 1 and end Oct. 

 31. A handsome gold medal will be awarded to the contestant 

 malting the three best scores on the new British target at 20yds., 

 off-band. 



Abesser, Suscomb and Millow. 



RiDOBWOOD, N. J., Oct. 1— A very interesting rifle match 

 between Captain Robert M. Abpsser and John B. Suscomb took 

 place here to-day, at 200yds., Creedmoor target, military rifle, 

 open sights: 



Suscomb 334454445845554.5454.55M55-108 



Abesser .445.5555435454454455.555555-118 



Another match was decided between Abesssr and M. D. Millow, 

 200yd8., buUseye only to count, size of bullseye 14ln. diameter, five 

 rings, counting 1, 2, 3, 4 and 5 respectively: 



Abesser 46444.55445—44 Millow 284544.5335—37 



T. M. CONNELT, Scorer. 



New Rifle Club in Jersey. 



Newark, N. J., Oct, 1.— An organization known as the First 

 Brigade Eifle Association has been formed in Newark, N. J., the 

 outcome of the meeting of the New Jersey Rifle Association at 

 Sea Girt during the week of Sept. 20-2.5. The officers are. Presi- 

 dent, Cape. Wm. H. Howard, First Regiment; Vice-President, 

 Lieut. Henry AUers, First Regiment; Secretary, Capt. H. B. 

 Schureman, First Regiment; Quartermaster, Capt. G.W. Church, 

 First Regiment; Capt. of Association Team, Maj. David L. Wal- 

 latSe. First Regiment, and Surgeon, Lieut.-Col. A. K. Baldwin, 

 First Brigade. The initial shoot of the association was held at 

 the Shooting Park, Newark, on Saturdav. Oct; 1, and the follow- 

 ing scores were made, 10 shots each, at 200yd8., Creedmoor targets: 



Lieut-Col A K Baldwin 3453434554—43 



Ma j David L Wallace 4445343.n4o— 41 



Lieut Henry Allers 4553433453—39 



Capt H B Schureman 43345434.54—39 



Capt G W Church 3435534334—37 



Capt W H Howard 4334?53343— 35 



It is the intention of the association to shoot every Saturday 

 afternoon until the close of the season. 



All ties divided unless otherwise reported, 

 FIXTURES. 



If you want your shoot to be announced here 

 send in notice like the following: 



Oct. 5-6.— West End Guu Club tournament, at Ottumwa, Iowa. 



Oct. 4-7.— Chas. Polster's tournament, Indianapolis, Ind. 



Oct. 5-7.— First annual loTirnament of the Riverside Gun Club, 

 at Red Bank, N. J. First two days targets, last day live birds 

 John P. Cooper, Sec'y- 



Oct. 8 7.— Cortland County Sportsmen's Club tournament, at 

 Cortland, N. Y. 



Oct. 11.— Eastern New York League kingbird tournament, with 

 Cruttendens & Cords new trap and pull, at Oanajoharie, N. T. 

 T. O. Pegnim, Sec'y. 



Oct. —.—Amsterdam (N. Y.) Gun Club tournament. 



Oct. 11-13.— Syracuse (N. Y.) Gun Club opening tournament, on 

 Croton street grounds. 



Oct. 13 13 —Frankfort Gun Club tournament, at Frankfort, Kan. 



Oct. 12-14 —Wilmington (Del.) Bod and Gun Club tournament. 



Oct. 15.— East Side-Mutual Gun Club tournament and ninth 

 monthly team contest of N. J. Trap-Shooters' League, Weiden- 

 meyer's Grove, Hamburg place, Newark, N, J. 



Oct. 18.— Newton (N. J.) Gun Club tournament, 



Oct. 18-19.— Mar tin sburg (Va.) tournament, under auspices of 

 eight club% $200 added money. 



Oct. 18-20.— Highland Gun Club annual fall tournament, at Des 

 Moines. Iowa. 



Oct. 19-20.— Somerville Gun Club tournament, Somerville, N. J. 

 Oct. 21.— New Jersey Shooting Club tournament, at Claremont, 

 N. J. 



Oct. 25-36.— Interstate Manufacturers' and Dealers' tournament, 

 at Motrins. Conn. 

 Oct. 36-28.— Omaha (Neb.) tournament. 



Nov. 23-26.— Milwaukee (Wis,) tournament, targets and live 

 birds. 



May 23-25, 1893.-Knoxville Gun Club tournament, S1,000 added 

 to purses. Also valuable merchandise prizes. 



DRIVERS AND TWISTERS. 



