Oct. 30, 1898.] 



FOREST AND STREAM. 



349 



A Great Shoot at Wilmington. 



STANBAKDS WfN THE TEAM KACE. 



Wilmington, Del., is a town of about 65,000 population (this in- 

 cluding CharJea Fehrenbacb). 



It is a'port of entry, as proven by the condition of Harry Hart- 

 love during the recent trap shoot. 



Situated on the north bank of Christiana Cr*>ek near its entrance 

 into the Delaware River, and is not likf ly to be moved, despite 

 the protests of C. 0. Mahoney, wijo declares that Wilming- 

 tontans have no use for water. 



The city and vicinity are remarkable for the number, maKui- 

 tude and value of its manufactories, comprising' cotton and 

 woolen cloth mills, flour mUis, sawmills, powder and paper mills, 

 locomntive and car shop?, shipyards, and most important of all a 

 large buildln? known as the "Bilderbach Manuiactury of Ger- 

 man iDfluence" and the '".fames K. Woodward Distillery of high- 

 tirade poetry." 



The city baa al^olWillia's Hotel, J, A. Ourrey, Sam Ocheltree, 

 "Jersey" MRday, ,1 . E. MoCafFerty, E. J. Darlington, Howard 

 Simpson, the water works, and many other natural and artificial 

 attractioDs, all of which are wtll worth a visit. Reserved seat 

 tickets may be procured at the Willis Botel. 



One of the greatest curiosities in the town (if not in the State) 

 is kTiown as the Wilminston Bod and Q-an Club, an organ1zq,tion 

 formed for the purpose of "bamboozling" sportsmen from various 

 parts of the country and inoidentaJly to practice trap-shooting. 

 As the c'ub has never been Interfered with by the law-abiding 

 citiaens of the town we presume that its members carry them- 

 sel% es "straight" when in public 



Every once in a whiJe (sometimes of tener) this club concludes 

 business needs stimulating and|tt appoints a committee to concoct 

 some scheme whereby unsophisticated amateur shooters may be 

 persuaded to visit the town and expend their hard-earned shekels 

 for entry fees in what are known as "artificial target events." 



Artificial target s by the way are not "saucers," as is supposed 

 by the uninitiated, but are a diahoHcsl contrivance manufac- 

 tured from clay and pitch or something else, and are flix>ped 

 through tne a1r by a spring contrivance, which c m be seen on ap- 

 plication at any sporting goods house. (This is not an advertise- 

 ment.) 



Some weeks af,'o the club appointed one of the above hinted-at 

 comm'ttees to arrange for what was called the "open tourna- 

 ment of tlie Wilmington Rod and Gaa Club." lu order to give 

 the affair a business aspect and assist in beeuiling the unwarv. 

 the committee was comprised of a five- feet-four chap called A..H 

 Stout, wbo posed as chairman; W. Harry "Hire-a-haU," ,T. II. 

 Marr, "Jersey" DeCray and Delaware's pet poet Jimmy Wood- 

 ward, the latter being invested with the title of secretary. The 

 committee after a deal of thinking (and ringing the laMe bell) 

 decided that Oct, 12, 13 -^nd 14 would ba good days upon wbich to 

 coax, the "dust" from the pockets of the innocent shooters from 

 New York, New Jersey, Pennsylvania, Marj land and other small 

 places. Coiisettuently they got printed a lot of programmes, 

 which were hurriedly seat', off to the aforesaid shooters, and a 

 number were also sent to the confiding editors of tlie sporting 

 .iournal=, who as usual assisted the club in gaining victims. 



As the result of all t-his stupendous exoeu'^iiture of bram- work 

 W^illis Hotel, on Market street, reaped a sort of a harvest for a 

 tew days, beginuing with breakfast on Oct. 12. On the morning 

 of that day a party numbering a couple of dozen meek looking 

 individuals might have been seen leaving Willis, and soon after 

 they were on hoard of an electric car en route to the corner of 

 Union and Front streets, where the club was alleged to have a 

 club house and grounds, with sundry traps, targets and other 

 parapDernalia, all of which combined was to heuaed to amuse the 

 wilmingtonians and incidentally to gather in the shekels. 



