March fll, 1886.] 
FOREST AND STREAM. 
The Interstate Programme for Charleston, S. G 
The first target tournament on the Interstate Circuit for 1896 will 
be held at Charleston, 8. C, on April 14-16, as announced in our col- 
lumn of trap-shooting fixtures. Tiie tournament will be given by the 
association under the auspices of the Palmetto Gun Club, one of the 
moat active organizations of its kind in the South. The Palmetto Gun 
Club'in October, 1894, gave another tournament that was fathered by 
the Interstate Association, but that tournament wa« ruiued entirely 
by the awful storm of rain and wind that swept over the South the 
day before the shoot was to be held. The devastation wrought among 
the tents and fixtures of the Interstate Association was considerable, 
but everything was gotten ready for the shoot, Manager Shaner wading 
around at the score in gum boots, close on 4in. of rain having fallen 
in 24 hours. Owing to the storm the tournament was a failure in 
point of attendance, hence, when the Palmetto Club asked for the aid 
of the Interstate Association in giving a tournament this year, the 
association acted upon the advice of its manager and promised that 
its paraphernalia should be at the disposal of the club for the days of 
April 14-16. 
The programme for these three days is a varied one. On April 14 
and 15 there are to be 10 events: five 15»target events and three 20-tar- 
getevents, all atunkhown angles, and two events at 10 pairs; the en- 
trance fee for each event is at the uniform rate of 10 cents per target 
On April 14 the purses will be divided under the Rose system, but on 
the second day, April 15, the present system of division of moneys, 
40, 30, 20 and 10, will be adhered to. This occasion will be a good one 
for testing the real merits of the (Rose system for a tournament of any 
size. On each of the above days the club ndds $125 to the purses. 
On the third day, April 16, there will be a 100-target handicap race, 
unknown angles, handicaps ranging from 100 to 125 targets; entrance 
$5, targets extra, $100 added to the purse, 7 moneys. Contestants will 
be handicapped according to their showing during the two previous 
days 1 shooting. The second event on this day will be the Interstate 
team race, three men to a team, 50 targets per man, unknown angles, 
$10 per team, $50 added, 4 moneys. Teams must consist of three men 
from one State, and any number of teams from the same State can 
enter. 
Among the other bits of information given by the programme is a 
page devoted to an explanation of the Rose system. The headquar- 
ters for shooters during the tournament will be the Charleston. 
In New Jersey. 
AT ELK WOOD PARK. 
March 5.— The Btrong northwest wind that blew to-day across Elk- 
wood Park had its effect upon the scores which are given below. W. 
O, Price made the best record, scoring 21 out of 22, the lost bird fall- 
ing dead out of bounds. Scores: 
Trap score type— Copyright, tsm, by Forest and Stream Publishing Co. 
No. 1. No. 2. No. 3. No. 4. 
1V\\r> /" S"s -►.r 1 \\T// , "V; 
Conklin (30).. 1 1 1 0 2-4 0 - 0 1 0 —1 1 2 2 2 2 2 2 0—7 
E Price (30). ..1 111 1—5 20 -1 22222 1—6 1 0 —1 
WPrice (29). . .1 1 • 1 2-4 1 2 1-3 11111 2-G 2 2 1 1 2 2 1 1—8 
White (30) 2 1 2 0 1—4 1 0 
-1^0 
-0 0 
Van Dyke (29).2 1 1 1 0-4 2 2 1—3 2 2 0 
Sussman (25) ..0 0 —0 
Tabor (26) 0 2 1 1 2-4 1 0 —1 .... 
Magee (30).... 0 0 1 2 —2 1 1 0-2 1 0 
Walt (25). 
..1 1 2 0 2—4 0 
—0 
Johnson (25).. 2 0 0 
—1 
1112 0 
-4 2 1 2 2 2 2 2 2- 
Green (30) 
No. 1 was at 5 birds, $2, one money; No. 2, miss and out, $1 ; No. 3 
was the same as No. 2, and was won by W. C. Price on the shoot-off in 
No. 4; No. 4 was another of the same kind, and was divided between 
W. C. Price and E, Green. 
BOILING SPRINGS GUN CLUB. 
