Jan. 11, 1886.] 
FOREST AND STREAM. 
41 
On Long Island. 
CRESCENT A. C. OF BROOKLYN. 
Dec. 26'.— G. C. White and G. Notman Bhot off to-day the tie for the 
Christmas Day prize of the Crescent Athletic Club; the shoot-off was 
at 25 targets, White winning easily by scoring 17 to 12. 
A 25-target sweep was also shot with the following result: Qeddes 
18, White and Notman 16, E. Lott 15, J. V. Fisk 14, G. W. Smith 12, F. 
Brose 11. 
In a match at 15 targets, unknown angles, G. Notman and E. H. Lott 
scored 11 to White's 5. Lott and Notman also shot a match at 5 pairs, 
Lott winning by 5 to 4. 
NEW UTRECHT GUN CLUB. 
Dec. $8.— The last club shoot of the year for the members of the 
New Utrecht Gun Club took place at Woodlawn this afternoon. So 
good were the birds that not a straight score of 10 was made, Capt. 
Oranmer and E. B. Knowlton tieing for first place on 9 out of 10. The 
following are the scores made in this shoot: 
Capt Cranmer (A). . .1221111210—9 CFurgueson,Jr.(AA) 0002222222— 7 
E B Knowlton (C). .. .1211102112-9 J Lott (C) 1011021020-6 
C Furgueson, 3d (B). .2220222102—8 F W Duryea (B) 22.0011w0— 4 
AT DEXTER PAKE. 
Dec. SO.— The following sweeps were i hot hero to-day, the weather 
being favorable for live-bird shooting: 
Match, 25 birds per man : 
Adolph Busch (.25) 0110100012211111.il 110101—17 
J F Elfers (23) 1111000111101102111010100-16 
Geo Kinkel (23) , .1001000111010101200001011 - 12 • 
Tie for 2d 
No. 1. No. 2. 
A Busch (25) , 01112-4 C.112-3 
HAltenbrant, Sr (25) •1111—4 1.212-3 
H Altenbrant, Jr (25) 00020-1 
G Kinkel (25) 10200-2 02101-3 
J F Elfers (23) 11111-5 10121—4 
NEW YEAR'S DAY. 
Jan. 1.— The new year was ushered in at Dexter Park by an invita- 
tion shoot, targets being shot at in ihe morning, live birds in the after- 
noon. The high wind favored the birds in the sweeps at pigeons, hut 
it made the targets very hard to locate. Scores: 
Events: 1 3 3 4 5 Events: 12 3 4 5 
money. 
2* 
12. 
iii 
GOsterhout 5 4 3 6 
FA Thompson 8 7 5 7 
W H Thompson.,.. 7 5 5 ? 
Lyon 5 2 3.. 
C F Wash 9 5 9 .. . 
Live-bird sweeps: 
No.l. 
L H Schortemeier #2222—4 
F A Thompson .02110—3 
O Mulcahey 11122-5 
FW Place 02210-3 
Christian 11200—3 
GLoeble .2002-2 
Van ZUe 
Hy Bramwell.... 
Hood 
Schleman 
Dr Dunning 
F Pfaender., 
5 Hegeman.,., 
9 Block 
6 O Mulcahey. 
, . F W Place ... 
8 4 7 7 
6 13 7 
..767 
.. 6 8 
No. 2. No. 3. 
1221222012- 9 12222-fi 
1221112200-8 21122-5 
210001211.-6 12100—3 
2121210202-8 
2211021120- 8 11111-5 
2021001022-6 22202-4 
20121—4 
22111—5 
22111-5 
oibbi— 2 
No 4. 
10221 12301 - 
1201202122- 
2101111102- 
2220222102- 
2000002202- 
1201022011- 
0022102210- 
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WESTMINSTER KENNEL CLUB. 
Jan. 1.— New Year's Day has generally been a big day at the shoot- 
ing grounds of the Westminster Kennel Club, Babylon, L I., but Jan. 
