892 
FOREST AND STREAM, 
[NOT. 8, 1894. 
The Emeralds' Great Tournament- 
The first day's scores made in this tournament, which opened on 
Monday, Oct. 22, were given in last week's issue of Forest and 
Stream. From them it could be gathered that the tournament was an 
assured success, bad weather notwithstanding. The weather was 
about as unpropitious as it well could be. Monday, it will be remem- 
bered, was cold, damp and overcast, making the flight of the targets 
hard to follow. It was also against the attendance of the locals, who, 
preferring live birds to inanimate targets, laid off for the Empire City 
Handicap on Wednesday. Tuesday, the 
Second Day, 
was precisely like its predecessor as to the quality of the weather; 
perhaps a little ''more so" as regards the penetrating powers of the 
chilly northeast wind which swept across Dexter Park right in the 
shooters'" teeth. 
Notwithstanding this condition of affairs the programme was 
started at an early hour. It will be as well to enumerate once more 
the list of visitors who took part in the shoot: Massachusetts was to 
the fore with a strong team of seven— W. "White" Bennett and his 
brother, Fred "Jones" Bennett, the champion pistol shots from Bos- 
ton; J. T. Mascroft, V. D, Kenerson and Fred Bucklen of Worcester; 
B. "Leroy" Woodward, Brockton, and H. G. Wheeler of Marlboro. 
Harry Thurman and H. "Landis" had come from Philadelphia, and 
D C. Smith of Hamilton. Canada, loaded down with championship 
honors, was also present, shooting well and talking up his club's great 
tournament which is to be held on Jan. 17, 18 and 19 next. W. H Skin- 
ner was also on deck, smashing targets with a precision that showed 
that his Forehand Arms Co 's gun and Leonard powder were in it with 
any of them. Of course "U. M. 0." Thomas was there; by the way, 
if Thomas improves his shooting as much in the next six months as 
he has done in the past half year, he'll be warm enough for any of the 
"cracker jacks" to tackle. Van Dyke was hardly up to his own stand- 
ard on Tuesday, but Wednesday and Thursday found him pumping 
lead into the live birds in a way that caused his Winchester repeater 
to challenge attention. 
Thirty-six shooters took part in the various events, the majority 
shooting right through the programme. Two sets of traps were'used, 
tout lack of assistants prevented things from being hustled in a thor- 
oughly satisfactory manner. Still everybody seemed to get enough 
shooting by 4:30 P. M., at which* hour nothing but a whippoorwill 
•could fairly have distinguished one of the flying targets. It was de- 
cidedly a relief to non-contestants when darkness put an end to the 
■day's work. The expression, "lack of assistants," which I have used 
above, is perhaps hardly correct. There were plenty of assistants "of 
a sort;" all were willing to help, but referees, scorers and pullers, all 
require at least some previous experience in their respective lines. 
The bad light in particular was 'a great strain on the eyes of the 
referees, especially in the unknown angle events; absolute satisfac- 
tion could hardly be guaranteed by anybody. This shoot, however, 
was the Emeralds' maiden effort, and it was a" good one. The exper- 
ience, too, gained in this effort will be of vast use at their next similar 
gathering. 
A word about the shooting. The 'quality of the work done by the 
shooterH can hardly be estimated from the scores they made. Dexter 
Park is a difficult place naturally to shoot targets in; the background 
being non» of the best; »dd to this a species of twilight all through 
the day and the scores are little short of phenomenal. "Leroy" and 
Brewer did the best work, as a glance at the tabulated scores given 
below will show. Leroy is shoot iug black powder again, claiming that 
he cannot get the same results at targets with nitro powders as he 
does with "soft coal" The improvement in his form at Dexter Park 
over that shown by him at New London early in September furnishes 
him with an argument of considerable strength. Massachusetts tar- 
nished several rainmakers: Leroy, Bucklen and the Bennett brothers, 
all used black powder notwithstanding the object lessons they have 
been given time and again as to the effectiveness of nitro powders of 
various makes. On Tuesday, after the shoot was over, it required 
something stronger than water to wash out the taRte left in one's 
mouth by the volumes of dense smoke, belched forth from the guns 
of the above four shooters, which was blown by the raw northeaster 
plumb in the faces of those at the score and of the spectators behind 
'them. All honor to Wheeler, who cut away from his leading strings 
and proved by his work on Tuesday, Wednesday and Thursday that 
American wood powder was just what he had been looking for; his 
average of 89 per cent, speaks for itself. 