March 7. — To-day was the regular club shoot at the grounds of the 
Boiling Springs Gun Club, of Rutherford, N. J. The attendance of 
members was not as large as usual owing to the rain that fell during 
the whole of the forenoon. The club shoot is at 25 unknown angles 
and 25 targets - thrown from traps pulled in reverse order. W. J. 
Simpson led to-day with 42 out of 50, Krebs, his nearest competitor 
being 4 breaks behind him. The wind, which came up strongly after 
the rain had ceased falling, caused the targets to be quite erratic in 
their flight. Scores: 
Unknown angles. Reversed order. 
W J Simpson. .nilllllllllllllllllllllll 1110111110010011111111100—42 
F Krebs 0111111011101111111101101 1111011111101111100010101—88 
W H Huck. . . .1001110101101110011101011 1110011111011100111101101-34 
Jeanneret 1011011111111101111010110 1010010011100011001110001— 31 
James 1001101111000101100010101 1111111111101001000010001-28 
Flagg 0010000001101011110010101 0001000111001110111000110—22 
Marvin 0101000111010100101101010 OlOOOOlllOlOinooOlOOOlOOO-20 
Black 0000001010000110011110010 0101000001110000110001010-18 
NEW JERSEY TRAP- SHOOTERS' LEAGUE. 
March IS. — The second monthly tournament of the New Jersey 
Trap Shooters 1 League was held to-day on the grounds and under the 
auspices of the Climax Gun Club, of Plainfleld. March 11 had a good 
deal to do with the attendance at this shoot, the weather yesterday 
being about as rough as any we have experienced this winter. Snow 
fell all day, a strong wind blowing at the same time, causing the snow 
to drift and making things generally unpleasant. A cold snap follow- 
ing on the heels of this storm froze everything up as tight as a drum, 
and to-day (March 12) opened up for all the world like a cold, bright 
day in the middle of January. The* e was plenty of snow on the 
ground, and plenty of frost in the strong wind that made itself felt as 
soon as one put one's head out of doors. Taking all things into con- 
sideration, it is perhaps not to be wondered at that the attendance waB 
very small for a league shoot. 
Six teams were all that competed in the team race, and of that num- 
ber one, the Endeavor Gun Club, had to make up a scratch team, so 
that its score will not count in the yearly averages; the totals made 
by the individual members will of course be credited to them. We 
understand also that a protest was made against the score of the Cli- 
max Gun Club on the. ground that E. J. Clark, a newly-elected member 
of the club, was not qualified to shoot on the team, the claim being 
made that h° was not a resident of the State, and should therefore be 
a member of the club at least six nv ntbs before he could be eligible to 
shoot on the club's team in these team races. The League's constitu- 
tion provides that a shooter must be either a resident of the State or, 
if he is a non-resident, he must have been a member of the club for 
which he shoots at least six months prior to the date of the shoot. 
Probably owing to the glare of the bright sun on the snow, as much 
as to the strong wind that was blowing, the scores in the team race 
were by no means high ones. It looks as if known traps and angles, 
with targets thrown far and fast, and with a strong wind blowing, 
are harder than unknown angles, or at any rate as hard. To-day 23 
was high, and only R. S. Williams, of Elizabeth, secured that total. 
The scores were: 
Climax Gun Club, of Plainfleld: L. H. Schortemeier 22, T. H. Keller 
21, C. Dutchy 21, E. J. Clarke 21, R. Manning 19, D. Darby 18—122. 
Boiling Springe Fishing and Gun Club, of Rutherford: E. D. Miller 
22, H. S. Welles 21, Gus. E. Greiff 19, G. S. McAlpin 18, F. Krebs 18, E. 
A. Jeanneret 17 — 115. 
South Side Gun Club, of Newark: E. A. Geoff roy 22, Thomas Dukes 
20, R. H. Breintnall 20, C. M. Heddan 19, M. Herrington 17, L. Thomas 
15-113. 
Elizabeth Gun Club, of Elizabeth: R. S. Williams 23, O. C. Heb- 
bard 2 I, W. M. Parker 18, N. H. Astfalk 18, H. A. Foisom 18, A. Wood- 
ruff 16-113. 
Endeavor Gun Club, of Jersey City: B Edwards 22, C. E, King 19 
Eddie Collins 18, Wanda 16, 1. H. Ten-Ill 16, G. H. Piercy 15—105. 
