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FOREST AND STREAM. 
[Oct. 27, 1894. 
WESTERN TRAPS. 
[Worn a Staff Correspondent.] 
A BUSINESS, NOT A SPORT. " 
Chicago, III., Oct. 18.— A large sensation was last week sprung on 
that portion of the sporting world which has to do with racehorses. 
The Washington Part Club of Chicago, one of the foremost and most 
famous organizations of the country in turf matters, publicly an- 
nounced its intention of abandoning permanently the racing feature, 
and of never offering another purse or holding another race meeting. 
To all interested in turf matters this comes like a thunderbolt. When 
we shall have considered the reasons advanced by the club for this 
action. I think it will be agreed that the readers of Forest and Stream 
also are interested in the news. Not less are interested manufacturers 
and dealers whose joint capital invested in another American sport 
foots up an enormous total. 
In short, the Washington Park Club quit racing because racing had 
become a crooked sport. In its published statement of the reasons 
offered for the course the Chicago Tribune says: 
"This action of the directors was unanimous and furnishes a sensa- 
tion in the sporting world without a parallel. 
~"The reasons for abandoning that feature which has made the club 
famous all over the world are based upon the popular clamor against 
pool selling and the degeneration of racing from a harmless and high- 
class sport to a species of gambling. Organized as a gentleman's 
jockey club, and for the avowed purpose of encouraging the improve- 
ment, breeding, training and exhibition of horses, the Washington 
Park Club has consistently maintained its high standard and gained a 
more than national celebrity. 
"The feeling has spread rapidly among the directors, however, that 
the club could not retain its idea Jenaracter and uphold its own 
standard. In all parts of the country were racing clubs, conducted as 
gambling ventures, with which the Washington Park was obliged to 
affiliate under the rules. Horses were being raced, winter as well as 
summer, at various points, and the circuit was being enlarged by the 
admission of clubs of doubtful standing. Under such conditions the 
directors agreed that the Washington Park Club owed a duty to the 
members and to the public that could be best performed by 'discon- 
tinuing racing." 
All honor and credit to the gentlemen of this club, who sacrificed 
great sums of money to go on record as opposed to crookedness in 
sport. There has been no example like this in the history of Ameri- 
can sport. It shows a revolution against certain methods To show 
that the action of this club was based on widespreading reasons, 1 will 
quote further, from New York papers this time. After that I wish to 
draw a parallel, and to ask a question. New York dispatches say: 
''Racing is dead in New Jersey. It is in the throes of a death 
struggle in New York. The officials of Washington Park have decided 
not to race this season. There is opposition to racing as now con- 
ducted. The race track is no longer a sport ; it is a business. Gutten- 
berg. Gloucester, Clifton, Elizabeth and Monmouth parks are closed." 
It is no longer a sport, but a business. It is no longer a business, 
but a crooked and dishonorable practice iu business Now let us go 
further. 
I submit that the sport of shooting at the trap, as practiced in the 
great American tournaments to-day is more dishonorable, more cor- 
rupt, rottener than ever horse racing was. I submit that the rounder 
at the trap tournament who sails under false names and false records 
is as disreputable and should be as odious among gentlemen as the 
ringer at a horse race I submit that the men who pool, combine and 
drop for place in the class shooting of our trap tournaments are as 
dishonest and as unworthy of the recognition and the society of gen- 
tlemen a« the men who arrange in advance the results of a racing 
competition. Forest and Stream is the leading trap paper of 
America and of the world, and in its columns I openly and publicly 
lay down these propositions, and I defy any man of the shooting 
public of America or of the world to say that they are not right and 
true. There is no shooter who does not know their truth, and who 
will not admit it. 