There is a great diversity of opinion among the exponents of live 

 bird shooting as to the policy of running, during tournaments, 

 sweepstakes at 4 birds per man, $3 entry, or even 5 or 7 birds per 

 man, with the entrance fee at from S5 to $7. Some prefer the smaller 

 sweepstakes, wbile others claim, and justly, it would seem, that 

 they are the most expensive style of shooting that can be induleed 

 in, and they object to entering shoots wh^re a man is allowed less 

 than from 10 to 15 birds, with the entrance fee $1 a bird. These men 

 claim that whereas there are hundreds of men who can '•hold up" 

 and kill from 4 to 7 birds straight, no one is able to get anywhere 

 near his entrance money back in such contests even though he "kills 

 straight" all day. Shooting at from 10 to 15 or 20 birds is more of a 

 strain on the nerves, and the man who is able to hold himself to- 

 gether and get in first or second place usually gets his entrance 

 money if no more, when the money is awarded, and this is more 

 satisfactory than to bang away all day at small sweeps where a man 

 is usually out of pocket no matter how well he shoots. The same 

 rule applies to target-shooting. In the majority of the tournaments 

 as at present arranged the bulk of the contests are at 10 targets per 

 man, $1 entry. Deducting the usual fee of 3 cents «ach per target 

 there is left in the pot 70 cents per man. In contests of this kind a 

 man may break straight in a day's programme and still be a loser. 

 Of course there are exceptions to this rule as to all others, but In 

 the long run the above obtains. 



The Newtown (N. J.) Gun Club has come to the front with a pro- 

 gramme of a blue rock target tournament to be held on October 18. 

 The club has well equipped grounds within a few minul^es' walk from 

 the depot and will accord a hearty welcome to all comers. The shoot 

 will be under the management of E. L. Decker, A. B. Brickner and 

 L. M. Mor ford, all of whom are well-known to the shooters of this 

 section. The programme will compri=ie four 10-target events $1 entry, 

 two 15-target events $1.50 enti-y; one 20- target event $150 entry and 

 a race for teams of two men from any club, 20 tarerets per man, $4 

 entry per team. The proprietor of the Cochran House will give a 

 supper and a bottle of wine to the shooter making the highest score 

 in the 20 target event. Targets will be charged for at the rate of two 

 cuts each. The shoot will be held on the fair grounds where the 

 club has a flne house. Shooters can leave New York via the D. L & 

 W. R. R. at 7:30, Newark at 7;53, arriving at Newton at 10:ii5 A. M. 



The following letter has been received from .Jas. W. Chnton, secre 

 tary of the Standard-Keystone Tara-et and Trap Company, of New 

 London. Conn.: "During our annual tournament we offered to give 

 a two-day State team tournament here this fall and add $100 to the 

 purse. We are ready to make good tliat ofEer and will hold a two 

 day shoot any time during October or November that the teams may 

 determine upon, except Oct. 25 and 26, which are the dates for the 

 Moodus interstate tournament. The team race to be held on the 

 second day and open to one team of 10 men from any State, to 

 determine which State has the champion target team of America 

 The conditions of the race to be decided upon by the captains of the 

 teams, but each man must shoot at not less than 50 targets. There 

 are at least twelve States that could furnish first class teams, and 

 we shall be pleased to hear from all of them." Now let the different 

 States nominate their dates and make a big success of the race. 



From time to time we receive letters from club secretaries re- 

 ciuesting us to give them a "write up" on coming tom'naments, but 

 in a great many cases the said secretaries neglect or foreret to send 

 up programmes in time to be noticed. Take, for instance, the tour- 

 nament of the Riverside Guu Club, of Red Bank, N. J., which began 

 on Wednesday, the ISth. Up to 3 P. M. on the previous Wednesday, 

 when our forms were locked up, we had received no programme of 

 tbis shoot. We are willing to do all in our power, Messrs. Secre- 

 taries, to "boom" your shoot=, but can not do so to good advantasre 

 unless we know something of the details. 



The members of the Syracuse Gun Club should have good support 

 from the trap-shooters of their section, as their programme is one 

 of the best published this season. The club charges only 3 cents 

 each for targets, and this of itself is a decided innovation for the 

 section. Then again the entrance fees to the various events are such 

 as to insure good returns to those who shoot in good form. The 

 shoot will be held on next Tuesday and Wednesday, on the new 

 Croton street groimds of the club. The main event will be a sweep- 

 stake at 20 targets, $-3.50 entry with a guaranteed purse of $50. 