To particularize is, at the best, an invidious task; still, it would 
never do to pass over the work done by Noel Money during the after- 
noon. Noel and his father, Capt. A. W. Money,. could hardly be im- 
proved upon as exponents of the work American E. C. powder is 
capable of doing. Noel was smashing the targets one after the other 
in a manner that couldn't fail to attract attention ; the targets were 
just snuffed out! His percentage of 93 was surpassed by but three 
and only equaled by one, R. "Woods," a gentleman tersely described 
by the inimitable "Tee Kay," as "a Dutchman shooting under an 
American name!" In other words, "Woods" was the name assumed 
by Dick Pflster. F. "Jones" Bennett's percentage of 98 3 6 is within a 
very small fraction of that made by the top notchers, Brewer and 
"Leroy." In fact, the "down Easters" held their own, and a little of 
other people's, too, at the close of the day. Here are their averages: 
Leroy 9:% Jones 93 a 6 , Bennett S0"4, Wheeler 59, Kenerson 88, Mascroft 
85, Bucklen{72; Davis, with S8\4, is another from the East who divided 
more tban one good pot. Taken all through, the company was decid- 
edly warm. Scores: 
No. 1. 10 empires, known angles, entrance $1.20: T. H. Keller 9, Ken- 
erson 8, Jones 10, Wheeler 5, Brewer 10, Leroy 10, Hoffman 9, Mas- 
croft 8, Skinner 9, Woods 10, Drake 10, Richmond 9, Schorty 7, Bucklin 
7, Thomas 8, Davis 8, Bennett 7, Brownell 5, Hobart 10, W. H. Thomp- 
son 9. 
No. 2, 10 empires, known angles, entrance SI. 20: Keller 9, Jones 9, 
Wheeler 9, Brewer 10, Lerov 10, Kenerson 7, Woods 9, Hoffman 9, 
Drake 10, Davis 9, Hudson 5, Richmond 8, Schorty 9, Bennett 9, Buck- 
lin 9, Thomas 6, Brownell 6, Skinner 9, Hobart 8, Thompson 9, Mas- 
croft 7, Van Dyke 10, Rice 7. 
No. 3, 15 empires, known traps, unknown angles, entrance 81. SO: 
Keller 011111010000111— 9 Schorty 101111101111111—13 
Kenerson 111111111111111—15 Bennett 111100111111111—13 
Jones 110111111111111—14 Van Dyke 101111111100101—11 
Wheeler 101111111111111—14 Richmond 111111111111101—14 
Brewer 100111111011111—13 Hobart 111111111111111—15 
Leroy 111110011111111—13 Landis 111111110111110—13 
Bucklin 010011101110110— 9 Davis HlllllOllllOll— 13 
Skinner 111111111111111—15 Smith 011111111111111—14 
Thomas 110011011111111—12 Mascroft 101011110011010— 9 
Brownell 011111111101001—11 Money 110111111111101—13 
Hoffman 101111011111111—13 Hall 101110001110111—10 
Drake 111110111111101—13 Rice 101111111111100—12 
No. 4. 10 empires, known traps, entrance $1.20: Keller 7, Kenerson 
7, Jones 9, Wheeler 7, Brewer 8, Leroy 8, Landis 10, Woods 10, Thomp- 
son 9. Drake 10, Thomas 10, Skinner 8. Schorty 10, Bennett 9, Van Dyke 
10, Bucklin 6. Hobart 9, Richmond 9. Hoffman 7, Brownell 7, D. C. 
Smith 9, Hall 9, Davis 9, Money 8, Mascroft 9, Hudson 7, Nowak 1, Rice 
5, Ferris 9, Maesel 2. 