Sure enough upon arrival at the stated place everything was 

 found in accordance with promise. The club house was there 

 and a very neat structure it was, not e'aborate to be sure, but 

 nonveniput and cozy withal. The building is one story in height 

 almost 35ft. long and 15ft. wide, divided into an office and a gun 

 room. In the otfice was found the Delaware poet. James E 

 Woodward who was busy arranging carbon between sheets of 

 manifold score paper, this being done with the intent to save 

 trouhlfi to the newspaper men and prevent them from mentioning 

 the short-comings of the club and Its members. Another inmate 

 of the "bos" was that handsome blonde, O. C. Mahoney, whose 

 duty it was to gather in the cash as rapidly as possible and to 

 turn it over to the safe care of Poet Woodward. W. Harry 

 "Hire-a-hall" was also within the inclosure busily engaged in 

 engrossing on envelopes surh legends as " W. H. Wolstencroft 

 event No. S, $1: one-seventh of third money. 3-1 cents. ' 



To the right of the club house was a marquee under the canvas 

 of which were dispensed divers kinds of drinks, cigars, sand- 

 wiches and oysters in all styles, and we must acknowledge all of 

 splendid quality, although .in some of the stews they rather 

 lacked quantity. Out in front were two sets of bluerock traps, 

 each set comprising five (raps. Bluerock targets were also there 

 to the extent of a carload. 



The grounds of the Wilmington Rod a.nd Gnn Club are situated 

 in a large field several hundred yards back from Union street, a 

 well paved and well traveled thoroughfare. The club house is 

 built just on the edge of a heavy and extensive woods, which 

 extf-nos for a couple of hundred yards to the right and several 

 thousand yards to the left of the house, and out to Union street. 

 A splendid sbade is afl'orded for shooters and spectators. 



The attendance >• £ this, the opening day, was good, much batter, 

 in fact, than at the average tournament of the present day. 

 Among those who had taken their lives in their bands to visit the 

 place may be mentioned such average shooters as Wm. H. Wol- 

 stencroft, the Pennsylvania champion who ha'lsfrom Frankford; 

 Charles Smith, the great, only and Inimitable "Dutchy" from 

 Plain field, who sportel on his manly breast the badee awarded 

 bim in Cleveland, Ohio, in when he won ;the title of 



the "Champion Saner Kraut Eater;" Thomas H. Keller also 

 from l^laiufteld; Wm. R. t'ieles., the smooth-faced, quiet-man- 

 nered young boy from Christiana. Pa., who usually purchases 

 from one to half a dozen canines before breakfast each morning; 

 W. Fre<l Qaimby, he from New York who has the happy faculty 

 Df making miserable the life of a referee during a tournament 

 and without whom a shooting ground or hotel would be bleak and 

 dismal. Thea there was that prince of good fellows who abides 

 in the Pennsylvania Dutch town of Reading, atd is known as 

 Harry Matz, president of the Reading Shooting Association; Wm. 

 "Green" Garvin, one of Germantown's lively experts; Will 

 "Hope." who traveled all ths way from Newark tn see the fun and 

 hie a few targets; Harry "Rainbow, Father Time" Thurman, with 

 whiskers ana all, from Germantown; E. L David, "Landis" from 

 Philadelphia; "Little" Neaf Apgar,the ever popular and welcome 

 boy from Plain field; Billy Clark, proprietor of the Wapsononock 

 Shooting Grounds in Altoona, who is to shoot a live bird match 

 with iiunie Oakley as sure as that popular little lady gets back to 

 her native heath; W. E. Tredway, another Philadelphia light; 

 Schmeck and Swicher, from Ojtoraro, Pa., and Evans from 

 Baltimore. 