It is a poor policy of every newspaper which has genuinely at heart 
the welfare of the worthy and popular sport of shooting at the trap 
to wink at or try to cover up the crooked and disreputable practices 
which have long been gradually bringing the sport into disrepute and 
which will eventually soon work its ruin. AH shooters have known 
the facts. AH shooters have seen the custom of open crookedness 
at the trap grow and become more flagrantly and more carelessly 
and openly practiced. It is nothing at a tournament to see a man 
hang back and look over an entry and not go into a shoot till the last 
moment, when he has already seen what other men ahead of him have 
done. It is nothing to see a man step back out of line and motion or 
call out to another man to drop or "stand in" with bim. It is noth- 
ing to see shooters settling up with each other at the close of a day's 
shoot; after figuring out the 'pro rota profits of their dishonorable 
combine. It is all open and acknowledged. There is not one tourna- 
ment at which it is not practiced publicly and where it can not be de- 
tected by a tyro who really wants to find it. It comes to view not in 
detached instances, but in general and universal practice. 
This trickery and crookedness has fattened the purses of a few, but 
it has driven thousands away from the trap. The sport has grown, 
but it has not grown to the proportions it should reach. Our game 
is disappearing and men will shoot at the trap. Firms will manufac- 
ture guns and ammunition and targets for these shooters. But they 
will manufacture double the amount when the sport has become such 
that the general public can practice itas pleasant, honest, geutleinanly 
sport, where one can find a square game, and pass an hour in pleas- 
ure without being robbed by a shady character. 
Trickery at the trap is as ungentlemanly as trickery at cards, and 
should as readily brand the practice as one intolerable to the society 
of gentlemen. Trickery in the saddle, even under the corrupt regime 
of racing, has now and again been detected and punished. In the 
rough code of the earlier West the punishment was death at the 
hands of those wronged. That was when sport was not a business, 
but remained a pastime for full-blooded but honorable men. 
The future of the trap will be that of another sport which becomes 
a business and which is as a business conducted dishonestly. It will 
fall to pieces. The money invested in it will cease to earn interest. 
There will be depression, loss, failure connected with such a future, 
these being either absolute or relative, the principle being the same in 
both cases. 
In the application of the remedy for this remarkable state of affairs, 
it will be of no use to appeal to the honor of the shooters who have 
been guilty in the past, for they have not any honor to stimulate. 
The reform must begin first with the tournament managers, private 
or public. The crookedness can be detected without trouble. One 
single tournament conducted on rigid and inflexible rules of honesty 
will create a howl, a rebellion, a war of words and bluster which will 
include threats of suits at law for injustice, defamation of char- 
acter, etc., etc. (which suits will never materialize}. The second 
tournament of the same kind will produce a less howl, and the dis- 
honest shooters will go to thinking. At the third shoot they will stay 
at home, and the tournament will be a "failure." And then the young 
and less skillful shooters will begin to come out, and the tournaments 
will begin to be very far from failures. 
It is the moat selfish duty of the Chamberlin Cartridge and Target 
Co. to put up and enforce actually at its next shoot the rule that drop- 
ping for place will disqualify a shooter— not only to hang up the rule 
as a scarecrow, but to go after and find and punish th» violators of it. 
That is a more important duty than the hanging up of big purses and 
of breaking a lot of targets. The Empire Target people can do them- 
selves no greater financial benefit than to hold a big shoot publicly, 
to publicly send home half its shooters for crookednes, and to pub- 
licly close the doors of its tournament for lack of shooters. These 
two concerns can break up the evil of dropping for place, that is to 
say, the evil of cheating and robbing at the trap, in just thirty days. 
They can make money doing it. There are other men who will break 
these targets. There are more than fifty shooters in America. There 
are thousands of men who want to buy guns, and take these guns out 
of their cases and go to shoots, as soon as they know they can get fair 
treatment and an honest reward for what their skill has earned them. 
The firms who make up the great associations, like the Interstate, the 
American, etc., want to bring out these unknown amateur shooters. 
The association shoots are full of the same dropping and combining, 
the same waiting and figuring and scheming. If the firms interested 
wish to make money out of their enterprise of advancing the sport of 
the traps, they can best do so by holding one shoot that shall not be a 
success but a "failure"— one at which the dishonest shooters shall be 
sorted out and sent home, with a good, swift parting salute in the 
rear. After a few failures of that kiifd they will very early be able to 
give an exhibition which has not for years been seen in America, of a 
great trap tournament really open to all, and not open only to a few. 
