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FOREST AND STREAM. 
[Mat 2, 1896 
' May 7.— Springfield, 0.— Tournament of the Home City Gun Club. 
Targets. 
May 15-16. — Hackensack, N. J.— Tournament of the Oritani Field 
Olub. Targets. 
May 12-15 — Memphis. Tenn. — Tournament of the Memphis 
Gun Olub 83,000 added money. 
May 30-20.— Nkponsett, EL— Semi-annual tournament of theNepon- 
sett Gun Olub. E. H. Miller, Sec'y. 
May 19-22.— Cincinnati, O. — Tournament of the Hazard Powder Co.; 
$2,000 in cash added to the purses. R. S. Waddell, Agent. 
May 19-28.— Kansas Cray, Mo.— Nineteenth annual convention and 
tournament of the Missouri State Fish and Game Protective Associa- 
tion. J. H. Durkee, Sec'y. 
May 22-24.— Missoula, Mont.— Annual tournament of the Montana 
State Sportsmen's Association, under the auspices of the Missoula Rod 
and Gun Club. . Will Cave, SecV. 
May 26-28.- — Frankfort, Kan.— Annual tournament of the Kansas 
State Sportsmen's Association. 
May 26-28.— Indianapolis, Ind.— Tournament of the Limited Gun 
Club; nobody barred; targets. Royal RobinBOn, Sec'y. 
May 26-28. — Bingham ton, N. Y.— Annual spring tournament of the 
Binghamton Gun Olub; first two days, targets; third day, live birds. 
May 30.— Canajoharie, N. Y. — Tournament of the Canajoharie Rod 
and Gun Club ; targets. Ohas. Weeks, Sec'y. 
May 30,— Branohville, N. J.— All-day shoot of the Branchville Gun 
Olub Henry R. Cahrs, Sec'y. 
May 80- June 1.— Milwaukee, Wis.— Eleventh annual tournament of 
the South Side Gun Club. 
June 2-6.— Chicago, 111.— Twenty-second annual tournament of the 
Illiroia State Sportsmen's Association. H. B. Meyers. Sec'y. 
June 3-4.— Natchez, Miss.— Interstate Association's tournament, 
under the auspices of the Gaillard Sporting Club. 
June 8-13.— Buffalo, N. Y.— Thirty-eighth annual tournament of 
the New York State Association for the Protection of Fish and Game, 
under the auspices of the Audubon Gun Club. E. W. Smith, Sec'y. 
June 9-11.— Davenport, la.— Annual tournament of the Iowa State 
Sportsmen's Association. R. B. Cook, Sec'y. 
June 9-11,— Daston, O — Annual tournament of the Ohio Trap 
Shooters' League. Ed. Taylor, Sec'y, 
June 10-11.— Fargo, N. D.— Second annual tournament of the North 
Dakota State Sportsmen's Association; targets; $500 added money. 
W. W. Smith, Sec'y. 
June 16-18.— Urbana, 111.— Third aunual tournament of the Crystal 
Lake Gun Olub. Frank L. Bills. Sec'y. 
June 17-19.— Cleveland, O.— Third annual tournament of the Cham- 
berlin Cartridge and Target Company. Targets thrown free; $770 in 
cash also added to the purses. 
June 23-26.— Pittsburg, Pa.— Tournament of the Pittsburg Gun 
Club; targets; $500 added money. 
June 30-July 2.— Wopsononock, Pa.— Fourth annual tournament of 
the Altoona Rod and Gun Olub; targets. W. S. Bookwalter. Sec'y. 
July 4.— Springfield, N. J.— Annual tournament of the Union Gun 
Club; live birds and targets. E. D. Miller, Sec'y. 
July 22-23.— Portland, Me.— Interstate Association's tournament, 
under the auspices of the Portland Gun Club. 
July 30, 31.— Goshen, Ind. — Midsummer tournament of the Goshen 
Gun Club. 
Auer, 4-6.— Chicago, 111. — Tournament of the Du Pont Smokeless 
Powder Company. E. S. Rice, Mgr. 