The weather was simply perfection, the sun shining warmly 

 from an almost cloudless sty and the wind coming in gentle 

 zephyrs over ttje tops of the trees. Everybody was in a holiday 

 humor and the jokes were kppl: flying about as rapidly as the tar- 

 gels. "Tee K«y," "Dutchy," Qaimby, "Bilderbach" and "Hire-a- 

 hall" were primA movers in the fun of the day and would give and 

 take with unrulfled tempers. 



The shooting was first-class from start to finish, the foreground, 

 which was perfectly clear, giving the targets but little chance to 

 gel away from the guas of the experts who were on haad. The 

 local men turued out well and a number of them shot through all 

 the events. 



The management throughout the day was superb, both as re- 

 gards the work in the office, the pulling and scoring, and the 

 hustling out of Ihesguads. The scoring was done by "Jersey," 

 who proved himself an adept at the business As soon as one 

 squad had completed its scoreanother squad was found in position 

 ready to begin firing, thus doing away with the tedious delays 

 sometime causing such exasperation to the shooters. Jn the 

 office every detail was attended to in a systematic manner, and 

 many commendations were beard in regard to the expediency 

 with which purses were figured and the moneys paid out. The 

 shooting was closed about P. M., nearly 3,600 targets having been 

 thrown. 



In the evening visiting sportsmen were taken in hand by local 

 club men and escorted to various places of interest, among other 

 interesting places being that of Charles Fehrenbach, where was 

 held a levee that did not terminate until near midnight. Soon 

 after this the boys repaired to their respective domiciles to re- 

 cruit their streng h for toe following day's work. 



Below will he found the result of the day's work, the events in 

 order being as follow.^; Nos. laud 2,10 singles, $i entry;No8. 6 

 and 8 10 singles. $1.50 entry; No. 7, 20 singles, S2 entry; Nop. 3. i, 5, 

 9, 10, 11 and 13, 15 singhs §1.50 entry. There were four moneys in 

 each event: 



No. 1; Schmi-k 10, Motz F. Landis 7, Thurman T, W. H. W. 9, 

 Tredway H, McKcn.irck £, Wli te .5, Swicher 7. Green ti, Hartlove 

 tS, Apear y. "Out:cby" Sniitli V.l 



No. Tijijrman 'i. '}.:fedwuy it, «nee!x h. 4 i..;-ai- 3, MoKendrick si, 

 Matz 4, isivicher V;.. Wbitt- ;•, \V, H. \V. \v':it'aiier i, Dutchy 9, 

 1 .and;s lOj jireen \). Eyans Keller li ^lele-s 'jt(. Peg.f.Ji st 



No, 3: 



Bllderback .... 0001 llOlOll 1011 - 9 



Peach 111111010111111-15 



Green .111111010101111-13 



Apgar mmilOllUlO— 13 



WH W 11101 Oiun 1101-13 



Matz.. ...... .0000100110111111— 7 



Tredway . . .... .111100110011011-10 



Dutchy 111111110111111— U 



Fielea liilllllOUlllll-1.3 



White 111101111010100—10 



Swicher 101101110111111—13 



McKendrick .. .111011111111111-14 



Landis 111111101101110-13 



Keller 11111 UlOll 1011 -Pi 



Sneck lllllllllllUll— 1.5 Thurman 111111111101111-14 



Event No. 4: 



Dutchy lllHimilllll— 15 White.... 011011101101111—11 



Smack 1011111111 11011-1.1 Mat z 01010111 1 110011-10 



Evans 100111101110101-10 Haniove 111011111111111-14 



Tredway 111111111110101-13 W H W 111111111111111-15 



Fieles 111111111111111—15 Green 110101111111110-12 



Landis llOimillllllO-13 Peach 111011I11111111-14 



T Keller ..111111111110110-13 Hope 111111111101011-18 



Thurman 100111111110101-11 McKendrick ..111111111111001-13 



Swisher lUlllllUll 101-14 Apgar 111000111111111—13 



Event No. 5: 