No. 5, 20 empires, expert rules, both barrels, entrance $2.40: 
Keller 11111111210111101111—18 Mascroft . ,11112121001211101111— 17 
Kenerson.. 1111100111 111111101 1-17 Schoi'ty... .11121111111110111111— 19 
Jones 21111111011111111111—19 Bennett..., 11 11 11 11011101011112-17 
Wheeler... 03111 111 111111111111-19 Van Dyke.. 11011111211111111111 -19 
Brewer... .111111 rnmillll 111— 20 Hobart. , . .10111101020111111111— 16 
Leroy lllllllllllllOilllOl— 18, Landis 11111111111111111111-20 
Thomas.... 11111011 101110112101— 16 Drake 11111011 10' 111101111—17 
Hall 01111111110101111111-17 Richmond. 11100111111111111211— 18 
Hoffman. .10200111111211111111-17 Eclgarton. .111010101 12110121210— 15 
D C Smith. 112<vjilllllHllllliJ— 19 Money 11111111111111111111-20 
Davis 11212111111110111111—19 
No, 6, 10 empires, known angles, entrance $1 20: Keller C. Kenerson 
9, Jones 10, Wheeler 10, Brewer 9, Leroy 9, Woods 10, Brownell 9, 
Davis 7, Skinner 9, Hobart 9, J. Maespl 7, Ferris 9, Bennett 10, Van 
Dyke 9, D. C. Smith 8. Drake 6, Thompson 7, Shorty 10, Mascroft-9, 
Floyd 5, Huffman 9, Edgerton 4, Thomas 8, Hall 9, Steutzle 0, Thur- 
man 7, Richmond 10, Landis 10, Lindsley 10. 
No. 7. 25 Empires, known traps, entrance $3: 
Schorty 0111011101111111111011111-21 
Bennett 11110111111 11 llllllinill— 24 
Van Dyke..... 1110111111111100111111111—22 
Hall 1111011110111111110101111-21 
Drake 101111101 1 111 11 1 1 11111111-23 
Hobart 1111011110110011111111111— 20 
DC Smith.. 1011111111110111111110111-22 
Ferris 11 100101111111001-101 1 1100—16 
Davis '. 1100011111111111101111110-20 
Thomas .1111011111111111100100111-20 
Money lllllOimilllllOOllilOll-21 
Grieff 111010U1 1111 1011101101 10— 19 
Keller 1011011110111101101011101—18 
Kenerson 1111111111111101111111111-24 
Jones 1111111111110111111111111—24 
Wheeler 1110111111111111111111111—24 
Brewer 1111 111111111111111111001— 23 
Leroy 1111111111111111111111111-25 
Mascroft 1111011111111011011111111—22 
Thurman 1110111101111111111111111-23 
Landis 1111111001111111110111111—22 
Edgerton 1110100010010100011110301—13 
Lindsley 1010100111011101111111101—19 
Brownell lllOllOlOlOlimUOlOlUO— 18 
No. 8, 15 singles, unknown angles, entrance $1.80: 
Keller 101111111101111—13 Bennett 111111111111111—15 
Brewer 111111111111111—15 Van Dyke 111111111011010-12 
Jones nillllllOlllOl— 13 Bucklin 001011111111111—12 
Richmond lllllllOlOlOlll— 12 Hobart 111111111011101—13 
Leroy 110111111111111-14 Skinner 101111111110111—13 
Kenerson 111110111111111—14 Landis 111111111111111—15 
Wheeler Olimim null — 13 'Hoffman Ill 11 1 1 1 1 11 1 1 11— 15 
Smith 100101111011111—11 Qreiff ..111101111111111-14 
Hall 111111110111110-13 Davis 111111111111111-15 
Drake 111111111110111-14 Money 111111111111111—15 
Edgerton 010110110101H1— 10 Ferris 011101101011111-11 
Mascroft lllllllllllllll— 15 Thurman 101110101111011—11 
Schorty 101111111111111—14 Lindsley 100110110001110— 8 
No. 9, 10 empires,. known traps, entranc« $1.20: Keller 9, Kenerson 
9, Jones 9. Richmond 9, Brewer 9. LeRoy 10, Bucklin 6. Hobart 8, Wood 
8. Moore 2, Thomas 8, D, C. Smith 8, Shorty 9, Bennett 10, Van Dvke 
10, Wheeler 10, Mascroft 7, Skinner 8, Edgerton 7, Drake 10. Landis 8, 
Hall 10, Davis 8, Grieff 7, Leveridge 4, Thurman 8, Ferris 5, Hoffman 9, 
Maesel 6. 
