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FOREST- AND STREAM. 
[Jote 6 1 898. 
The Bingham ton Tournament. 
The tournament of the Binghamton (N. Y.) Gun Club, held May 26- 
28, has gone down into history as one of the pleasantest little tourna- 
ments ever given by this energetic organization. The club itself is 
composed ofbusiness men wbo And that all work and no play is just 
about as bad as it is represented to be, and who have taken up trap- 
shooting as a sport and as a means for the recreation which every 
business man really needs. The tournaments of this club are not of 
the same nature as those where large amounts of added money are 
announced. The men who go to a shoot at Binghamton do not go 
for the money there is in it, but for the sake of seeing just how much 
pleasure they caa secure by indulging in honest rivalry at the traps, 
and in meeting and associating with the men who go to make up the 
personnel of the home club. The exceptions to the above rule, if there 
are any, are extremely few and far between ; still everybody prefers to 
be a little ahead to being behind the game. 
giA visit to Binghamton, too, would do anybody good. It's a lovely 
city, a city of homes, located in some of the prettiest Bcenery on the 
face of the earth. The trip to Binghamton from New York city, by 
way of the Erie Bailroad, is far from tedious; the views from the car 
windows as the train follows the path of the Delaware River, and 
later the crooked, bed of the Susquehanna, being calculated to drive 
away all those feelings of ennui usually incident to a railroad trip. 
LOCATION OF THB SHOOTING GROUNDS. 
The location of the shooting grounds is both easy of access and 
very picturesque. Ten minutes' ride by a Leroy street electric car 
(.the car passing the door of tbe Arlington Hotel every few minutes} 
lands the shooter right at the grounds. No walking half a block or 
three or four blocks ; 50yds. is the limit, and that means a great bless- 
ing when shells are iieavy and tbe day is warm. The club house is 
not a pretentious building, but it is large enough for all the purposes 
it is put to. As the club is liable to have to vacate its present location 
at any time, owing to the extensive building operations now going on 
in and around Binghamton, it would be almost worse than folly to 
launch out with a full-fledged club house of one or two stories. 
The background is by no means good; that's a fact; but then one 
can't expect to have everything, and after all it's the same for every- 
body. Rolling hills to the right, left andln front of the score do not aid 
the shooter in getting on to his target quickly, but to our mind this very 
difficulty adds a spice of sport to target shooting that is very refresh- 
ing. The ground too «lopes away from the traps very rapid!* , making 
it hard to gauge the speed of the targets. Under all these conditions, 
added also to the wind that blew during the shoot, Fulford's general 
average of over 92 per cent, for 385 targets shot at (not including the 
extras on the first day) must be ranked very highly. 
FULFORD WITHOUT A GUN. 
It may not be^'out of place to state while referring to Fulford's 
shooting that be actually did not own a gun while at Binghamton. 
At the Hazard tournament at Cincinnati, Fulford sold every gun he 
possessed and landed in TJtica gunless. To enable him to take part in 
the Binghamton tournament he borrowed H. L. Gates's gun, the old 
Greener hammer gun sold by him to Gates. It was with this old gun 
that he has in times now past done some of bis best work, and it was 
with this gun that he made his records on both live birds and targets 
at the Binghamton tournament of 1896^the shoot we are now describ- 
ing. Before leaving for home Fulford expressed to us his determina- 
tion to try and buy back his old favorite. 
THE MANAGEMENT OF THE TOURNAMENT. 
f The tournament was under the management of H. W. Brown, man- 
ager of the club. Mr. Brown kept things moving and also shot along 
in every event, holding up his end well at targets and also winning 
outright the silver cup donated by the E, C. Powder Company. He 
was ably assisted by his cashier, H. S. Vance, secretary of the club, 
who found no difficulty in taking entries, making up squads and pay- 
ing out promptly the money coming to each individual in the different 
events shot each day. The latter fact is worthy of especial note, sinoe 
the puTses were all divided under the Rose or "straight out" system 
so often and so urgently advocated in the trap columns of Forest and 
Stream, a system that has been said to be complicated. 
THE ROSE SYSTEM. 
We have claimed for this system of division of purses everything 
that its parent, A. R. Rose, of Salida, Col., claims for it, and after 
personally inspecting the workings of the system at this tournament 
we are still more, emphatic in our declaration that the Rose system is 
all that it is represented to be. A system that pays a man according 
to his work with the gun; a system that spreads the money around 
more evenly than the present percentage system does; and a system 
that absolutely prevents all dropping for place, pooling of issues and 
combines, making men be good because it pays them better to be so; 
that is the system on which to divide purses at tournaments. And 
the Rose system possesses all those excellent qualities. 
