Nov. 10, 1893.] 



FOREST AND STREAM. 



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floating. 



All ties divided unless oth erwise reported, 

 FIXTURES. 



(f you want your shoot to be announced here 

 send in notice like the follo wing; 



Nov. 15-16.— Ted Ackerman's tournament, at Stanton, Neb. 



Nov. 17.— Newark Gnu Clnb live bird tournament, at John Erb'e 

 grounds. Newark, N. J. „ . ^ , ^ t 



Nov. 22-23.— Union Gun Club tournament, at Bprmgfleld, N. J. 

 First (iav target?; second day live birds. 



Nov. 23-26.— Mi) v^sukee (Wis,) tournament, targets and live 



birds. . ^ T>. , , 



tJov. 2'1.— John A. Hartnpr's sixth annual tournament. Bishop's 

 Driving ['ark, Baltimore, Md. 



Nov. 21.— West Virginia «tate Sportsmen's Association toiima- 

 meni, Mt Wheeling, West Virginia. ^ ^ ^ , , t. i*j 



Nov. 24.— Standard Gun Club tournament, Acton's Park, Balti- 

 more, Md. , . ^-r r 



NovembT.— Al. Heritage'.s tourntment, at Marion, N. J. 



Nov. 24 —Arlington Gun Club tournament, at Cleveland, O. 



Dec. 28-29.— Jacksonville (Fla ) Gun Club's fifth annual tourua- 

 m-nt; «500 guaranteed pursns; foOO in money and merchandise 

 prizes added. Professional experts barred. Bryan Taliaferro, 

 Bec'y. 



1893. 



Jan. 10-11.— Interstate Manufacturers' and Dealers' Associa- 

 I'on's Grand American Handicap, live bird tournament. New 

 Jersev (grounds to be named); Hurliogham rules, Monaco 

 boundary. , , , ^ 



May 33-25.— Knoxville Gun Club tournament, 81,000 added to 

 pnvsps. Also valuable merchandise prizes. 



June 12-16.— New York State Sportsm.fin's Associa+ion tourna- 

 ment, at Rofhestpr. H. M. Stewart, Cor. Seo'y, 413 EUwanger & 

 Barry Imikiinsr, Rochester, N. Y. 



DRIVERS AND TWISTERS. 



The new Lake View Shootlns and Fishing Association opened its 

 new club house on the Santa Fe, about 20 miles east of Topeba, Kas. 

 with a jolly party of friends and members on hand. The event of 

 the day was a match between teams o£ five men each from the Law- 

 rence Gun Club and the West Side Gun Club, of Topeka. Each man 

 shot at 25 bluerocks, the si-ore being 96 for the West Sides to 78 for 

 tbe Lawrences. A beautiful flag was presented to the Lake View 

 Shooting and Fishing Association by the following named ladies of 

 Topeka: Mrs. Aus. H. Piety, 3Ir^ .L C. Clark. MrS; W. N. Hall, Mrs. 

 George B. Palmer, Mrs. J. W. Nowers. Mrs. Frank G. Willard. Mrs. 

 William Henderson and Mis«: Maude Buhre. The ladies of Lawrence 

 will present to the dub a very hanlsome lamp for the club's dining 

 room on or before Thanksgiving Day next, at which time the two 

 above named gun clubs will have an all day shoot at live birds and 

 bluerocks. The club, which is regularly organized and chartered 

 under the State Law. and is known as the Lake View Shooting and 

 Fishing Association, has 100 members. About one year ago the or- 

 ganizers of the association secured a lease on the lake for twenty 

 years, including 300ft. all around the lake. The lake is about two 

 and one-half miles long and about 200yds. wide, and is well stocked 

 with tish of the black bass, croppie and suntish species. The shares 

 of stock in this association are evenly divided between Topeka and 

 Lawrence, holding 50 shares each. a.t the organization of tbe associa- 

 tion shares of stock sold for $.30 each, but they have advanced, the last 

 one sold a few days ago for 880. The oflacers of the association are: 