Dunellen Gun Club, of Dunellen: T. H. Brantiogham 22, M. Henry 
22, D. Runyon 17, Charles Giles 13, G. M. Warden 13, F. Van Nuiae 15 
-102. 
The Maplewood Gun Club, of Maplewood, put in a broken squad of 
4 men— W. N. Drake, A. Sickley, E. Sickley and . These 
men shot their strings of 25 targets for the yearly individual averages, 
making the following scores respectively: 
Several sweepstake events were also shot off, the cashier's books 
showing at the end of the day that 3,500 empire targets had been 
thrown, a remarkably good total considering that it was 11:30 before 
the boys got to work. In addition to the lateness of the start, a good 
three quarters of an hour was taken up with the discussion of John 
Benner's lunch. Secretary of the League Hobart acted as cashier, 
Tom Keller and Dutchy Smith seconding his efforts by doing some 
lively squad hustling. Douglas Darby, familiarly termed "Doug," the 
new secretary of the Climax Gun Club, was on hand and acted as ref- 
eree on several occasions, thereby becoming partly ossified by the 
cold just as often as he essayed the thankless task of deciding between 
losses and breaks. Like a baseball umpire, the referee at a target 
shoot gets no credit; when he makes no mistakes no one pats him on 
the back, but when he makes an error everybody jumps on him as in- 
competent. There's no wonder that people are always so anxious to 
referee target shoots I 
Among the visitors was Mrs. M. F. Lindsley (Wanda), who has come 
all the way from Cincinnati, O., to take in the Sportsmen's Exposition 
and the Grand American Handicap; Milt Lindsley will be here also, 
and will be on view on both the above occasions. Mr. O. E. King, a 
representative of the King Powder Company, manufacturers of King's 
Smokeless, was also present and was introduced to many of the 
shooters by Mrs. Lindsley. M. Herrington was also on deck and 
showed what W-A powder could do when it came down to business. 
Unfortunately we have not the records of some three or four sweeps 
shot while the sun was dropping out of sight; it was then that Mr. 
Herrington did his best work, scoring about 45 or 46 out of 50, un- 
known angles at that. 
Scores in the sweeps so far as our records go are given in the table 
that follows, empire traps and targets being used, the League having 
adopted that target as official: 
Events: 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10111213 
Targets: 10 10 15 IB SO SO 16 16 10 15 15 10 10 
T H Keller 7 10 14 12 15 17 12 12 9 13 li 8 7 
WN Drake..., 7 8 10 1117 15.... 
BEdwarda 8 9 12 12 16 12 ... 12 9 13 13 9 5 
R H Breintnall 9 7 13 12 15 19 13 12 8 8 
G E Greiff 10 8 11 9 16 ... . 9 10 8 
(i H Piercy 5 8 10 12 19 13 13 10 10 1111 7 2 
C Dutchy 8 8 14 12 18 16 13 13 3 12 13 8 7 
E J Clark 9 10 14 14 .. 15 12 12 9 12 11.. 7 
L Schortemeier 6 9 15 15 18 17 13 13 9 14 11 .. 7 
A Whitehead 4 8 
T Dukes 8 8 14 10 ... 18 .. 8 .. 13 12 .. .. 
D Darby 6 14 
CCHebbard 15 
G S McAlpin 15 15 12 12 5 
N Astfalk 15 16 
M Herrington 15 16 12 13 8 12 11 10 ., 
L Thomas w . . . . 9 
HS vVelles ' 13 18 11 10 .. 11 9 .. .. 
A Woodruff 16 
E A Jeanneret , .. 16 
E Sickley 12 13 lu ll 
C M Hedden 12 12 
Addison 13 . . 6 14 
T Brantingham 12 9 
R Manning 10 10 14 
E D Miller 9 8 
EAGeoffroy , 12 7 13 14..., 
G King 9 . . 12 
J Roberts , 9 
H Folsom 9 10 10 7 .. 
E CollinB 8 13 
Wanda .. .. 7 
Nos. 1,3, -5, 7 and 9 were at known traps and angles: No. 13 was 5 
pairs; all the rest were at unknown angles. Edward Banks, 
CLIMAX GUN CLUB. 