Landis lllllimimiO-1'4 Apgar 101101111111111—13 



Smlck 101111110111111-13 W H W lllllllUllllll-15 



Dul:chy 111111111111110-14 Thurman 011011111111111-13 



Treadway 011011011111111-13 Green 011110111111111-13 



Matz 111110111110111—13 Peach 111110101111110-12 



Belderbaucb ...111101101111100-11 White 011000101001001- 6 



Files 111110110111111-13 Swieser 101111110101111—12 



Keller 111111111111011--14 Hartlove llUUllllOllll— 14 



Event No. 6: Lanriis 10. Fieles 8. Tredwav 8, Uatchey 8, Thur- 

 man !l, Smeck 8. T Keller 9, Green 10, Hope 8, Aoear 9, Evans 6, 

 tjuimby 9 Matz T, Peach 10, M. H. W. 10, Clark 10, Hartlove 10. 



Event N"^. T: 



Sneck .... 111111111111011 11111—19 Treadway 11111111111101111101-18 

 Apgar .... 11111111111011111101-18 M H W. .. .11111111011111101111 -18 

 Dutche.y .lllinuinilOinin- 19 Keller ....lllLlllllllUllllOU— id 



Hope imilllHOlllllllll-19 Clark 11111111111001111101-17 



Landis... .lllUlUlllllimill— 20 H«.rtloYP..1110111111011inni0-17 

 Fieles ....11111111111111111110-19 Peacn... .11111001111111111001-16 



Green 010111 lUOlllUllllO -16 Matz 11110010101101011110-13 



Thurman.lllll 111111111101111—18 



Event No. 8: Auear 9, Quimby 8. Landis 9, Fieles 8. Tee Kay 10, 

 Clark 9, Duichy 10, Thurman 9, (ireen 8, Treadway 9, Smeck 8, 

 W. ci. W. 10. Hope 1, Hartlove 7. Peach 5, Mitz 5. 



Event No. 9: 



Fieles 111111011111011-18 



Landis 111111110111101—13 



Dutchy lOlllllllllllll-U 



Quimbv 111011110111 101-13 



Apgar 111110111111111 -14 



W H W H 1111101111111-14 



Peach 0111 1 11 11111110-13 



Green 111111101111001- 



Clark." 01111f)101ini011-10 Tee Kay 111111111111111-15 



Smeck 111011111111111—14 Bwicer 100111111111111-13 



Tread way 111111 101111 100—13 



Thu rm an 111010111 Ull 10—13 



Bllderback. . . . lOOUOOOOi lOlOl- 7 



Evans 111110111111111-14 



Event No. 10: 

 Fieles 111111011011101 13 



Grubb IIIOOOIOOIUOOII— 7 



Hartlove 1111 11111011011—13 



Matz 1101000 w. 



Green lllllllllimil-lS 



Dutchy 111111111111111—15 Tee Kay 111111111U10U— 14 



Landis 111111111111111-15 Peach 111111111110110 -IS 



Hope 110111101100111— 11 Apgar 011111110111111—13 



Matz lOOlOlUlOUili-U WHW 111111111111110-14 



Clark 01111111111111-14 Cleaver 111100101110111-11 



Quimby .1111101110111.11-1.3 Tredway 1011linill0101-13 



Smeck OlO.illlllltlOOOl- 8 Sweizsr 111101111111111-14 



Evans OlllllOOlOHOll— 10 Hartlove lOlOlUlOHOOOl- 9 



Thurman . ..110110111111111-13 

 Event No. 11: 



Clark 101111111111111-14 Qfiiniby 110111101111111-13 



Fiele=i 111111 111111111-15 Tredway 011111011111110-12 



Stout 011111111011110-13 Swisher 111101001110111-11 



Landis 111111011111111-14 WHW" 111111111101111—14 



Sneck 011011011111100-11 tireen .111111101111011-13 



Matz 111111110110011-12 Thurman 111111111111111—1.5 



Duichy 111111111111111-14 Apgar 111111111111111-15 



T Keller 111111111011101-13 Hope lUOlllUlOllll-lS 



Sigler 111111111111111-15 Hartlove lllUOlllUmO-lS 



Event No. 12: 