 J. C. Clark. Topeka, President; Wm. Bromelsic, Lawrence, Vice- 

 Fresident; W. Metcalf. Lawrence, Secretary; AV. N. Hall, Topeka, 

 Treasurer. Board of Directors— J. C. Clark, Topeka; Aus. H. Piety, 

 Topeka; Wm. Bromelsic, Lawrence; J. O. Holloway, Lawrence, and 

 Eben Baldwin, Lake View. The new club house was erected at a 

 cost of f2,585. It is a frame building and has rooms conveniently 

 arranged for the wants of the members. The building is in the rustic 

 «tyle of architecture and has wide porches on all four sides. On the 

 first floor the principal feature is the large dinins: room. On the side 

 of the room is an alcove .and an Immense old-fasbioned wood fire- 

 place with seats inside the alcove. On the second floor are the pri- 

 - vate rooms and lockers of the club members. What the boys keep 

 in the lockers no one knows save themselves, as each member has a 

 key to his own locker, and be seldom, if ever, goes to the locker 

 unless he thinks he needs something The club house and grounds 

 are in charge of S L Bench, of Topeka, and the boys think they liave 

 tbe right man in the right place. Mr. Bench's family resides there 

 with him. 



The following has been received from J. A. Penn, aneut the Thanks 

 giving Day shoot at Wheehng, W. Va. : '-The proceedings in connec- 

 tion with the formation of our State Association havebeen thoroughly 

 advertised tliroughout the State, 50 leading papers inserting full 

 notice of same in their columns. Owing to the game season, which 

 will be at its height with shooters here in November, the association 

 will only attempt to give a one-day's shoot Thanksgivine: Day in 

 order to entertain the tioys from other clubs. In May, 1893, we ex-, 

 pect to give a three or four days' shoot to be known as the first 

 annual tournament of the West Virginia State Sportsmen's Associa- 

 tion for the Protection of Fish and Geme. At this tournament we 

 expect to decide the championship of the State on targets and live 

 birds, and shall have an emblem to give to the winner of same, to be 

 contested for annually. This tournament will probably be given the 

 week preceding the World's Fair shoot at Chicago, and one set of 

 traps will be open to all, to be run by Paul North, We expect to 

 make same a grand success, and eveiything will be done between 

 now and then by tbe Island Gun Club, of tins city (where same will 

 probably be held), and all other gun clubs in the State to taring it to a 

 successful issue and to place the association on an enviable oasis. 

 The tournament Thanksgiving Day will be run under the Parker 

 handicap system, with bluerocks and electric pull, open to all." 



Bryan Taliaferro, secretai-y of the Jacksonville (Fla.) Gun Club, is 

 known to a large number of Northern shooters, having spent several 

 weeks during the early .summer in visiting the prominent tourna- 

 ments, both North and South. We first met him at Winchester, Va., 

 and recall with pleasures long drive over the famous Shenandoah 

 pike in company with Mr Talliaferro and A. W. Du Bray. Behind a 

 sipirited team of horses we whirled away up over the top of the 

 mountain, passing some magnificent farms en route, and none of us 

 thought of turn ng back imtil we reached the old Shenandoan toll- 

 gate, full ten miles from Winchester and well up toward the summit 

 of the range. Long before this the sun had lowered himself behind 

 the western ridge and tbe stars had begun to twinkle overhead. 

 Mons. Du Bray began to get poetical and there is no telling to what 

 length his fancies would have driven him had not the Jacksonville 

 man reminded him that he had better reserve his eloquence until the 

 following day, when he could use it in making "Parker converts" 

 among the 'winchesterians. Mr. TalUaferro informs us that his club 

 will hold a tournament at .Jacksonville on Dec. 38 and 20, when there 

 will be awarded $300 in cash and merchandise prizes There will also 

 be $500 guaranteed in the purses. Professional experts will be barred'. 