No. 10, 20 singles, unknown angles, use of both barrels, entrance 
$2.40: 
Keller.... ..11111111121010111011-17 Landis 02111lHll0l)0li011i— 16 
Kenerson . .122011111211111111 10— 1 8 Schorty .... 1 1 1 1 1 11 1121 21 11 1 1 1 1 1 —30 
Jones 11222111110111121111—19 Bennett. . .11101121111111111111—19 
Wheeler... 11111101111111121110— 18 Van Dyke.. 11111011 101121111111—18 
Rrewer... .21111111111211111211—20 Richmond. 11211111111111111111— 20 
Leroy 11111111121111111111—20 Skinner. .. .1111 H 011 1111 1111 11 1 -19 
Hobart ....21211111112112011211-19 Lindsley, ..01112121111111121110— 18 
Thomas.. .10111101111111011111-17 Thurman. .11111112111111111111— 20 
Mascroft. ..11000111101111111121—16 Monev 11111111111111111111—20 
Hall. . . .'. ...11111111111111112112-20 Davis 11121111101210211111—18 
Edgarton.. 101 002011221211101 11— 15 Hoffman.. 11111111101112111111— 19 
No 11, 19 singles, known angles, entrance $1.20: 
Keller 6, Kenerson 9, Jones 9, Wheeler 10, Brewer 9, Leroy 8, Moore 
6. Richmond 9, Greiff 9, Edgarton 7, Thomas 7, Hall 9, Schorty 10, 
Bennett 9, Van Dyke 8, Thurman 10, Woods 9, Drake 7, Hobart 6, 
Bucklin 7, Mascroft 10. Davis 8, Hoffman 8, Smith 8. 
No. 12, 25 singles, known angles, entrance $3: 
Keller 1111111111110111111111111—24 
Kenerson 1111111111111111111111111—25 
Jones 1111111111111001111111111-23 
Wheeler 1111111111111H1111111010-23 
Brewer 1111011111111111111111111—24 
Leroy 1111111111111111111111111-25 
Landis llllOOOlllllinillllOllill— 20 
Hobart 1100111011111011010111011-18 
Thomas IOIIIOIIIIIH1IOOOOIIIOII-I8 
Mascroft 0111011111101111111111101—21 
Hall 1 1111010111111111011111111-22 
Hoffman 1011110111111111011111011-21 
Schorty n 1 1 1111 110010101 1 1 1 11110— 20 
Bennett 1110111100110111111111111—21 
Van Dyke 1111111101111100101101111—19 
Drake 101101111101111 1 111111 100—20 
Edgerton 0000i00l0inooi<"'0innnoi0l— 9 
Thurman 1111111111111111111111011-24 
Extra No. 2, 50 empires, known traps, unknown angles, $5; en- 
tan ce: 
Keller 11011111111001111111111111111110111111111101111111-45 
Brewer 11111111111101101111111110111111111110111111111111-46 
Leroy 11111111111111011101111111111111111111111111111111-48 
Wheeler 11111101011111101111110111111011111111011111111001—42 
Kenerson ........ .00011101101111111110111111110111101111111111011111— 41 
Van Dyke 01111110110111111111111111010110111111011011111111-42 
Schorty 10111111111111111111011111111111011111001101111111—44 
Landis 11110101111111111111111001011111111110111001111110-41 
Money... llllllllllllllill01limilllllllllllllllllllllll00-48 
Mascroft 10111111111111101111111111110110101111111111101110-43 
Hoffman 11111111111110011110110001110111111111111010100111—89 
Thomas 11111111011111111111111111110111111101111111111110—46 
The following figures on the second day's scores at targets will be 
of interest. It will be noticed that whereas "Leroy" and Brewer are 
tied on the whole day's shooting with a percentage of 9:% yet "Le- 
roy" beat Brewer by one bird on the regular programme events. 
Taken as a whole, bad light, acute angles and everything considered, 
the percentages are remarkably high. 
Ex. Ex. 