1, 1896, was a record-breaker in that respect. A live-bird event with 
forty-one entries is no small affair anywhere, particularly when it is 
practically a misB-and-out, $10 entrance; everybody had looked for a 
large entry list, but very few, if any, had figured on over twenty-five 
entries. The result, therefore, must be very gratifying to the chief 
promoters -Mr. J. G. K. Duer, president of the club, and Mr. G. 
De Forest Grant, chairman of the shooting committee. 
To-day's event marks a new departure in sweepstake events at the 
crack amateur shooting clubs in the vicinity of New York city ; the 
programme called for a handicap sweepstake, unlimited number of 
birds, $10 entrance, the club adding $400 in gold, and also giving a sil- 
ver cup of the value of $250. Added money at shoots of such clubs as 
the Carteret, Westminster Kennel Club, Westchester Country Club, 
Larchmont Yacht Club, Tuxedo, New Utrecht, etc., has been, so far 
as we know, an unknown quantity, but there can now be no question 
as to the drawing capabilities of $100 in gold added to one purse. 
There was another feature of the programme that had a good deal 
to do with the large number of entries— it was a handicap, not of 
yards only, but of misses as kills. Our experience of such sweeps is 
that a scratch man rarely comes out on top. It is either the faithful 
contributor in the miss-and outs or»an occasional shooter that gener- 
ally steps in and walks off with the purse, or the majority of it. For 
that reason these events are not popular among the best shots, but of 
course they won't stay out; the weaker shots come in readily, know- 
ing that it is their best chance of getting even with the experts. This 
was actually the cause for the large number of shooters that f aced the 
traps at Babylon to-day. It is just as well to state again at this point 
the conditions of the shoot: Unlimited number of birds, handicap rise, 
$10 entrance; 29yds. men and back, miss-and-out ; 28yds. and 27yds. 
men, one miss as a kill, then miss-and-out; 26yds. men and under, two 
misses as kills, then miss-and-out; silver cup, valued at $250, and $400 
added by the club; cup and 60 per cent, of the purse to the winner, 30 
per cent, to the second, 10 per cent, to the third. From the above it 
, will be seen that the scratch men had a hard row to hoe. 
The winner, Walter W. Watrous, of Tuxedo, is hardly a novice, as 
some of the daily papers have described him; he has shot several 
thousands of pigeons during the past ten years and is a rattling good 1 
shot on fast birds, but he needs to draw fast ones all the time; it's the 
Blow ones that beat him, and the conditions to-day were all in bis 
favor. The birds were a splendid lot, while a twenty-five-miles-an- 
hour breeze, west by north, swept over the grounds and got under the 
tails of the birds as they left the traps, making "-drivers and twisters" 
enough to fill two columns of nonpareil. It was a Watrous day and 
a Watrous lot of birds; with a miss up his sleeve, and with 2 to 3yds. 
the best of Work, Murphy, MacAlester, Knapp and F. G. Moore, he 
was bound to have a good look in— and he did. When he went home 
he carried off the cup and $486 of the purse, just about enough, in 
fact, to help the Government by purchasing some of the new bonds. 
His victory was a very popular one and was well earned, as he ran 
10 straight before missing, W. S Edey, of the Westchester Country 
Club, being the only other shooter to perform a similar feat; Edey, 
however, was one of the scratch men and reaped no benefit from his 
really excellent work; had he won the cup his victory would have 
been fully as popular as that of Watrous. 
In order that the story of to day's doings may be told in something 
like a consecutive manner, it is the best to commence again right at 
the beginning and keep the ball rolling until the paper gives out. 
The aeventy-miles-an-hour gale of Dec. 31 had blown itself out, 
leaving behind it a good healthy infant of about one-third its strength ; 
the sky -was clear and bright, while there was enough frost in the air 
to make the heaviest underwear and fur-lined overcoats none too 
warm. A brighter, pleasanter New Year's Day could not have been 
made to order; from a pigeon-shooter's point of view it was a perfect 
day. 
A special train, leaving Thirty-fourth street ferry at 10 A. M., was 
placed at the disposal of the members of the club and their guests, 
the shoot being fixed to commence on the arrival of this train at 
Babylon The two cars composing the special were well filled, about 
eighty all told being on board. Among the number were: J. G. K. 
