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FOREST AND STREAM. 
f June 6 1896. 
DRIVERS AND TWISTERS. 
VIEW OF THE GROUNDS. 
—that is, from over the head— it for a time entirely conceals the 
object to be shot at as it comes between the eye and the object. 
No one will object to the statement that the object of revolver prac- 
tice is to make one properly proficient with the weapon for practical 
purposes of offense or defense; in times of peace, for the latter pur- 
pose as a matter of course. Granting that such is the purpose, the 
manner of practice should conform to the best manner of actual use. 
In such use, the time lost in whirling the revolver over the head, and 
the embarrassment to tbe aim from the hand coming in front of the 
eye and concealing the object, might be fatal in an actual combat 
with a criminal who used a simpler and more direct method — one less 
stagey and spectacular, but more precise. 
The simpler method is this: The arm extended is brought up from 
below the line of vision, directly the opposite of the common method 
recommended by your correspondent. Thus the object to be shot at 
is always in view of the shooter's eye, a matter of the very first im- 
portance, and the arm can be aligned as it israised into position. 
Also in adopting this method the motion is natural and there is not 
the loss of time as in swinging the pistol over the head. In quick 
snap shooting it is safe to say that a shooter could shoot by this 
method three or four times faster than could the shooter who em- 
ployed the more theatrical method first mentioned, and with incom- 
parably more precision. It moreover is an easier matter to bring 
tbe arm into position by an intelligent action, and steady the muscles 
in the same manner, than it is to trust to the more indolent method of 
trusting to the force of gravity to settle the arm in position. 
.45 Calibre. 
Walnut Hill Scores. 
Walnut Hill, Mas3., May 23. — The scores given below were made 
to-day by members of the Massachusetts Rifle Association. The Ger- 
man ring target was used in one event for the first time on this range. 
Scores: 
Silver Military Medal. 
Wen on 10 scores of 42 or better by 
A J Litchfield 45 42 43 42 43 48 43 42 42 44 
Silver Eagle Pistol Badge. 
Won on 10 scores of 88 or better by 
T Anderton 92 92 88 92 94 92 93 89 91 88 
All Comers 1 Rest Match 
J Francis 11 12 12 10 12 11 11 12 12 13—115 
TERussell 11 12 12 12 11 10 12 10 12 12-114 
W P Thompson 11 10 11 9 12 12 11 12 12 10-110 
A E Hunter 108 F C Turner 101 
Medal Rest Match. 
TERussell 12 11 11 10 11 10 11 11 12 11—110 
WP Thompson 10 10 12 12 12 11 11 10 11 11—110 
M T Day 105 P A Lyford 96 
All-Comers' Off-hand Match. 
JHKeough 8 10 9 8 7 9 8 10 9 10-88 
J T Humphrev 10 T 10 9 8 8 10 7 8 9-86 
J Busfleld 10 8 10 977886 9—82 
M T Day 75 AW Hill 71 
J Cooney, Jr 74 S D Martin 70 
Medal Off-hand Match. 
JHEeough 8 10 10 7 9 6 9 8 8 10—85 
899888 10 69 10-85 
M T Day 78 S B Dudley 71 
AW Hill 74 
All-Comers' Off-hand Match, German ring target. 
C A Coombs 21 25 17 25 2 21 25 24 21 20-221 
J Busfleld 219 8 D Martin 201 
J T Humphrey .....218 MTDay 198 
SCScdney 212 S A Morrison 195 
AW Hill 210 FCTowne 193 
Military Medal Match. 
A J Litchfield 5444445554—44 M T Day.. 40 
ARSedgeley 41 0 W Oilman 38 
All-Comers' Military Match. 
GDurward 4454454545-44 L 3 Arnold , 41 
5545444544-44 S R Browne 41 
MTDay 43 DN Ellis.. 40 
Military Cup Match— Standard Count. 
AFWoodside....6 6 6 9 8-35 C S Bemis 31 
5 4 10 6 9-34 F C Towne 30 
P A Lyford 33 
Pistol Medal Match— 50 Yards. 
T Anderton 9 9 9 10 10 10 10 9 9 9—94 
10 10 9 8 10 10 7 10 9 9-93 
J H Keough 8 9 9 9 10 9 9 8 10 10—91 
10 7 8 10 8 10 10 9 9 8-90 
AW Hill , 86 MTDay 81 
S B Mason 85 
New Manhattan Revolver Club. 
The members of the revolver club organized in connection with the 
New Manhattan Athletic Club commenced their shooting for the sum- 
mer season at the club's grounds, Columbia Oval, Williamsbridge, on 
May 23. These grounds are located on the line of the Harlem Rail- 
road, trains leaving the Grand Central Station every half hour. Mr. 
James 8. Conlin writes us that all who are interested in revolver 
shooting are cordially invited to visit the club's grounds and try their 
skill with the pistol. 
Rifle Club Constitutions. 
