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FOREST AND STREAM. 



[April 14, 1894. 



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J. E. Haggerty, of St. Louis, and M. 0. Brown, of Carondelet, shot a 

 match at 100 live birds each for $100 a side, at St. Louis, on March 25. 

 the result being 1 as appended: 



Haggerty millin2mi20212..21.1111..1112122l02111120.121 



0112122122121111111111111212111222212221212112211—90 



Brown 212111.1U111222210.120211112011220..1211101.22211 



11221.2121211011111222112121101220111.21111111111—85 



The long-talked-of match at 25 targets each between C. F. Lenone 

 and T. W. Morfey will be shot at Willard's Park on Tuesday, April 17, 

 and may the best man win. We have carried the stake for this match 

 since the early part of last November and are beginning to think of 

 charging storage. On th« above day there will be shot at Willard's 

 Park a match at. 25 live birds each between Allen Willey, of Hartford; 

 Neaf Apgar, of Evona, N. J., and T. W. Morfey, of Paterson, each man 

 to shoot at 25 live birds, §25 a corner, winner to take the pot, loser to 

 pay for the birds. 



Red Bank, N. J., April 6.— The series of shooting matches of the 

 members of the Riverside Gun Club for the championship medals of 

 1894 will be decided this month. The shooting is at 25 bluerocks in 

 each event per man, and there are three classes,, which are classified 

 according to the averages of the shooters. This afternoon the eleventh 

 contest took place, and was as follows: First event: Jas Cooper, Jr. 

 13, Wm. Green 19, John Cooper 12, E Garnsey 10. A black score 

 was ^shot by Jas. Cooper, who scored 21. Second event, sweep 25 

 bluerocks: Green 20, J. Cooper, Jr. 21, Phil Daly 15, John Cooper 9. 

 Third event, 5 singles: Garnsey and C. Throckmorton tied on 5 each, 

 John P. Cooper 4, Fourth event, 10 singles, expert rules: Green 7, 

 John Cooper 4, Jas. Cooper 3. Fifth event, ma'ch between Green and 

 Jas. Cooper at 5 singles: Cooper won, smashing 4 to Green's 2. 



The monthly shoot of the Brighton Gun Club, of East Orange, N. J., 

 took place on Saturday last on their North Park street grounds, all 

 shooting being at 18yds. rise. In the first four sweeps, at 5 targets 

 each, the results were: 



From Worcester, Mass., came J. T. Mascroft, 2901bs. in weight and 

 about 6ft. 2J^in. in height and who came down to have his initial prac- 

 tice on live birds. For the last thirty-five years Mr. Mascroft has been 

 an active field shot, never missing a season, but not until this year has 

 he become interested in live bird contests. Columbus, O., sen*, on 

 Charley Young, one of its finest target and bird shots; Cleveland was 

 represented by D. A. Upson; from Boston came R Dickey and 

 "Pickles" Paine; F. D. Kelsey came from Buffalo; H. Stewart and E. 

 C. Myer came from Rochester; J. M. Green and J. D. Arnold from 

 Washington, D. C. ; Allen Willey from Hartford; J A. R. Elliott from 

 Kansas City; Rollo Heikes from Dayton; W. T. Spicer from Danville, 

 Pa ; C. Smith from Plainfield; "Big Jim" Smith from Hackettstown; 

 J. W. Hoffman from German Valley, N. J. ; Justus Von Lengerke from 

 Orange; H. A. Penrose from New London: John Timmons and Frank 

 Class from Morristown; T. W. Morfey from Paterson; M. F. Lindsley 

 from Hoboken; A. W. and N. G. Money from Oakland; T. W. Peacock 

 from Westfield; Dr. Weld from Boston; C. L. Edgarton from Willi- 

 mantic; W. H. Wolstencroft and J. F. Kleinz from Philadelphia; W. 

 C.Drake from Maplewood; E.D.Miller from Springfield; R. Ivens 

 from Red Bank; Fenn Cooper from Mahanoy City, Pa., besides a big 

 crowd of local and near-by men whose names the scores will show. 



The day's sport began with a "warmer" at 5 live birds, $3 entry, 2 

 moneys, the score being: 



Elliott 12112—5 Upson 1.122- -4 



Phister 12222—5 Edgerton H21« — 4 



Young 21222—5 Vandergrift 01120—3 



Kelsey 11111—5 



The birds would have been fairly good in the ab jve and succeeding 

 sweeps had the weather been at all favorable, but as it was, they were 



loggy and ^clumsy as a whole, and made comparatively easy shoot- 

 ing. 



