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FOREST AND STREAM. 
[June 27 1896. 
! One 1 Cent Targets in the West. 
Chicago, 111., June 13.— It was announced in last week's Forest and 
Stbeam that a meeting would be held by three leading Chicago gun 
clubs with the purpose of organization of the Chicago shooters for a 
target tournament to be held later in the season. This meeting has 
been held and the matter has been placed in the hands of the Cook 
County Trap-Shooters' League. The intention is to give a big target 
tournament and throw targets at a lower rate than has been the 
custom, probably at 1 cent a targat. The agitation grew out of the 
fact that manv of the shooters were dissatisfied with the low winnings 
in the Illinois State shoot, where the birds ate up the purses. 
While it is probable that this is the firs'- announced movement in 
favor of cheap target tournaments in the West, the matter has been 
discussed at least a little earlier by some shooters who have not yet 
formulated their plans. It is likely that the Chicago shoot, should it 
prove the first one. will not be the last or the only one held in this 
part of the country with the view of testing the question of cheap 
targets. During the interim between the Illinois shoot and that at 
Davenport, la., some of the shooters remained in Chicago, and 
among these I had the pleasure of interviewing the veteran Charlie 
Budd. the interview lasting a day and a night, during which time 
Charlie was very busy figurine- out certain scheme" he bad in mind. 
"I am not yet ready to pay," said he, "that I pball be behind a 1-cent 
target shoot tbis season, but still that is not among the impossible 
things, and this tournament may be held at my home, in Des Moines, 
la. The shooters are beginning to feel that 3 cents is too much to pay 
for targets when the price per thousand is as low as it is on targets 
to-dry. Now yov may not think it. but, Iwant to tell you that you can 
hold « shoot and throw targets at 1 cent each and make money out of 
it. If you don't believe tbis I cnn prove it to you with figures. 
"I will say tbat in a three days' shoot with the proper number of 
+rnt>s I can throw 16.000 targets a day. On this basis I will take in 
$480. I can have 100 shooters present. I figure the expenses Of run- 
ning the shoot, reduced to bed rock, about as follows, these figures 
being applied to well-furnished and well-equipped grounds: Targets 
bought in car lot, $250; trappers, $45; pullers. 818; scorers, $24; other 
office and ground expenses, $44. Total $381, which Is all it will cost 
me to run a three days' shoot. As I have taken in $480, you may Bay 
tbat I have $100 that I am ahead of the game. 
"Now vu are all the time talking about giving the amateur a show. 
I will explain to you just bow the amateur will get a show in my 
sboot. The usual r>lan. with 3-cent targets, we will suppose, is to make 
the entrance >"n a 20-bird event $2 50 to $3. When I throw targets at 1 
cent I am going to save the shooter 2 cents on each bird, or 40 cents on 
each entrance. If I sboot eight events during the day I save him $3. 20 
out of his entrance during the day. 
"Now. when I say I have saved this shooter tbis $8 or $4 a day, I 
mean that I actually save it; I leave it in his pocket, and he does not, 
put it U" at all to be shot for, as he must on the old 8-cent target 
basis. On th«t old basis, when he did put ud his money he only had 
his shooter's chance to win it, or a part of it, back again in the purses, 
and to do so he was obliged to compete successfully with all the 
cr8ck" shooters who had entered on the same basis as himself. I can't 
make the amateur shoot as well as the professional, perhaps, but I 
can save the amateur and all the other shooters between $3 and $4 a 
day actual cash, money which is left in tbeir pockets. 
"Of course, in doing this I don't make so much money for myself, 
but I am not holding the tournament for tbat purpose, but for the 
good of shooting. Now I will s^ow you where I can get a little money 
to add for average money, to be added not in great amounts, hut in 
sums sufficient to encourpgp the shooters to stay through. You know 
I have got pretty near $100 profit on my shoot even when I charge 
only 1 cent for targets. In my town I can find a good many public- 
spirited men. such as real estate men, etc., who will give me a little 
cash to offer to my shooters. The hotels ought to be willing to give 
me a little something in this way, for they get an increased amount of 
business. I do not believe in begging a lot of merchandise prizes, and 
I believe with you, nowadays, that such begging is degradine to the 
sport of tran-shooting. But I venture to say that I can add $100 eas- 
ily to my other $100 profit, and put this to use as my average money. 