Dutchy 111110111100111—13 Stout 11111 UOOlUOlll-U 



W^H W 1111 noun 1111-14 Heavey 100110110010110 - 9 



Hartlove 010111110111110—11 Sweiser 101101011111101—11 



Apgar HIP 1101110001— 11 Hope 111011011111111—13 



[fieles Ill nil 11111111-15 Tredway 01111111111111 1-14 



Landis 111111111111110—14 Quimby 100111111111111—13 



Clark inOlllllimiO-13 Green 111111100111111-13 



Clever 111111111111111-15 Thurman 11U111111100!0-13 



Smeck 1111110)1111111-13 Sevier 100100001001111— 8 



Vlatz iniOlllll 11111-14 Wagner 001001000111010- 6 



Sigler 111111111111111-15 Peck 111111111111111-15 



EXTRA EVENTS, 



No. 1- Landis y, Apgar 9, R. W Swisher 5, A. White 3, Smeck 7. 

 Tredway 9, T. H. Keller 8, Matz 7, McKendrick 7, Green 6, Thur. 

 man 8, W. H. W. 5, Smithson 5, Hartlove 7. 



No. 2. known traps, unknown angles; Landis 10, Apgar 9. 

 Smeck 9, MatzT, Dutcbv 9, Stout 8, Sigler 7. Keller 8. Quimby 9, 

 Grfien 8, Thurman 7, White 3, Clarke, W. H. W. 8, Hartlove 9, 

 Tredway 8, Wagner 2. Evans 9, Peach 8, Clever (5, Fieles 8. 



No. 3. same as No. 2: Landis 9, Thurman 7, Apgar 9, Smeck 7, 

 Bilderbaf-n 6, Clark 10, Green 6, Siglpr 8, Matz 3, Quimbv 4, Keller 

 7, Smiths, Fieles 9, Tredway 9, W. H. W. 8, Peach 6, Mack 7, 

 Hartlove 7. 



No. 4: Landis 9, Keller 8, Clark 8, Green 8. Apgar 10, Fieles 10, 

 Smeck 10, Thurman 9, Tredway 10, Hartlove 9, W. H. W\ 9. 



Tn wmlay, the Second Bay, 

 was ushered in with a misi:y atmosphere and a cool, raw wind 

 which bade fair to bring rain. Later on the air cleared, and 

 shortly after noon the sun came out in all its glory. Everybody 

 was astir at an early hour, and over the breakfast table many 

 speculations were indulged in as to the probable number of teams 

 that would enter the big race, and the score that was likely to 

 win it. The majority placed the number of teams at six, and the 

 winning score at about 137 to 140. Some of the boys made up a 

 fair-sized pool in which the New Jersey team were the favorites. 

 Qaimby, with his usual far-seeing judgment, bousrht the field 

 against Jersey, and good-naturedly took "Rainbow" Thurman as 

 a partner in his wager. 



It was but a few minutes after 9 A. M. when the party reported 

 at the shooting groundi=, and from that time until afternoon the 

 crowd kept increasing until it was up to the high water mark of 

 any tournament held this season. The premier attraction, as a 

 mat'erof course, was the team match, for which the local club 

 had "nnng up" a purse of $75 And to the off'ering of this purse 

 a history atiacheth itself. Some t:me ago "we" conceived an 

 idea. This of course is something unusual in our line of business, 

 as ideas in a newspaper office are about as scarce as are brain« in 

 the head of a politician. However, we plead guilty, and that our 

 idea in substance was that the offering of a purse for State teams 

 with no entry fee would tend to attract a big crowd of shootars, 

 and that the money spent by these shooters in open events would 

 more than balance the amount of the purse. Our suggestion was 

 for teams of 10 men each from any State, with a purse of .$100. 

 We also suggested that a good time for such a contest would ba 

 during the tournament of the Wilmington Rod and Gun Club, 

 then announced for Oct. 13 and 13. As is usual with all brilliant 

 suggestions, we expected this one to be forgotten as soon as read. 



