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FOREST AND STREAM. 



[Jan, 26, 1S93. 



Suggestions from Pennsylvania. 



WiLKSBARRE, Pa., Jan. n>. —Editor Forest and Stream: The question 

 of handicap, or the equahzatioii of trap shooters, is no-n^ being dis- 

 cussed in the columns of Forest and Stream in view of finding a plan 

 to prevent "dropping for )3lace." 



I have a scheme by which this practice is impossible, ivhich pro- 

 tects the amateur and pays each man according to his sldll. While I 

 think it quite impossible for a club to hold a shoot and .give the poor 

 shots the most of the money, there should be some plan to give tliem 

 vphat they eai'n. 



I have always found that the better shots — the experts, perhaps — 

 are the ones who come to your tournaments, and come to stay, ^vhile 

 if the management depended on the poorer class of shooters for their 

 entries they would have a rather slim attendance. 



So give the expert a chance to hve and the amateur a chance to 

 stay, for the average amateur does not expect to make anything any 

 waj' and only attends "just for the fun."' 



But here is my plan: Give every shooter who is hi first place twice 

 the amount of entrance, aU who are in second place get theh' entrance 

 back, those in third place get one-half of entrance back and those in 

 the fourth hole get one-fourth of their entrance, which is about as 

 much as foui'th place usually pays, Tou will And tliat iij the average 

 tournaments, with bluerocks and expert traps, tliat tiiere would be 

 some surplus m most of the matches, and this could be carried over 

 to the end of the day and divided into four or five moneys for the best 

 average in each class; as there would be no "drop);)ing" for place each 

 man would be where l ie belongs. 



Bead the trap colums of this paper and select tlie, scores of any large 

 tournament and figure it up for yourself. 



But some one will say, "Oh, yes; that is a good plan, b\it if all broke 

 10 straight where would the balance come from?" 



So I say, figure it up for yourself and you will find enoxigh surplus 

 in one match to make up any dcflciencj' in another inatch, aind at the 

 end of the daj' there will lie a god sum for average; and I would Hke to 

 see the man who would "drop to place" and make anything hj so 

 doing. 



For example, take a lO-bird sweep, $1 entrance, with 10 men en- 

 tered: 



Thi'ee men break 10 each, receive i^S; total $6 00 



Two men break 9 each, receive ifl ; total 2 00 



Three men break 8 each, receive 50c. ; total 1 50 



One man breaks 7, receives 25c. ; total 25 



One man breaks 6, receives 00; total, 00 



$9 75 



Surplus of 35 cents, and this would amount to much more in some 

 events. 



I counted up the first SOO targets shot at by the South Side Club, of 

 Newark, on .Jan. 2, and found that with such men as MiUer, Collins, 

 Hobart. BreintnaU and Van Dvke there would have been a surplus of 

 $27.01 and a loss of $5.03, leaving a total surplus of $21.89 to be divided 

 for average money. And taking one of the shooters whose average 

 was less than 80 per cent., found that he would make more money 

 under this plan than under the usual way of division. 



While this plan may not be quite perfect and leave a chance for im- 

 provement, I think it would do away with "place" men and protect 

 the amateur. W. Babre. 



New Jersey Trap-Shooters' League. 



BRIOHT OUTLOOK FOR 1893. 



Judging from present indications the season of 1893 will break all 

 previous records for trap-shooting in New Jersey, for which the en- 

 terprising projectors of the New Jersey Trap-Shooters' League will 

 be largely responsible. AVhen the League was started, a year ago, 

 many Jersey sportsmen predicted dire failure, but despite the gloomy 

 forecasts the organization went through the season with ten clubs on 

 ts roll, and at no time were there less than seven clubs represented at 

 the montlily tournaments. The present year opens under even more 

 favorable auspices than the last, there being twelve clubs on the list 

 and a prospect of two or three more entering. 