Thus I am giving to my shooters all the profit of the shoot and an 
amount equal to that profit, which they get for nothing. In addition 
to this I am saving $10 to $15 for each regular shooter who stays 
through the tournament. I do not see what more the shooter can 
ask. 
"I claim that this is putting the sport on about as equal and fair a 
basis, and making It as nearly self-supporting, as we can at'this stage 
of the game. It is certainly a clear proposition that the 1-cent target 
basis is a great deal better for the amateur or indifferent shooter than 
the old bas's of 3 cents. Ab I have said before, I should like to see 
this tried In an actual tournament, and if we do not see it tried in 
Des Moines it is very apt to be somewhere else. There was consider- 
able talk about this at the Illinois State shoot " 
Mr. Budd is an old-timer among the shooters, and his voice has a 
great deal of weight with them. His scheme as above outlined has 
certain obvious points of merit, although I am inclined to doubt that 
he can throw 48,000 targets for $880 and pay his ground and office 
expenses. I had occasion to congratulate Mr. Budd. however, on his 
position in regard to merchandise prizes, upon which he expressed 
himself freely and at greater length later on. It is not yet clear in 
my mind on just what basis of justice the management of a tourna- 
ment can go to the non-shooting citizen and ask him for goods or 
money to be handed over to shooters who are quite strangers to him, 
and who have no claims whatever on bis business generosity. I told 
Mr. Budd I was even unable to see what right he would have to go to 
his real estate people and other citizens and ask them for cash to give 
to his shooters. About his only answer waB, "If they will give it, why 
not take it?" This, of course, is the old answer, and it is no answer 
at all. The hotel men are about the only class of men benefited by 
the holding of a big tournament. They are usually asked to make a 
reduced rate for the sake of the increased attendance, and tbis, of 
course, they are able to do. as any merchant is able to offer a discount 
on business coming in bulk to him. But if on top of this discount the 
hotel man is asked to give a lump sum in cash, I cannot see where the 
strict justice even in his case comes in. 
Of course in the past the doctrine was to assemble all the merchan- 
dise and other prizes possible, without any regard to the troublesome 
abstract justice of the matter; but I am persuaded, more especially 
from the position of so able and old a shooter as Mr. Budd, that this 
custom will eventually come to be one of the past. Indeed, in our 
conversation we had occasion to comment upon many changes which 
have gradually come about within the last six years of the history of 
trap-shooting. Mr, Budd. Mr. Grimm and other experienced shooters, 
who engaged in our little conversation, admitted that dropping for 
place was nowadays a rare occurrence- They attributed this to the 
agitation which has been given to the subject— an agitation which has 
been confined, I imagine, almost entirely to the columns of the shoot- 
ers' paoer, Forest and Stream, and an agitation which in its inception 
made the scant number of men undertaking it exceedingly unpopular 
with a certain class of shooters— for reasons which are obvious. 