So clearly am 1 convinced of the logic, the justice and right of my 
position herein that it it seems to me a matter of the utmost surprise 
that the same position has not been taken long ago, not by one, but 
by every member of the sporting press. Never a word has'ever been 
printed against this current dishonesty at the trap by any paper but 
Forest and Stream. The other papers are afraid to say a word. 
Tueir fear is based on a business policy alike too timid and too short- 
sighted. In years to come they may be afraid to keep silent. It is the 
bold and honest paper which is the best protector of its customers, 
and time will indicate the truth of this assertion. 
The lesson of the action of the Washington Park Club is obvious. 
One need revert to it no further. AU honor to the men who refused 
to have a hand in crookedness. All honor to the first tournament 
management to inaugurate a similar rebellion against a similar evil, 
and that before the evil has had time to work a result similarly wide- 
reaching and disastrous. Every sweepstakes is a wager. Americans 
will make wagers. Let them do so in a gentlemanly way, recognizing 
the ethics of the hazard, the principles of fair play, which have 
obtained among gentlemen the world over and time out of mind. 
Americans will shoot. Arrange it so they can all shoot. Arrange it 
so that a few dishonest ones can not bar out the great body of honest 
shooters, who will not go to the traps while the present indecent and 
dishonest practices at our tournaments continue. 
NEWS FROM THE "EVIL SPIRIT." 
At last accounts from the scenes of conflict, the Evil Spirit of the 
Plains appears not to have found it all easy work in defeating the 
shooters who have answered his challenges. Jimmie Elliott has 
shaken out an unsuspected reef of speed which nobody, even himself, 
believed possible, and has defeated Carver Bix times out of nine. 
Carver has won the series with Crosby, and has beaten Collenberger, 
the Jerseyville giant, and has beaten Budd once and been beaten 
once by Budd, making an odd score in the second race, compared 
with that of the day before. And now the scene will shift soon to 
Chicago, where Carver and Budd will shoot off their tie. This event is 
awaited with much interest here. We have had no pigeon races of 
consequence for a long time, and the boys will all turn out to see 
Carver and Budd. The Chicago boys also hope to see a lot more 
matches made up, and if all goes well we may yet see something of an 
old-fashioned winter here. 
PARKER— MUSS EY. 
Tom Parker is an innocent boy, who hasn't shot targets much, but 
he wanted to try. He went to Billy Mussey and trod on his coat, 
allowing that he could break a few targets, and that he would shoot a 
race at 100 targers, if he could get a little handicap. 
. "Why. you poor, deluded boy," said Billy, "what are you talking of, 
Tommy! Away, slight man! I would eat you up." 
"Well, how much? " asked Tommy. 
"I'll shoot you for the suppers," said Billy, "aiui add 10 birds to 
your score." 
"Oh, hadn't you better make it 20 added? " asked Tom. "You know 
I never shot but a few times." 
"Yts, I'll make it 20," said Billy, "just to even things up." 
So this week they went down to Watson's and shot, and Tommy 
only beat Billy 33 birds, that was all. The score was Parker 77, Mus- 
sey 64, handicap added, made Parker 97. 
"Well, now, what do you think of that?" said Billy. "That blame 
boy skun me. I'm going to try to get on a return race with him. but 
the handicap is going to be just the other way. He'll have to add 20 
to my score. I misplaced my confidence iu that fellow." 
FROM THE EAST. 
Mr. W. Fred Quimby and Mr. Thos. Keller were both in town this 
week, from New York, on business for their respective houses, and I 
believe both report good business here. The general impression in 
the trade is, however, that there is little solidity in the market, dealers 
buying now because they were all sold out and not because they pre- 
dict a good trade for the near future. E. Hough. 
909 Security Building, Chicago. 
The Battle of the Giants. 