Aug, 26-27.— Burlington, Vt.— Tournament of the Interstate Asso- 
ciation, under the auspices of the Lake Side Rod and Gun Club. 
Sept. 7.— Marion, N. J. —Sixth aunual tournament of the Endeavor 
Gun Club. Targets. J. A. Creveling, Sec'y. 
Sept. 8-11.— Harrisburg, Pa — Annual tournament of the Pennsyl- 
vania State Sportsmen's Association, under the auspices of the Harris- 
burg Shooting Association. H. B. Shoop, Sec'y. 
Oct. 7-9.— Nkwburgh, N. Y. — Annual fall tournament of the West 
Newburgb Gun and Rifle Association; targets and live birds; added 
money announced later 
DRIVERS AND TWISTERS. 
07«b secretaries are invited to send their scores for publication in 
these columns, also any news notes they may care to have printed. 
Ties in all events are considered as divided unless otherioise reported. 
Mail all such matter to Forest and Stream Publishing Company, Sk6 
Broadway, New York. 
The question of loss of form at the traps is something that has en- 
gaged our attention more of late than for some time past. One often 
hears that so-and-so is "clean oft." It has never yet been satisfac- 
torily explained to us what causes this going off in form; the subject 
feels physically fit as a fiddle, to use an accepted phrase, but cannot 
point his gun right. He tries shoot ahead, behind, over and under the 
largets, and then right at them; the result is the same, a distressing 
plethora ot ciphers that makes his score look like that of a novice. 
Col. Heber Breintnail was off in his shooting for some time and very 
nearly got disgusted and quit; he persevered, however, and now 
smiles with the rest of the boys who claim straight scores. George 8. 
McAlpin was another of the same kind, only his slip-up was shorter 
lived than Col. Breintnall's. What caused the trouble? Another 
shooter who cannot now make over 50 per cent, was laBt year, and 
for some years past, shooting a 90 clip. Here's his story of the case: 
"I feel all right, and think I'm pointing my gun right, but the shot 
goes everywhere but where the target is, punching holes in the air all 
round the target. I practice and try to get back into form, but it's no 
use. The ooher day I went out and thought I had it at last. I broke 
18 straight and then missed a right-quarterer. I called to the boy to 
leave the trap that way and let me have another. He did, several 
more of them; I missed 13 straight and quit. Never felt better in my 
life, and am shooting live birds all right. What's the matter with 
me?" We can remember the time when it took phenomenal shooting 
to beat Billy Wolstencroft. Then, although always a good shot, Billy 
could not keep up his gait. At times he shot as well as ever, notably 
at the Pennsylvania State shoot of 1894 at Altoona, Pa., the very day 
after he had described himself in the annual meeting as a "has been." 
Now things are coming his way again, and he is shooting as well as 
ever he did. If he keeps up his gait and enters for the championship 
at the E. 0- tournament some of those better known to the younger 
generation of trap-shooters will have to take a back seat. What 
caused his loss of form? And what brought it back? 
H B. Shoop, secretary of the Pennsylvania State Sportsmen's Asso- 
ciation, and also secretary of the Harrisburg (Pa.) Shooting Associ- 
ation, writes that the State shoot will be held at Harrisburg on Sept. 
8-11. Mr. Shoop says that the Harrisburg hoys intend to give -'one of 
our old-time shoots." Harrisburg is centrally located in Pennsylvania, 
and should have a good attendance, as the club there is a strong- one. 
Members of the State organization will no doubt receive formal nonce 
from Mr. Shoop of the importance of a good representation at the 
annual meeting, which will be held on the night of Sept. 8. The Penn- 
sylvania State Sportsmen's Association made a strong effort in 1895 to 
remedy some of the evils in the existing game laws, and were very 
nearly successful in the attempt. Th« failure of 1895 should serve as 
a stimulant to still stronger work in 1897. 
A correspondent of ours in Pittsburg, Pa., who is noted for his 
veracity, sends us the following: "From present indications the" tour- 
nament to he given by the Pittsburg Gun Olub, June 23-26, will be one 
of the.most successful ever given by the club, and that is saying a 
great deal. We have already had many inquiries in regard to pro- 
grammes, etc., and, as usual, most of the shooters in Western Penn- 
sylvania, West Virginia and Eastern Ohio are practicing for the event. 