March 10.— The Climax Gun Club, of Plainfleld, N. J., held its regu- 
lar monthly club shoot to-day at its grounds near the Fanwood Road 
House. The weather was cold, with occasional snow flurries. Taking 
the conditions into consideration, the scores put up by the members 
present were decidedly satisfactory. The club shoot is a handicap, 
scratch men shooting at 25 targets, unknown angles, and the poorer 
shots being allowed extra targets to shoot at. The scores to-day were 
as follows: 
"W Parker (3).. 1111111111111101111111111101 —26 
E J Clarke (3) lllOllllllllOHOllllllllllll —25 
p Jay (5) lllllOlOOllOOOlllimilllOllll -23 
N Astfalk (3) 0111011111111101111011110110 —22 
T H Keller (0) 1111111111101111101111100 —21 
C Smith (0) 1010111111111011111101111 21 
R Manning (1) 11011011111110101111111110 —21 
J Singer (9) 0101110111110000110010011111101011—21 
L H Schortemeier (0) 1011111111111111010110110 —20 
D Darby (5) 100100011011111011100111111011 —20 
S Terry (5) 111111001101111001011100011011 —20 
W Terry (7) 11001001101110110110110101010100 —18 
j'Swody (6) 1110011110001101110001110010100 —17 
J Goodman (9) 0110010101100111001000111000100111—17 
W Squires (5) 000111101010001111110001100110 -16 
A Trust (6) 0000010100001101111010011011111 —15 
The following sweeps were also shot, all being at unknown angles 
except No. 4, which was at 5 pairs: 
Events: 
1 2 3 4 5 6 
Events: 
12 3 4 5 6 
Dutchy 9 10 10 4 10 10 Astfalk 8 8 ,, .. 10 6 
Keller 8 8 8 5 9 10 Manning 7 5 10 
Schortemeier.... 10 10 9 9 9 7 D Darby 10 10 3 7 8 
Clarke 8 9 9 7 10 9 J Singer 9 8 
Greiff 7 9 8 .. .. 8 Hebbard 8 .. 
Trust 7 5 6 4 7 7 
On Long Island. 
NEW UTRECHT GUN CLUB. 
March 7.— The members of the New Utrecht Gun Club held their 
club shoot to-day at the new grounds, Eighty-sixth street and Thir- 
teenth avenue, Brooklyn. The first event was the club shoot, 25 
targets, known angles, handicap allowance of extra targets. J. 
Gaugben won the Class A badge; Dr. Shepard, who had an allowance 
of two extra targets, the Class B badge, and P, A. Hegeman the Class 
C badge. The Hegeman prize shoot was won by D. Deacon, who 
broke 14 out of 15. Scores were much interfered with by the strong 
wind that blew across the grounds. 
Club shoot. Hegeman prize shoot. 
J Gaughen (A, 0) .0111011011111111110111111 —21 111011111101111 —13 
D Bennett (A, 1;.. 01110011001110100111111110 —17 110111111111010 —12 
M VanBrunt (A, 0)1100111011111101010001100 —15 001011111101001 —9 
D Deacon (A, 0).. 0110110010011111100101110 —15 111111111111011 —14 
Dr Shepard (B, 2). 011111101111111110110110001— 19 10000101 00100101 — 6 
Dr G Pool (B, 0). .1011011111111100111110001 —18 111111110011110 —12 
H Fessenden (B, 0)1000010000101111110111110 —13 111101001101000 —10 
P Hegeman (C, 0).01100110110001H100111011 —14 00111110110111100-11 
Dr O'Brien (O, 0). .010011110100101)1010101101 —13 00001001000010101— 5 
C Fleet (C, 2) 000101001010000000010100100 - 7 11000000000100000 — 3 
DrParr (0,2) 000011000000000001001000110— 6 
BERGEN ROD AND GUN CLUB. 
March 9.— The members of the Bergen Rod and Gun Club turned 
out to-day lin good force, the club's shoot being attended by 19 
who took part in the main event, which was the club event at 7 live 
birds per man ; Robert J. Valentine was the only man to make a clean 
score as below: 
Class A: R. J Valentine (30) 7, T. L. Murphy (28) 6, R. J. Frazier 
(26) 3, A. T. Moray (26) 4, P. H. Myles (28) 6, D. G. Murray (26) 4, C. 