We would be obliged it secretaries of rifle clubs would favor us 
with copies of constitutions and shooting rules, that we may send 
them to other clubs seeking such information. 
np^hooting. 
If you want your shoot to be announced here 
send in notice like the following: 
FIXTURES. 
June 8-13. — Buffalo, N. Y— New York State shoot, under the 
auspices of the Buffalo Audubon Club; 83,000 in merchandise prizes 
in State aud open events ; 81,100 of cash added to purses Experts 
eligible to first and second moneys only. C. S. Burkhardt, President. 
June 9-U.— Davenport, la.— Annual tournament of the Iowa State 
Sportsmen's Association. R. B. Cook, Sec'y. 
June 9-11.— Dayton, O.— Annual tournament of the Ohio Trap 
Shooters' League. Ed. Taylor, Sec'y. 
June 9-11.— Urbana, III.— Annual tournament of the Crystal Lake 
Gun Club, for amateurs only. Targets. Frank L. Bills, Manager. 
June 10-11.— Farqo, N. D.— Second annual tournament of the North 
Dakota State Sportsmen's Association; targets; $500 added money. 
W. W. Smith, 8ec'y. 
June 16.— Springfield, N. J,— Fifth tournament of the New Jersey 
Trap-Shooters' League, under rhe auspices of the Union Gun Club. 
June 17-19.— Cleveland, O.— Third annual tournament of the Cham- 
berlin Cartridge and Target Company. Targets thrown free; $770 in 
aash also added to the purses. 
June 18-20. -Spokane, Wash.— Twelfth annual tournament of the 
Sportsman's Association of the Northwest, under the auspices of the 
Spokane Rod and Gun Club. H. Bolster, Sec'y of Association. 
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 Club; 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 4.— Pleasant Hill, Mo.— All-day shoot of the Pleasant Hill Gun 
Club. 
July 4-5.— Hot Springs, Ark.— Sixth annual tournament of the 
Arkansas State Sportsmen's Association; $200 added money. John J. 
Sumpter, Jr., 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. 
Aug. 4-6. — Chicago, HI.— Tournament of the Du Pont Smokeless 
Powder Company. E. 8. Rice, Mgr. 
Aug. 11-14.— Detroit, Mich.— Jack Parker's sixth annual inter- 
national tournament. Fuller details later. 
Aug. 26-27.— Burlington, Vt.— Tournament of the Interstate Asso- 
ciation, under the auspices of the Lake Side Rod and Gun 0 ,-, b. 
r. s. waddell covered with glory. 
Sept. 7.— Marion, N. J.— Sixth annual tournament of the Endeavor 
Gun Club. Targets. J. A. Creveling, Sec'y. 
Sept 8-11.— Harrisbuhg, 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. 
Sept. 15-16.— Kansas City, Mo.— Third annual tournament of the 
Sehmelzer Arms Company ; $750 added money. 
Oct. 7-9.— Newburgh, N. Y. — Annual fall tournament of the West 
Newburgh Gun and Rifle Association; targets and live birds; added 
money announced later 
October (second week).— Baltimore, Md.— Baltimore claims this 
week for her tournament. Dr. Samuel J. Fort, Sec'y. 
Gilbert Defeats Deiter. 
Chicago, Ills., June 1. — Special to Forest and Stream. — After a 
most exciting and interesting match, Fred Gilbert, of Spirit Lake, 
la . succeeded in defeating George Deiter, of Milwaukee, by the score 
of 84 to 83. The match was tbe outcome of Deiter's challenge for the 
Du Pont trophy, and was at 100 live birds. Paul R. Litzke. 
Club secretaries are invited to tend 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 otherwise reported. 
Mail all such matter to Forest and Stream Publishing Company, ShS 
Broadway, New York. 
Jack Parker writes that he will give his sixth annual international 
tournament at Detroit, Mich., Aug. 11-14 inclusive. Jack's tourna- 
ments have always been popular ones and we can vouch for it, having 
talked to Jack as recently as the Hazard tournament, that he is now 
at work figuring on novelties for the one in August. 
The June tournament of the New Jersey Trap-Shooters' League will 
be held at Springfield, N. J., June 16, under the auspices of the Union 
Gun Club of that place. 
The sixth annual tournament of the Arkansas State Sportsmen's 
Association will be held at Hot Springs, Ark., July 4-5. The local 
club, under whose auspices the shoot will be given, will donate $200 
in cash to to the purses. 
The third annual tournament of the Sehmelzer Arms Company will 
be held at Kansas City, Mo., Sept, 15-17; $750 added money. 
The local club at Pleasant Hill, Mo., announces that it will have an 
all-day shoot on July 4. 
Enoch D. Miller, the well-known secretary of the Union Gun Club, 
of Springfield, N. J., wishes us to call attention to the fact that his 
club will do its best to give its guests a good time on July 4. Targets 
will be used in the morning, live birds in the afternoon. 
The twelfth annual tournament of the Sportsman's Association of 
the Northwest will be held at Spokane, Wash , June 18-20. We have 
made a note of the programme elsewhere. 