Paul North and his 'bicycle trap' will be the novelty at this tourna- 
ment in the way of throwing bluerocks. Old Hobs and McPherson 
have been appointed a committee of two to welcome the visiting 
sportsmen; if they do not discharge their duties satisfactorily they 
will be fired from the grounds and the club." Seriously speaking, 
this shoot will be a most popular one in all respects. 
George F. Day, secretary of the newly organized Uxbridge (Mass ) 
Gun Club, writes us under date of April 23 as follows: "It may be of 
interest to the shooting fraternity to learn that there was born last 
Saturday at Uxbridge, Mass., an infant gun club. The little fellow 
starts out on his career auspiciously. Plump and healthy, a member- 
ship of 9 with the assurance of as many more for the first shoot next 
Saturday, a balance to the good in the treasury of more than enough 
to provide paraphernalia, and wideawake nurses, viz.: President, W. 
E. Rawson ; Vice-President, E. A. Mansfield; Treasurer, E. A. Ford' 
Secretary, Q. F. Day." The above sounds like a proper addition to 
our present large family. The more of such a sort the merrier. 
The Oritani Field Club will shoot a race with a team from Princeton 
on Saturday afternoon. May 2. This will be a kind of double event a 
team of baseball players from the college being booked to play a 
match with the club's baseball team the same afternoon, The tourna- 
ment of the Field Club, announced for May 15-16, should be a nopular 
affair; the club says that it will do all in its power to make things 
pleasant for its guests. 
The Sistersville Rod and Gun Club, of Sistersville, W. Va., was 
organized on April 16. The officers of the club are: President, D M 
Wallace; Vice-President, John F. Eckert; Secretary-Treasurer, Edw' 
O. Bower. The club has excellent prospects for a large membership 
and a prosperous future. 
The spring tournament of the Bedford, Ind., Rod and Gun Club 
which is announced for May 5 and 6, will be held under the manage^ 
ment of W. T. Irwin. The programme calls for 165 targets each day, 
all known traps and angles. 
The twenty-first annual tournament of the Nebraska State Sports- 
men's Association will be held at Lincoln, Neb., the fourth week of 
April, 1897. The officers elected for the ensuing twelve months are: 
President, Geo. W. Rogers, of Lincoln: Vice-President, W. H. S. 
Hughes; Secretary, R. M. Welch, of Lincoln; Treasurer, G. W. 
Looinis, of Omaha; the executive committee consists of the president, 
secretary and Frank S. Parmalee. A new constitution and by-laws, 
ordered at the meeting in 1895, and prepared by N. P. McFarlane and 
W. S. Hughes, the committee appointed for that purpose, were read 
and referred to the executive committee for revision, with instructions 
to have same ready for adoption at the next annual meeting. 
Lieut. A. W. du Bray, the popular representative of the Parker gun, 
added another laurel to the chaplet already gained by that gun this 
year by winning the individual championship contest at the TexaB 
State Sportsmen's Association's tournament at Houston, Tex., on 
April 23. Du Bray made a bad start, losing his first two birds dead 
out of bounds; he then ran 18 straight, tieing with three others, whom 
he shot out by killing 10 more straight. Of course Du Bray was 
shooting a Parker pigeon gun, Whitworth fluid steel barrels; he used 
E. C. powder in U. M. C. trap shells. 
Next week will witness one of the greatest gatherings of trap- 
shooters ever seen in this country. We refer of course to the tourna- 
ment of the E. C. Powder Co. at Guttenburg race track. There has 
never been a tournament with any large amount of added money held 
in the East, and for that reason it is bard to forecast with any degree 
of certainty the probable average number of entries. From what_we 
can hear- and we have received communications on this point from all 
parts of the United States— we look for something very nearly ap- 
proaching a record breaker. 
The Knapp cup, value $250, donated to the Carteret Club by J. P . 
Knapp, is now the property of H. B. Wright. Mr. Wright has won 
the cup four times— the number necessary to call it his own. The 
record of the seven contests and the winners stands as follows: Dec. 