Duer, G. de F. Grant, F. O. Deluze, Fred Gebhard, August Belmont, 
Craig Colt, Thomas H. Terry, Jordan L Mott, Jr., Newberry D. Thome, 
Justice William Travers Jerome, George Floyd Jones, Gen. Louis 
Fitzgerald, David Crocker, Judge Gildersleeve, H. B. Livingston, F. 
Edey, H. B. Wrteht, F. G. Moore, J. D. Steers, B. D. Foote, Austen 
Clarkson, Frank I. Lawrence, A. R, Hopkins, W. S. Edey, Daniel 
Bacon, B. R. Kittredge, Edgar G. Murphy, Walter W. Watrous, C. M. 
Chapln, J. M. Garnett, R. B. Lawrence, G. Montant, P. H. Morris, 
Arthur Deane, A. T. bullivan, A. O. Clarkson, H. D. 8teer3, Charles 
Coster, E. F. Thomas, J. P. Knapp, W. H. Stafford, G. Langen, Win- 
thropRuthtrfurd, H. Edey, Samuel Prior, and John S. Hoey. 
The handicapping was in the hands of Mr, Hoey, no one knowing 
the capabilities of the amateurs of the East better than he does; he 
also, of course, acted as referee during the entire shoot, being re- 
lieved at lunch time by Charles MacAlester. The latter, along with 
George Work, drove over from the South Side Club in the morning, a 
thirteen-mile drive in a brisk, cold wind ; hardly a good training for a 
sweepstake although the roads were in capital shape. The vast 
majority of the entries having been made, and the handicaps awarded 
on the way down to Babylon, no time was lost in getting the shooters 
to the score when once the long string of hacks had landed their fares 
at the Kennel Club. Superintendent Mott, of course, pulled the traps 
John Mott and Abe Southard did the trapping, while Fred Hoey's set- 
ter Dandy tried to keep himself warm by retrieving the dead birds; be 
had a hard time doing it too, misses being so numerous that at times 
he got chilled through sitting on the cold ground waiting for a bird to 
drop out of the gale. A report of this shoot, from Dandy's pen would 
make good copy for any paper, and would be great reading. 
The first round was fatal to the chances of five shooters — George 
Work (31), Chapin (30), H. B. Wright (30), Holcombe (30) and Butler 
(29). There were 14 other ciphers scored in this round, making 
a total of 19 misses out of 41 shots; peculiar features of this round 
were runs of 4 and 6 consecutive misses, the 6 last men to shoot in the 
round all missing their birds. The second round commenced with 36 
shooters; this number was reduced to 29 when the last man on the 
list had shot his bird. Those to drop out were: Hopkins (27), Bacon 
(27), Sullivan (28), Stafford (28) and Ewlng (27), these five having 
missed their first and second birds; Thomas and Ellison, both 29yds. 
men, were the other two who fell in this round. Montant, Morris, 
Brewster and Terry also added a second cipher to their scores, but 
being placed at the 26yds. mark, they were able to enter upon another 
round; besides the 11 above named, 7 others scored lost birds In the 
second round, making a total of 18 lost out of 36 shot at in the second 
round of the sweepstake I So far anybody backing the gun would 
have had a bad time of it, 37 out of 77 shot at having been scored 
lost! 
In the third round 6 more dropped out; these were: Brewster (26), 
who had missed three straight; Livingston (27) and Eldridge (27), who 
had lost their last two; Mott (27), who had lost his first and third 
birds, and MacAlester (31) and Langen (29), who retired after losing 
their birds in this round; three others, Clarkson, Coster (his second 
miss) and R. Lawrence, also scored ciphers in the third round. The 
number of shooters left in at the end of the third round was only 23, 
18 having dropped out. In the fourth round 4 lost birds were re- 
corded; Grant (28), F. Lawrence (27) and Montant (26) retired for 
good, while Garnett added a second cipher to his score of two kills 
and one miss. In this round it began to look as if the shooters 
had struck their gait, 19 out of the 23 birds trapped being scored. 