A. Richardson (28) 3. 
Class B: T. T. Williams (26) 2, N. T. Ellery (26) 4. L. G. Jenkinson 
(26) 1, R. W. O'Brien (26) 3, H. J. Kane (26) 1, F. G. Hennessey (26) 3. 
Class C: P. L. Nelson (26) 2, T. G. Hardy (26) 3, S. J. King (26) 3, R. 
V. O'Brien (25) 2, W. H. Gregory (25) 2, B. W. Phillips (25) 1. 
BATH GUN CLUB. 
March 9.— The Bath Gun Club held a shoot at Dexter Park this after- 
noon, four members putting in an appearance. Tne first event was 
the club shoot at 10 live birds; this was won by J. Schiieman with 7 out 
of 10, the score being as follows: J. Schiieman 7, J. Fallert6,P. Fallert 
4, Straub4. 
The four shooters then had a 25 target race, Joseph Fallert being top 
scorer with 18, P. Fallert baing second with 17, as below: J, Fallert 
18, P. Fallert 17, J. Schiieman 13, G. Straub 12. 
HENDERSON AND WILLIAMSON. 
March 10. — T. G. Henderson and R. V, Williamson, members of the 
Eureka Gun Club, of Brooklyn, N. Y., shot a race to-day ac 50 live 
birds per man, the match taking place on the grounds of the Bush- 
wick Rod and Gun Club, near Flushing. The match was a close one, 
Williamson suffering defeat by only two birds, the scores showing : 
Henderson (30) 40, Williamson (28) 38. 
After this match a sweep at 5 birds was shot off, with the following 
result: J. H. ThodB (261 1, T. S. Briody (28) 0, J. G. HenDessy (251 2. 
J. H. Schleucter (26) 3, R. V. Wagner (26) 1, T. G. Henderson (29; 2, R 
V. Williamson (26) 2, L. H. Muller (28) 3, 8. G. Porter (28) 4, D. G. 
Browning (26) 2, P. H. Myles (26) 2. 
HUDSON GUN CLUB, 
March 10.— The Hudson Gun Club held its regular shoot at the North 
Beach grounds this afternoon. In the club event at 7 live birds, F. G. 
Barton, T. T. Ellery and B. C. Fielding tied with 7 straight. On the 
shoot-off, miss-and-out. Barton won by killing 3 straight, Ellery scor- 
ing 2 and Fielding 1. The scores: 
F. G. Barton (26) 7, T. T. Ellery (28) 7, B. C Fieldins: (26) 7, D. W. 
Longman (26) 5, F. J. Patterson (26) 3, G. Lawrence (/iS) 2, J. G. Jen- 
kins (26) 4, C. T. Williams (26) 3, F. G. Johnson (28) 1, J. R. Andrews 
(26) 4, P. J. O'Brien (26) 3, M. L. Offerman (26) 3, J. W. Young (28) 1, 
F. N. Long (26) 2. 
NORTH SIDE GUN CLUB. 
March 10— The North Side Gun Club held its regular monthly live- 
bird shoot this afternoon at Dexter Park. There were only five me tu- 
bers of the club present, that number taking part in the club evt; nt, 
which is at 7 live birds per man, the scores counting in the yearly 
averages for prizes. The scores made were as follows: J. H. Jennings 
<30) 6, M. Schmitt (28) 6, H. Heyer (28) 5, George Siems (28) 5, George 
Muller (26) 3. 
The prizes for 1895 were won as follows: First prize, Harry Heyer; 
second prize, J. H. Jennings; third prize, George Siems. 
PARKWAY ROD AND GUN CLUB. 
March 1 1— The members of the Parkway Rod and Gun Club, of 
Brooklyn, held their regular monthly live-bird shoot this afternoon at 
Dexter Park. The weather could not have been more disagreable, 
snow and sleet being driven across the grounds by the wind in such 
quantities that at times it was almost impossible to see the birds or 
•the traps. In the club shoot, which is at 7 live birds per man, E. 
Helgans and A. Botty of Ciass A and F. Bramweil of Class B tied for 
the club badge with 6 out of 7. There being a prize for each class, 
Helgans did not compete for the prize in Class A, but contented him- 
self with winning the club badge. A. Botty won the prize in Class A, 
Bramweil the class B prize, Frost taking the prize in Class O. Scores; 
Class A: E. Helgans and A. Botty, 6; Class B: F. Bramweil 6, F. A. 