Reforms do not seem to come suddenly, however, and they are 
rarely to be attributed to the efforts of a few or of a faction. They 
seem to come about gradually, and to represent the sum of the best 
opinion on both sides of the questions involved. What was once uni- 
versal in trap-shooting may be uncommon to-day, and what is usual 
to-day may be unheard of in the future. For instance, I asked Charlie 
Budd what he thought of the Rose system of dividing purses. His 
Immediate repiv was that "it would not do; that the shooters would 
not have it." Mr. Grimm more carefully replied he "had not care- 
fully gone into the system, and did not know what to say of it," It is 
very possible that both of these shooters three or four years from now 
will be shooting cheerfully under that system, and perhaps nearly for- 
getful of the old class shooting days, with its obvious unfairness and 
temptations. That change. If it comes, will come so slowly that the 
shooters will hardly realize how it happened The day of cheaper targets 
will. also probably be one of the results of gradual change in trap- 
shooting matters. Indeed there are few sports in which more changes 
have taken place or more revolutionary ones. I can remember very 
well when the shooters oe the country felt aggrieved if their target 
scores were not printed in full in the sporting papers, yet they have 
come to like the journalistic boiliDg this sort of news has had in the 
shooters' paper, Forest and Stream. Five years from now the boil- 
ing will probably have gone very much further. At that time we may 
he shooting targets at 1 cent or less, under a system which will be hon- 
est and fair for all alike, and on a basis manly and self-respecting. In 
that day I hope that our friend Moses Solomon will not be asked to 
contribute a straw hat or an umbrella for some shooter whom he 
never met. and that our friend who runs the drug store will not be 
forced to contribute a bottle of liniment or a toothbrush as a spe- 
cial prize, or forfeit the respect of his enterprising fellow citizens who 
wish to hold a shoot. These things will all settle themselves in time, 
and one may be sure that the solution will be the right one. whether 
or not it met the view of present or future extremists. The innate 
manliness and self-respect of the American shooters will be factors 
which will have most to do in the long run with the conditions obtain- 
ing in the trap-shooting world. Just at present the 1 cent target seems 
to be the coming event in tournament shooting. Of course, it is noth- 
ing new in club shooting. The leading clubs of Chicago shoot tar- 
gets at 1 cent, thus providing an inexpensive form of the sport for 
their members. It would seem a natural extension of this custom to 
carry it into the tournaments, as has been suggested above, here in 
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Cook County:. League. 
Chicago, 111., June 20. — The third contest in the series of the Cook 
Oounty League monthly shoots occurred to-day at the grounds of the 
Calumet Heights Club, about twenty miles south of this city, and was 
a very pleasant affair in spite of a wide assortment of singular and 
disagreeable weather. The day started in with heat torrid enough to 
melt a heart of stone, and then changed to a half cyclone, with tor- 
rents of rain. The shooting was pursued under great difficulties and 
regular work was an impossibility. Eureka and Garfield clubs in the 
A class made one of their spectacular finishes, coming out only two 
birds apart, Eureka winning again and retaining its untouched first 
place in the race in this class. In the B class Garfield led easily, Eu- 
reka falling to the foot of the class, and Douglas Club running into 
second place. In the A class only two teams entered, and in C class 
there was really no contest, Calumet Heights being the only team to 
fill. In the shoot-off of the low guns in each club, Amberg, of Garden 
City Club, was high gun, 4 out of the 5 birds shot at, thus winning the 
drum of Du Pont powder offered as a special prize for such contest- 
ants. Interesting sweeps were shot during the day, and on the day 
following targets and live birds will be shot at the club grounds, with 
a very fair entry. 
Calumet Heights Club is one of the very ablest and strongest of the 
Chicago outdoor clubs to-day, but it is not alone in shooting matters 
that it excels. Its delightful grounds, on the beach of Lake Michigan, 
deep in the wild sandhill wilderness which makes so interesting a "fea- 
ture of the scenery to the south of this city, attract at the close of each 
week an attendance of an average of 40 or 50 persons, and on special 
days sometimes as high as 150. There were perhaps 75 to 100 persons 
at the grounds to-day, most of whom returned to the city on the even- 
ing train, though many of the club members followed their usual cus- 
tom of remaining two days. A great many ladies were present, and 
of these one. Mrs. Dr. Carson, took part in the shooting. There is no 
doubt this is the most popular outing club of Chicago, and it is 
especially famous as a family club. Besides the two large club houses 
there are eight cottages belonging to members, and throughout the 
sun mer season these are usually full, for no pleasanter place exists so 
close to the city to pass a summer day. The surroundings are wild 
and picturesque, and there are many features of interest denied to 
the clubs nearer town and necessarily situated among more common- 
place environments. At the Calumet Club one is entirely 
removed from the suggestion of the city, and the sense of 
piivacy is absolute. The wide blue lake which laps the sands 
at the foot of the target score might as well be the salt 
Sf a, and the nets of the local fisher folk, the stranded and wrecked 
vessels of all descriptions, and the general flotsam and jetsam of the 
f bore hear out the impression of the seashore and make the spot as 
far removed from Chicago as though a thousand miles separated the 
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one from the other. The amusements at Calumet Club are shooting, 
sailing, fishing and the hardest kind of hard loafing, and one may find 
there the most charming of times and the most charming of people 
on any day he may select. Especially pleasant is this notable club at 
a time like that of to-day, when it has distinguished guests within its 
gates, The visitors, many of whom had not before seen this unique 
corner of the Chicago sportsmen's world, were delighted with the 
spot and with its owners, and went away wishing themselves many 
returns of the day. Dr. A. W. Harlan, the president of the club, was of 
course on hand to see that everybody was happy, and among the active 
shooters the indefatigable hustler Mr. A. O. Patterson (commonly 
known as Patti, or the Diana of Calumet Heights) was omnipresent 
where the work or the fun was thickest. All present were as happy 
and helpful as only a lot of shooters out for a lark can be, and the 
third League event may be described as a success. 