Round No. 5 saw Coster score his third miss and retire, while F. Edey 
wasunluckv enough to lose a bird through his hammers not being at 
full cock; 18 out of 20 birds shot at in this round were scored to the 
shooters, the percentage of kills to misses being greatly increased 
since the end of the first two rounds. There were 19 shooters out of 
the 41 starters left in at the close of this round. Of that number no 
less than 6 fell out in the 6th round: Terry and Garnett, both 26yds. 
men, scored their third misses and retired; R. Lawrence (28), Clark- 
son (27) and F. Edey (27) were credited with their second misses and, 
of course, also retired, F. Edey being again unlucky enough to mak« an 
error in regard to raising the hammers of his gun; the curious part of 
the affair was that he remarked to the referee as he stepped to the 
score that he (Edey) would take care not to make the mistake he had 
made in the previous round. Knapp (31), who had made a most bril- 
liant kill— perhaps the finest work of the day— on his 5th bird, missed 
his 6th bird and retired. E Wright, the only left-handed man in the 
41, and Steers scored their second misses, while Hoyt spoiled the 
looks of his string of 5 straight with a miss of a very hard bird. 
Edgar Murpby had a narrow escape, a great second-barrel kill alone 
saving him from joining what was now "the great majority." 
There were only thirteen left in the race at the commencement of 
the seventh round. That number proved an unlucky one to five out 
of the thirteen before the round was completed. Those who retired 
were: Edgar Murphy (31), F. G. Moore (30), and Peter Morris, H. D. 
Steers and E. Wright, all 26yds. men who scored their third ciphers 
in this round. Harry Edey, also a 20yds. man, scored his second miss, 
while Winthrop Rutherfurd (27), who was shooting very well up to 
this point, scored his first loss on a very difficult right-quartering 
twister. In this round seven out of the thirteen birds trapped were 
scored lost ! Round No. 8 found only eight survivors out of the forty- 
one that started in to win the cup. Of that number (eight), Hoyt (27) 
and Rutherfurd scored their second misses and retired, leaving only 
six to fight it out. Both Hoyt and Rutherfurd drew precisely the 
same kind of bird, circling right-quartering incomers, easy birds that 
certainly ought to have been killed. At the commencement of the 
eighth round an admirer of Foote was so sweet on his chances of 
landing the cup that he offered to bet 20 to 30 that he would win out- 
right; he made one bet of that amount, but could have had any 
amount at such absurd figures. 
In round No. 9, Dean (27). who had killed 6 straight in capital style 
since his miss of his 2d bird, drew a driver that carried his shot out of 
bounds, causing his retirement. In this round, also, Foote scored his 
first miss. Round No. 10 saw the condition of affairs unchanged, the 
five left in killing their birds. W. S. Edey (20) and W. W. Watrous 
(23) had both killed 10 straight and were both doing very good work; 
the other three were Foot*, H. Edey and B. R Kittredge, the latter 
shooting well and centering his birds. He had lost his 2d bird, a 
hard one for anybody to kill. As matters stood at the commencement 
of the 11th round all but Watrous (28) were on even terms, the shoot, 
so far as they were concerned, being a miss-and-out; Watrous had a 
miss up his sleeve and was in a very comfortable position. This round 
saw W. S. Edey miss an easy bird and retire. His brother, H. Edey, 
was far too slow on another easy bird, the counterpart of the one 
drawn by W. S. ; he also dropped out. As Foote had lost his 11th bird 
dead out of bounds, there were thus three ties for third money. Wat- 
rous in this round drew a hard driver that fairly beat him out, and 
Kittredge, who had been the only one of the five to kill his bird, was 
therefore tied for first and second money and the cup with Watrous. 
The tie did not last long, as in the very next round Kittredge had 
hard luck with a fast outgoing bird from No. 2, the pigeon carrying 
a portion of both loads out of bounds. Watrous had only to kill to 
win ; he drew an easy one from No. 1 that was clean missed with first 
barrel; the second was planted with sufficient accuracy to land hfcri a 
winner of the cup and first money. Second money went to Kittredge. 