26, George Work, 27 out of 29; Jan. 8, J. P. Knapp, 19 out ot 22; Jan. 
22, Wright, 20 straight; Feb. 19, Fred Hoey, 19 out of 20; Feb. 26, W. 
W. Watrous, 32 out of 35; March 11, Wright, 21 out of 23; April 8, 
Wright, 22 out of 23. 
The many friends, Northern and Southern, of George S. McAlpin 
will wish him well when they learn that he is about to become a bene- 
dict. The noon hour on Wednesday next, April 29, will settle it, that 
being the hour fixed for the termination of his bachelorhood. The 
future Mrs. George S. McAlpin is at present a Miss Morrow, of Brook- 
lyn, N. Y. At the New Jersey State League shoot last week McAlpin 
was quite busy— breaking straights and receiving congratulations. 
Mr. Armin Tenner, writing from SchOneberg, Berlin, Germany, 
says: "The championship meeting of the Deutscher Jagd und Shiess 
Klub will beheld in Berlin, Germany, on May 19-83. The first three 
days are set aside for clap pigeon-shooting; the fourth for shooting at 
a running hare target, and the fifth for shooting at a running wild 
boar target for sporting rifles. Americans visiting Berlin on the 
dates mentioned are cordially invited to participate in this tourna- 
ment." 
The editor of this department is necessarily out of the city a good 
deal. News has to be hunted, an d Forest and Stream wants the news. 
For this reason correspondents should address news matter to Forest 
and Stream Publishing Co., and not to the editor of the trap depart- 
ment. This rule should always be strictly observed, particularly dur- 
ing; the next two months or so; otherwise, matter that should see light 
will be liable to be sidetracked for good. 
E. D. Miller, secretary of the Union Gun Club, of Springfield, N. J., 
writeB that his club claims July 4 as the date for its annual tourna- 
ment at targets and live birds. The Union Gun Club has always since 
its organization held a tournament on the above date, and this year 
will be no exception to the rule. Miller promises the boys a good 
time and plenty of shooting. 
The officers of the Worcester, Mass., Sportsmen's Club are: Presi- 
dent, N. P. Roach; First Vice-President, J. T. Mascroft; Second Vice- 
President, R. C. Walls; Secretary, V. D. Kenerson; Treasurer, F. M. 
Harris; Executive Committee: E. W. Ide, A. L. Oilman, George Mc- 
Clellan, Frederick Bucklin. 
The variety of guesses hazarded as to who will be the champion of 
the world at inanimate targets on Friday evening, May 8, shows what 
a really open contest such an event is. The winner, whoever he may 
be, will scarcely; be allowed to rest on his laurels for long without 
fighting to retain them. Challenges are to be expected, and all such 
contests will be fraught with much interest. 
W. R. Hobart, secretary of the New Jersey Trap-Shooters' League, 
informs us that the prize-soliciting committee of the League reports 
that it has received additional prizes in the shape of twenty lib. cans 
of hard grain Schultze powder from Messrs. Von Lengerke & Det- 
mold. 
On Thursday of last week, April 23, Frank Class and T. W. Morfey 
shot a match at 25 live birds, Long Island rules, gun below the elbow, 
21yds. rise. The match was for $25 a side. The birds were said to 
have been a good lot. Class defeated Morfey by 18 to 17. 
The Limited Gun Club, of Indianapolis, Ind , has issued the pro- 
gramme for its annual tournament on May 26-28. O wing to the late 
hour at which our copy reached this office, we are unable to do more 
in this issue than just acknowledge its receipt with thanks. 
The Nebraska State shoot at Omaha last week was another speci- 
men of the excellent series of tournaments booked in the SmthweBt 
for the month of April. It's Joplin this week. 
On Thursday and Friday of this week, April 30 and May 1, there 
will be a two-days' shoot at Dexter Park, First day, targets; second 
day, live birds. 
April 28. Edward Banks. 
Echoes from Atchison. 
On Monday, April 13, Rike was the only shooter to average 90 per 
cent. He shot consistently during the whole shoot, failing only on 
one day to touch 90 per cent., while his general average for the week 
was just that mark. 