One of those who spoke to us in terms of high praise when referring 
to the system of dividing purses at this tournament was E. D. Fulford. 
He was, putting it mildly, enthusiastic over it, and if there was any- 
body at this tournament who would have been benefited by the usual 
system of division of purses, Fulford was that man. Look at his 
scores. If he was thoroughly satisfied with it, the system must have 
merits that will bring it to the front. When it gets there, the "drop- 
per" will drop no more. He will be good because he has to be. 
MANY VISITORS PRESENT. 
Although the unsettled condition of the weather prior to and during 
this tournament undoubtedly kept many shooters away, the attend- 
ance was very gratifying to the club. Among those who were present 
were: W. L. Coiville (better known to shooters as Dick Swiveller), of 
Batavia, N. Y.,the Eastern representative of the United States Smoke- 
less (Gold Dust) Powder Co., of San Francisci; E. D. Fulford, Utica, 
N. Y. ; A. G. Courtney, Syracuse, N. Y., representing the Lefever 
Arms Co., of that city; A. M. Schermerhorn (A. M. S.), also of that city; 
C. W. Tuttle, George Corning, Jr., and J. J. Carr, Auburn, N. Y. ; J. F. 
Paddleford, L. D. Brainard and F. Conley, Sherburn, N. Y.; Tom Ely, 
Dorrancetown, Pa.; H. D. Svvartz, Scranton, Pa,; G. F. Nesbittand W. 
T. Payne, Wilkes-Barre, Pa.; Fisher Wells, Wyalusing, Pa.; F. T. Mon- 
tanye, Towanda, Pa. ; W. S. Birdsall, Whitney Point, N. Y., etc. The 
HOME CLUB 
turned out well, the following taking part in some or all of the events 
on the programme: G. W. Kendall, C. W. Hobbie, N. W. Waldron, H. 
W. Brown, M. E. Boss, E. L. Rose, C. F. McHenry, Snell, Johnson, 
Parsons, Doolittle, etc., etc. A good showing for any club. Of the 
above-mentioned club members none is more popular than G. W Ken- 
dall. Usually a capital shot, Mr. Kendall has always held his own at 
such gatherings; but just now he is suffering from an evil Influence 
that persists in making his gun point elsewhere than at the target. 
This going off in form on the part of shooters has often been noticed 
before, and Mr. Kendall's case is by no means exceptional. It is, how- 
ever, none the less a cause for regret on the part of his friends and 
fellow club members, not one of whom would ever grudge him the 
honor of coming out on top. 
During the two days of trap-shooting one set of 5 bluerock traps 
was kept constantly in use, North's electric pull being used to pull 
the traps. Empire targets were thrown from the above traps and 
the combination did not disagree in the slightest. That the boys were 
there to shoot is shown by the statement that nearly 8,000 targets 
were thrown at the tournament. 
FIRST DAY, MAY 26. 
To-day's programme consisted of eight 15-target events, $2 entrance, 
and two 20-target events, $3 entrance; targets extra in all programme 
events at 2 cents each. From what we can learn of the weather condi- 
tions they were decidedly unfavorable for target shooting, Fulford's 
record of 91.2 being looked upon by thosa taking part in the events as a 
remarkably excellent showing under the circumstances. The popular 
representative of the Lefever gun, Col. A. G. Courtney, kept up his 
end very well indeed, breaking 86.2 per cent, out of 160 shot at in the 
programme events. H. W. Brown, of the home club; J. J. Carr, of 
Auburn, and F. Conley, of Sherburn, all did good work. Below are 
the 
SCORES OF MAY 26, 
Events: 133456 7 8 910 
Targets: 15 
Fulford 14 
Courtney 13 
Brown 14 
Carr 12 
Conley 11 
Eley..,, , 
Hobbie 12 
Paddleford 
Boss 10 
AMS 12 
Waldron 8 
Johnson., 10 
Brainard 10 
Swiveller. 9 
Corning 10 
Snell 
Travis 8 
Kendall 9 
Gage 10 
Birdsall 
Rose 
Parsons 
Doolittle i 
McHenry 
15 15 15 SO 15 15 51 15 SO Shot at. Broke. Av. 