No. tar gets. 10 10 15 10 20 10 25 15 10 SO 10 25 50 10 
T H Keller.. 9 9 
Kenerson... 8 7 15 
Jones 10 9 14 
Wheeler.... 5 9 14 
Brewer 10 10 12 
Leroy 10 10 13 
Hoffman... 9 9 13 
Mascroft... 8 
Skinner 9 
Woods 10 
Drake 10 
Richmond.. 9 
Schorty 7 
Bucklin .... 7 
Thomas 8 
Davis 8 
Bennett 7 
Brownell... 5 
Hobart 10 
Thompson.. 9 
7 9 
9 15 
9 . 
9 13 
6 11 
8 15 
9 .. 
7 18 6 18 13 9 17 6 24 45 10 
7 17 9 24 14 9 18 9 25 41 9 
9 19 10 24 13 9 19 9 23 . . 10 
7 19 10 24 13 10 18 10 23 42 9 
8 20 9 23 15 9 20 9 24 46 10 
9 25 14 10 20 8 25 48 7 
9 .. 15 9 19 8 21 39 9 
9 22 15 7 16 10 21 43 9 
9 .. 13 8 19 10 
10 .. .. 8 .. 9 .. .. 9 
6 23 14 10 . . 7 20 . , 9 
12 9 20 9 
9 20 10 20 44 "9 
6 .. 7 .. .. 9 
8 17 7 18 46 8 
8 18 8 . . . . 8 
9 21 .. .. 
8 18 
7 17 
9 17 
8 .. 
10 .. 
10 13 10 17 
8 14 9 18 10 
9 13 10 19 10 21 14 
9 9 6 12 
6 12 10 16 8 20 .. 
9 13 9 19 7 20 15 
9 17 10 24 15 10 19 
7 . . 9 18 
9 16 9 20 13 8 19 
9 .. 7 
Hudson 5 . . 7 
Van Dyke..., 10 11 10 19 9 22 12 10 18 '8 i9 42 
Rice 7 12 6 
Landis 13 10 20 10 22 15 8 16 .. 20 41 
DOSmith 14 9 19 8 22 11 8.. 8 .... 
8 20 . . 21 15 . . 20 . . . . 48 
9 17 9 21 13 10 20 9 22 . . 
3 .....Z 
9 . . 9 16 11 
7 .. .. 
4 13 10 
6 18 
13 
10 
NE Money. 
Hall 
Nowak 
Ferris 
Maesel '2 
TT Edgerton 15 
5 .. 
6 .. 
7 15 
7 9 
Floyd 5 
Stentzle 6 
Thurman 7 23 11 8 20 10 24 
Lindsley 10 19' 8 . . 18 . . . . 
Grieff p 19 14 7 . . 9 . . 
Moore 2 . . 6 . . 
Leveridge 4 
Shot Per 
Broke. 
at. 
cent. 
200 
240 
.83 
212 
210 
.88 
178 
190 
213 
240 
.86 
225 
240 
225 
240 
.93% 
184 
225 
.82 
202 
240 
,85 
100 
110 
.91 
65 
70 
.93 
149 
170 
.88 
118 
130 
.91 
215 
240 
• 
65 
90 
.72 
184 
225 
.82 
142 
160 
.88M 
168 
ISO 
.90^ 
64 
90 
.71 
151 
180 
.84 
41 
50 
,82 
12 
20 
.60 
190 
220 
.863 6 
25 
35 
■^Yz 
175 
200 
.87 
99 
115 
.86 
145 
155 
.93 
140 
165 
.85 
1 
10 
.01 
50 
70 
.71 
15 
30 
.50 
80 
135 
.59 
5 
10 
.50 
6 
10 
.60 
103 
115 
.90 
55 
65 
.85 
49 
60 
.81 
8 
20 
.40 
4 
10 
.40 
4995 
Third Day. 
If Monday and Tuesday, the first and second days of the Emerald 
Gun Club's tournament, were bad days for the matter in hand, then 
Wednesday, the third dav, was far worse. The morning opened even 
more overcast than on the previous day, while the northeaster came 
across Dexter Park just as it it knew there was a stove in full working 
order in the club house, and meant to make the shooters hunt it. 
The programme for the day was the Empire City Handicup, 25 live 
birds per man, $10 entrance, birds extra, $100 added by the Emerald 
Gun Club, handicap varying from 26 to 33yds. The first 15 birds in 
the handicap formed an optional sweepstake of 85, 3 moneys, high 
guns to get the money. By Tuesday night no less titan 46 forfeits of 
S3 each for entrance in the big event had been received by Dr. G. V. 