The annual meeting of the League was held in A merican Field 

 office, in New York city, on Jan. 18, the following delegates being 

 present: E. D. Miller, Union Gun Club, of Springfield; S. B. Tillou, 

 Maplewood Gun Club, of Maplewood; C. W. McPeek, Endeavor Gun 

 Club, of Jersey City; P. A. Jeanneret, Boiling Springs Gun Club, of 

 Rutherford; W. R. Hobart, South Side Gun Club, of Newark. The 

 election of officers resulted as follows: President, Paul A. Jeanneret; 

 Secretary and Treasurer, "Wni. R. Hobart: Manager, Enoch D. Miller; 

 Governing Comixiittee, S. B. TiUou and C. W. MePeek. 



Communications were received from the Riverside Gun Club, of Red 

 Bank, Hackettstown Gun Club, of Hackettstown, and Newton Gun 

 Club, of Newton, declining to enter the League. The East Orange 

 Gun Club, of Harrison, resigned from the League. The Union Gun 

 Club, of Springfield, Irviugton Gun Club, of Irvington, and Endeavor 

 Gun Club, of jersey City, were elected to membership; A communi- 

 cation was received from the Somerville Gun Club, of Somerville, 

 asking for further information in regard to the worljing of the League. 



The League by-laws were looked over and altered in some unim- 

 portant parts. 



The governing committee was empowered to solicit prizes of mer- 

 chandise, etc., from firms and individuals, and the arrangement of 

 the prize list was postponed pending theu- report. It was decided 

 that all awards for prizes should be computed on the aggregate num- 

 ber of breaks in the number of shoots necessary to a qualification, 

 the club making more than the requisite number of competitions to 

 select its own prize. In order to qualify for prizes clubs and indi- 

 viduals must take pai't in one more than one-half of the competitions. 



The drawing for the opening tournament resulted in favor of the 

 Union Gun Club, of Springfield. 



A Virginian's Opinion. 



Lyncht, Jan. 17. — I noticed Mr. Crutteuden's article on division of 

 purses in tournaments in yoiu- last issue and think he makes a mis- 

 take in advocating such a system, as it is virtually a system whereby 

 you shoot for the amateur's cash, as I will try to show. It is gener- 

 ally conceded that, the amateur's average is from 60 to 70 per cent, 

 and the expert's from 80 to 90 ijer cent., and upon this basis we will 

 figure by dividing said averages, which gives the amateur 65 per cent, 

 and the expert 85 per cent. ; hence the amateur gets back 65 per cent, 

 of his money, which in a 10-bird race would leave him to pay 30 cents 

 for birds and 85 cents in entrance to go to the pot, while the expert 

 would pay 30 cents for birds and 15 cents entrance toward pot or, in 

 other words, Mr. Amateur would pay two and a third times as much 

 entrance as Mr. Expert, and if money were divided on a basis of 50, 30 

 and 20 per cent., Mr. Amateur, with a two and a third more entrance, 

 would only get one-fifth of the pot, or, in other words, he pays out 35 

 .cents entrance and 30 cents for birds, 65 cents in all, to win one-fifth of 

 Mr. Expert's — ^15 cents. Truly, this is protection for theamateur — in a 

 horn. But, Mr. Editor, you may ask how are we to protect the ama- 

 teur. Only by a judicious system of liandicap and a reasonable entry, 

 when targets can't eat xxp the whole purse, as under the above sys- 

 tem. Thirty per cent, of the entrance is the price of .your targets, 

 which makes the management of oru- tournaments eat u]:i both expyrt 

 and amateur. The cry against dropping for holes can only be stopped 

 by abolishing class shooting, which is an American idea, introduced 



to assist in gambling, whereby you could ticlde the fancy of the novice 

 while you win his money, and it should go like all other crooked 

 things, as trap-shooting should be put upon a basis that the best 

 must win on their worli, not necessarily the best shots, but the best 

 scores made. Then with an equitable handicap Mr. Amateur and Mr, 

 Expert vi'ill be about on an equal, w-hen our tournaments will be better 

 attended. It sounds very nice on paper to talk of shooting for the 

 sport and a reunion of shooters and the like, but such things exist 

 only in the imagination, as the shootei-s are nearly all after the 

 almighty dollar. a,nd Avere you to eliminate that and expect a turn- 

 out to shoot for fun and the' pleasure of irieeiing- one another for a 

 jolly time you would seldom meet a dozen m^n at a tournament. If 

 you" wish to see them flock in countless Dumiiers give big added 

 iiioney, when all have a living show, ami you \\'iU see them dropping 

 ' " :ing away till the 



in from the most remote points ready to lieep peg 

 last target is thrown. 