18 13 13 18 14 13 14 14 20 
13 10 13 18 14 12 14 U 17 
10 12 12 18 13 13 13 12 16 
13 12 10 17 14 14 9 13 18 
15 11 14 17 11 13 13 10 .. 
, .. .. 14 11 11 .. 
13 
12 .. 
13 12 
14 12 
10 9 
.. 10 
10 10 
.. 11 
8 10 
11 .. 13 8 12 15 ,. 
8 .. 14 
12 .. 11 10 13 11 .. 
12 .. 11 14 13 10 .. 
... ,, 11 
12 ,. 8 ,. 12 .. .. 
14 12 9 
8 13 11 11 10 10 14 
10 ,. .. 
10 13 12 .. 9 ,. .. 
11 13 7 9 14 11 12 
,. 12 
9 .. 10 .. 7 .. .. 
8 11 
7 .. .. 9 5 9 .. 
6 6 7.. 4 .. .. 
160 
146 
91.2 
160 
13S 
86.2 
160 
133 
83.1 
160 ■ 
132 
82.5 
140 
115 
82.1 
45 
36 
80 
30 
24 
80 
75 
59 
78.6 
60 
44 
78.3 
120 
94 
78.3 
120 
91 
78.3 
30 
21 
70 
90 
61 
67,7 
80 
54 
67.5 
160 
107 
66.8 
15 
10 
66. 6 
95 
63 
66.3 
160 
104 
65 
35 
22 
62.8 
45 
26 
57.7 
35 
19 
54.2 
60 
SO 
50 
65 
23 
35.3 
15 
4 
26.6 
EXTRA EVENTS. 
During the day eight extra events at 15 targets each were shot off 
with the following results: 
No. 1, 15 targets: Brown 14, Fulford 12, Kendall 12, Brainard 11, Con- 
ley 10, Waldron 8. 
No. 2, 15 targets: Waldron 14, Brown 14, Fulford 13, Conley 13, 
Brainard 12, Johnson 9. 
No. 3, 15 targets: Waldron 15, Brown 15, Fulford 14, Kendall 10, Coi- 
ville 9, Boss 7. 
No. 4, 15 targets: Waldron 13, Fulford 13, Kendall 12, Brown 12, 
Johnson 7. 
No. 5, 15 targets: Brown 13, Fulford 13, Boss 13, Waldron 10, John- 
son 8. 
No. 6, 15 targets: Waldron 15, Fulford 15, Brown 13, Johnson 10, 
Kendall 10, Coiville 6. 
No. 8, 15 targets: Fulford 15, Brown 15, Schermerhorn 12, Courtney 
11, Johnson 11, Coiville 9. 
No. 9. 15 targets: Fulford 15, Brown 14, Kendall 13, Carr 13, Boss 11, 
Corning 7. 
SECOND DAY, MAY 27. 
This can hardly be said to have been a day favorable to high scores, 
the wind blowing strongly in the shooters' faces nearly all the time, 
while bursts of brilliant sunshine were interspersed with periods of 
gloom when rain threatened to fall every minute. Add tbe above 
drawbacks to a remarkably dark background, and we have conditions 
liable to make the best fall down. E. D. Fulford, however, would not 
be denied, but shot his old hammer gun for keeps, making the excel- 
lent average of 93 7 for 225 targets shot at. In the table of scores for 
this day events Nos. 9 and 10 were shot prior to commencing the pro- 
gramme events; it will thus be seen that Fulford broke 156 out of his 
last 160! His 15 straight in No. 13 was perhaps the best piece of work 
he ever did, the wind blowing a gale and demolishing the awning over 
the shooters' heads while the event was in progress. Hobbie, A. M. S. 
and Brown shot well all through the day. 
THE E. O. CUP CONTEST. 
The main feature on to-day's programme was the 100-target handi- 
cap event for the E. O. Powder Co.'s cup, a trophy presented to the 
Binghamton Gun Club by the American E, C. Powder Co. The condi- 
tions of this event were: 100 targets per man, unknown angles, handi- 
cap allowance of extra targets to shoot at, entrance price of targets, 
optional sweep of $2 on each 25. 
For this event there were 18 entries, about two-thirds taking part in 
the optional sweeps. Fultord did splendid work in this event, running 
65 straight before losing a target, and finishing his last string of 25 by 
losing his 100th target, a target which actually cost him the cup, al- 
though he broke 97 out of his 100 ! 