We were therefore very agreeably surprised upon receivine 

 notice from the poet-secretary of the Wilmington club that our 

 suggestion, with some modifications, had been adopted by that 

 body, which had decided to prolong its tournament st as to in- 

 clude Oct. 14 and that the second day, Oct. 13, would be "Team 

 Shoot Day." The club very materially improved upon our sug- 

 gestion, throwing the race open to teams of six men each from 

 any club in any State or any State team of six men and making 

 the purse $75. Hence it was that we had a sort of fatherly inter- 

 est in this event and were anxious to see it pan out well, which we 

 were satisfied it would do, as were the members of the local cluD. 



From the very sound of the tifst gnn the success of the day was 

 assured, the first event having twenty-eight entries and some of 

 the subsequent events ran up to thirty entries. It must not be 

 supposed that there were only thirty on the grounds, as in the 

 team race alone there were forty-eight, while at least a dozen of 

 those who shot in one or another of the sweeps did not belong to 

 any of the teams so that there were not less than sixty shooters 

 present. Fully -300 spectators came over from the city, these being 

 well cared for by the club boys, who had a big stock of chairs on 

 hand. Among those who came to shoot we must not forget Miss 

 Ray Hunzikerr of Gloucester, N. J., who is perhaps better known 

 by her well earned shooting title of "Little Hawkeye." Miss R »y 

 is a petite body with a pair of clear gray eyes and a complexion as 

 bronzed as that of an Indian, this being the result of almost coa- 

 stant exposure to sun and wind while hunting, which with her is 

 almost a passion. As a rifle shot she has very few superiors 

 amoti.g her ses, and with the shotgun she makps a good showing 

 at either live or artificial tai gots. She svas accompanied by her No. 8: 

 fathci-, who is her compar.iou on all hsr^ fTp,:;uent hut^ting tnp.'. Sieler 

 ^Vfjong others who i tid i lun-jed ;a Wiiaxjiistoa for th'» ppopt MiHs 



M?§?^?' B?8ri?, U^x^h fiu'^if i^t- mm^i e? gaitisFrsii ]Ei9?}}er?ffii 



R. L. Bond, of .Tessup's, Md., who with Evans were members of 

 the Standard Gun Club: Cleaver, C. Buckmaster, R. Evans, R. 

 Miller, Lynan and Hock, of the Woodside (Del.) Gun Club; Hotb- 

 ersall. Lane and E. R. David, who with Thurman, Landis and 

 Treadway represented the Philadelphia Shooting Association, all 

 these being in addition to those who were on hand on the previous 

 day. There were also eiarhteen members of the local club on hand, 

 this being nearly its full shooting strength. 



"Tee Kay" and Fritz assisted the local managers in hustling 

 the squads together, with the result that there were no long de- 

 lays. Id the office, hard at work, were the "poet," Charley "Bil- 

 derbach," -J. A. Curry, a talented and pushing young newspaper 

 man of the town, who does the trap booming lor the Morning 

 Neivs and at t he same time assists the boys at their shoots, and the 

 ever jolly Mahoney. 



As on the opening day, everybody had on their Columbus fea- 

 tures, and a more jovial, happy-go-lucky crowd than they resolved 

 themselves into would be difficult to find. Even the usually staid 

 and stately Woodward, stolid-faced "Bilderbach" and the sedate 

 "Hire-a-haU" became imbued with the spirit of the occasion, and 

 several times they were seen to "smile," a very unusual occur- 

 rence lor them. 



The great team match, which was the event of absorbing 

 interest, came fully up to the expectations of those interested, 

 there being eight teams on the list. These comprised the Wil- 

 mington Rod and Gun Club team No. 1, captain, W. H. Hartlove; 

 Wilmington Rod and Gun Club team No. 3, captain, J. K. Wood- 

 ward; Wilmington Rod and Gun Club team No 3, captain, J. D. 

 Underwood; Standard Gun Club, of Baltimore, Md., captain. Dr. 