. Mitchell. 



HarHsburg Wants the Premium. 



Habrisburg, Pa., Jan. 18.— I notice the American Manufacturers' 

 Association offers a prize for tlie best handicap system submitted to 

 ■them. Will you Idndly ask them to forward me the $50 through the 

 Forest and Stream? By a handicap I pi-esume they mean the best 

 method to induce large numbers of shooters to attend their tourna- 

 ments. There is only one comliination that will bring shooters to- 

 gether, one that gives the "cracks'' a chance to make some "boodle" 

 and the poor amateur a chance to save some of his from the "shar'ks." 

 Now, to make rules that will govern these points is the simplest thing 

 in the world, and why so many people ai'e bothering themselves over 

 the matter and lying awake at night thinking up new scbemes is 



something I can't fathom. AU you have to do is use the North handi 

 cap partiaUy, make all winners of fii'st and second money shoot the 

 next event w^hich they enter at known traps, unknown angles. Make 

 any one who is in a chance to win first or second, if he drops his last 

 target either intentionally or otherwise, lose a dollar on that bird, to 

 be deducted from his winning and go in the pot. This will make easily 

 i-attled shooters lilce Heikes, Budd, Miller, ad nauseam, fairly shake 

 when they come to the last bird— and break it. 



Make all your races the same number of targets. 



Divide bj^ the jack rabbit .system, making all entries value 10 cents a 

 bird, penalty for missing 20 cents, cost of targets extra. Now you 

 have got it fine— but on second thought don't fail to send the $50 

 direct. ' ' Jack Rabbit. 



Coney Island. 



The first shoot in the series for the possession of the Long Island 

 Athletic Club's silver cup was held ou the Atlantic Rod and Gun Club's 

 grounds, at West End, Coney Island, Tuesday. Teams of five men 

 each, to shoot at 15 live birds each, modified Htu-lingham rules, handi- 

 cap on the gun. To enable the shoot to be carried out in one day, the 

 Captain decided that each man going to the score should shoot out his 

 five traps. 



Atlantic Rod and Giui Club— D. Mousees, ?38.yds.. 15; J. B. 'Voorhees, 

 28yds., 12; H. Balzer, .28yds.. 12; H. Krondta, 28.yds., 18: 0. E. Morris, 

 30yds., 14. Total, 65. 



Coney Island Rod and Gun Cltib— C. Plate, 28yds., 18; I. Hyde, 30yds., 

 13; F. Pfaender. 28yds., $; C. Detlefsen, 28yds., 13; C. W. Northridge, 

 28yds., 11. Total, 58. 



New Utrecht Rod and Gun Club— C. Furgueiion. Jr., 28yds.. 9; D. C. 

 Bennett. 28yds., 13; C. M. Meyer, 88yds„ 11; C. Williams, 28yds., 13; G. 

 E. Nostrand, 28yds. 12. Total, 58. 



Parkway Rod and Gun Club— J. Blalce, 28yds., 10; H. Bookman, 

 28yds., 11; E. Helgans, 28yds., 12; T. Short, 28yds., 12: .L Bennett,30yds. . 

 11. Total, 50. 



Northside Gun Club— Chas. Meyer, 28yds., 12; C. M. Manning, .2Syds.. 

 9; J. Tiernan, 30yds., 13: G. Slems, 28rds.. 13: J, Chevalier, ;isvds., 7. 

 Total, 54. 



GlenmoreRod and Gtm Club— W. Hartve. .'iSvds., 10; J. A. Eppig, 

 30yds., 11; J. Schlioraan, 28vds., 10; C. Engelbrecht. 28yds., 14; W. Lev- 

 ens. 2Syds., 8. Total, 51. 