The Cedar Island Gun Club, of Babylon, L. I., has elected these 

 officers: President. Frank Fitzsimmons; Secretary, Frank Berry; 

 Treasurer, Edward Pettit; Gunning Committee— Stephen Duryea, 

 Thomas Farrell, Edward Pettit; Chief Cook, Richard Bailey; Ser- 

 geant at Arms, Jack Briscoe. The club membership is limiied to 

 fifteen, the object being to gun and flsh in the Great South Bay, The 

 club house, recently built, occupies a knoll in the center of Cedar 

 Island, and is fitted with cooking, sleeping and eating apartments, 

 and a drawing room. 



A jolly party assembled at Frann Class's Morristown (N. J.) shoot- 

 ing grounds on September 28, to try their skill at smashing blue rock 

 targets. In all eleven sweeps were shot at 10 tsygets each, the num- 

 ber broken and lost by each contestant being as follows. Fred. Fiper- 

 93-18, Jennie Smith 91-19. Manon 90-20, Reillv 89-21, Timmons 85-25, 

 Riggott 83-28, Hathaway 75-35, Prank Class 70-40, Budd 62-48, Tenard 

 50 80. Tbe e shoots are heid every Wednesday afternoon aud every- 

 body is welcome to take part. 



What promises to be one of the biggest shoots ever held in Vir- 

 ginia will take place at Martinsburg on Oct. 18 and 19 under the com- 

 bmed auspices of the Martinsburg, Winchester, Staunton, Tuscarora, 

 Hagerstown, Shepherdstown, Plainsfleld and Charlestown gun clubs. 

 Over $200 in cash will be added to the purses, and there will also be a 

 big hst of valuable merchandise prizes. With eight different locah- 

 ties interested this shoidd be a record breaking affair as far as at- 

 tendance goes, 



Robert Cox, who for a long time has been in the pigeon purveying 

 business in West 'Washington Market, has disposed of bis busmess 

 and on Monday started for Chicago. He will probably locate in that 

 city or in St. Louis and will handle live pigeons and game for the 

 market. '-Bob" is a genial chap and carries with him the good 

 wishes of a host ©f fi-iend. 



On the morning of the live bird day at Peekskill a little race at 10 

 birds each for a bottle of "Mum" took place between Ben Evering- 

 bim of the local club and Fred. S. Moore of the New Jersey Shooting 

 Club of Claremont, N.J. The score. 



Moore 1102112221—9 Everinghim 0011220102—6 



Frank Class, of Morristown and Jobn Biggott, of Rockaway, will 

 shoot their return match at Dexter Park, L. I., on Tuesday, Oct. 11. 

 The conditions will be 100 live birds per man, 12-bore guns, 30yds. 

 rise for a purse of $500. The last match was won by Riggott who 

 killed 95 to Class's 94. A big crowd will witness the matcb. 



What a contest there will be at Wilmington next Thursday if the 

 New Jersey, Delaware, Maryland, Pennsylvania and District of Col- 

 umbia "Big Sixes" come together: Either State should be able to 

 put in a team to break close to 140 out of 150 targets. 



Landlord Mousarrat of the Eagle Hotel. Peekskill, is mourning the 

 loss of a valuable cocker spaniel. It was stolen from his place last 

 weeii. 



George Mosber will attend the Syi-acuse tournament on Tuesday 

 and Wednesday and then Hit down to Wilmington. 



The programme of the Syracuse Gun Club is pronounced one of the 

 best of the season. 



Peekskill will give a big tournament at live birds and targets next 

 spring. 



"Tee Kay" Keller will captain the Jersey team at Willmington. 

 Al. Spangler is just recovering from a severe illness. 



0. H. TOWNSEND. 



Pittsburgh Gun Club Tournament. 



PxTTSBUHGH, Pa., Sept. 30.— The shoot at Salt Works Station, 

 under the auspices of the Pittsburgh Gun Club and the direct 

 management of Messrs. Elmer E. Shauer, "Jim Crow" and "Old 

 Hosa," was a great success. The shooting was good and the at- 

 tendance large. There was not a hitch In the proceedings and 

 great credit is due the managers. 



The shooting was at live birds and Keystone targets. The birds 

 were flrst-class aud very diflicult to kill. Following are the 

 scores: 



No. 1. 13 Keystones, entrance $1: Shauer 10, Atwond 10, Eng- 

 land 8. H. Gibson 8, Old Hoss 9, A. H. King 11, Oney 12, Mack 9, 

 Crow 13 Vance 11. 



No. 3. 13 Keystones, entrance $1: Shaaer 9, Old Hops 10, Mack 

 11, Engl-jud 13. Atwood 8. Oney 10, Vance 10, H. Gibson .5, A. H. 