Altitouod; a good deal has been said lately about the "wing shot 
championship of the world," chiefly in regard to the three Elliott- 
Carver series of matches so recently decided in favor of the Kansas 
City shooter, it is hardly likely that anv claim to such title was ever 
advanced by either of the contestants. Elliott's right to the American 
Field championship is unquestioned by everybody, by Capt. Brewer 
among the rest. The championsnip of the world, however, seems 
properly to belong to Capt. Brewer by reason of his great victories in 
the world's championship cup contests held in England in 1888. By 
winning that cup three times consecutively it became his property. 
At the time the contests were in progress it was generally under- 
stood that the title of "champion pigeon shot of the world" should 
belong to the winner of the cup. The right to that title, which was 
conceded to Capt. Brewer, was not questioned at the time. Has it 
really ever been questioned since? And that title Capt. Brewer, in an 
interview given elsewhere, states he is, and always has been, ready to 
defend at the traps. He has, since the date above mentioned (1888), 
met defeat, it is true, notably at the hands of E. D. Fulford, a shooter 
who sprang suddenly into prominence and who has done some great 
work with bis gun. But that series of matches, shot in 1890, was for 
only 8200 a side, and not for the championship of the world. The 
championship of the world has not been shot for since 1888. 
Mr. Elliott, under date of Oct 15, writes from Kansas City: "I will 
shoot Mr. Brewer a series of five races, the same to take place within 
the next thirty days, under the following conditions: Two races to 
take place in Kansas City, one at an intermediate point, east, or south 
of Kansas Oity ; to be mutually agreed upon, and the remaining two 
at any point in the East, to be designated by Mr. Brewer; these 
matches to be for SI 00 each, with an additional S'250 and the world's 
championship to go to the one making the highest aggregate score, 
each race to be at 100 live birds, Huriingham (iun Club or American 
Shooting Association rules, 30yds- rise and 50yds. boundary (the 
A mencan Shooting Association's boundary). Or I will enter into a 
contract with Mr. Brewer and Dr. Carver, or any other championship 
aspirants, under the same conditions as agreed upon between Dr. 
Carver and Mr. Brewer for their proposed matches which are to take 
place injChicago, viz. > Three races, 100 birds to the man, each race 
8100 a corner, and 8500 each to go to the man making the highest 
aggregate score in the three events. I am willing to enter this con- 
test with any number of entries, the winner of each day's shoot to 
take the stake of that day, and the man making the highest aggregate 
score in the three contests to take the additional money bet on the 
general result, and all honors of champion wing shot of the world." 
In support of his above propositions Mr. Elliott has deposited 8100 
with the American Field. 
Capt. Brewer has accepted Elliott's challenge in so far as it relates 
to a series of matches for the world's championship, and has deposited 
850 at this office as a forfeit. Brewer, however, objects to Elliott 
naming the places where the matches shall take place, and also 
objects to his limiting the time to "the next thirty days," from Oct. 
15. As' holder of the world's championship, or as the challenged 
party, Capt. Brewer claims the right to name dates and places, assur- 
ing Elliot that dates in the near future will be chosen. As for going 
West to shoot the matches. Brewer states that the challenger must 
come to him. 
As Elliott is unquestionably in earnest, and as Brewer is also ex- 
tremely anxics for a meeting, there seems no reason to doubt that a 
bona fide world's championship series of matches at live' birds will 
take place before 1894 is much older. Both men are shooting in good 
form, and the races will be worth talking about after they're over. 
Elliott's average of 97 per cent, for the three matches last shot is a 
big one, worthy of world's championship honors. Capt. Brewer, 
however, is not dismayed in the slightest, but makes an offer that, if 
Elliott or his backer will lay him satisfactory odds, he (Brewer) will 
bet that he beats that average in the proposed series of three matches 
for the world's championship. 