It was not long after Paul North had arrived in town that every- 
body was aware of the fact. Blue rock buttons blossomed from every 
coat. 
There was general disappointment at the fact that the original 
Arkansas traveler, John J. Sumpter, Jr., of Hot Springs, could not be 
present at the shoot. He writeB he will catch on at Omaha, 
That farmer boy, Heer, caused much dismay with his rainmaker. 
For awile he kept the boys guessing as to whether he would ever drop 
a target. He ran 46 straight and was the only one out of 108 shooters 
in the first amateur event to score 20 straight. After each event he 
would go down to the creek and swab out his gun, much to the amuse- 
ment of "the gang." 
Frank Parmalee tells Fred Gilbert thaft his voice is too full choked, 
and advises him that he should have it bored a true cylinder. 
Rolls. Heikes is having the stock of his gun artistically carved. In 
addition to his own initials, there are the initials of many others on it, 
and by the time it has gotten around the circuit Rolla will have to 
have an extension made to it in order to gratify all those who may 
desire to r«eord their initials on the stock of "Old Sarah." 
Young Rhodes shot a great gait on Thursday. He was a member 
of the Frankfort team when it won the State championship. 
When Fred Quimby came on the ground and began to cut some of 
his usual capers, a man in the crowd said in Fred's hearing, "That 
fellow acts as if he had wheels in his head." Fred heard itand turned 
round with "That's right, my friend, I sell the Hunter!" 
Taylor Cox, a member of the Joplin delegation, is a one-armed 
shooter. He shot throughout the entire shoot, and managed to score 
several straights. 
It's pretty hard to play second fiddle to one's little brother. Jim 
Elliott knows how it feels since Dave beat him on Wednesday. 
Straights paid well all through the shoot. Many shooters were 
lucky enough to drop into first alone with a straight score. 
AH the shooters that stopped at the Byram House soon knew the 
billof fare by heart; it was "the same thing over again" every day. 
L W. Budd, of Pemberton, N. J., shot here under the name of 
Dukes. He scored a couple of straights on Wednesday morning. 
Clay and Corham were the colored gentlemen that took in this 
shoot. 
Jack Parker attributed the loss of a target to a cow getting in line 
with it just as he was firing. The cow was grazing on a hillside away 
on the outside of the ground. When Parmalee heard the excuse, he 
fell over a barbed wire fence and suffered laceration of the feelings. 
Harry Marlin, of the Marlin Fireams ComDany, dropped in on us 
and showed the boys that he could break targets as well as sell rifles. 
The King's Smokeless tent was a center of attracion during the 
shoot. Milt and Wanda made lots of friends for themselves and the 
company they represent. 
Tom Keller gave an exhibition of bicycle riding, borrowing a wheel 
for the occasion. It was a complete exhibition too, for Tom showed 
the boys how to fall with elegance. * 
One of the local papers ran Harvey McMurchy's picture for Dick 
Merrill's photo, adding that Merrill's wife would hardly know him. 
Naturally there was much truth in this statement 
President G. M. Walden, of the Missouri State Game and Fish Pro- 
tective Association, came here with the Kansas City delegation. Mr. , 
Walden is very enthusiastic over the prospects for the earning State 
shoot in Kansas City, and expects great thiols for it. The champion- 
ship cup will be a beauty with no strings to it. 
W. G. Sergeant, of Joplin, made the longest straight run of the 
tournament. He ran 71 straight, and also scored 168 ont of the first 
175 he shot at on the last day. 
Lou Erhardt kept open house and turned his store over to the boys 
to do what they liked with. The store is still there ! 
You will hear from me at Omaha. Paul R. Litzke. 
Preparations for the E. C. Tournament. 
During the past week Elmer E. Shaner and Noel E. Money have 
been very busy at the Guttenburg Race Track putting everything in 
order for the coming tournament of the E. O. Powder Company. 
Jack Parker, who will assist Elmer Shaner in managing the tourna- 
ment, is now in the city, and has taken up the thread of preparation 
for the shoot which was broken by Elmer's departure for Birming- 
ham, Ala., where the Interstate Association held a tournament this 
week. By noon on Monday, May 4, shooters will be able to get all the 
practice they want for the big four days' work of May 5-8. 