Hudson, the able and energetic secretary of the club. Before the first 
gun had been fired on Wednesday this number had been increased to 
51 ! The handicapping committee, consisting of Messrs. Jacob Pentz, 
Milt Lindsley, Fletcher Walters, L. H. Schortemeier and "Tee Kay" 
had no light task before them in apportioning the various handicaps, 
Prior to calling up the first squad to the score, the committee an- 
nounced that the conditions of the handicap had been changed, the 
scratch mark being 32yds instead of 33, the limit men standing at 25 
instead of 26. This change was evidently satisfactory to all, not a 
dissenting voice being heard. 
An analysis of the entries shows that no less thau 14 Emeralds had 
put up their $10 to support the honor of their club. The following 
shows each man's handicap, gauge of gun and club of which he is a 
member: 
Gauge 
Name. Handicap, of gun. Club. 
1. M Herrington 28 12 Emerald Gun Olub. 
2. L H Schortemeier. 29 12 Emerald Gun Club. 
3. J H Moore 28 10 Emerald Gun Club. 
4. Dr R VHud8on....27 12 Emerald Gun Club. 
5. August Schmitt...26 12 N. Y. German Gun Club. 
6. PWoelfel 26 12 Highland Gun Club. 
7. H G Wheeler 28 12 Boston, Mass., Shooting Assn, 
H. S C Edwards 28 10 N. Y . German Gun Club. 
9. William Pye 28 10 N. Y. German Gun Club. 
10. J Frazer 28 10 N. Y. German Gun Club. 
11. OhasZwinein 28 12* Yardville, N J. 
12. Eddie Hill 29 12 Yardville. N. J. 
12. J Tiernan 27 12 
14. T W Morfey 31 12 Paterson, N. J. Gun Club. 
15. T W Wright 28 12 Paterson. N. J. Gun Club. 
16. W H Hollis 29 12 Essex Gun Club. 
17. C E Morris 29 12 Atlantic Gun Club. 
18 TCodey , 28 12 Emerald Gun Club. 
Gauge 
Name. Handicap, of gun. Olub. 
19. R "Woods." 28 12 Emerald Gun Cl"b. 
20. J W Hoffman 28 12 South Side Gun Club. 
21. .IT Mascroft 27 12 Worcester Sportsmen's Ass'a. 
22. D O Smith 29 12 Hamilton, Can , Gun Club. 
23. C M Meyer 29 12 New Utrecht Gun Club. 
24. IS Taylor 28 12 West Newburg Gun Club. 
25. Eugene Doeinck... 28 13 Emerald Gun Olub. 
26. Capt A W Money...31 12 New Utrecht Gun Club. 
27. CFurgueson, Jr... 30 12 New Utrecht Gun Olub. 
28. Dr J G Knowlton..28 12 Hon. mem. Emerald Gun Olub. 
29. Fred Bennett 28 12 Boston Shooting Association. 
30. WFred Quimby..,30 12 Emerald Gun Club, 
31. MF Lindsley 30 12 Emerald Gun Olnb. 
32. Richard Regan. ..,25 12 Emerald Gun Club. 
33. C F Floyd 28 12" Emerald Gun Club. 
34. Fletcher Walter's., 29 12" Emerald Gun Club. 
35. "Wanda".... 23 • i$ 
36. P«armes 30 10 New York German Gun Club. 
37. H Thau 28 10 Emerald Gun Club. 
38. V D Kennerson. . . ,26 12 Worcester Sportsmen's Assn. 
39. T T Edgerton 28 12 Parkway Gun Club. 
40. "Henry" 28 12 Stamford. Conn. 