At present nothing definite has been decided upon. Both men have 
forfeits upjto.bind a series of matches for world's championship honors 
So far as naming dates and places goes, if Brewer has never forfeited 
the title of champion of the world, won by him in England in 1888, 
by failing to defend the same against any bona fide and properly made 
challenge (and it does not appear that he has tailed in this respect), 
then it is only right and proper that be should have the say both in 
this respect and in that of the dates. It would be unreasonable to ex- 
pect that any champion should be at the beck and call of any chal- 
lenger and should be compelled to go to defend his title wherever that 
challenger might demand or else lose it by default. In that case 
championship titles could be comparatively easily won by naming a 
locality difficult of access as the scene for the contest Regarding 
dates, too, a generous allowance should be made for obvious reasons. 
The Grand American Handicap in 1895. 
The Grand American Handicap of 1895, given under the auspices of 
the Interstate Manufacturers' and Dealers' Association, will be held at 
Willard Park, Paterson, N. J., on April 3, 4 and 5. Manager Shaner, of 
the Association, recently spent several days in this city lookiDg at the 
grounds of the various gun clubs which were located within easy 
reach of New York. Room for two sets of traps was an essential 
point, as it is the intention of the Association to run two sets next 
April. On one set they will run off the main event, while the other 
will be kept going with sweepstake events. This will do away with the 
long, tedious waits between shots which characterize all popular 
events. Mr. Shaner found that Willard Park answered every require 
ment. It is handy to New York, the trip from the Astor House being 
less than fifty minutes all told; it has ample room for two sets of 
traps; the field is perfectly level, and the accommodation for shooters 
and spectators could hardly be better. In addition to this there are 
admirable facilities for handling the crowd wnich may be expected to 
attend such an important event. 
Mr. Shaner made his report to the executive committee of the Asso- 
ciation, consisting of Messrs. J. A. H. Dressel, of the TJ. M. C. Co. ; 
Justus von Lengerke, of the firm of Von Lengerke & Detmold, and 
Tatham, of Tatham Bros., on Wednesday morning. This committee 
decided to act in accordance with Mr. Shaner's report, and authorized 
him to enter into a contract for the use of the grounds, etc., on the 
dates set for the handicap. This contract was signed on Thursday, 
Mr. Shaner leaving the same evening for his home in Pittsburgh. 
The success of this year's Grand American Handicap warrants the 
supposition that that of 1895 will be at least as well patronized as its 
predecessor. That the Association thinks so is proved by Its offer of 
"$1,000 guaranteed, all surpluB added." 
Eastern New York League Tournament, 
AU3AKV, N. Y., Oct. 20.— The one' event of interest to the trap-shoot- 
ers of this part of the State during the present week was the fourth 
tournament of the Eastern New York Trap-Shooters' League of the 
series of 1894. This was held at Johnstown, N. Y., Tuesday, Oct. IP, 
The manager, Mr. Fred W. Partiss, is regarded as one of the most 
capable men on the League circuit, and the events hitherto held under 
his direction have been marked by an abundance of advance 'notice, 
good management and a fine attendance of shooters, both residents 
and visitors, who showed their appreciation of Fred's good work by 
keeping in the swim throughout the programme. The late tourna- 
ment was an exception to the successful events of the past seasons, 
the attendance being the lightest ever seen on the Johnstown shooting 
grounds. This is accounted for by the fact that the affair was floated 
with only a week's notice, the writer (league secretary') receiving such 
brief warning of its coming that he was unable to give it the advan- 
tage of a notice in the trap fixtures of Forest and Stream. This, 
combined with the depressed condition of the times that makes even 
the most happy-go-lucky shooter feel poor, and also the fact that the 
League towns are pretty widely scattered, making early rising and a 
longish journey the essentials to reach the field, bad the effect of de 
veloping the affair iuto about as blue a meet as I ever attended. I have 
not mentioned the worst feature of the falling off in the attendance, 
and that was the lack of support given the tournament by the Johns- 
town shooters themselves, only one member of the Gun Club shooting 
through the programme. 