The handicapping was done by Messrs. Waldron and Brown, of the 
home club, and by the representative of Forest and Stream, that is 
to say, this committee of three awarded handicaps to everybody but 
themselves; the question of their allowances was left in the hands of 
A. G. Courtney. No one knew his allowance until he had reached the 
limit and was called out. Brown broke 89 out of his 100 by capital 
shooting, and being awarded 10 extra to shoot at, had every chance to 
win out. He broke 8 out of 10 and tied Fulford. The tie was shot off 
at 25 targets, even up, Brown winning by tbe score of 23 to 21. Ful- 
ford's comparative failure in this shoot-off was unquestionably due to 
his being over-careful, as he was extremely anxious to win the trophy. 
As stated above, the loss of his 100th target, a low-flying right-quar- 
terer from No. 5 trap, actually cost him the cup. 
Of the others who Bhot in this race A. M. S. was well up with 93 out 
of 107, Hobbie also doing some good work by breaking 90 out of 104. 
G, F Nesbitt and Fisher Wells, both men new to tournament busi- 
ness, and J. J. Carr, all were well in line. 
In regard to the scores in this event, it should be stated that the 
wind almost died away while the first three series of 25 targets were 
being shot at. The scores in the cup race, showing the records made 
in each 25 and in the allowances, were as follows: 
Handl- 
ist 25. 2d 25. 3d 25. 4th 25. cap. Total. 
E D Fulford (0)., 25 25 23 24 .. 97 
HW Brown (10) 28 21 23 22 8 97 
A MS (7) .....21 22 23 21 6 93 
CW Hobbie (4) 24 21 21 21 3 90 
G F Nesbitt (7) 19 20 23 20 6 88 
J J Carr (6) 21 20 20 20 6 87 
F Wells (7) 18 22 20 21 6 87 
*F S Edwards (10) 24 19 16 23 .. 82 
G Corning, Jr. (12) 20 20 20 14 8 82 
*J F Paddleford (8) 21 19 20 18 .. 78 
A G Courtney (10) 19 12 19 19 9 78 
*N W Waldron (10) 17 17 22 17 .. 73 
G W Kendall (15) 13 18 17 15 10 73 
*F Conley (10) 22 17 16 17 .. 72 
Montanye (8) 18 18 10 17 7 70 
*CW Tuttle (11) 16 18 16 17 .. 67 
*H D Nighthawk (12) 14 16 19 17 .. 66 
W Birdsall (18) 9 10 14 16 4 53 
* Did not shoot their handicap allowance, 
SCORES OF MAY 27. 
Below is a table giving in full the scores made in the events shot 
to-day: 
Events: 1 2 S k 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 IS 13 
15 15 15 15 25 25 25 25 10 10 15 15 15 Shot at. 
Targets: 
Fulford. ... 15 13 15 11 25 25 23 24 8 6 15 14 15 
Hobbie.'.... 10 12 14 15 24 21 21 21 7 9 14 14 .. 
a. MS...... 10 12 14 14 21 22 23 21 
Brown 12 12 12 14 23 21 23 22 8 . . 8 . . 
Boss 13 12 12 
Edwards... 11 14 10 12 21 19 16 23 .. 5 15 14 12 
Nesbitt 12 13 11 13 19 20 23 20 4 10 14 9 14 
Carr 10 12 13 21 20 20 20 . . .. 13 11 11 
Ely 11 10 10 12 9 
Waldron.,.. 11 11 11 8 17 17 22 17 10 9 
Wells 11 8 13 13 18 22 20 21 .... 11 7 7 
Corning 10 12 10 20 20 20 14 
Paddleford. 10 8 11 11 21 19 20 18 9 3 ,. 12 .. 
Conley 11 9 12 9 22 17 16 17 6 5 
Tuttle 16 18 16 17 .... 13 7 10 
Nighthawk 14 16 19 17 .. .. 9 10 .. 
Kendall.... 6 12 11 8 13 18 17 15.. 5121010 
Snell 10 9 .. 
Montanye . . 6 8 12 14 18 18 10 17 7 7 5 . . . . 
Courtney... 9 11 12 7 19 12 19 19 ., 5 8 9 4 
Swiveller.., 10 6 .. 8 8 
Payne 11 .. 8 3 
Birdsall 9 10 14 16 
225 
210 
160. 