Thompson 5, J. Wooley 4, J. Wye 1; Class O: F. Frost 5. 
ENTERPRISE GUN CLUB. 
March IS.— The Enterprise Rod and Gun Club held its regular shoot 
on the North Beach grounds this afternoon. The first prize in the 
club event was captured by Henry L. McTammany after a tie with 
Richard V. Bolton, both men having scored 6 out of 7. On the shoot- 
off Bolton missed his second bird, McTammany taking the trophy. 
Scores: 
H. L. McTammany (28), 6, R. V. Bolton (26) 6, S. G. Hennessy (25) 4, 
T. T. Dillon (25) 5, L. G. Schwartz (26) 3, D. G. Longman (.28) 5, G. E. 
Samuels (26) 5, L. G. Harper (26) 4, J. V. Briodey (26; 3, C, L. Nelson 
(25) 4, P. G. Henderson (26) 3, 
Another shoot at 8 live birds was also shot with the following result: 
McTammany 3, Bolton 2, Hennessy 0, Dillon 1, Schwartz 2, Longman 
2, Samuels 2, Harper 1, Briodey 0, Nelson 0, Henderson 0. 
ANDERSON AND MURPHY. 
March IS.— J. V. Anderson, of the Hudson Gun Club, and T. G. Mur- 
phy, of the Eureka Gun Club, shot a race to day at 50 live birds per 
man on the grounds of the Bush wick Rod and Gun Club, near Flushing, 
L. I. Murphy allowed Anderaon 2yd3. handicap and also two misses 
as kills; Anderson, however, shot in the. best form he has ever shown, 
and won without taking his allowance of misses as kills. The scores 
were: Anderson (26) 38, Murphy (28) 35. After the match a sweep- 
stake at 5 live birds wan shot with the following result: J, G. Hopkin- 
son (26) 3, F. Ulrich (26) 1, S. G. Porter (28) 3, F. G. Barton (28) 4, A. J. 
O'Brien (27) 0, C. H. Gregory (28) 1, D. W. Ryan (26) 3, M. U. Kennedy 
(26) 2, W. H. Slater (26) 0, J. H. Rankin (26) 1, F. A. Ranken (26) 2, L. 
U. Jenkinson (26) 0, T. W. Murphy (26) 3, J. V. Anderson (26) 4, C. K. 
Hamilton (25) 1. 
UNKNOWN GUN OLUB. 
March IS.— The Unknown Gun Club held its regular monthly live-bird 
shoot to-day at Dexeer Park. After the club shoot four new mem- 
bers were elected, their names being placed on the roster of the club. 
The scores in the club event, which was at 7 live birds per man, were 
as below: 
L. Kolb (25) 6, Ike Hyde (29) 6, J. Knebel (21) 6, E. Broome (28) 5, 
J. Akhurst (23) 5, H. Mahlstedt (25) 5, E. Hauif (21) 5, H, Knebel (28) 4, 
J. O'Nara (25) 4, C, Ranken (23) 4. 
NEW UTRECHT GUN CLUB. 
March lh —The monthly club shoot of the New Utrecht Gun Club 
was held to-day at the Woodlawn grounds. Capt. A. W. Money won 
the club event with 10 straight, scoring during the afternoon 23 out of 
25. Scores: 
No. 1, club shoot 
Capt Money (A, 30) . . .2222212222—10 
W F Sykes (A, 28) 1212022012— 8 
N E Money (A, 29). . . .120l«2»220- 6 
J Gaughen (B, 28) ....2202021102— 7 
R E Gray (B. 28) 0221220200— 6 
S J Held (B, 30) 2000120202— 5 
W Sterling (B, 27) . . . .0022020220— 5 
C T Pennington 
C Furgueson, Jr 
E Lohman .. 
No. 2. 
No. 3. 
No. 4. 
20021—3 
12112-5 
21222-5 
20000 -1 
^2222-4 
21222—5 
20220-3 
00202—2 
00210-2 
220w 
21102—4 
002.1—2 
01220—3 
2»202— 3 
2020»— 2 
21012—4 
6i2l6— 2 
21122—5 
•210w 
22120—4 
•2«22— 3 
Trap at Hot Springs. 