41. F V Van Dyke 28 12 Dayton. N. J. 
42. B "Leroy" .....28 12 Boston Shooting Association. 
43. J L Brewer 32 12 
44. O Furgueson, 3d. . .25 12 New Utrecht Gun Club. 
45. C Oberg 27 10 New York German Gun Club. 
46. R A Welch 31 12 Riverton. N. J. 
47. Allen Willey 28 12 Hartford Shooting Association. 
48. Frank Class ...31 12 Morristown, N. J. 
49. J E Timmons 28 12 Morristown, N. J. 
50. Gus Grieff 28 12 Emerald Gun Club. 
51. William Lair 27 12 Coney Island Rod and Gun Club. , 
In the above handicaps all the men using 10»gauge guns were placed 
2yds. behind the mark they would otherwise have shot from had they 
been using 12-gauges; as will be seen, no less than 8 men used lO-gause 
guns. 
All preliminaries having been arranged as far as handicaps, etc. , 
went, T. H. Keller was appointed referee, C. Dellar and the representa- 
tive of Forest and Stream being the official scorers. At 10:i5 Mr. 
Herrington opened the ball by knocking over a right-quartering driver 
with his first barrel. The race was shot on Wednesday (for it lasted 
nearly all Thursday as well.) in squads of 10 men who shot alternately 
until they had shot at 5 birds. They then retired and waited until three 
more squads of 10 had shot at 50 birds to the squad, and the fifth and 
last squad of 11 had had 55 liberated for them to shoot at. It was a 
long wait between their fifth and sixth shots, but that couldn't be 
helped. The first squad was called out and took possession of a couple 
af benches close to the score. By this means rapid progress was made 
with its shooting. The same was done with the second squad, but be- 
fore it had completed its set of 5, the rain which had been threatening 
for two days commenced to fall, driving shooters, scorers and lookers- 
on into the club house, where shelter and warmth awaited them, The 
only persons left outside were the referee, trap puller and trappers. It 
was a most inhospitable day. becoming worse and worse as the day- 
light began to give way. The shoot, too, dragged terribly; almost 
every shooter had to be called to take his place at the score, and squad 
hustling was no sinecure. The birds, also, began to dhow signs of the 
effect the weather had upon them. Good as they were, the pelting 
rain and cold wind made them slow to start and weary of wing. Under 
favorable circumstances they would have been of the "corker" qual- 
ity; they were so at first. But what, could one expect? Even the 
shooters themselves, usually as cheerful a set of men as one can find, 
showed but few signs of animation until a colored man set their feet 
beating time to the music evolved from his mouth organ and guitar. 
By the time each contestant had shot at ten birds the light had got very 
bad. and both rain and wind had increased in violence. An announce- 
ment was made by the referee that, as there was no possible chance 
of finishing the handicap on that day, each man would shoot at one 
more bird, the balance of the event going over to the next day. At 
the close of this, the eleventh round, 46 were left in the race, five hav- 
ing dropped four birds were out of it unless no Straight score was 
made. The unlucky five were C. M. Meyer, who had the misfortune 
to miss his first three birds owing to defective ammunition, all three 
birds being good ones. His tenth was a low, fast flying incomer, a 
bird liable to be missed by anybody under the donations then pre- 
vailing; Conny Furgueson, 3d, the 11-year-old member of the New 
Utrecht Gun Club, evidently felt the strain of Bhooting in such a big 
event and was soon out of it, apparently shooting under all his missed 
birds' with a few more years on his shoulders he'll be a hard one to 
beat; ' Henry" fell out at the tenth round, while "Wanda" and T. 
Codey dropped out on their eleventh birds. "Wanda,'' the popular 
wife of M. F. Lindsley, of American wood powder fame, started in 
well by killing her first seven bird« cleanly. The weather, however, 
soon became such that to brave the elements was really more than 
could have been fairly asked of a woman Its effect upon Mrs. Linds- 
ley is plainly shown in the four consecutive cyphers which (ill the 
eighth, ninth, tenth and eleventh sections of her score. T. Codey, 
who all through the race as far as it had gone bad drawn as hard 
birds as anybody, got a corking right-quartering driver for his eleventh, 
scoring a miss and losing his chance of the $610 in the pot. '~: 
Only nine men was left with clear scores of 11 each: Dr. Hudson, 
Wright, Morris, "Woods," Knowlton* Walters, Edgerton, Van Dyke 
an'1 Brewer. Welch had the ill-luck to have his 11th bird, a fast right' 
quartering driver, carrying his load of lead just out of hounds, thus 
spoiling what was apparently a sure clean score for the first day. 