185 
45 
215 
225 
190 
70 
ISO 
205 
145 
195 
180 
145 
130 
215 
30 
195 
215 
55 
40 
100 
Broke. 
211 
1 2 
137 
155 
37 
175 
182 
151 
53 
133 
151 
106 
142 
121 
97 
85 
U7 
19 - 
122 
134 
31 
23 
49 
Av. 
93.7 
86.6 
85.6 
83.7 
82.2 
81.3 
80.8 
79.4 
74.2 
73.8 
73.6 
73.1 
72.8 
68.8 
66. a 
65.4 
63.7 
63,3 
62.5 
62.3 
56.3 
55 
49 
In addition to the above events Dick Swiveller got up a Gjld Du*t 
event at 25 targets, providing shells and targets free. An optional 
sweep of S3 was also Bhot in connection with this event, the scores of 
those who put in their $2 being as follows: 
Carr and Courtney 22, Edwards and Nighthawk 21, Fulford and Nes- 
bitt 20, Hobbie and Montanye 19. A. M. 8. 18, Corning and Tuttle 17, 
Wells 16, Paddleford 13, Payne 9, Yess 8. 
Of those who shot for practice only, Brown with 20. Boss 19, Winans 
18 and Parsons 17 were the top scorers. 
THIRD DAY, MAY 28. 
This was at the outset a most unpropitious day for live-bird shoot- 
ing. Heavy lowering clouds swept up the valleys and deluged Bing- 
hamton with rain. The wind, however, was about right, blowing very 
strongly from the south, getting under the tails of straightaway birds 
and sending them off the traps in a manner very unusual with sum- 
mer birds. By noon the wind had blown about all the worst of the 
ralnclouds away to the north, and the afternoon proved to be about 
as good for live-bird shooting as the club could have had if made to 
order. 
Manager Brown acted as scorer and referee, both duties being so 
far as we could ascertain perfectly satisfactorily discharged. The 
eDtry lists were not heavy, the bad weather of the early morning 
keeping many away. So well did the birds fly and so sharply was 
everything hustled along that by 1:30 P. M. a 5-bird, a 7-blrd and a 
10-bird sweep had been decided. The latter was an extra event, the 
conditions being 10 birds, $7.50 entrance, birds included, 4 moneys, 
class shooting. The other two were regular programme events, No. 
1, 5 birds, $5, birds included, class shooting, 3 moneys, 28yds all 
No. 2, 7 birds, $7, birds included, 4 high guns, 28yds. all. 
At 1:30 P. M. event No. 3, 15 birds, $15, birds extra, handicap rise, 
clas3 shooting, 4 moneys, was started. This event had 11 entries, the 
handicapping being intrusted to Forest and Stream's representative. 
Fulford, who had been shooting at the 30yds. mark all the morning, 
was put back 1yd., but ultimately won first money alone on 14 out of 
15. Wells won Becond money alone with 13, three men tising for 
third money and two for fourth money. 
The best work of the day was done by Fulford, who killed 36 put of 
37 shot at, running 30 straight before dropping one. The last event 
was an extra at 7 birds, $10, birds inctuded. In this event Tuttle and 
Ely divided first money. Second money lay between 5 men, each of 
whom scored 5 birds: instead of shooting off the tie they drew lots. 
Boss heing |the lucky man and pocketing the $24. Scores in to-day'6 
events follow: 
SCORES OF MAY 28. 
No. 1. No. 2. No. 3. No. 4. 
Fulford (31) 11111-5 2221112—7 121222210112221—14 
Nesbitt (27) 11102—4 02221»1— 5 1021000010210.11— 8 •010120— 3 
No. 1. No. 2. No. 3. No. 4. 
Kendall (26) 11110-4 10«1211— 5 1121011 11211.20-12 0211011—5 
Ely (30) 22111-5 UI2212-6 ki21222010011011— 11 1121111-7 
Payne (27), .2212-4 22«2211— 6 1.2100222222122-12 i«12«21-5 
Wells (27) 1022.-3 111212111010121—13 1210.11— 5 
Paddleford 11121—5 0110221-5 
Tuttle (27) 21121-5 2102192- 6 012122221020012-11 1211111-7 
Nighthawk (29).... 10101— 3 2110221-6 0111222.2122021— 12 
Hobbie (27) 21111-5 1022202—5 100001012001221— 8 12«0»22-4 
Carr (30) 1111111-7 001200111011201- 9 
Corning (27; 2«?0221020«0110— 9 1202»12-5 
Rose 1001100-3 
Boss ... 0111110—5 
The 10-bird event decided between Nos. 2 and 3 resulted as follows: 
Carr and Fulford, 10; Ely and Tuttle, 9; Paddleford, Wells, Corning 
and Kendall, 8; Nighthawk 7, Hobbie 6, Payne 5, Nesbitt 4. 