There were three sets of traps used in the shooting to-day, 
.and these were so placed that the birds fell into the lake, the back- 
ground therefore being the gray-blue sky above the water, not a very 
good one for.shooting purposes in the opinion of some of the visitors, 
who were not accustomed to the grounds. The League contest was 
not finished until nearly 6 P. M., some of the team men coming down 
to the grounds on the 3 P. M. train, which lands one at the ciub at 
about 5 o'clock. This train arrived to-day in the middle of a blinding 
storm of rain, one of many which came along at various times during 
the day, and it was all the populace could do to keep dry. The 
ground was the driest thing there was, for it was so sandy that mud 
was impossible, and one could walk dry-shod a moment after the rain 
had fallen. In the opinion of Mr. A. W. Adams, who walked across in 
the heat of the morning from the depot to the club house, it was much 
better to take the rain than the hot sun for the half-mile journey. 
The Cook County League gains much in interest as the season ad- 
vances, and there is already a great deal of figuring on club and in- 
dividual averages, and general confidence on the part of all that the 
interest will increase to the end of the five contests which are yet to 
be shot. The list of club and individual prizes to be distributed at the 
end of the season is a very handsome one, and the only conclusion 
possible is that it was a good thing when the idea of the League was 
broached and a better thing when the organization was completed. It 
is to be hoped that the present season will not end the life of this cen- 
tral organization of the trap-shooters of Chicago. The following are 
the scores of the League contest to-day: 
Class A, Eureka Club: Steck 21, Adams 17, Goodrich 18, Patterson 
17, C. W. Carson 15, F. P. Stannard 22—110. 
Class A, Garfield Club: Young 14, Hicks 21, Coppernol 20, Steiger 13, 
Von Lengerfce 18, Liddy 22-108. 
Class B, Garfield Club: Richards 20, S. Palmer 17, Shaw 20. Adams 
21, Feurman 20, Kuss 20—118. 
Class B, Douglas Club: Barto 23, Etch 22, Carter 18. N. Johnson 16, 
G Church 16, J. 0. Murphy 13— 108. 
Class B, Garden City Club: Kurz 81, Amberg 13, Cutler 16, Bissell 19, 
Rexford 18, Antoine 20—107. 
Class B, Calumet Heights Club: Hodson SO, Copelinl3, Lamphere 20, 
Booth 16, Westcott 14, Turtle 16-99. 
Class B, Eureka Club: Glover 20, W. D. Stannard 19, Bock 15, J. L. 
Jones 15, De Wolf 14, C. W. Carson 13-96. 
Class 0, Calumet Heights Club: Dr. Hobbs 9, G. Marshall 16, W. Met- 
calf 20, Dr. Hinkins 18, Greeley 19, Whitman 15—97. 
Class 0, Garden City Club: Kimball 14, Goldsmith 14, Levy 14—43, 
Shooting at Singac. 
Sinoao, N. J., June 13.— A large crowd gathered at Bunn's grounds 
this afternoon to witness the second contest between Arthur Bunn, of 
Singac, and Aaron Doty, of Paterson. The first match was shot at 
Rogers's grounds on June 6, and considerable money was won and 
lost on the outcome of the match. Rogers backed Doty and furnished 
the birds on that occasion. Bunn attributed his defeat to the grounds, 
as they are without doubt one of the hardest in the country. To-day's 
match was well fought up to the 23d round, when Bunn went to pieces. 