HOW TO GET TO GUTTENBURG. 
Guttenburg Race Track is easily reached from this city. There are 
many different ways of reaching it, all very simple to anyone that has 
a tongue lu his head and knows where he wants to go. It depends a 
great deal where a shooter is stopping in New York which is the best 
and quickest way for him tolgo. Those who are downtown will find 
the Barclay Street Ferry to Hoboken very convenient; a horse car 
from Hoboken Ferry to Fourteenth Street Ferry in Hoboken connects 
with electric cars that run direct to the track, letting passengers off 
at the park gates. Ferries at the foot of Franklin street (downtown) 
aod at the foot of West Forty-second street run to Weehawken 
and make close connections with electric cars that transfer passen- 
gers to the above-mentioned cars on ordinary occasions; on the days 
of the shoot cars will be run direct to the race track from Weehawken 
in connection with the early boats; this will make the trip from the 
loot of West Forty-second street about 30 minutes. To those 
shooters who make the Hotel Metropole (headquarters for shooters 
during the tournament), Forty second street and Broadway, their 
abiding place, this will make a most convenient route. The ferry at 
the foot of West Fourteenth street. New York, runs to the foot of 
Fourteenth street, Hoboken, and electric cars that run from there 
land their passengers at the park gates without a change of 
cars. 
It will be seen that there are plentv of routes to get to the scene of 
the great shoot. Any one of the "routes mentioned will land the 
shooter at the track within a little over an hour from the center 
of the city. Once at the park gates, there is a walk of about 300 or 
400yds. to the grand Stand, in front of which are lined up the four sets 
of traps for use in this tournament. There is ample accommodation 
for shooters and spectators, the betting hall being set apart for the 
use of shooters exclusively. It is an immense, well-lighted, cool hall 
that would accommodate ten times the number of shooters that odo 
can reasonably expect to be present at the E, 0. shoot. The cashier's 
office is just in front of the betting hall, being nothing more nor less 
t han the space inclosed by a set of storm doors that protect an en- 
trance into the betting hall. Spectators will find the seats of the 
grand stand a most convenient and comfortable vantage ground for 
witnessing the shooting. 
FOUR SETS OF TRAPS. 
There are, as stated above, four sets of traps: two sets of bluerock 
traps, under the direct supervision of Paul North, and two sets of 
empire traps that will be looked after by Charlie Hebbard. Elmer 
Shaner and Jack Parker will divide the cares of looking after the 
shooters at the four sets of traps, and will have an able squad hustler 
in the person of Seth Clover. A line of rope will be stretched parallel 
with the score, but about 15ft. to the rear of it, nobody but the 
shooters in the act of firing their strings, and the next squad, b»ing 
allowed within the lines. Thi« will prevent spectators from crowding 
the shooters in the smallest degree. Each set of traps will, of course, 
have its own blackboard, which will be located just to the right of 
each score. 
The traps face about northeast, we believe, hence the light, except 
perhaps during the early hours of the morning, will be of the best. 
The sets of traps are numbered from north to south, No. 1 set being 
to the extreme left of the score. No. 4 to the extreme right. The 
background is something that we can hardly speak authoritatively 
on, not having seen a target thrown from the traps as yet. We be- 
lieve, however, that it will be found to be all right, a little preliminary 
practice being sufficient to acquaint shooters with whatever peculiar- 
ities there may be connected with it. Except in a few iustancas it will 
be a clear sky background or very nearly s >. 
HOW THE EVENTS WILL BE SHOT OFF. 
Events Nos. 1, 2 and 3, all SO-target events, will be started each 
morning on Nos. 1, 2 and 3 sees of traps respectively, each event being 
shot off on its own set of traps. Ou No 4 set events Nos. 5 and 6 will 
be decided, as these events will necessarily consume a considerable 
amount of time; expert rule and pairs. E»ent No. 4 will probably be 
started on No. 1 set as soon as event No. 1 has been completed. Nos. 