Books are now open for entries for the grand American handicap 

 to be held in New Jersey in January under the auspices of the Inter- 

 state Manufacturers' and Dealers' Association, and two entries have 

 already been received at this office. Those who enter are requested 

 not to forget to send $10 forfeit along with their entry, as otherwise 

 their entries will not be filed. The balance of the entry money ($40) 

 must be paid on or before Jan. 1. 1893. Each person entering will be 

 given a receipt for their $10. When the balance of $40 is paid this 

 receipt must be sent along, when it will be receipted in ftUl on the 

 back, this entitling the holder to take part in the contest. Those who 

 have entered at this office to date with their handicaps are F. C. 

 Fowler, 26yds. and Allen Willey 2Syds. 



It is time that the subscribers to tbe Interstate Manufacturers' and 

 Dealers' Associ-ation held a meeting and discussed the existing han- 

 dicap, which is an injury to the Association and to the sport. To 

 claim that a man who is tince an expert is always an expert is rank 

 nonsense. What the Association wants is a system of handicapping 

 that will class a man according to his shooting from one event to an- 

 other. The present handicap is driving shooters out of the field at a 

 rapid rate, and the sooner it is abolished the better. AVhy do not the 

 shooters of the countiy express themselves on this handicap ques- 

 t'onf To our way of thinking, the most equitable handicap of' the 

 day is the one devised by John Parker and adopted by the Michigan 

 htate League. 



A private letter from W. T. Mitchell, of Lynch, Va.. states that he 

 is having great sport among the quail. He says, "59 to my gun one 

 day; another day 61 to two guns and one evening in 55 minutes 1 

 bagged 22. at which point I stopped shooting, having all the birds I 

 wanted. Don't you wish you were down here?" Well, rather. 



Several WincliesEer, Va , shooters' will take part in the tournament 

 of the West Virginia Sportsmen's Association at Wheeling, on 

 Thanksgiving Day. Soma from Ohio apd Penusylvajiia are also 



Owing to an error in our record of the work of one club during the 

 recent tournament of the New .Tersey Trap Shooters' League our 

 list of winning teams was incorrect. The way the clubs stand fol- 

 lows: Independents win first prize and special premium for best 

 average; Boiling Springs win second prize; Maplewood and South 

 Side tie for third place on four, second places won by each, but as 

 they tied in one contest the shooting oflE of said tie will drop one club 

 out; New .lersey Shooting club win fourth place; Woodsideand East 

 Side Mutual tie for fifth place; Passaics win sixth, East Orange and 

 Brunsvnck tie for seventh place. 



Owing to a mistake in summing up we gave, last week, an incorrect 

 list of the standing of the clubs in the New Jersey Trap-Shooters' 

 League. Below is the correct standing: First prize and special pre- 

 mium, won by the Independents; second prize, won by tbe Boiling 

 Springs; thirJ prize, tied for by the Sjuth Sides and Maplewoods; 

 fourth prize, won by the New Jerseys; fifth prize, tied for by ttie 

 Woodsides and East Side-Mutuals; sixth prize, won by the Passaic 

 Oitys, and seventh prize, tied for by the East Orange and Bruns wicks. 

 Otherwise our report was correct. 



At-the recent Oregon Exposition held in Portland the management 

 arranged a trap shoot at 20 singles and 5 pairs of Peoria blackbirds, 

 the first prize being a silver water pitcher; second prize a pair of 

 pastell paintings and third prize a basket of cut flowers. There were 

 35 entries. P. A. Kinzell, C. Merritt and R. Cropkey tied for first 

 prize on 25 each, KiDzell winning on the shoot -oft'. For second J as.. 

 Caraher, W. A. Story and C. E. Hughes lied on 24 eich. Caraher 

 winning the shoot-off; third was won on a shoot-off by W. Monteith, 

 who had tied with R. Parker and Wm. Winters on 23 each. 



At the annual shoot for the champion badges of the St. Joseph 

 (IMo.) Sportsmen's Club, each contest was at 10 live birds. In the 

 ihampion badge shoot J. VV. Batchellor and R. S. Dinsmore tied on 3 

 kills each. Dinsmore securing the badge on the shoot-off. In the 

 shoot for the Franck badge Dinsmore won on a score of 10 straight . 

 There was also a contest at 15 bluerocks for the target badge, this 

 also being won by Dinsmore, who broke 13. In the first two events 

 the birds are said to have been very fast. 