 Kiugl3, Ci-owlO, 



No. 3, 18 keyRtones, $1 35 entrance: 

 Old Hoss. . -.011001111111111110-14 England. . ..111110111111111010—15 



Oney lllllllinilHlllO— 17 Gibson 101111110011111111-15 



Vance 010111111011011100-12 A H King. .11 1111111111111111-18 



Crow 111111111011111111— ir Shauer..., ..1111111 11111110111-17 



Atwood ...011111101111010111-14 Mack 101111111110111111-16 



No. 4, 7 live birds, $5 entrau' e: 



Old Hoss 3132210-6 Crow 1121122-7 



C A Brown 2210331-6 W S King .,1012201—4 



Shauer 0120220-4 Wright 1220331-6 



Mack 0031113-5 Mohler. 2^02131-6 



England 20 100(i2— 3 (4i bson 2102203 



AH King. llllin-6 Vance 0131201-,5 



Oney 103-!103-5 Levis 1132011—6 



No. 5, 10 live birds, fntrao' e $8: 



Old Hoss. 1103112113— 9 Levis n3320'020 - 7 



C A Brown 1033130010 - 6 Mack 00'0222313— 7 



A H King 0110131113- 8 W S King 1202n00311— fi 



Wright 1111211122-10 Crow 1212l033il— 9 



England 1310101311— 8 A^ance ., 320i)llllll— 8 



8 Shaner 201120121'i— 7 Mohler IIOIIIUOJ— 7 



Gibson 1111132200- 8 E Shaner 120011000*- 



Bray.. 3201010200-5 



England and Gibson div. third after killing 8 straight. 



No. 6, 13 KeystoDP.K, entrano .Bl: 



Old Hoss 111111111111-13 Brav 000101101001— 5 



Wright 111101111101-10 Levis 01111111011 1-IO 



Vance 011111011111—10 Oney 11 h '01 Oil 111— 9 



S Shaner 110111111011-10 Atwood 111110111011-10 



England 011111111111-11 Mack 111011111111-11 



Watson GOOllOllOlll— 8 Neiman.... 111111110111—11 



No. 7, 18 ke-pstnnes. $1.35 entrance: 



Old Hess... 111110011110111010-13 Watson 010111111101001110-12 



Mack 110111100 01111111-14 Brav 111111010011101110-13 



Wr'ght... .011011111110111011—14 Levis 111110111111110010-14 



S Shaner. ...001111111111111011-15 Oney 111111111111111111—18 



Vance 111110111111111101-16 Atwood 111111111001111111— Id 



England. . . .110111111111111111-17 Nieman .... llllllUiJOlOllllll— 15 



No. 8, 13 keyaton^s, $1 enrranre: 



Old Hoss 011110111011— 9 Watson 101111101001— 8 



Mack 111011111111—11 Bcay llllllOlOOll— 9 



Wright 111111111010—10 Levis 111111011111—11 



S Shaner 111110101100- 8 Oney lUl 11101111-11 



Vance 111111111111-12 E Shaner 111111111111—13 



England 101111111111-11 Crow 111111111101-11 



Btx. 



Tlie White Plains Tournament. 



White PijAins, N. Y., 8<ipt. 24.— Below find scores made at our 

 tournament yesterday. The attendance was light, owing to bad 

 weather. 



Nn. 1, 10 blu^rocks, $1 entrance: W. Ward 8, E. Barrett 5, Grid- 

 ley 8, Dean 6. A. Ward 7, Halpin 8, Piatt 8, E. Ward 7. 



No. 3, 10 bluerocks, $1 en'rancp; W. Ward 8, E. Barrett 7, Grid- 

 ley 8, Dean 6, E. Halpin 9, Piatt 9, A. Ward 6, E. Ward 10, 



No. 3. 10 bluerocus, $1 entranc.p; Wm. Ward 6. Halpin 7, Piatt 

 9, T. Ward 9. Gridley 7. Barrett 6, A. Ward 5, E. Ward 8. Dean 8. 



No. 4, 10 bluerocks, $1 entrancf : Wm. Ward 8, Halpin 7, Piatt 

 9, T. Ward 6, Gridley 6, Barrett 4. A. Ward 6, E. Ward 8. 

 r No. 5, 10 bluernoks, $1 entry: W. W^ard 7, Halpin 8, Piatt 8, T. 

 Ward 7, Dudley 8. Barrett 6, A. Ward 6. E. Ward 9. 