Crescent Gun Club— ,1. Yagts, ySyds., 9: C. Simmons, 28yds., 10; C. 

 Hubbell, 28yds., 12; J. W. Shepherd, 28vds.. 7: A, Hopkins, 38yds.. 11. 

 Total, 49. 



Vernon Rod and Gun Club— J. B. Osterhout, 28yds.. 9; Dr. Little, 

 38yds., 10: W. H. Thompson. 28yds.. 7; G. Gfreifl', 8S.yds., 14; F, A. 

 Thompson, 28yds., 6. Total, 40. 



Referee, H. Goodwin ; scorer, C. Debar. 



Erie Gun Club. 



The members of the Erie Gun Club adopted their new shooting rules 

 for the season at the first shoot at Woodlawn Park on Wednesday, 

 Jan. 18. Eleven competed for the class prizes, the best seven averages 

 during t he season to count in each class, at seven birds each, class 

 handicap, modified Htirlingham rules. As the light was bad it was de- 

 cided to divide the added club prizes for the tbree best classified 

 scores. The scores: 



C Plate. 1111112^7 H Dohrman 1111012-6 



J Plate 1111112— ;• 



CUlss B. 



MElssasser lOlllui— 5 J Mairvait 0101120—4 



F Graef. .0011811—5 H Jauskowsky. 1102822—6 



J O Schinadeke 2111112—7 



Class C. 



D .) L\ nch. 0001008—2 H Plate , 1011102-5 



C H Luhrsen 0120201—4 



Shooting at Rutherford. 



The Boiling Springs Gun Club held a shoot on its Rutherford grounds 

 on Jan. 21. All the events were at 10 targets each, and the results fol- 

 low: 



No. 4. Ely 8, Paul 8, Greiff 'i', Blauvelt 6, Collins 5. 



No. 2': Apgar 9, Miller 6, Greiff 6, Elv 6, Paul 4, Collins 5. 



No. 3. No. 4. No. 5. No. 6. 



SCoUms 0110111111—8 1001111001—6 1111110011- 8 1111110111-9 



Greiff 0101111111—8 UOlOOOlOO— i 1101110111— 8 0111111111-9 



Paul 1101101111—8 1011001001—4 1010111111— 8 0101010000—4 



Miller 1111111111-10 1110111011—8 1111111111-10 1101110111—8 



Apgar 1011110111-8 1111100100-6 1111111111-10 lOUloHH-S 



Ely. 1111100111—8 1111100111-8 0111011110— 7 1011111111-8 



Taylor 1110011111—8 1001101100— o 1000111101— 6 



Laue 1000011111—6 0001111110—6 1100111111- 8 0010111111-7 



Chaffee OlOlOOOlOO— 3 1100111110—7 1001111101- 7 



James 1011111111—9 1001100101—5 0011101110- 6 0111011111 -8 



Lenone 1100001011—5 1111001110—6 OOlOlllllo-- 6 OWlOllllI— 7 



Blauvelt 1100111111—8 1111101011— 8 



CCollhis 1011100101—6 1101110101—7 



No. 7. No. 8. 



Ely... 1111110111—9 lOlllOOni— 7 



Apgar 1111111111—10 rminooo— r 



Greiff 110001111 >— 7 lllOllUOl- s 



Miller ....1101101110— 7 1110111(111 - 8 



E Collms ...llOlOiMOll- 5 linnilll-l(i 



Paul iiiinoni— 9 innimwi- ; 



Lenone 0001000111— 1 onOlUOlOU - 4 



Blauvelt. 1111111011— 9 11110(.illll- s 



Laue ...1101000111—6 



Colhns 0000011011— J 



Huck..... 0101011110—6 



Chaffee 1001 000111 - r, 



No. 9: Apgar 8, Paul 0, Lenone 7. Greiff 7. Millei 8. TU. Collins H, Elv .x. 