The Riverside Gun Club, of Los Angelss, Cal., recently held a ban - 

 quet in honor of its victory in winning the Shelby team trophy at 

 the State shoot. The Shelby trophy consists of a large plush base, 

 upon which rests a marble slab supported by birds' feet in silver. 

 From this rises a marble column, surmounted by a silver xdgeon ; 

 guns, ammunition boxes, etc., of oxydized silver are appropriately 

 arranged on the trophy, which is altogether a handsome piece of 

 work. 



It is stated that there is a handsome balance in the treasury of the 

 Interstate Maufacturers' and Dealers' Asiooiitibn, If this is true can 

 the manager explain why the promises of the Association were 

 violated in reeard to guaranteed purses at Watertown and Auburn? 

 Early in the season the Association pledged itself to give guaranteed 

 purses at all shoots and these pladges should have been kept. The 

 fact of the attendance being light should be no reason for broken 

 pledges. 



The shooner Rattler, of Rockport, Maine, which has started for 

 Behring Sea and the Japan Coast in search of seal, walrus aa*! like 

 game, carries forty-eight Parker hammer less shots, weighing OV^lbs. 

 each, and with 32in. barrels; fifteen .40-65 Winchester rifles, 1883 

 model; 8501bs. of powOer: 2}4 tons of shot; 16,000 brass shells; and 

 83,000 wads. The vessel wiU carry twelve men to do the game 

 shooting, these being in addition to the regular crew. 



Miss Annie Oakley left Newark on Tuesday for Altoona. Pa. , to 

 take part in the Wapsonouock tonrnament to-day and to-morrow. 

 From there she will go to Ohio to visit her mother, returning to Jer- 

 sey in a fortnight. She contemplates purchasing a farm somewhere 

 iu the State, probably in the vicinity of Lmg Branch. She will in- 

 stall her brother on the farm as manager. 



All this fall the Bay City (Mich ). Gnu Club has tried to get on a 

 team match with the Saginaw Gun Club and several dates have been 

 fixed for the same. In every instance, however, the Saginaws have 

 requested a postponement, and the Bay City men have finally con- 

 cluded that the Saginaw men are afraid to meet them. 



Abe Kleinman, the well-known Chicagoan, recently fell into the 

 river at Washington street, and had a narrow escape from drowning. 

 Having on a heavy overcoat, his swimming abilities availed him 

 little, and it was only by the aid of a rope thrown by a bridge- tender 

 that he escaped a watery grave. 



Jack Brewer has been game shooting in Indiana. Wonder if he 

 will visit Chicago before returning. The Chicazo Globe says he may 

 possibly be at the initial shoot of the Chicago Shooting Club to- 

 morrow. Fulford and Budd will also be there and some matches 

 may be the outcome. 



Live-bu-d shooters who would be willing to enter an open sweep- 

 stake at 100 live birds, $100 entry, are requested to send their name 

 and address to the trap editor of Fob.bst akd Stream, -318 Broad- 

 way. N. Y- 



The Parker sliding-scale handicap will be used during the 1893 

 shoot of the Knoxville Gun Club. And what an entry list that 

 $1,000 in added money and the hundreds of dollars worth of mer- 

 chandise prizes will draw. 



A letter from Dr. H. E Lupas informs us that the Standard Gun 

 Club, of Baltimore, will hold an individual match for the champion- 

 ship of Maryland at Acton's Park on Thanksgiving Day. The club 

 will add a purse and a silver cup. 



Forest and Strv.am would be pleased to publish opinions anent 

 the existing handicaps used In target shooting, and experts and 

 amateurs alike are Invited to send us their views for publication. 



The ties for the team prizes in the New Jersey Trap Shooters' 

 League will be discussed at the coming League meetmg, and the 

 manner of deciding the same will then be determined upon. 



Teams of eleven men each from the Highland and Forester Gun 

 Clubs shot a match at Moline, III., on Oct. 23, at 35 targets per man, 

 the Foresters breaking 200 to their opponents 170. 