The tie for third money was shot off, H. Edey winning on the second 
round. W. S. Edey had very hard luck with his first bird in the ties ; 
it was hit hard and towered; then it almost reached the ground; next 
it towered again and then seemed to be coming down in bounds; 
finally it went away up, the wind landing it, when it came down ulti- 
mately, a couple of hundred yards from the traps— dead out of 
bounds. 
Thus was brought to a close as pleasant a contest as one could wish 
to see. The quality of the birds can plainly be seen from the scores 
made: out of the 212 trapped in the above event, seventy-nine escaped 
or were scored lost. This may sound like very poor shooting, and as 
a matter of course there was some poor shooting or the scores would 
have been higher; still there was also some magnificent work shown 
by several of the shooters, and the blame for the low average of kills 
must really be laid at the door of the hard birds and the strong cold 
wind that drove the pigeons from the trap3 in a manner seldom 
equaled and never surpassed. People may sit around a stove and talk 
about killing anywhere from 90 out of 100 up to 100 straight; it's easy 
work to do it that way, but when one gets birds as good as those 
trapped at the Westminster Kennel Club's grounds to-day, and trapped 
too under similar weather conditions, 9 to 1 on the gun all through 
(the equivalent to backing yourself to kill 90 or better) would find lots 
of takers. 
In to-day's shoot Watrous used his new Purdey gun and 51grs. of 
E. C. loaded in a Trap shell by the U. M. C. Co. ; he also used No 8 in 
his right barrel, No. 7 in his left. Kittredge shot a very pretty Fran- 
cotte; his shells, loaded by V. L. & D., only contained 42grs. of 
Schultze, a very small load for such birds in such a gale of wind; he 
must have pointed his gun about right. 
Four miss-and-outs were shot, as well as a few small sweeps, before 
the day's sport was brought to a close, 455 birds in all being trapped 
during the day. The lunch prepared by Steward Wells was fully up 
to the standard and formed an important feature in the day's enjoy- 
ment. The scores in full are given below: 
Trap score type— Copyright, tsva, by Forest and Stream Publishing Co 
515315511521 
Walter W Watrous (28) 2 2 8 2 3 2 2 2 2 3 0 2—11 
113122241222 
B R Kittredge (28) 2 0 2 2 1 1 1 2 2 1 2 .-10 
33112154545 
HEdey(26) 0 2212203220 -8 
23514211134 
R D Foote (27) 1 2 2 2 2 2 2 2 0 2 . - 9 
4234341532 3- 
4X\i<-\TT tW 
W S Edey (29) a 2 2 2 2 a 2 2 2 2 0 — 10 
55514 3 334 
Arthur Deane (27) 2 0 2 2 2 2 2a. -7 
12135452 
Gould Hoyt (27) % H \ % \*l X Vo - 6 
5 3 4 4 5 3 11 
W Rutherford (27) 2 2 2 2 2 2 0 0 — 
4 5 5 15 5 4 
Edgar G Murphy (31).... 2 2 2 2 1 2 0 —6 
4 5 12 5 4 1 
F G Moore (30) .2 1 2 2 2 2 . — 6 
5 2 14 14 5 
H D Steers (26). , , 3 0 1 1 1 0 0 — 4 
4 3 2 3 5 5 1 
**\-><- K v.<- A -r 
Eben Wright (26).... 0 1.2 1 1 0 0 
3 8 5 5 3 2 4 
T\\<-f / 1 
Peter H MorriB (26) 0 0 2 2 2 1 0 
4 5 4 5 4 2 
TTiTtT 
J P Knapp (31) 2 2 1 2 2 0 
5 5 15 13 
A C Clarkson (27) 2 1 0 2 2 0 
3 2 3 5 4 1 
FEdey (27) , 2 2 1 1 0 0 
R B Lawrence (28) . 