His 12th, 14th and loth birds were hard losses, as they were out of 
bounds by a few feet only, requiring the referee to go out to the 
hounds to see just where they had dropped, the wild daisies being 
above the wire fence. Doty had one bird dead out of bounds. Will 
have to note the following birds as being as good as ever left a trap: 
Doty's 8th, 15th, 16th, 18th and 19th; Bunn's 12th, 14th, 17th and 19th. 
Bunn furnished the birds for the match and sweeps to-day, and were 
good birds, with few exceptions. 
Match at 25 birds, $25 and price of birds: 
Trap score type— Copyright, isoe, by Forest and Stream Publishing Co. 
A Doty (28) 12122110213123333Q022.21 3-21 
,? N S \ ->N -> f J. /" r*S> -C 1 1 
A Bunn (28) 2 2 1 2 1 3 2 3 2 2 2 • 2 •• 2 2 2 0 3 3 2 0 0 0-18 
Match at 20 birds: 
A Doty (28) • sl'o'l I 3 S^lj's^o'l'l't YsTsili-M 
A Bunn (38) 3 0 0 2 3 2 3 3 2 1 0 0 2 . 0 2 0 0 0 0-10 
No. 1. No. 2. No. 3. 
Morgan (30) 10222-4 20120-3 00102—2 
A Doty (28) 22211—5 22200-3 32031—4 
Ryerson (26) 10010—2 
Bunn (28) 02122—4 12121—5 02111—4 
J Doty (28) 02312-4 11102-4 01321-4 
Lee (26) , 03112 -4 
Butler 23202- 4 22122-5 
Dutoher. 
Pawtuxet Gun Club. 
Pawtuxet, R. I. , June 13.— The Pawtuxet Gun Club held Its regular 
weekly shoot here to-day. Each man shot at 25 targets under A. S. A. 
rules. Some good scores were made, as can he seen by the following: 
Class A. 
W H Sheldon i 1111111111101111111011101-22 
Dr S F Wilson 1110111111101111111111101—22 
♦FFisk 1110011111111101111101111—21 
S D Greene, Jr 1000111110101011111110111—18 
*H Randall 1111110111101111010110001—18 
*P H Randall , 0101100011111011101010001—14 
W H Waterman 1111010111000011010110001—13 
Class B 
W Mooney .1011111110001101101111111— 19 
*Dr Hammond 1 1 01 1 1 001 01 01 1 1 1 1 101 1001 0—16 
D B Dennis 1110110001110010101000111—14 
H H Horton 1111110100110001010011001—14 
Olsss O 
Jos Armstrong , ..1001001001111111011001110— 15 
H Badminton 1101011111000001001101111—15 
A B Hawkins ,.0100110101111101001111100—15 
Con Thunell 1011011010110001001011101—14 
R Rhodes 110111101 1010111100000010—14 
*J Hopkins.... 0001011111011100111100010—14 
W Hawkins 010101001 101 10001 01010011—12 
*C E Kenyon 1000010101100110010010011—11 
E L Fuller 1000000100100101010110101— 10 
W F Goss 1110100101000001001010000— 9 
GS Armstrong 10010010011 0101001 0000100— 8 
F Arnold... 0010000010000110100000011— 7 
J Osterlund 0010000000000100000011010— 5 
N B Horton 1000000000100000000000000— 2 
* Not members. W. H. Sheldon, Sec'y. 
Lynchburg Gun 
Lynchburg, Va,, June 16.— The regular 
burg Gun Club was held here to-day: 
No. 1; 
Terry , 111110111111101 
Jenkins 011001111111111 
Moorman 101111100111111 
Nelson 111111011011101 
Scott 110110111110110 
Cleland 110101100011111- 
Stearns 101010001111110 
Miller 
No. 3: 
Nelson 101111001111110—11 
Terry 101101111111110—12 
Scott 011111010111110—11 
Moorman 110110111111111—13 
Jenkins 101010110010111— 9 
Cleland HOlllOOOOllllO— 9 
Miller 111111010001110—10 
No. 5: 
Nelson 1110110111011111111011011 
Terry 1111101111110111111101101 
Scott 1101111101111111101111011 
Moorman 0110101110001001001100110 
Cleland 1110111100011111001101111 
Jenkins 1110111100011111101001011 
Miller 1010111100111111000111111 
Club. 