E. D. Miller, who made the fine percentage of 92.44 in tbe team 

 contests of the New Jersey Trap-Shooters' League, used the same 

 Parker gun that he has manipulated for three years. 



Parties desiring information anent the 1893 tournament of the New 

 York Stale Sportsman's Association should address H. M. Stewart, 

 corresponding secretary, Rochester, N. Y. 



Frank Mason has returned home from a six weeks' trip through 

 Chicago and the West. He says he met many old trap-shooting 

 friends en route. 



What gun club in America will pit a team of 10 men against a like 

 team from the Newark (N. J.) Gun Club for a match at 10 Uve birds 

 per manv 



All the Jersey experts and many from other States are expected 

 to attend the live bird tournament of the Newark Gun Club, at John 

 Erb's, on Nov 17. 



The Orlando Gun Club tournament, announced to t^ke place at 

 Orlando, Fla., the last week in October, was postponed to a later 

 date 



Ted Ackerman's annual tournament will be held at Stanton, Neb., 

 on the 15th and 16th inst., and an attractive programme has been 

 published. 



Oscar Hesse, of Red Bank, N. J., reports a growing demand for 

 the smokeless Walsrode powder, of which he is sole agent for the 

 United States. 



The West End Rod and Gun Club of Newark will hold a live bird 

 and target shoot on its Grove street grounds on Thanksgiving Day. 



The Keystone company is putting up more new target machines 

 and hope's to be able to catch up with their orders by spring. 



The Union Gur Club tournament, at Springfield, N. J , on Nov. 22- 

 28, wifi be attended by a number of well-known Pennsylvanians. 



Among the treasures brought home by '•Little yure Shot" is a flve- 

 months-old puppy dog of the famous Plinhmmon strain. 



Every West Virginia sportsmen's club Is expected to send a dele- 

 gate to the convention In Wheeling, on Nov. 24. 



The Arlington Gun Club, of Cleveland, Ohio, announces a grand 

 open tournament to take place on Nov. 24. 



The Milwaukee live bird and target tournament, Nov. 24-26, is ex- 

 pected to be the best attended of the season. 



The Lynn (Mass.) Fish and Game Protective Association will hold a 

 trap tournament on Thanksgiving Day. 



Frank Butler says that Mons. Journeau, the French expert pigeon 

 shot, is the best second-barrel shot he ever saw. 



Every gun club in New Jersev should lake part in the coming series 

 of team contests of the State lieague. 



Jack Brewer will have a handy task to defeat "Snapper" Garrison 

 with the odds he allows the latter. 



The New Jersey Trap Shooters League will begin a new series of 

 team shoots before the hohdays. 



The New York Athletic Club has arranged to hold weekly shoots at 

 Travers Island dming the winter. 



rue E^sex Gun Club will hold its monthly shOOt at Jive birds on the 

 I aiaiion grounds, next Thursday. 



"Little Sure Shot" will be one of the star attractions of the Wild 

 West Show, in Chicago, tn 1893, 



The gun and ammunition firms wUI soon be deluged with applica- 

 tions for 1893 calendars. 



Some big open sweeps are to be arranged for John Erb's sUootiiigr 

 grounds this season. 



John L. Brewer is still seeking for matches but no One seems wUllng 

 to face him. 



Ja?i. F. ThompsoB intends tij otganlze a gun elub in Martinsburgr 

 West Virginia. 



The New Jersey Shooting Club will hold it9 regular shoot at Clara- 

 mont on Saturday. 

 "Big Jim" Smith will hold a live bird shoot at Hackettstown in 



December. 



Shooting will begin at 9 A. M. during NtsSwark ToUroament day, 

 Nov. 17. 



Paul North says bluerock targets and expert traps are "cock of the 

 walk." 



H. A. Penrose was looking after his interests iu town last week. 

 The V L. & D. "Lightning" Shell is rapidly gaining friends. 

 E. 0. powder has the call in and around Washington, D. U. 

 "Tee Kay" Keller has returned from his Southern trip. 

 The Wifiey— Smith match is still hanging fire. 

 Harvey McMurchy was in town last week. 