With the close of the 11th round everybody went home glad for the 
most part to get away from the dreary scene presented by Dexter 
Park, storm-ridden as it was. The 
Fourth Day 
was almost the exact counterpart of the one preceding it. Ic is true 
that at times the rain held up, and shooters and spectators were able 
to stand outside the club house without being drenched to the skin. 
Considering the weather the birds flew marvelously well, testing the 
capabilities of the shooters very severely. 
It was late before the handicap was' proceeded with, 10:30 having 
been passed before a gun was fired. The arrangement was to shoot 
4 birds to a man, and then continue the squads of ten at 5 birds each 
as soon as all had shot, at 15 live birds. 
By the end of the 15th round eight men had clean scores. These 
were: Dr. Hudson, T. W. Wright, C. E. Morris, J. G, Knowlton, F. 
Walters, T. T. Edgerton, Van Dyke and Brewer. Of these, but four, 
Wright, Morris, Edgerton and Van Dyke, were in the extra $5 sweep; 
as sixteen had paid in their $5, this left 880 to divide between the four 
above named. Of the fifty-one who had started in the big race, 
eleven had fallen by the wayside, leaving only forty-one to continue 
the contest. Many of them had 3 misses each scored against them 
and it required only one more cypher to put them out entirely. 
In the next 5 birds Dr. Hudson, Morris, Walters and Edgerton each 
spoiled the looks of their scores. The doctor, who had been shooting 
remarkably well, slipped up on a zig-zagging left-quartering driver. 
Morris was in hard luck indeed; he was centering his birds well and 
was looked upon as a certainty for part of first money. When he 
stepped to the score for his 18th bird, something was wrong with one 
of the traps and Billy Mills went to put it straight; Morris put the 
safety on his gun and forgot to unlock it; result a lost bird. Walters, 
who had been making Leonard powder drive his shot clean through 
his birds, made a bad break'on his 18th bird, following it up by lotting 
his next two birds carry his lead over the boundry. Edgerton's 
missed bird was a right-quartering incomer which he apparently 
missed clean. First money now lay between four; Knowlton, 
Wright, Van Dyke and Brewer, with 31 others entitled to shoot for the 
money. 
Wright, Knowlton and Van D,yke killed their last five and divided 
8244. Van Dyke's last bird, however, caused him momentary anxiety 
It was a right-quarterer aod a strong llyer, Van pumped into him as 
soon as he started; his second shell, usually as effective with him as 
his first, didn't appear to strike the bird as it fluttered to the bound- 
ary, dropping dead finally about 10yds. inside the flags A curious 
feature of the last series of five was the fact that no less than four 
men shot themselves out of a place by missing their twenty-fifth bird 
Charlie Zwirlein had particularly hard luck on his last Ave, drawing 
perfect screamers each time he went to the trap. Brewer missed his 
21st, a rattling bird, and his 24th, a bird that did not appear particu- 
larly hard, his dropping from first money down iuto the third hole 
was a surprise to everybody present, as he had been killing his birds 
cleanly for the most part. A decision on one of his ea r li«r birds 
caused a little dissatisfaction, but it was made apparently because 
the referee was unable to. see just what happened. It was Brewer's 
9th bird, an incomer, which was just fluttering out of bounds, coming 
straight for the score. In the opinion of many Brewer made an at- 
tempt to gather the bird, thus turning it from its course. Billy Mills 
eventually retrieving it, the bird being scored a dead bird. Some 
claimed that the bird had even been out of bounds. 
The work done by the Massachusetts contingent is worthy of spec! 3 1 
mention. Here was a body of men who. owing to the laws prevailing 
in their State, are unable to shoot live birds at home. All their 
practice is on foreign grouuds. The character of their shooting is 
well shown by the following figures: Wheeler and Leroy, 24 out of 25; 
Fred Bennett, 23 out of 25; V. D. Kenerson, 20 out of 24, and J. T. 
Mascroft, 15 out of 19. Wheeler missed his first bird, Leroy dropping 
his third. 
Second money, $183, was divided between eight men, each of whom 
bad kilP-d 24 birds: Dr. Hudson, Wheeler. Morris, "Woods," Leroy, 
Welch, Willey and Class. Third money, $122, west to eleven men witb 
