March 14, 1886,] 
FOREST AND STREAM. 
£27 
Memphis Winter Tournament. 
Memphis. Tenn., Feb. 32.— At the tournament of the Memphis Gun 
Club, which closed to-day, a new feature in the trap tournaments of 
the South was introduced. The fact that the club announced that it 
would hold its inaugural live- bird handicap had the effect of bringing 
to Memphis many more shooters than would have been possible if this 
feature of trap-shooting had been omitted. 
The programme announced two days of shooting. The first was to 
be devoted to live-bird Bhooting exclusively. A handicap race of 26 
birds, with $10 entrance, birds extra, was to be the event of the 
day; to this event the club guaranteed $250, divided into four moneys, 
class shooting, as follows: First money $100, second $76, third $50, 
and fourth $25; all surplus added. As 31 shooters entered and the 
purse exceeded the guarantee the club was relieved from all responsi- 
bility, and in place of the purse being as above stated, first money 
amounted to $124, second to $93, third to $62 and fourth to $31. 
The club has recently acquired new grounds on the Raleigh electric 
line, about 35 minutes' ride from the center of the city; the cars pass 
within less than 100ft. of the gate. Those who attend the club's big 
annual next May will find the grounds much more accessible than 
the old ones. In their present condition they are as fast as any in 
this or any other country. Being situated on an elevation as they are, 
they get the full benefit of any breeze that may be stirring. So much 
for the grounds. Now I must say something for the quality of the 
birds. These were mostly home-raised, and were only caught a , day 
or so previous to the shoot. This alone would be assurance that they 
were of a high standard. Such capable critics as Bland Ballard, A. 
W. du Bray and W. W. Watson were unanimous tbat superior ones 
they had never seen anywhere. The weather, too, was fine, and with 
the possible exception that it was a trifle too cold for us Southerners, 
the most skeptical could not have found any fault with it, while It 
doubtless added something to the quality of the birds. 
The big event was to begin promptly at 9 o'clock, and nobody was 
to know his handicap until he walked to the score. The handicap 
committee consisted of Paul R. Litzke, chairman ; Fred Heiskell, of 
the Memphis Scimitar, of which he is sporting; editor; Lovick P. Miles, 
who holds a similar position on the Commercial Appeal; Irby Ben- 
nett, chairman of the tournament committee; and A. B. Duncan, sec- 
retary of the club. These gentlemen met the day before the shoot 
and awarded each contestant his handicap, which to a very large ex- 
tent was guess work, owing to the fact that a number of the contest- 
ants had never taken part in a live-bird shoot prior to this one. It 
turned out that in the majority of cases they hit it about right, with 
the possible exception of Barney Mercer, whose handicap was doubt- 
less too severe. This shooter, having several times previons to the 
shoot killed 9 out of 10 pigeons from the 28yds. mark, was himself 
instrumental to a great extent in his being placed on that mark. 
The scores below show the number of the trap, the flight of the 
bird and the result. The target scores have been tabulated, and give 
the number of targets each contestant shot, the number scored and 
their average. 
LIVE-BIRD SCORES. 
Trap score type— Copyright iS9o by Forest and stream Publishing Co. 
W W Watson, 2131335233534252153343513 
Louisville, Ky., f H/* ?S T HT->T-»,* naTN/" \ITJT^> 
(80) 2 3a231»222221a2021222222 2—23 
F P Poston, 31344335225244512 24451352 
Memphis, Tenn., T/*^\4-T^T^v^T\T^TT'\.r\14.i\ 
(29) .....a 01112112112111011221120 1—22 
T F Norton, 5251452542342442521131312 
Kansas City, <-$N /\->tt->\\<-/"^-l-^<-^ Si'V-V-rtf' 
Mo., (28) 1 0 2 0 2 2 2 2 2112 8 1 1 1 2 2 1 • 1 3 3 2 1—22 
3412524241435424225325122 
APSmith, Green- ^>i->T^H-»H\^<-T\\ N >'/t^/ , -S-LT/ , 's. 