 Lupas ; 'Woodside Gun Club, of Woodside, Df^l., captain, R. MUler; 

 New Jersey team, captain, T. H. Keller; Philadelphia Shootiue 

 Association, captain, H. L. David; All-Pennsylvania team, cap- 

 tain, W. R. Fieles. Eachteaih comprised 6 meti and each man 

 shot at 35 bluerock targets, each team comprising a srjuad. Dur- 

 ing the progross of this race there were numerous balks occa- 

 sioned by careless haniling of targets by the trappers, thin tend- 

 ing to worry the shooters and in some instances probably causing 

 them to score misses. Previous to the start of the race we had 

 asserted that two hours should afford ample time for the eighth 

 teams to complete their scores. This idea wasldoubted bv several, 

 who said it was impossible to shoot eight teams in less than 

 three hours. We persisted in our opinion and were not far from 

 right, as the start was made at 1:43 and the last shot was fired at 

 3:45 P.M., or just 3h. and 2m. The actual shooting time for 

 the entirp 48 men, computed from first to last shot by each team, 

 was lb. 39m. During this time there were three delays of at 

 least 5m. each for changing carbon sheets in the score book and 

 the balks of the trappers must certainly have consumed not less 

 tbau 1.5m. in all. Tnis would leave Ih. 9m. for shooMng at 1,200 

 targets, an average of over 17 targets per minute. Pretty rap d 

 work say you. Even computing on the basis of 3h. 3qi. from 

 start to finish of the race, we find that the boys were breaking 

 close to ]0 targets per minute. 



1 1 was interesting to note the attention bestowed upon the six 

 men who represented New Jersey. They were the fourth team to 

 shoot, and previous to their going to the score the team of the 

 Standard Gun Club had rolled up the magnificent total of 143 

 breaks, a total excelled only by the Western team during the New- 

 London tournament. The Jerseymen were looked upon as record- 

 breaking-world-oeaters, simply because they came from Jersey, 

 and the major portion of the visitors firmly expected to see them 

 beat the Standards' Fcore, The bare truth of the matter was that 

 the Jersey team w-as what might prooerly be classed as a scrub 

 team, comprising Keller, Liudsley, Quimby, Smith, .Sigler and 

 Apgar. Three of Jersey's best team men. Van Dyke, Miller and 

 Post were absent, and had they been on hand they would have 

 supplied tne places of Keller. Quimby and Lmd.sley. This short- 

 age, however, did not affect the faith of the multitude, who stood 

 as if spellbound while the Jersey lads were grinding up their tar- 

 gets and every time a miss was scored by uu° of them, some one 

 was sure to pjaculate "too bad." Up to the 133d round it looked as 

 though Ihe team might beat the Standards' score, but on the next 

 round a miss was scored. Even then the crowd hoped to see the 

 race a tie, but it was ordained otherwise, and of the last 24 targets 

 they lost six, this giving thpm a total of im breaks. The Phila- 

 delphia Shooting Association's team also made a game fight, pull- 

 ing out with 135 breaks. Previous to the start of the race it had 

 been decided by a unanimous vote of the team captains to divide 

 the purse into two moneys, .foO to first and $35 to second. The 

 race was begun at 1:43 P. M., and at the request of the manage- 

 ment, Jacob Pentz, of Shooting and Fishing, ac ei as referee, and 

 C. H. Townsend, trap editor of Forest and Stream as official 

 scorer. Below are the scores of the team race in full with actual 

 time of each team. 



Wilmington R. and G. C. No 3. 



Woodward oilOlO10t)OOllOllOOOlOllll— 13 



Green llllOlOlliOlllllinillOlO— 20 



Mack .0010111011100111110100001 -14 



B yrne 0 10111100011 IjI 110101001 11 —15 



Je rsey 00000 lOOhiOlOlOl UHllOOl- 1 2 



Ruber 0111111001111011010111111-10- 93 



Time 11m. 



Standard G. C, Baltimore. 



Franklin Ill 101 1 11 111 llllHHl 1111—24 



Bond Ill 11011 1111 1 1 11111111011-23 



Lupas llllinilOllOlinilOlllll— 32 



Dsball 1111111111011111111111111-24 



Buckley lllinilllllUlHlllU110-24 



Evans. ... lllllllllllllllHmimi-35-l42 



Time, 12i^m, 



Woodside G. C, Delaware. 