If all signs do not fail, the New York State shoot at Buffalo will be 
a very large one. The Audubon boys have worked hard for that suc- 
cess which now p o isns assured. 
While at the Binehamton, N. Y., tournament last week, Mr. 0. A. 
Tuttle, of Auburn, informed us that Auburn is nut for the State shoot 
in 1897. We published in these columns some time ago a notice from 
W. P. Ray land, of Rome, stating that bis club was anxious to have the 
honor of running the State shoot next year. Thus there are two 
Richmonds in the field, and it remains for the delegates to the annual 
convention to decide between the two. This convention will be held 
on Monday evening, 8 P. M., in the Colonial parlors of the Genesee 
hotel. 
Tbe Chamberlin Company's shoot at Cleveland. O., which follows 
immediately on the heels of the New York State shoot at Buffalo, has 
been mentioned so frequently and so favorably in these columns that 
we will give the following from Paul North's pen without additional 
comment: "From all indications we are going to have a larger at- 
tendance this year than ever before on account of throwing targets 
free of charge, the desire to see the Maugatrap3 work and the Lind- 
say handicap, which will undoubtedly give the ordinary shot more fun 
for his money than the old style of shooting The only objection I 
can see to the handicap is the inducement to drop for place, and we 
will watch that very closely this year and fire bodily any one detected 
in dropping. After programme is shot out each day we will continue 
to throw targets for extra events free of charge just the same. We 
want everybody to come and shoot all the blue rocks that we can 
throw in the three days, and we will keep throwing them as long as 
it is light enough to shoot. We hope to equal the Hazard shoot in 
point of attendance." , 
While at the Hazard tournament we heard several shooters discuss- 
ing the enormous number of entries at that tournament, and compar- 
ing that number with the entries at the Cleveland tournaments of 
1892 and 1893. At the time we pointed out that the tournaments were 
so dissimilar in form that no accurate comparisons could be made. 
With the idea of getting some certain data to go upon we asked Paul 
North to look up nis books on his return to Cleveland and give us the 
figures for those shoots. This is what he sends, for which he will 
please accept our thanks'. "As per your request I have looked up the 
records of the Old Chamberlin tournaments and find that we had 
41 entries for the first. .89 for the second, 171 for the third and 165 for 
the fourth and last. These tournaments were all 100-bird races and 
the attendance is very large considering the comparatively small 
number of shooters there were at that time and the length of the 
race." The above figures for 1692 and 1893 are, as Mr. North says, 
truly remarkable Considering the condition of trap-shooting. 
Lloyd O. Ellison, secretary of the newly organized gun club at Alma, 
Mich , sends us the following note regarding his club: "At the recent 
organization of the Alma, Mich., Rod and Gun Club, the following 
officers were elected for the ensuing year: President, Dr. E. A- Bag- 
ley; Vice-President, G.S.Young; Secretary, Lloyd O. Ellison; Treas- 
urer, Chas. Caple; The club is now in good running order, and we 
have a club shoot every Friday." 
In our notice of the programme of the New York State shoot we 
have given the list of those shooters who have been classed as experts 
by the shooting committee of the tournament. 
Drivers and Twisters, like many other items of interest to the 
readers of Forest and Stream's trap columns, have had to suffer 
owing to the deluge of other matter that reached this office at. an ex- 
tremely late date if insertion in the current issue of June 6 was de- 
sired. 
Paul Litzke writes us that a canvass of the guns, powders and shells 
used at the Limited Gun Club's tournament last week shows as fol- 
lows: Guns— Parker 14, Smith 13, Winchester 10, Lef ever 9, Francotte 
and Spencer 2 each. Baker and Whitmore 1 each. Powders— DuPont 
25, E C. 18, Hazard and Schultze 4 each, King's Smokeless and W-A. 
1 each. Shells— Smokeless 34, Leader 16, Rapid 4, Peters 1. 
Forest and Stream's tournament squad pads have evidently hit the 
mark. The first issue has vanished from our shelves, but its place 
has been taken by another and still larger issue. Send for prices and 
samples; they are just what you need when running a tournament, 
and we can save you good money. 
June 2. Edward Banks. 
Souvenirs of the Hazard Tournament. 
The accompanying illustrations are from photographs taken at the 
Hazard tournament. 
One of the pictures shows very well the arrangement of the grounds, 
the location of the three sets of traps, etc. Ano tjher, while giving ex- 
cellent portraits of Rolla Heikes, Ralph Worthin ton (Redwing) and 
Charlie Budd, the three winners of the special Hazard prizes, also 
shows the high board fence that made the background, the photo 
being taken from the score of No. 2 set of traps looking out over the 
screen for tWat set. On the screen itself was the motto, "We welcome 
you to the Blue Ribbon tournament." 
The third shows the manager of the tournament, Mr. R. S. Waddell 
literally covered with glory— Old Glory. 
THE HAZARD PRIZE WINNERS. 