ville, Miss., (36). .1 3 1 • 2 3 2 1 1 0 1 3 1 3 3 3 2 2 2 1 0 1 2 2 2—22 
1545251245333135153354231 
EO Worrall, Gal- eV^*-^"^ \T /*T-*'\<-\/"'\'\7 i TX/*/ i S , J*'\ 
veston, Tex., (26)2 0222 2 22011222211 2 231102 1— 32 
1325513154344343551451253 
J B Duncan, Lucy, £XT T T \ T /" < — > T ->-> 
Tenn., (25) 2 022211122101022222211 2 1 1—22 
Bland Ballard, 1112555525824431424323235 
Louisville, Ky., ^n^S-N/""*,** — >Si^Xr^\\N->TT/ , ^wf\ 
(80) .....2 001233202213222222222«2 2—21 
4154542333322212145325453 
Irby Bennett, Mem- \7> //VTr+^/TV-W 7"\\HT-^ti^^\^ 
phis, Tenn. (26).. .• 333»3113101222223221202 2-21 
4225152355421433141514835 
J CNeely, Jr., tA->^tA/" ^T^/ ^*~T I tA^T 
Memphis,Tenn,(26> 312«231222222l2202210ia 2—21 
Phil Daly, Jr., 2 532425114412225525811381 
Long Branch, N. H-V+T\^ TX?^a\r^TTT\-*X//-^H 
J. (29) 1 2 0 2 2 1 02 »220202112222122 1—20 
3351151111512223532634455 
W H Allen, Mem- TJM/"\^SA^TT Ij^H'WjT't 
phis, Tenn. (28).. .2 2 2 1 2 • 0 1 2 1 2 1 22 1 2 2 2 0 « 2 1 2 0 0—20 
1511332242145425452233224 
TCallender, Nash- £ \-><-T \ "HT t \T I Mr**-"* N \ \ 
ville, Tenn. (25). .1 0 0 2 * 1 2 0 2 1 1 2 2 2 2 1 2 0 2 2 1 2 2 2 2-20 
W. H, Yahnke (26), Memphis, Tenn., 19; J. C. Bernard (25), Burling- 
ton, Ia„ 18; W. T. Peoples (26), Gainesville, Tex., 16; John J. Sumpter, 
Jr. (28), Hot Spring, Ark., 15; A. W. Dubray (29), Dayton, Ky., 15, W. 
M. Kellar (25), Greenville, Miss., 15; H. L. Walton|(29), Rolling Forks 
Miss., 11; S. P. Walker (25), Memphis, Tenn., 11; H. L. Foote (29), Rol 
ling Forks, Miss., 10; Malcolm Cameron (27), Canton, Miss., 9; Dave- 
Porterfleld (30), Vicksburg, Miss , 8; Dr. J. H. Lenow, Little Rock, 
Ark., 8; N. T. Bageett (25), Rolling Forks, Miss., 7; Geo. Vance, (26), 
Memphis, Tenn., 6; Tom Divine (27), Memphis, Tenn., 6; S. J. Simpson 
(25), Duncan, Miss , 6; E. L. Sharkey (26), Refuge, ML s., 3; Barney 
Mercer (28), Memphis, Tenn., 8; M. F. Rogers (25), West Point, 0. 
Events: 
A B Duncan . . 14 14 
Bennett 11 9 
Sbarkey 8 10 
Simpson 7 8 
Smith 11 12 
J B Duncan... 14 14 
Porterfleld.... 12 12 
Sumpter 11 14 
Foote 18 15 
Cameron 14 11 
Walton 13 14 
Kellar 8 14 
Watson 14 12 
Oockrell 12 18 
Ballard 12 16 
Poston 14 12 
Thompson .... 12 13 
Callender 10 10 
Allen 13 15 
Baggett 8 10 
Peoples 13 9 
Norton .. 14 
Fassett..... 11 
Sullivan. 
Neely 
Taylor 
Vance 
Worrall 
Rogers 
Popham 
Schmidt 
Phillips 
Griffith 
Daly 
Schoolfleld 
Greer. ; 
Plummer. ..... .. ., 
TARGET EOORES. 