Cleaver lllllOlllUllllllllimil— 24 



Buckmaster 01111011 illlllllliuoioil— 31 



Evans ..-011111111111111U11010111-33 



Miller 1111111111111111111111111-25 



Lyman 110iniU11100101!11001H— 19 



Hoeh 1111101111110111011111111-23-130 



Time, 13m. 



New Jersey Team. 



Apgar 1111 1 01111111111111111111-34 



Sigler 1111111111111111111110101-33 



Keller Hill 1 UllHini! Ill 101 10-33 



Liadsley 1111110111111111101101010—20 



Smit h 1111111111110111111 111111-24 



Quimby 1111010111110111111111111-33- 



Tlme, 13m. 



-1.3ii 



Philadelphia Shooting A«snc.ialion. 



Tredway llUllllllOllllOlllUUll— 23 



Thurman 1111111111111111111111101—24 



Lan d 1 s 101111 1111111 11 111111 1011 -23 



Dav) d Ill nil 1 1 ill Oil 11 11011 m— 33 



Hothersall ' ..OllllOlOlCOOllllllim 111—20 



Lane ioiiiniiimoiiiiomiii-22-iaa 



Time, 9>-am. 



All Pennsylvania Team. 



Clark 1111011111110101110111110-20 



Fieles 1111111111111111111111111-25 



Smeck 1111111111111011110111111-23 



Mat z 1 101 lOOllllllini 101 llOll 1-1 9 



Wolstencroft llOlOlllllOUUIlllllllil-23 



Green 1101110011111111111111011-21—130 



Time, 12m. 



Wilmington Rod and Gun Club, No. 3, 



Underwood 1011110111011111110011110-19 



Tuohston 0000001010110010011010111—14 



Bilderbach lOllllOlOlinninOllOlOl-19 



Kin g 1 iiiinn loom 1111101010-20 



S la w 1 11101 00 1 110100 1 ] 11010011— 1 6 



H Buckner 1011111110111101111011101-20-108 



Time, 12m, 



Wilmington Rod and Gun Club, No. 1. 



Hartlove - OlOOUOlllllimilOlllOD— 19 



Jones 1110001011 1 11111 11 1001011—1 8 



S tou t 01011 01 0111111011 1101 1101—1 8 



Hamilton lllllOllOllOOOOllllOlOOll— Itj 



'Williamson OlOllOIOOllOllllllODllU-lS 



Allen 111110O11100O110Oll]Oliii_i7_iOH 



Time, Kirn. 



THE Oi?£iy PFWGKAMME. 



Below are the scores of the regular programme events, whiob 

 had precisely the same conditions as those of the opening day 



No. 1: David 9, Lane 8, Hothersall 9, Franklin 9, Sigler 9 

 Schmeck 9. Dutchy 10, Hamilton 10, Clark 8, Mills 9. Treadway IO' 

 Wood 10, Fieles 9, Lynam 7, Bond 9. T. H. 10, Matz 8, DevaU lo' 

 Keller 7, Eyans S, Apgar 9, Lindsley 8, W. H. W. 10, Green 8* 

 Quimby 7, Thurman 9, Peach 9, Hartlove 7, Miss Ray B. ' ' 

 No. 2: Treadway 9. Lynam 10, Lindslev 8, Evans 8. Clark i 

 Green 9, Thurman 10, T. H 10. Anorar 10. W. H. W. 10, Matz T 

 Fieles 7, Sneck 7, Mills 9, Hothersall 9, Sigler 9, Keller 10, DevaU fl' 

 Lane 8, Franklin 10 Seavis 10, Bond 10. Dutchy 9, Wood 8 Hart- 

 love l.Siout 4. Peach 9. Quimby 9. Miss Ray 6. 



..iiniimuiiii-15 ADgar iiiiiiionuni-14 



.111011010110111-11 WHW llllUUlOllill-U 