And then the weather ! TJgh I Cold and raw, with gray clouds of 
mist in the morning, that later thickened into masses of blue vapor 
which, in turn, precipitated showers of driving rain, the discomfort of 
everybody being doubled by these dreary squalls. These depressing 
conditions were first observed by the Albany boys as they sped up 
the Mohawk Valley on an early morning New York Central train. As 
we tried to get a glimpse of the lovely scenery through the rain-beaten 
windows, the looks of discouragement on the faces of Sanders, Arnold 
and St. Charles were reflected from the boyish features of Harry 
Levengston, of Saratoga, who bad arrived at Albany that morning 
and was our companion on the journey northward 
Changing at Fonda we took another road for Johnstown, the con- 
ductor of the train obligingly stopping to let us off at the crossing 
that leads to the shooting ground. The dismal walk through the 
drizzle finally brought us to the old familiar green meadow on quite 
an elevation of land. Here we found Partiss, Potter, Yost and Chap- 
man, of the Johnstown Gun Club, busily preparing traps, pulls, etc., 
for the expected shooting. Dr. S A. Wessels and T. C. Pegnim, of 
Canajoharie, were also present, and. later on, Joe Fulton, the keeper 
of a sportsmen's resort at West Canada Creek, showed up for the 
purpose of seeing the boys and smashing a few targets, at which he is 
quite an adept for a deer hunter. 
Everything about the grounds wore a cheerless aspect, which was 
not at all mitigated by the absence of a fire in the shooting lodge, and 
the cold and inhospitable character of the shed was shown in the fate 
of a litter of three kittens that some vagrant tabby had dropped 
duriDg the previous night, and who had frantically skedaddled when 
the gunDers took possession of her domicile, leaving her poor little 
waifs to die in a few hours of cold and the lack of nourishment, 
warmth and comfort that their wild and half savage dam could have 
provided. 
"Well, it's going to bo a poor show, anyway," said Levengston; "so 
we might as well shoot out the programme and get through with that 
part of it;" and in compliance with the suggestion Wallace Yost and 
the Forest and Stbeam correspondent got into the shelter of thesbed, 
and, muffled to the ears in top coats, prepared to do the scoring and 
the clerical work. Will Fotcer took charge of the trap pulls; a gang 
of noisy and iucompetent hoodlums mismanaged the traps; a squad 
of forlorn shooters lined up at the firing points in the pelting rain; 
the practical work of the tournament was on, and here are the scores 
in detail. 
No. 1, 10 singles, 81 20 rntry: 
Levengston llllllllll— 10 Pegnim 1111001101— 7 
Sanders 1101111111— 9 Wessels 111U11011— 9 
St Charles 1011110110 — 7 Chapman 1010111111— 8 
No. 2, 10 singles, £1 20 entry: 
Lwengston 1111011111—9 w e ss")s 0110011011—6 
SaDders 1111011111—9 Chspruau 10110011 01— ts 
St Charles 1011101111-8 Partiss 1110010101-6 
Pegnim 0001101011-5 Arnold 0011111010—6 
No. 3, 15 singles, SI 80 entry: 
Levengston 111111111111111—15 Wessels lllOOOHOllllOO— 9 
Sanders 111011111111111-14 Chapman 011011000111011— 9 
St Charles 011111111111010-12 Arnold 111111111101110—13 
Partiss 110101011001110—9 Jerome.,. 101011111011010—10 
No. 4, 15 singles, unknown augles, $1.80 entry: 
Levengston 101100111111111—12 Wessels lllllOllOlOIOOl— 10 
Sanders 011111111111011—13 Chapman 011010100001010— 6 
St Charles 100111011111111— 12 Arnold 111011110110100—10 
Partiss 100101011110000— 7 
No 5, 10 singles, 81-20 entry: 
Levengston llllllllll — 10 Wessels 0111111101— 8 
Sanders lllllllliO— 9 Chapman 0101101111— 7 
St Charles 1011111111— 9 Arnold 1111011111—9 