133456 789 10 
14 24 15 13 12 14 11 13 
10 22 13 13 10 12 14 8 
13 15 11 10 
9 
11 20 
13 23 
13 19 
12 18 
14 21 
13 19 
14 21 
11 22 
12 20 
11 
14 22 
14 21 
12 23 
11 18 
13 22 
10 
9 21 
14 18 
11 20 
12 
12 23 
8 
.. 22 
.. 14 
.. 8 
.. 18 
12 9 12 9 
13 10 8 8 
10 13 ... . 
12 9 12 13 
9 .. .. 
13 .. .. 
., 13 .. 
12 13 11 Id 
15 14 12 13 
15 12 12 12 
13 13 15 13 
12 15 14 13 
10 14 13 12 
12 13 14 14 
9 11 10 11 
11 9 11 .. 
10 15 14 18 
12 9 12 14 
9 11 12 11 
11 13 .. .. 
12 
14 12 12 
12 14 11 11 
12 13 12 
13 14 12 13 
10 8 11 . . 
ii .. .. 
14 13 15 14 
10 12 14 11 
11 11 10 ; 
11 11 13 7 
13 14 
14 12 
11 9 
11 w 
14 12 
11 9 
14 15 
13 9 
i3 V, 
ii ii 
13 12 
13 .. 
14 .. 
13 ,. 
13 
lot at. 
Broke. 
Av. 
160 
144 
90 
160 
122 
76.2 
100 
67 
67 
45 
24 
53.3 
160 
129 
80.6 
160 
144 
90 
160 
127 
79.3 
151 
121 
80.1 
160 
143 
88.7 
160 
126 
78.7 
160 
144 
90 
160 
118 
73.7 
115 
89 
77.3 
120 
101 
84.1 
130 
no 
84.6 
160 
126 
78.7 
100 
84 
84 
85 
61 
71.7 
88. 8 
145 
126 
120 
89 
74.1 
130 
102 
78.4 
130 
111 
85.3 
100 
71 
71 
30 
23 
76.6 
115 
103 
89.5 
75 
55 
73.3 
70 
54 
77.1 
85 
56 
65.8 
25 
8 
32 
25 
18 
73 
60 
43 
70 
60 
39 
65 
30 
23 
76.6 
60 
46 
76.6 
15 
9 
60 
15 
18 
86.6 
15 
13 
do. 8 
Paul R. Litzke. 
Linden Gun Club. 
Linden, Ind., Feb. 29.— The usual monthly shoot of the Linden Gun 
Club was held to-day. Only 8 shooters were present, owing to the dis- 
agreeable day and the heavy wind that blew in the face of the shoot- 
ers. Below are the number of targets shot at and number broken: 
8hotat. Broke. Shot at. Broke. 
Tomllnson 85 83 Thomaa . , . , 35 39 
Bhobe.... 35 28 McClure 25 31 
Dunkle 35 25 W Simmons...... ...35 27 
At Watson's Park. 
Chicago, 111., Feb. 34. — A. H. Hampton shot at 30 live birds to day for 
practice; he scored 18, as follows: 
Hampton 10022110103110101220—13 
Feb 25.— O. vou Lengerkeand Chas. Thompson shot a match to-day 
at 50 live birds, Von.Lengerke winning by 43 to 30. Scores: 
O von Lengerke 3322223023:>32322222222230— 38 
0220211101021212011111102—19—42 
C Thompson 1 1202010220000000201 20102— 12 
3210221020012011013111302—18 -30 
L. Hilliard also shot at 30 birds to-day for practice, as below: 
Hilliard , 101U11020112210121020221 1 10312 -22 
Feb. m.— To-day L. B. Rinvarson and J. M. Wilson shot at 70 live 
birds for $50 and the price of the birds: 
Rinvarson 2011121111102010102120212-19 
1001212110222102110103101—18 
10122001012111100111 -14-51 
Wilson 2022211001021200200220121 —16 
01 202221011 21210221102012— 19 
01210021100022000111 —11-46 
On the same day as the above match the Garfield Gun Club held its 
monthly club shoot at live birds, there being a fair attendance of 
members. The scores made were: 
lew t§nblicdtiot\$. 