No. 10: Elv 6, E. Collins 9, Greiff 7, Paul 5, Lane 7, 1 .enoue 4. 



No. 11: Ely 8, E. Colhns 8, Paul 8, Lenone 5, Greiff' 4, Blauvelt 6. 



Team race, six-men teams, 25 tai-gets per man : 

 Excelsioi- Gmi Club. 



Taylor lOOlOllOllOllOIOOOfJlOUOl— 13 



J j Blauveh. , OOllOllOllOlOlKXilllOllOl— 15 



JHBlauvelt 0001111000111110111011111—17 



Chaffee , 1111100011110010110101011—16 



Ely. 1110111001111101110111111— 30— 81 



Boiling Springs Gun Club. 



Apgar 1101101001111011011111001—17^ 



E Collins llllllinllllOllUOlOlOll— 21 



Greiff lilOllliiiiUOi 11111111 11— 2;:i 



Lenone 1011011001 lOll 10011010110—15 



Laue OlOOlOOOOOOOOllOOl J 1 1) 1 Hi— 1 1 —ST 



New Utrecht Rod and Gun Club. 



FiETEBN membei'S of the New Utrecht Rod and Gun Cluh emupeterl 

 in the regular monthly shoot at Woodlawn Park. L. J.. foi- tlje live 

 bird trophy, a diamond. badge, and three liandsome in izcs foi- the best 

 average of seven out of twelve shoots during the year. 



Mort "Van Brunt was the only straight scoier with ten. Four killed 

 nine and five killed eight, making a good showing for such bad 

 weather. 



One of the features of the siioot was rbe ^-(...o.i -coi i- iua,d(- liy D. 

 Lohman, Jr., a boy ten years of age; he killed seveu i.'lh reu, beat- 

 ing his father in the club shoot by two birds. In staiure h^■ is very 

 sniall but uses good judgment with his second barrel. The score of 

 the shoot; 



W Van Brimt 1111111211—10 J V P Shield.s 0201 1 1 1 1 12— 8 



G Nostrand 1001211111— 8 C A Sykes 0101202211— 7 



P.Hegeman 1212011111— 9 C Furgusen, .Ir 11122,21202— 9 



D Bennett llliillllOl— H A Squir.-s .1111121110— 9 



A A Hegemau 2021102011— 7 C Wtagert 2110111112— 9 



D Lohman. Jr 1220201102— ; W F Sykes .1202031111— 8 



D Lohman, Sr 0101101002- 5 J Cottier 1200000220— 4 



R Street 0121021113— 8 D Dimond OllOw 



Unknown Gun Club. 



Tnie 



a.uihpi-sof the Unknown Gun Chib did 

 I tn the weatlier than their fellow .5 

 Thursday. Jan. 12. Fifteen competed for the 

 extra prizes, at 7 birds each, chih luuidK-a]j. 

 rules. The veterans. JoUn Alihui'st. Ike Hvd< 



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J Marlborough (35) . 

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2112110— 

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 0012002—3 

 1101201—5 



'Washington Bridge. 



Ofm of ttie most beautiful structures of its kind in t he world is the 

 Washmgton Bridge. This engineering mai'vel of bronze, steel and 

 stone IS one of the sights ot the metropi.ihs. It spans the picturesque 

 Harlem River and the tracks <^t tlie. New '\o\-k ' i'lni ai iind Hudson 

 River Railroad at I81st street. New l:ork. The loneth of tlie bridge Is 

 2.37.5tt.. height 1:33. 5tt. above the river. It has tw.j steel arches, each 

 with a span ot 510ti... supported by tbree stone piers and two stone 

 abutments. The piers are 98tt. long and -10ft. tluek. ot .-olid concrete, 

 faced with dressed granite. The abutments are ^emi-Lircnlai- arches 

 of masonry, each having a span of 60tt. There are a .jofl. di-iveway 

 and two footways, each loft. wide. It cost few.7oo.ooij. A plii;>togravui'e 

 etching of the famous view ot Washington Bridge, tnkeii by 3ir. W. H. 

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