Potter 0011010100— 4 
No. 6. 10 singles, $2.40 entry: 
Levengst'nl 1011111111010011101— 15 Arnold . . . .11111011011111101111—17 
Sanders.... 11111111011110111111— 18 Wessels. ...11111100110100001101— 12 
St Charles. 11110100111111111011— 16 Chapman.. 111011010111111 10111— 16 
No. 7, 10 singles, 81.20 entry: 
Levengston 1011111111—9 Wessels 1101111101-8 
Sanders 1111111010—8 Chapman 1111111101—9 
St Charles 1111101111—9 Fulton 1110011110—7 
Arnold 1010111111-8 
No. 8, 15 singles, unknown angles, 81-80 entry: 
Levengston . . . .111111111111111—15 Wessels 010011110111101—10 
Sanders 111101011110111—12 Chapman 111111111101111—14 
St Charles 111110011111111—13 Fulton 111111100000010- 8 
Arnold 111101011111110—12 Partiss 110111111000111—11 
No. 9, 15 singles, 81.80 entrv: 
Levengston .,..111101111111111—14 Chapman 111111111011010—12 
Sanders 111111101111011—13 Fulton 011111101111101—12 
St Charles 001101011111011-10 Partiss 111111110111111—14 
Arnold 011101111111111—13 
No. 10, 20 singles, 82.40 entrv: 
Levengst'nlllllllllllllll 11101— 19 Arnold . . ..01111011010111011111— 15 
Sanders... 11101111111111011110— 17 Chapman.. 11111111001111011111— 17 
St Charles. 11111010110110111111— 16 Partiss , . . ,10101111100101110010—12 
No. 11, 10 singles, $1.20 entry: 
Levengston 1111110111— 9 Chapman 0111110110— 7 
Sanders 1111110111— 9 Fulton 0111111010— 7 
St Charles 1111111111—10 Partiss 1100110110— 6 
Arnold llllllllll— 10 
No. 12, 10 singles, SI, SO entry: 
Levengston 0111111111— 9 Jerome , 1000001000- 2 
Sanders 1110111111— 9 Fulton 1101010010— 6 
Pegnim 1011110110— 7 Wessels OlllollllO— 7 
Arnold 1111111111—10 Vanderpoel 1000001100— 3 
St Charles 1011111101— 8 
AWARDS FOR HIGHEST AGGREGATES. 
A purse of 815, divided 85, 84, 83, $2, $1, was awarded the shooter 
making the highest aggregate score in contests Nos. 2 to 11 inclusive. 
A contestant shooting through the events to qualify for the purse had 
to shoot at 140 bluerocks. The names of the winners, their scores and 
percentages follow: 
Levengston, Saratoga, 127, 90.7 per cent., won first money; Sanders, 
Albany, 122, 87,1 per cent., won second; St Charles. Albany, 115, 82.1 
per cent., won third; Arnold, Albany, 113, 80.7 per cent.', won fourth; 
Chapman, Johnstown, 103, 73 5 per cent., won fifth. 
The next Eastern League tournament, and probably the final one of 
the series of 1894, will be held at Saratoga on Nov. 12. 
Horace B. Derby. 
Paterson! Gun Club. 
Paterson, N. J., Oct. 17,— The following scores were made at the 
club shoot at targets held at Willard Park yesterday afternoon. The 
conditions of the shoot are 25 targets, handicap allowance. Wright 
and Morfey are conceded 1 target, Boyle and Hopper 3 each, while 
Morgan receives K. In this shoot Morfey came out ahead. Capt. J. L. 
Brewer, who is not a member of the club, shot along with the boys 
for practice. Score: 
Brewer 1111111110101111111 (01111-22 
W right 011111 01011 10110110101101— 17 
Morfey 1011111111101111011111111— 22 
Morgan , 1001011110100111010110100—14 
Boyle 11110011100111 Ull 1001010—17 
Hopper 1101010101111100000111010—14 
" Trap-Shooter's Beady Reckoner." 
There has just come from the Forest and Stream press an ex- 
tremely useful pocket reference book for trap-shooters. Its full title 
reads: "Trap-Shooter's Ready Reckoner. A series of tables showing 
at a glance the division of purses under all conditions, simple and 
complex, with entries from one to fifty. For use by individuals, clubs, 
and tournaments. Compiled by J. C. Clark, Secretary Kansas State 
Sportsmen's Association." Price 25 cents, postpaid, by Forest and 
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