C. H. TOWKSEKO. 



The Pot Cover Trap Club. 



The trap-shooting craze has at last struck New RrunRwick. 

 The sportsmen of St. John and Dorchester have been "ulv r'zing 

 the inanimates for some time. Late la«t winter the Fr'^dnricton 

 Gun Club, alias the Pot Cover Trap Club, was org uj'ze-l, and 

 of this body I propise to give a short sketch. It is small as re- 

 gards the number of members, but what it lacks in 8iz=* it makes 

 up in individuality. There is probably nothing in Nor'h Amsrica 

 just like it. 



Its membership is limited to 13. It has for its object t he making 

 of its members quicker and better shots on eame. (Incidentally, 

 every member is a reader of Fobest and Strb-^m). Ev^n^ mem- 

 ber must be a sportsman— one who goes afield after gnrne. and 

 all pot hunting and sweepstake shooting 's resolutely sat down 

 on. Each man shoots, Days for his share of the bird.? and 's satip- 

 fled , If be boats some one else he wears hi^ honors mTde^th ; if 

 he is at the tail of the drive, as some one- must be, b° has had a 

 heap of fun, anyway, and is no worse off than the winner. 



The boys took part in a. shoot in connection with a o'cu'c where 

 a painting was offered for the best score, and they talk ut having a 

 medal for tbe be«t average during the entire season, but that is 

 probablv about as far in the direction of shooting for p'izesas 

 they will ever get- . ^ 



The fli'st regular shoot of the season was held at Camp Comfort, 

 Hart's Island, July 1, and the veteran Indian guide and canoe- 

 man, Joe Paul, was taken along to prepare dinaT. Joe had 

 understood that they were going to have a shoot, buf his ideas on 

 tbe subject of the kind of game to be killed wer^ a little hazy. 

 When Ithey began to unpack tbe bluemcks. and it dawned on his 

 mind that these were the targets, he asked in surprise: "You 

 shoot th'='m pot-covers?" And pot-cover.=i they have been ever 

 since. That is how the club got its best known name. 



One of its promoters, as well ai one of its most active members 

 is A. Moore. When "our uncle Adam" unlimbers that old 10-bore 

 hammerless, and goes into action, he has a nasty habit of making 

 "straights" and getting them nearly all. At the picnic shoot 

 mentioned above, he got 23 out of 25, and to see how long he could 

 keep this sort of thing up, he was allowed to shoot at twelvn 

 more, which he broke, when the tranper struck and refused to 

 play "flushes" against his "straights" any longer. If be continues 

 to tread this "straight" path, he will be made the subject of a tea 

 yard handicap. „ ^ . , 



W. Chestnut, of R.. Chestnut & Sms, shoots in the same clasH 

 with the writer, inasmuch as sometimes he gets tbpm and some- 

 times he doesn't, but unlike the latter, he gets them a little the 

 oftener. . ...... 



W. H. Lawrence finds 'em "pretty middlin' otten," but u you 

 want to see W. H. shoot his best, yon must get blm after a couple 

 of whistler ducke. He cuts his Inner powder wad from the vamp 

 of an old shoe, and if you could see him smash bis game right. B.nd 

 left, it would shake your faith in the popular delusion that an old 

 shoe, or anv part thereof, thrown after one means good luck-, _ . 



David Oremln. as a game .shot, is noted fnr the ease and celerity 

 with which be can miss his bird witb the first birrel and plaster 

 it all over with the second. Indeed, it ia said that he sometimes 

 fires bis first to confuse the trame and his second to kill . A young 

 New Yorker, who saw him shoot, said he was lite John L. Sulli- 

 van — "he depended chiefly on hia deadly left." He shoots best in 

 the gray dawn of morning, when "somebody" isn't Inok'ng, and 

 on inanimates, if allowed both barrels, it is a mighty tough and 

 nimble bluerock that can get away from him. 



W. H. Mnore, a young taxidermist, and an occasional eon^rlbu- 

 tor to the Natural History columns of Forkst and StbeAm, does 

 his best work .about the same time of day as David, but he never 

 gets rattled. He is considerably handicapped by a too open shoot - 

 ing gun. 