4, 5 and 6 constitute the championship events each day, and as No. 4 
set of traps is located immediately in front of the grand stand, the 
general public will have an excellent chance of witnessing some very 
fine work at the most difficult styles of shooting known. 
So far as we can see, everything haa been done to look after the 
comfort of the shooters and spectators. Unless the weather is ex- 
tremely hot or wet we cannot imagine any other conditions of weather 
that would cause shooters any discomfort. It must be borne in mind 
that shooting commences eaco morning at 8:30. An early start is ab- 
solutely necessary if the entry list is as large as we hope and believe 
it will be, and if the programme is to be shot through. . 
the world's championship. 
The championship events will, of course, cause very great interest. 
Inanimate target snooters have never had a real championship event 
at, all the styles of shooting generally recognized by trap-shooters. 
The three styles adopted— unknown angles, expert rules (one man up 
standing in the middle, the five traps down) and pairs— were chosen 
as representatives of the three most generally recognized styles of 
target shooting in this country. In certain portions of the States re- 
versed order is very popular, but it is not very generally shot. For 
that reason it was felt to be unfair to include that style of shooting 
among the other championship conditions for the present. If that 
style continues to increase in popularity at the present rate it will not 
belong before, after due notice haB been given, 100 targets, reversed 
order, will have to be included in the conditions governing the Inani- 
mate Target Championship of the World. America, as the birth- 
place of inanimate target shooting, can fittingly claim the right to in- 
augurate a world's championship. 
At the coming tournament of the E. O. Company the shooter who 
makes the highest aggregate score in events Nos. 4, 5 and 6, on all 
four days of the shoot, will indeed be worthy of the title of ^cham- 
pion. He will have beaten hi3 opponents at thre« different styles of 
shooting, 100 targets at each style. Forest and «trbam, as the daddy 
of the championship, feels extremely well pleased with the future 
prospects of its babe. 
May the best man win. 
Lynchburg Gun Club. 
Lynchburg, Va,, April 21.— The regular weekly shoot of the Lynch- 
burg Gun Club wa8 held to-day. The attendance was small, only 5 
shooters in all taking part in the six 20-target events decided during 
the afternoon. The scores were: 
No. 1. No. 3. 
Nelson 11011111111111000110-15 11111011111111001111—17 
Terry 11010111010111101111—15 10111111110111111111-18 
Moorman 11111111110111001111—17 1110111111000101 1 110 -14 
Scott 01001001011000011011— 9 10100011110010101111-12 
No. 2. No. 4. 
Nelson 10100111011111110110—14 10010101111011111111-15 
Terry Ill 111001 1001101 1111—15 0110011011101110101 1 -13 
Moorman .111001011111111111 10 -16 11010101011010110001—11 
Scott onuiioiooiooiiion— 13 00111011111111110011—15 
No. 6. , No 5. 
Nelson OlillllOlOlOlOOllOOO-ll Olll10l0llll0Umil-l6 
Terry UOOllllllll 11110101 — 16 10011011010IOOI11011— 12 
scott ooooiiiuoiionomo-12 00110101010111000110-10 
Moormau 11110111111101011101-16 11111111110111101111—18 
S H Thomas 11111110110001011101-14 
F. mTd. 
Marietta Gun Club. 
Marietta, Ga., April 23 —The following scores were made in the 
club shoot of the Marietta Gun Club, held this afternoon: 
M-inert 0111111100101111101110111—19 
Setz 111101 1010011111110011110-18 
Stephens 111110111011101110C010011— 17 
Hillard 1100011011100011001111110—15 
Gramiing 01 101011001 11010101001111— 15 
Olover 1111100011010001001101111—15 
Black 0011001110101111100110101—15 
Mosher 0111110100001011110010111—14 
Reynolds* 0001011111010001100011100—12 
Thornton* 0110101011001I01100011000— 12 
Austin 10011000101 1001 1010011000— 11 
Williams 0001001011110110011000000-10 
Maury 1 lOOOOHOOOlOOlOlOlOOllll— 12 
Worthutt 0001001010001000000010000- 5 
W. J. Black, 8ec'y. 