Hot Springs, Ark., March 6 —Only 8 shooters entered the 25 live- 
bird handicap shot here to-day. Twice that number had signified 
their intentions of entering, but as no forfeit was up, the fact that 
Sumpter and Daly, win were entered, had rolled up some big scores 
in their 150-blrd match on the previous day caused the falling off in 
the actual number of entries. The weather was propitious, being 
bright and clear, with plenty of wind to aid the birds, which were of a 
good quality. W. T. Peoples, of Gainesville, Tex., won first money 
with a score of 23 from the 26yds. mark. Mr. Peoples had, previous to 
this, shot but few iive birds; he got his first experience at Memphis, 
where he took part in the handicap last month, but failed to get in 
for money. Phil Daly, Jr., of Long Branch, N. J., won second on 22; 
or a long time it looked as if he had a cinch on first money; he killed 
straight up to the 15th round and was then 2 birds ahead of 
Peoples, who was second; he, however, lost his 15th and 16th, and later 
on his 24th. The birds that beat him out were hot ones. George B. 
Hutchings, of Galveston, Tex., was the only one to score 21, and took 
third money; he shot a 16-gauge Soott gun from the 25yds. mark, and 
two of his lost birds were dead out of bounds. Sumpter, Hughes and 
Gardt scored 20 Sumpter had his usual bad luck with him; he really 
killed 23 birds, but three of them were dead out of bounds. Hughes's 
16th bird was lost under peculiar circumstances; the bird he drew 
settled on the ground just as he shot the first barrel, but at the report 
it immediately took wing and was neatly stopped with the second. A 
smile of contentment came over the shooter's face, and he started 
away from the score, but just at this juncture the referee said "No 
bird," much to the surprise of the shooter, who was evidently not 
familiar with the rules. The substitute that he got beat him out, and, 
a? it turned out later, put him out of the money. Gardt, the other 
man to score 20, claims this to be the first live- bird shooting he has 
ever indulge^ in, and seemed to be quite satisfied with his showing. 
Keller and Morgan scored 19 each. After the handicap a 10-bird 
sweep was shot. In this Sumpter captured first money all alone, 
scoring 9, his lost bird falling out of bounds. Scores: 
Twenty-five live birds, handicap: 
Trap score type— Copyright, JS96, by Forest and Stream Publishing Co. 
242212325532 3 545214544344 
?<-<-H! \<-TT-»< — >*'k!V is, k!'<-4- 
Peoples (26) 0 1112 2 2 1 2 2 01112 2 2 2112 2 2 1 2—23 
42321443 3 1242151112254142 
Daiy (30) 1 2 2 2 2 1 2 1 2212210012121220 2—23 
25523553515 4 4422244 453555 
Hutchings (25) 22122»222 2«2002121222222 2—21 
3525551423433344443422452 
Sumpter (30) I2«»0 2 22«2lllll222212011 2—20 
5223352434344343321134342 
T T T <-/* ^ \* /* 4. T->T<- \<— ^ <- ^ 
Hughes (29) 2 1 1 1 • 2 1 2 0 1 2 1 1 1 0 0 1 1 1 1 2 0 1 1 2—20 
121244 3 24 3 451511453331311 
Gardt (26) 1 0 1 2 2 0 2 • 2 1 0 2 1 2 1 1 2 1 0 2 1 2 2 2 1—20 
212122413 313 3425115548514 
Keller (26) •10 2 1 0 2 2 0 2 a 22 2 11211*0220 1—19 
4213412 5 55215214113223434 
/* is,t^^ — >T t<-l S\^->T->N\\-^?f- 
Morgan (26) 0 1 02 1 22112 2 0 0 1102 2 120112 1—19 
Ten-bird sweep, handicap, $5: Sumpter (30) 9, Daly (30) 8, Gardt 
(26) 8, Keller (26) 8, Dr. Keller (25) 7, Dobbins (28) 7, Steele (25) 6, Peo- 
ples (27; 6, McWorther (26) 6, Woodcock (27) 5. Paul R. Litzkk 
The Hebbard- Apgar target tournament at the Elizabeth, N. J Gun 
Club's grounds, March 31-April 2, comes at a time whenjthere is noth- 
ing to interfere with its success. The programme is an attractive 
one and the promoters of the shoot should be in no doubt as to the 
success of .their efforts to suit shooters. 