Club shoot, 20 live birds per man 
Dr Shaw . .13120111102112233112— 18 
T P Hicks..l2002221112212201211-17 
O vLeng'ke 02»2^222222222222202— 17 
L Moffatt. .00111111100211182122-16 
Dr Liddy.. 12112012200022121222-16 
Same day, 20 live birds per man: 
Dr Sbaw.. .22121111112018021112-18 
R Kuss. . . .01122120111111101121-17 
The following four live-bird sweeps, all at 5 birds, $i entrance, were 
also decided during the day 
R Ku^s. . . .23113111.13118.11.01— 16 
S Palm«r. .3011122202.110^211.2— 15 
G H Brown221021211001.1012202-14 
Patterson.. 102.120.110212111190— 14 
W Palmer .12011021201220120103—14 
L Emersonll00lll0ll0201l02222— 14 
No 1. 
Kuss 21111-5 
Hicks OHIO— 3 
S Palmer 10231—4 
Shaw 11102—4 
Brown 00030—1 
Bingham , 
Dr Liddy 
Patterson 
W Palmer 
F Fish 
Kendall.,,...,,....., 
No. 3. 
21120-4 
01111-4 
11001—3 
11112—5 
32012-4 
No. 3. 
13131-5 
31112—5 
11311-5 
01010—3 
22033—4 
01211—4 
21221—5 
00213—3 
31000-8 
30100-3 
No. 4. 
31111-5 
11112- 5 
11113- 5 
00110-3 
03222 -4 
22003-3 
Ravelrigo. 
Memphis Gun Club. 
Memphis, Tenn., Feb. 36 —The recent live-bird handicap has given 
quite a boom to pigeon-shooting here. To-day J. C. Neely, Jr., a 
member of the club, and several visitors, Dave Porterfleld, of Vicks- 
burg, Miss.; E. C. Worrall, of Galveston, Tex., and T. F. Norton, of 
Kansas City, Mo., went out to the grounds and shot three little races. 
The first was at 25 birds, $10 entrance, birds extra, handicap rise, be- 
tween Neely, Worrall and Porterfleld. Then followed two 10-bird 
matches, between Norton, Neely and Worrall. The day was clear and 
the birds were home production, with a good stiff wind to help them 
along. This, to a certain extent, accounts for the poor scores made, 
which are given below: 
No. 1, 36 birds, $10, birds extra: 
Trap score type— Copyright, /ass, by Forest andlStream Publishing Co. 
„„ m „ ^ Tjy^TNT^^NNNN^^TT^TTT 
E C Worrall (27). ..1 0 0 0 2 1 0 2 0 2 1 0 1 2 2 0 2 2 2 2 2 2 2 2 2—17 
J C Neely, Jr. (27). . 1 1 2 0 2 0 1 0 2 0 0 2 0 0 2 3 3 1 2 2 2 2 0 0 0—15 
D Porterfleld (30). . 2 1 2 2 2 0 0 2 0 0 0 2 3 3 0 0 2 2 0 0 2 1 0 0 0—18 
No. 2, 10 birds, $5, birds extra : 
Neely 2 13200012 1—7 
Norton 0 1 2 0 1 2 1 2 2 1-8 
Worrall 2 210121 13 0-3 
No. 3, same: 
200001101 0-4 
322111220 1-9 
J./U^rV J.-WT 
2 12 111110 1-9 
Paul R. Litzke. 
Audubon Gun Club of Buffalo. 
Buffalo, N. Y., Feb. 29.— Two dozan shooters put in an appearance 
at Audubon Park this afternoon for the purpose of taking part in the 
weekly shoot of the Audubon Gun Club. The scores made were as 
below: 
Events: 
13 3 4 5 6 
Targets: 10 15 15 15 10 10 
F DKelsey 8 8 13 8 .. 
E C Burkhardt. . 8 11 15 9 8 
L W Bennett. ... 5 6 13 13 7 
NorrlB 7 9 14 13 7 
Dr Woodbury. ..3 5 9 5 3 
CS Burkhardt.. 10 12 11 14 10 
Peters 10 .. 