Edward Banks. 
Boston Gun Club. 
Boston, Mass., May 27 — A bright, sunny afternoon, a dozen shoot- 
ers, a similar number of guns and twelve to fifteen hundred rounds 
of ammunition formed the ingredients for one more Boston Gun Club 
shoot this afternoon. The regular members were on hand, and prac- 
tice for the match was Btarted immediately. After the finish of 25- 
bird event, two team matches were indulged in, captained respect- 
ively by Sheffield and Gordon. The former's team was victorious in 
both cases, Scores were: 20 targets. 10 known and 10 unknown. 
Team 1— Captain Sheffield 17, Miskay 16, Spencer 16, Pond 15, Brown 
13; total 77. Team 2— Captain Gordon 17, Nichols 14, Gard 13, Horace 
11, Sears 11; total 66. Second matcn, same conditions: Teaml— Cap- 
tain Sheffield 15, Kirkwood 15, Spencer 15, Miskay 14, Brown 11; total 
70. Team 2— Captain Gordon 17, Gard 14, Nichols 12, Horace 12, Sears 
10; total 65. These matches caused no end of fun and were voted a 
permanent weekly feature. 
Complete events as follows: 
Events: 1 2 3 k 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 IS IS lk 
Targets: 10 10 10 6 10 10 15 10 10 10 10 10 5 5 
Gordon 6855789689894.. 
Miskay 9 7 2 1 7 6 12 8 7 9 6 8.. .. 
Pond 4 4 6 4 8 4 10 4 7 8 
Brown 8 5 7 3 7 8 12 5 4 9 4 7 3.. 
Gard 7.. 359 10 985 7 734 
Horace 7 7.. 3 5.. 11 7 5 6 5 7.. .. 
Kirkwood 6 1 2 2 5 .. 10 6 .. .. 7 8 .. .. 
Sheffield 5 6 11 8 10 7 7 8 4 3 
Spencer ■ 3 5 13 6 7 9 7 8 2 5 
Nichols -. 10 8 8 6 6 6 .. ,. 
Sears ... 9 7 4 7 5 5 3 4 
Parker 7 9 5.. 
Events Nos. 2, 8, 9 and 12 were unknown angles; No. 5, reverse; Nos. 
8 and 4, pairs; balance known. 
Prize match, 25 targets, 15 known and 10 unknown, distance handi- 
cap: 
Miskay (18) 101111111001111-12 1100111111-8-20 
Gard 06) 100110111100111—10 1011111111-9-— 19 
Sheffield (15) 010111111011101—11 1110110111—8—19 
Spencer (17) 101010111111111—12 1100110101-6—18 
Nichols (16) 011011001111011—10 1101111101—8—18 
Horace (16) 110110110111011—11 1011111100-7-18 
Brown (15) 111111111100110—12 1011100100-5—17 
Sears (16) 000100101111111— 9 0010111111—7—16 
Kirkwood (18) 100011101111101—10 0101100111—6-16 
Gordon (18) 011111010001110- 9 0111011100-6-15 
Pond (15) 101011110110110-10 1011101000-4—14 
St. Hubert Gun Club, of Ottawa. 
Ottawa, Can., May 25.— The St. Hubert Gun Club, of this city, held 
its annual tournament to-day— the Queen's Birthday. Twenty 
shooters took part in the 10 events shot during the day. E. White 
(94.4), P. Trudeau (92 4), W. J. Johnstone (91.1) and Capt. Higginson 
(90.4) were the leaders in the averages for the shoot. The team race 
waB not shot, there being no outside teams entered for the contest, 
In events 3, 5 and 7 the club guaranteed purses of $50. Scores were 
as below: 
Events: 
12 345678 9 10 
Targets: 10 
S White 7 
OLPanet 7 
E White 10 
ColTiiton 6 
P Trudeau 9 
J W Deslaurler 9 
WL Cameron 10 
Geo E Cote 1 
W McMahou 8 
W J Johnstone 8 
Capt Higginson 10 
B Rothwell 7 
A Throop 7 
E C Eaton 7 
A List 
W H Hayes 
Alex Stewart 
D Candlish 
E A Black 
J R Nutting 
15 ISO 10 SO 10 SO 15 15 10 Shot at. Broke. Av. 
14 .. 