3 3 14 2 5 
1 a 0 1 1 0 
3 4 5 2 5 8 
J M Garnett (26) 2 0 1 . 2 0 
2 4 2 5 5 3 
T H Terry (26) 0 0 2 2 2 0 
2 115 5 
TT $->\ 
Charles Coster (26) 2 0 0 2 0 
3 15 4 
G De Forest Grant (28) 0 2 2 0 
F Lawrence (27) 
14 11 
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4 4 2 4 
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GMontant(27) ..0 0 1 0 
1 8 2 
m 
C MacAlester (31), 
1 1 1 
G Langen (29) 2 2 0 
4 2 2 
James Eldridge (27) 2.0 
1 1 5 
H B Livingston (27) 2.0 
5 2 3 
Jordan L Mott, Jr (27) 0 .2 0 
5 4 
J B Ellison (29) 3 0 
5 3 
EF Thomas (29) a 0 
4 
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George Work (31) 0 
/ J, 
Edward Holcombe (80) , . .0 
4 
CM Chapin (30) 0 
5 
HB Wright (30) 0 
H A Butler (29). 
Daniel Bacon (27). 
G Ewing (27) . 
A R Hopkins (27). 
W H Stafford (28) . 
AT Sullivan (28). 
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C E Brewster (26) 
Tie for third money: 
3 5 5 5 
H Edey 2 2 R D Foote 2 0 W S Edey. 
No. 1. No. 2. 
J P Knapp 0 —0 22222 -5 
HB Wright -. 22222—5 220 -2 
WH Stafford 0 —0 2220 —3 
G Langen 220 —2 10 —1 
J B Ellison 22223—5 0 —0 
D Bacon.... 0 —0 21222—5 
EF Thomas 0 —0 2220 —3 
P H Morris 0 —0 
H A Butler 21220-4 
A Pickard... 0 
G Hoyt..... 10 
F G Moore 10 
H B Livingston 0 
George Work 0 
C MacAlester .12122—5 
CM Chapin 120 -2 
RD Foote 2110 —8 
R B Lawrence 10 — 1 
A Deane 21212-5 
W 8 Edey 
J Eldridge , 
G Ewing 
E Holcombe 
B R Kittredge 
H Edey 
W Rutherfurd 
FEdey 
E G Murphy 
A Belmont 
S D Ripley 
12211—5 
10 —1 
2220 —3 
12222—5 
20 —1 
2220 —3 
2110 —3 
22220-4 
0 
0 
0 
0 
220 
0 
210 
10 • 
22222 
110 
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No. 5. 
022-2 
222-3 
222—3 
120 
120 
No. 6. 
220—2 
020—1 
200—1 
2220 —3 
—2 
—2 
— 4 
- 4 
- 5 
- 4 
— 4 
— 4 
— 2 
— 2 
— 1 
— 1 
— 1 
— 1 
— 1 
— 0 
— 0 
— 0 
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No. 3. 
20 —1 
2211-4 
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220 —2 
2220—3 
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No. 7. 
221-3 
122-3 
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No. 4. 
Geo Work 1212-4 
G Ewing 200 —1 
W Rutherfurd 220 —2 
A Belmont 1211—4 
H B Livingston , 210 —2 
SD Ripley 021 —2 
ACKirkland 102—2 
N08 1, 2 and 3 were $5 miss-and-outs, same handicaps as 
event; non-winners in main event and in No. 1 moved up 1yd. 
aad 3; Nos. 4-8 were 3-bird sweeps, $5 entrance. 
10 -1 022-2 01 
1221—4 
2211—4 
2220-3 
2220 -3 
2220—3 
0 -0 
0 -0 
0 -0 
0 -0 
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No. 8. 
120—2 
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222-3 
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in main 
in Nos. 2 
WORK DEFEATS WRIGHT BY THREE BIRDS. 
I Jan. 
2.— To-day's match at the Westminster Kennel Club's grounds 
Jtsabylon, L. {., was one of the most Interesting of its kind that we 
have seen for a long time past; it was a pity that more people were 
not present to witness it. There were several features about the 
match that made it specially attractive to us. In the first place the 
two shooters, George Work and H. B. Wright (the latter, by the way 
is an assumed name), are somewhat similar in their style of shooting - 
not so much in their attitude while at ;the score as in the manner m 