Alderman.. 3 2 8 10 9 
Swope, 5 9 10 10 10 
Klink 5 8 9 6.. 
J P Fisher 5 12 10 13 5 
Hanks 8 10 13 13 7 
Events: 13 3 4 5 6 
Targets: 10 15 15 IB 10 10 
McArthur 7 10 9 9 7 
Reinecke 4 4 
Erb 9 9 11 
G O Miller 8 11.. 
Meyers ......... 7 13 9 
E H Rounds 4 6 10 
Haigh .. 9 8 
Reed 8 11 
E W Smith 9 7 
DrFisher 10 9 .. .. 
Carver , . . . 7 
Brown ,. 5 6 
6 6 
6 
8 
9 
8 
7 
3 
Talsma 8 10 Middaugh 10 .. .. 
No. 7 was at 35 targets, $1 entrance, loser paying for targets and 
shells. The scores were: B. F. Smith 30, E. C. Burkhardt and Norris 
17. Norris and Burkhardt shot off the tie on 7 targets, Norris winning 
7 to 6. 
No. 8 was the same thing: B. F. Smith 30, Norris 18, E. C. Burk- 
hardt 17. 
No. 9 was at 10 targets and resulted: Smith 7, Norris 7, Burkhardt 
5. Smith and Norris shot off, Smith winning. B. F. S. 
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The Story of the Indian. 
In these days of seething literary kettles the poor public need not 
be blamed for complaining of a plenty. "Thank you, no more," says 
the public. "Allow me," says the busy host, the publisher. And if 
the busy host did not insist continually, the poor public would long 
ago have refused to eat another morsel from the average literary pot 
of to-day. Roughly speaking, there are two courses to the menu. You 
may eat flesh meats of the notables of the past who should be left 
comfortably dead; or you may partake of the spice of introspection 
upon the lower half of human nature. That is book publishing to-day, 
and the publishers have kept both kettle and ladle hot in turning it 
out for palates wearied and only anxious, if anxious at all, for some- 
thing genuinely fresh and simple. "Dear sir," prays the public, "I 
really care for no more Napoleon, and I beg you to remove the woman 
with the glass front." 
What specialist, then, should bring in something fresh and sweet 
and simple? Could it not naturally be believed that in the America of 
Americans, in broad, free, untrodden fields, there might be growing 
some desirable new product? At least one American firm of publishers 
believed so. They thought that the story of the West would offer 
something fresh and honest and hearty to the people— the story of the 
Hunter, of the Trapper, of the Ranchman, of the Miner, of the Soldier, 
of the Indian. No war tale of the Old World or of the P^ast so stirring 
as that, no romance so thrilling, no drama so moving and so full or 
human interest. This firm determined to bring out these several books, 
each by the hand of one who knew his theme, and each to be as near 
as might be a masterpiece in its way. Fi^st of all, naturally, there was 
to appear the story of the Indian. Where, then, was the specialist 
who should write the story? 
The number of such specialists was much restricted. Catlln could 
have done it, but Catlin was dead. It needed some one of actual ex- 
perience, some one who had lived with the Indians and knew them and 
understood their ways of life and thought, and some one who had ex- 
panded his experience into a general familiarity. It must be also 
some one who could writ". The publishers found this one who knew 
the Indian, and who not only could write, but had written. So the 
first book of the story of the West was done by Mr. George Bird Grin- 
nell, author of the two earlier Indian books, "Pawnee Hero Stories and 
Folk Tales" and "Blackfoot Lodge Tales." Now we have "The Story 
of the Indian," a wider and more comprehensive work, a book of 
which any American should be proud and which any American would 
do well to read. It is sad, because it deals with that sad, romantic 
theme, the Passing of the West, something to make tears come to the 
eye; but this is the sadness only of the theme, for the handling is crisp 
and keen and fresh throughout, and one recognizes the pleasant sen- 
sation of the impinging of a new style and a novel line of thought. 