The second event was No. 1 on the regular programme and had 23 

 entries, the scores being: 



No 1. class shooting, 7 birds, 28yds rise, entrance $7, 3 moneys: 



Fulford 1111121—7 Pickles 2.21220-5 



Denny .21 2022-5 Kelsey 0121111—6 



Elliott, 1121122—7 Edgarton 2102102—5 



Upson 1221121—7 Wolstencroft. 0022221—5 



Young 2221222—7 Vandergrift 0212112—6 



Kleinz 211111.— 6 Mascroft 0112..1— 4 



Dickey 1011 012-5 Macbeth 22012.2-5 



Wyld 2222222—7 Lake. 2202102-5 



Phister 2121.12-6 



Then came regular No. 2, at 5 birds, 32 entries,, high guns to win, the 

 three moneys aggregating $104, which was divided by fourteen men on 

 straight scores.- Gus E. Greiff, of Von Lengerke & Detmold's, was 

 referee in this and the succeeding race. The scores: 



No 2, not class shooting, 23yds^ rise, 5 birds, $5 entrance, 3 moneys: 



Fulford 20222-4 Wolstencroft 22210-4 



Elliott 11112-5 Ph ister 1 1 122 - 5 



Denny 11212—5 Hobart 12222—5 



Remsen 01210-3 Heikes 22201—4 



Hyde 21112—5 Jones 22122-5 



Dickey 21111-5 A H King 11210-4 



Wyld 22120-4 Bessemer 22202-4 



Young 10222-4 Lindsley 22222—5 



Timmons 20102—3 McWhorter 22220—4 



J M B .1102-3 W S King 01102-3 



Upson 22211—5 Kelsey 12121—5 



Kleinz 22121—5 Knowlton 22222—5 



Arnold 120.2—3 Arno 00212-3 



Greene 1.221—4 Meyer 1H22— 5 



Hoffman 21221—5 Peacock 01221—4 



During a portion of the above race the rain slacked up a little, but 

 at no time could it be called favorable. After the above there was 

 started event No. 3 at 15 live birds, 815 entry, handicap rises, class 

 shooting, with four moneys, this having 52 entries. At the start 

 Manager Shaner announced that he should reserve the right on any 

 even round to call for the match for the day provided the light began 

 to fail. Consequently it was declared off on the sixth round and the 

 announcement made that the rest of the race would be shot in with 

 the American handicap on the following day, the first nine rounds of 

 the handicap to count on the 15-bird shoot for those who entered in 

 the handicap, while those not entered therein could shoot nine birds 

 aDd then draw out. This arrangement seemed to be satisfactory to 

 the majority. When the shooting stopped 22 men had killed 6 each; 

 20 had lost 1 each and 6 had lost 2 each. The scores will be included 

 in to-morrow's report. 



Thursday, the Second Day. 



Thursday morning opened bright and clear with a brisk, sharp 

 breeze from the southwest, the air being just keen enough to cause 

 the blood to circulate briskly and to prompt birds to fly at their best. 

 Shooters and spectators began to assemble on the grounds as early as 

 eight o'clock, although it was after ten when the shooting began. The 

 attendance of spectators was the largest ever seen on the grounds, 

 there being at least a thousand people present during the day. They 

 came from all over the country, and were one and all deeply inter- 

 ested in the sport. 



Among others were F. C Ross. Gus Nowak and G.W. Plaisted, of the 

 Zettler Rifle Club; J. R. Blauvelt, of Hackensaek, N. J. ; John Leonard 

 and wife, Mrs. Frank P. Class and M. Montgomery, of Morristown, N. 

 J. ; H. L. Gates, of the Oneida County Sportsmen's Association, of 

 Utica, N.Y. ; C. W. Tuttle, captain of the Auburn Gun Club of Auburn, 

 N. Y. ; Eddie Collins, captain of the Endeavor Gun Club of Jersey City; 

 Al Heritage, the ever-popular "Old South Paw" of the Jersey City 

 Heights Gun Club and the Marion shooting grounds; Dr. Hudson, Dr. 

 Leverage, J. Blenderman, Col. John Voss and Com. Griffith, of New 

 York; Ben. E^eringham and Dr. H. Perley Mason, of the Peekskill (N. 

 Y.) Gun Club; C H. Manchester, of Fall River, Mass.; Lieut. R. Sum- 

 ner Paine, Capt. Chas. Buffington, Dr. Wells and S. Bowker, of Boston; 

 Thos. Hall, of Fall River; Capt. E. A. Weaver, of Philadelphia; Col. 

 Chas. F Lenone and John Hall, of the Passaic City Rod and Gun Club; 

 John Green, "Bub" McLaughlin, Charles Plate, John Schliemun, 

 Charles Umla, Henry Borde and Williamm Harteye, of Brooklyn; 

 Henry White, J. Cooper and E. M. Cooper, of Red Bank, N. J.; 

 Miles Johnson, of Newton, N. J., one of the wayback veterans at field 

 and trap work, and who is as enthusiastic as of old, despite his grow- 

 ing age; A. Sickley, of Maplewood, N. J., reprf senting the Union Gun 

 Club; W. L. Osborne, of the Capital City Gun Club, of Washington, D. 