weekly shoot of the Lynch- 
No. 8: 
-13 11111011111011001111—16 
-12 10001111001011110101—12 
-13 11110001110111110110—14 
-13 10111111101011100111—15 
-11 11101111011111011111—17 
-10 11000011010110001010— 9 
- 9 11000001101000111011—10 
11111111011111101111—18 
No. 4: 
1101001111111111111111111-23 
1001111111111111111011111-23 
1111111101111011011111011-21 
0111100100111110110101100—15 
1111101011101110111111111-21 
0001100011011010001101011—12 
1000101110101101110111111—17 
No. 6: 
-20 11110011011111110101—15 
-21 10111110011010010101—12 
-31 11101110010010110010-11 
-12 00011101100111000110— 10 
18 .- 
-17 
-18 
F. M. D. 
Omaha Gun Club. 
Omaha, Neb., June 13.— The following scores were made at the 
regular weekly shoot of the Omaha Gun Club, held here to-day. 
Parmelee lllllllllllllllllilllllil— 25 
Carmichael llOllllllillllllllnilili— 24 
Hughes Ollllllllllllilliiiilini—24 
Johannes 111111110110111 1101111111-22 
Blake lllllllllllllOHlllllllOO-22 
Brucker 1011111110111110111111100—20 
Loomis 1100111010011111011111111—19 
Marsh , 0111101110111111110111010-19 
Read 0101110111111111011101011—19 
Salisbury , 1011111111101100111010111—18 
Dickey , 1110011000110111110111011—17 
Samaba 0111011111000110111001111—17 
Edwards 01110111010001 11101111110—17 
Raymond , llOOOlOlllllOOlllOlOlllOl— 16 
Isaac , 1000010101111010001 110110— 13 
Coleman 0001 000011110010101001101— 11 
Bates , 01101 1 lOCOOl K 10100000010 — 10 
Young , 1000000000010000000001010— 4 
W. D. Kenyon, Sec'y. 
Shooting at Watson's Park. 
Burnside, 111., June 11. — Some interesting shooting was done here 
to-day. After the matches between Willard and Sibley had been 
Bhot Miss Annie Oakley gave an exhibition of her skill with the shot- 
gun. She shot at 25 live birds and killed 33, but had the hard luck to 
have 3 drop dead out of bounds. Scores: 
Match, 25 live birds: 
L C Willard , 2201102202212001113110111—19 
G Sibley 0321210220210200001020010-13 
Match, 30 empire targets: L. C. Willard 37, G. Sibley 26, 
Exhibition, 35 live birds: 
Annie Oakley, 11112»23n»1022«211110211-30 
June 13. -O. H. Hampton, of Williamsburgh, Ind., tried his hand at 
both live birds and targets to-day with the follow ing result: 
O H Hampton 01010121210101100000— 10 
Fifty empire targets, five traps, walk-around: O. H, Hampton 44 
out of 50. 
Three unknown traps: O. H. Hampton 28 out of 40. Ravelriqb. 
The Medal Shoot at Missoula. 
Missoula, Mont., June 15.— It seems that there are Btill four shooters 
left in the Missoula Club. At any rate, that is the number that entered 
in the medal shoot yesterday. Judging by the scores, these four seem 
determined to keep up the reputation of the club. The scores: 
Class -A. 
JPMenardimilllllllllOlllll— 19 J MEvans. 11111111111101101111-18 
Class B 
WGraham. 10101 101111111111100—15 FHAUinsonllllHOllOOlllOlOOOl— 13 
Will Cave, Sec'y. 
Mr. Barker's Score at the State Shoot. 
Richfield Springs, N. Y., June 18.— Editor Forest and Stream: 
In your account of the State shoot I see you have me recorded with 
70.6 in the State events; I broke 106 out of 125, and I make an average 
of 84.8, which is quite a difference. And then the last day, the 12th, 
you have no account of my shooting at all, and I shot in all of the 
open events, and had the best average of any day that I was there. 
My scores were bad enough at the best, although I do not wish to 
kick, as I know it is easy for a mistake to happen in a case like this, 
where there 1h so much to look after. M. E. Barker. 