If one were asked out of hand to write a book of the Indian, he 
might perhaps in the haste of inexperienced first thought outline his 
work by taking up the Indian historically, chronologically, genealogi- 
cally, tracing out all the nations and families and tribes, and so duly 
coming down to describe each tribe and its customs specifically and in 
order. Such reading would be like that offered by the Congressional 
Record or the Patent Office reports, each very excellent and authori- 
tative, but either very dull. In his story of the Indian Mr. Grinnell 
paints with a master hand of a far better value of perspective than 
that. The genealogical details are left to the very last chapter of the 
book. Chronology is thrown to the winds; and with the confidence of 
one well acquainted the author begins at the middle of things and 
works in framework and details as he likes. The first sentence of the 
book is this: "Yellow under the burning sun lies the far-stretching 
prairie." And soon you have the buffalo and the antelope and the In- 
dians about you, and you see them all at home, as they live and as 
they actually are. The "Story of the Indian" names the book per- 
fectly. It is a painting, a picture story— one of those rare and kindly 
books which you may read as you would a painting, beginning in the 
middle and going either way you like. 
Friends, who know the author of "The Story of the Indian," say he 
has grown half Indian himself, and believes in their traditions, their 
magic, their beliefs. This might be believed when we read the work 
in hand, so minute is all the detail of the Indian's daily life in peace or 
war. Beyond all doubt you have here that much sought, undefined 
thing which the critics are fond of calling "atmosphere." 
If one stops to think back he may suppose that there was once a 
time when the Indians had never seen a white man— when the wave of 
white invasion had not yet struck the red aboriginal shore. The story 
tells us here what the Western Indians thought when tbat happened. 
Some Indians saw a spot where white adventurers had been 
using their axes. The Indians thought the "chips were so large they 
must have been made by an animal much larger than a beaver." 
Then they saw footprints, but "There was a deep mark at the heel. 
The tracks were not flat, like those made by persons." And so the 
Indians found what at first they thought were bears— "very woolly on 
the face"— who bad long mains of hair hanging from their chins. The 
leader of the Indians said, "Those are s'uye fuppi" (water people). 
Suppose again one looks back to the day when the Indian first saw 
the horse. How many readers know on which side of the Rocky 
Mountains the horse worked northward from the Spanish country? 
In this book we read when and how the Northern Indians got their 
horses and learned to ride. And so we may learn also of the home of 
the, Indian, his recreations, his ways of making a living, his hunting, 
his wars and battlefields, his marriage ceremonies, his religions and 
beliefs, his implements, his weapons, his industries and his pursuits, 
his joys and sorrows, his ambitions, his hopes and longings. All this 
Is set forth so simply and graphically that one reads on and on with 
infinite zest, in a field surprisingly varied and vivid. 
The idea of this series of books is a dignified one, and the subject of 
the book upon the Indian is a noble one, whether or not the Indian 
himself were noble. It needed the dignified but graphic handling it 
has received at the hands of one so amply qualified by research, ex- 
Eerience and literary skill as Mr. Grinnell has shown himself. The 
ook is a classic in its field, that field the inspiring one of the earth and 
of the sky and of the children who in those dreamy days gone by 
lived near the one and wondered at the other— as we still do to-day, 
albeit our houses are not as theirs, so we do not see the sky so often. 
It is the story after all of the supplanting of one people by another— 
for what good, only the Above People or the Under-Water People 
know. Do we, who have taken away the hunting grounds from this 
earlier race and torn down the lodges which opened to the sun, have 
among us any sesame to take the place of that once owned by one of 
these tribes? The story tells of this sacred ear of corn, and says that 
when death has come the friends take out this ear of corn from the 
sacred bundle and put it for a short time in a bucket of water. Then 
"as many as drink of that water are cured of sad hearts and never 
mourn again." After all, we have not improved much upon their 
morality, or their aspirations or their beliefs, and as one reads their 
history it causes a queer thrill to see how like our humanity is to 
theirs. It is a grave and noble purpose to show this first figure upon 
the Titanic stage of the West as it actually was. One closes the book 
with his exactions satisfied, feeling that the treatment has been lofty 
and adequate to the theme. e. H. 
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