 C; Dr. P. J. Zeglio and his brother Joe, of Warrenville, N. J., and the 

 Climax and Newark gun clubs; O. M. Hedden and Gus L. Freche, of 

 the Newark Gun Club; "Uncle Billy" Hughes, of the Essex Gun Club, 

 close to seventy years of age, but as warm over the sport as when in 

 his twenties; Henry Wolfe, of the Paterson Gun Club; J. I. Beebe, the 

 always jolly; "Jay I See," who hails from Trenton, N. J.; then thTe 

 were C. A. Damon, Geo. W. Mosher, Wm. M. Thomas, Lieut Geo. W. 

 Albee, Paul North; and Treasurer Dressel, with a satchel full of hard 

 cash ready to be paid out to the winners of the American handicap. 



1 2 3 I, 



Sam Badgley 3 5 



George Kutcher 0 4 4 2 



Charles Harrison 1 0 1 2 



John O'Meally 4 12 3 



1 2 3 It 



M Potter 2 0 



ES George 2 4 



Emmons Campfield 2 



Two 10-bird sweeps were then shot, resulting as follows: First 

 sweep: Badgley 8, Kutcher 8, Harrison 3, O'Meally 6, George 7, 

 Campfield 5. Second sweep: Badgley 9, Kutcher 9. Harrison 1, 

 O'Meally 6, George 7, Campfield 8, George Moore 3. The last event 

 was a walking sweep, resulting as follows: Badgley 6, Kutcher 4, 

 Harrison 5, George 9, Campfield 9. 



C. H. Townsend. 



THE GRAND AMERICAN HANDICAP. 



On the morning of Wednesday, April 4, there were in the vicinity of 

 Dexter Park, Long Island, a very much disgruntled lot of trap-shooters; 

 a disgruntled manager and a disgruntled lot of people who had ar- 

 ranged to visit the aforesaid park and witness the opening of the 

 three-days' shoot of the Interstate Manufacturers' and Dealers' As- 

 sociation, scheduled to begin at 10 A. M. on the above day. Early in 

 the morning the air looked hazy and threatening, and about the time 

 for the shoot to begin the clouds opened, down came the rain and 

 down it continued to come for the re^t of the day. It was not one of 

 the pouring kind, but a mean, nasty drizzle, that caused everybody to 

 feel uncomfortable. The day can be summed up a poor one for any 

 kind of out door pastime. " 



But the inclemency of the weather did not seem to dampen the 

 ardor of the lovers of live bird shooting nor of the men who shoot, for 

 over two hundred of the former and better than half a hundred of the 

 latter were on hand to try their nerve preparatory to their shooting 

 in the grand American handicap on the morrow. 



Louis Miller, the hustling proprietor of Dexter Park, which is famed 

 as one of the best shooting grounds of the section, had his coops 

 well filled with good strong flyers. Elmer E. Shaner, the handsome, 

 suave and never to-be-rattled manager of the Interstate Manufac- 

 turers' and Dealers' Association, had everything arranged in first- 

 class order on the shooting grounds and was ready for any number 

 of shooters. Charley Dellar was on hand prepared to step into the 

 scorer's "coop" and go to work. 



Outside of the shooting house the grounds presented their usual 

 appearance, not making anywhere as near a good showing as last 

 year, when over a dozen lents added to the picturesqueness of the 

 scene This year the only tent pitched was that of the American 

 E. C. Powder Company, presided over by Captain Money and son. In 

 our last issue we stated that Forest and Steeam would keep open 

 "tent" during the week, but we were unable to make good our 

 promise, owing to the failure of the association to cause said tent to 

 appear on the grounds. Under the weather conditions, however, the 

 tents were not missed. The visitors for the most part were residents 

 of Brooklyn, the bad weather being too much for the majority of out- 

 of-town people. 



As to the shooters, however, they were there from all over the 

 country, and a representative lot they were, experts every one, and 

 well able to hold their own in any kind of company. The rain did not 

 serve to keep them away, and in one of the events there were no less 

 than fifty two entries. The professional ranks were represented by 

 the blonde giant "Captain Jack" L. Brewer, E. D Fulford, J. A. R, 

 Elliott and Frank P. Class, each of whom had In his mind's eye a 

 thought of the rich pot ready for first man. 



The H<=rron Hill Gun Club, of Pith burgh, Pa., one of the strongest 

 c'ubs in the State, deseives the utm< s . credit for pluck, being repre- 

 sented by no less than seven men, every one of whom came on the 

 scene prepared to shoot in every event. The representatives of the 

 Herron Hills are J. E England, E. H. McWhorter, A. H. King, W. S. 

 King, James O'Hara Denny. W. M. C. Jones and Harry Vandergrift, 

 all of whom have been practicing frr weeks to get into practice for 

 the Interstate shoot. This is a splendid showing for any one club to 

 make, considering that its members are obliged to travel 500 miles to 

 reach the Bhoot. But they love the sport and distance does not enter 

 into their considerations. 



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