13 16 
14 19 
.. 13 
15 19 
13 18 
10 15 
11 12 
13 15 
14 18 
14 18 
15 17 
15 17 
13 18 
.. 16 
.. 12 
.. 17 
10 19 
7 18 
9 20 
i6 19 
9 13 
7 19 
7 15 
7 14 
9 17 
7 17 
8 17 
5 w 
9 18 
.. 18 
7 16 
7 17 
8 19 
8 15 
8 16 
w 14 
10 15 
7 12 
.. 16 
9 20 
10 18 
10 14 
.. 14 
8 16 
.. 13 
12 .. 
12 15 
13.15 
13 .. 
15 14 
12 .. 
13 13 
14 11 
14 14 
14 14 
11 14 
12 .. 
9 12 
16 .. 15 
10 .. .. 
12 
9 .: .. 
no 
145 
145 
75 
145 
110 
145 
135 
95 
125 
135 
145 
100 
135 
60 
20 
70 
35 
30 
10 
W, 
95 
120 
137 
55 
134 
88 
118 
90 
73 
123 
122 
121 
76 
110 
46 
12 
56 
19 
12 
9 
P 
86.3 
82.7 
04.4 
74 
92.4 
80 
81.3 
66.6 
76.8 
91.1 
90.4 
83.1 
76 
81.4 
76,6 
60 
80 
54.2 
60 
90 
Lett. 
Experts and Amateurs. 
Editor Forest and Stream: 
Every little while some kicker writes along letter to Forest and 
Stream complaining of the way the experts rob the amateurs of their 
money, and as one says: "It is the money of the 60 to 80 per cent, 
man, the feeder, who from love of the sport, and delight of exercising 
the eye and nerve at the flying target, contributes of his wealth to 
the greedy gun of the insatiable expert." 
Knowing this, why does the 60 to 80 per cent, feeder permit himself I 
to be robbed by the 90 per cent, expert? Why does he, a? a 60 to 80 
percent, man, take chances against those he knows to be superior in 
skill? Why does he deliberately walk into the trap with the know- 
ledge that he will be caught? 
It looks to me as though tne "feeder," who shoots for "pure love of 
the sport," is wasting a great deal of money when he pays his $5 to 
$25 entrance money for a little sport, If it is pure love of trap-shoot- 
ing that induces him to indulge in it, why not uss this entrance 
money to pay expenses in friendly contests and practice where no 
purse is held out, and where no greedy, insatiable expert will enter? 1 
But it is the purse more than anything else the "feeder" is after, just 
like the expert, ana the best man will get it. 
I am not an expert; I believe I am below a 60 per cent, man and do ! 
very little trap-shooting nowadays, but I am interested in it and 
amuse myself by reading the "kicks" of the 60 per cent, man because 
the 90 per cent, man gets his money. 
The sport of trap-shooting and the business of trap-shooting are 
two distinct things. Let them be so classed and don't mix them up. 
There's as much enjoyment in just plain trap-shooting for practice 
and fun as there is in a big tournament, where it costs more for shoot- 
ing in one event than would pay for many days of fun. And when 
the 60 to 80 per cent, man shoots for the chance of winning some- 
thing he is not shooting for sport. Bo. 
Pittsburg, Pa , May 25. 
Marietta Gun Club. 
Marietta, Ga., May 28.— The following scores were made at the 
regular club shoot of the Marietta Gun Club, 25 targets, unknown! 
angles: 
Thonton 0111911110111001111111111— 2C 
Black 011111010011110011011110U— ie 
Maury Ill 101 10100010110011 01 1 1 1—18 
Meinert 0011111101111100000101001—14 
Gramling 1000110110001010101110101— lc 
Reynold 1010000011100010010111110—1$' 
Legg 1100100000001001010111101—11 
Stepnens 11)00000101110101001011001— ll 
Whitlock OOlllOOOOOOlOlllOlOlOOlOO-K- 
Love 1010000100001011100010100— i| 
Austin 0011011011000000000011000— f 
Wilson 0000000000000000000000000— ( 
Setz 1001001000001000101111000— !: 
W. J. Black, Sec'y. 
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