No. 6, 10 hluerockB, $1 entry: T. Ward 9, Halpin 8. Piatt 8, E. ' 

 Ward 9, W. Ward 9, Dean 7, Barret 6. Gridlev 8. 



No. 7, 10 bluerocks. $1 entry: T. Ward 10, W. Ward 8, Halpin 8, 

 Piatt 9. Dean 7, Gridley 6. Su'-ton 9. E. Ward 10. 



No. 8, 10 blueronks. enu-y $1. Experts: T. Ward 7, W. Ward 7, 

 Halpin 6. Piatt 7, Gridley 5, Sutton 7- E. Ward 8, Barrett 5 



No. 9, 10 bluerock=», $1 eniry: W Ward 8, T, Ward 7, Gridley 6, 

 Halpin 6, Piatt 7, Blackburn 6, E. Ward 9. 



No. 10, 20 bluerocks, $3 futry: W. Ward 16. Barrett 11. Halpin 

 15. T. Ward 19. Gridley 14, PLitt 18, E. Ward 17. 



No. 11, 5 live birds, 5 trap^, 30yds. rise, 80yds. bound, Huriingham 

 rules, entrance ,$5: 



SVmWard 11111—5 PUtt , 11101—4 



T Ward 11111—5 Gridley 11010—3 



Halpin 11011—4 Dean 10101—3 



EWard 11111—5 



No. 13, miss and out, $3 entry, SOyds, rise, 80yds. bound, Hurling 

 ham rules: 



A Ward 1111110 Piatt 11111111111 



WWard 111111111111 Blackburn 111110 



Halpin 11111111110 Sutton IIIIUIUO 



T Ward ..111111111111 Losee 111111110 



E Ward lUnilO 



Iiynchburg Gun Club. 



Lynchburg, Va., Sept. 28.— At the Lynchburg Club shoot yes- 

 terdav the 6 jllowlng scores were made: 



Club team shoot. 50 bluerocks each man. 5 traps: 



Team No. 1. Team No. 3. 



Wilson 38 Cleland 30 



Terry 33 Withers 25 



Dornin 44 Christian 25 



Durphy 31 Clark 28 



Smith 35—171 Stearns 31—154 



Dornin made 34 straigh. winuing clean score badge for 35, and 

 Silverthorn medal for highest score in team shoot. 



Nine singles and three pairs each man, known traps, unknown 



Nelson 12 Durphy 9 Christian,. 8 



Terry 12 CleUnd 10 Clark 10 



Dornin 13 Withers 9 Stearns 11 



Smith 10 



Fulford Gun Club Shoot. 



HuMMELSTOWN. P)i., Sept. 37.— luclosed find scores of the badge 

 shoot._ held at the Fulford grounds to-day. This club has a mem- 

 bership of sisty-s'x, mostly memb."r3 who enjoy seeing i he snort 

 without taking any active part. However, a few of the old 7fi'ers 

 arfi left who occasionally do some shooting. 



The foUowiu'? members parti npited in badge sbnot, 25 targets: 

 J. Wiklp 15, D. B. Cassel 16, D. Z. Bolton 13, W. H. Ettele 14, J. J. 

 BoPon 18. J. J. Rolton winninsr the badge. 



After the badge shoot a few I've birds were shot: 



J J Bolton. 1111111111—10 D B Cassel ..0113211100— 7 



W H Ettele 0121110111- 8 



The club is in a flourishing condition both in membership and 

 flnancials, and it is the only club withiu t^e Unl+pd States which 

 can boast of two expert one-armed shooters: w. g. Canon and 

 J. J. Bolton. J . J. Bolton, Sec'y. 



Wilkesbarre Gun Club. 



WiTjKESBiBTtE, Pa,, Sept. 24. — A few members put in an appear- 

 ance to-day for a cracK at the tai-gets. The birds flew nicely and 

 broke easily, and somt^ of the amateurs are beginning to show a 

 good improvement; 25 single keystones, known anglps: 



Crone 1110111011111111111101111—22 



Park 1101 1 lOnil 1 mill n 0 1 110-21 



Sny d er 0111 lllllOlllllOll 1 11 0110-20 



Morgan Ill 11 1 00 1 1 1 001 1 1 1 Kill 0 101— 18 



S Tonkins 010001011101 llllliniOU 1—18 



Browne OlllllOlHlOOl 1 001011 1 001—16 



Arnold OllOlOllOlllOOOlllOllOOlO -14 



Wood , , . ..OlOUlO'OlOOlllllCO'iOlOll— U 



White 00111 fiaiKXIOOOOlOOlOOllOO- 8 



W. Barre. 