Harry Chestnut can give an ludian points on propelling a bark 

 canoe, and when he trains that 12-gau''e Lef ever on .i SOyds in- 

 coming bluerock, he crushes it to impalpable powder, just a little 

 coarser than smoke. 



A. Jackson is the club'.a long-range man. A trap to get a bird 

 beyond range of the old 10-gauge Ithaca in his hands would have 

 to throw at least SOyds. 



There is a young man, not yet admitted to full membership, 

 who says he shoots a "mortified choke" gun and cau a: t them 

 oftener than any one in tbe club. A gun like that ought to b« a 

 "deadly" weapon, and many of us would like to see the combina- 

 tion working, 



Mr. Byron Phair, of the Postal Service, was not at the shoot I 

 attended. He and Mr. Arthur Porter -an other Pot Cover man- 

 were on the Miramichi witb Harry Braithwaite, the veteran trap- 

 per, after moose. 



Mr. Porter is regarded as one of the coming shots of the olu^-, 

 and the new lO-gauge Lefever he has ordered will, in all proba- 

 bility, when he "geta its hang," enable him to roll up ev n better 

 scores than he has made heretofore. 



A Lef over ' fever" seems to he breaking out among the boys, 

 and some of them talk of discarding guns of standard ma'ces an I 

 ordering that "brand." Harry Chestnut's gun Is responsible for 

 this state of affairs. It hangs nicely, is a good shooter, and has 

 enoughcaHt-off to enable a man with a decent breadth of shoulder 

 to find the center of the rib without straining the cords of the 



I have the scores made at the last shoot, but In deferen"e to the 

 wishes of some of the club members will not forward them. 



The final shoot of the season will be on Thanksgiving Day, 

 Nov. 10. L.I. Flower. 



Shooting' at Ridgewood Park. 



Thk bitter cold gale of Saturday last did not prevent the mem- 

 bers of the Ridgewood Gun Club from holding their proposed 

 team shoot at C, Deckelmann's Ridgewood Park. John Sehlif- 

 mann and L. C. Gehrine' captained their respective teams of seven 

 men, who each shot at 10 birds, 25yds. rise, modified Long Island 

 rules. John Schliemann with his straight .'oore of ten was tbe 

 means of his team winning by the score of 40 to 36. The losing 

 side had to pay for wine suppers for the teams and guests hs well 

 as for the birds. Tbe hot supper was very welcome after such a 

 cold blustering afternoon's outine. A return match will probably 

 be arranged during the month. The score: 



Schliemann's Tpam. Gehring's Team. 



J Schliemann . .1121213112—10 L Gehring 0002020201- 4 



P J Eppig 1210:211021— 8 P Ibert 1221200212- ■ 8 



J Schneider. . . . 0020012020- 4 J Welz 0012012122— 7 



I Martin 0002002000- 3 G Dutch 0i00320020- 4 



C Deckelman . . .0100020010- 3 C Kudel 1032000312- 6 



G Kramer 1122202020— 7 C Wagner 0020020200— 3 



C Laeger 1120020220- 6-40 H Waegells.... 0200132000- 4-3(j 



Referee, Conrad Laeger. Scorer. F. J. Martin. 



Ephrata Gun Club. 



Ephrata. Pa., Oct. 31.— The members of the Ephrafa Gun Club 

 held a special meeting last Saturday afternoon and engaged In 

 target shooting, each shooter getting 50 birds in two mf tche' of 

 2.'i birds each. Tbe following are the besr scores made, five v- 

 Btone traps being used: W- L. Rixler 17. S. E. Sba^p 17. C. W. 

 Gier 17. W. D. Winters 16, J. M. Krcuse 18, Geo. A. Heilig 11. R. 

 W. Bicklev 9, A. Heiupman 7, E. AlrichlS, Dr. Reamsnyder 13. 

 The Ephrata Gun Club enrolls a mprrhfrship of 12.5, among 

 whif.h are some fair shooters. Samuel L. Shabp, Seo'y. 



