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FOREST AND STREAM. 
[Nor, 34, 1894. 
Dropping for Place. 
Mb. Hough's letter on the dishonesty and 'crookedness practiced at 
trap-shooting tournaments which appeared in Forest and Stream of 
Oct. 27 was a hummer. While agreeing with Mr. Hough in part, I 
must add that Buch pessimistic views as he has advanced will hardly 
receive many indorsements. The first three lines of the following 
paragraph seem a little too strong: 
"I submit that the Bport 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 mtn 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 as the men who arrange in advance the results of a racing 
competition." 
Having had no experience in tournaments west of the Ohio River, 
it is not for me to say what is the status of affairs out West. So far 
as the East is concerned, and from what tournaments I have attended 
in the South, I must enter a somewhat tardy protest against those 
first two lines and a half. "The roundest the trap tournament who 
sails under false names," etc., is a person I have yet to meet; that is, 
to know him as such. 
There are three propositions propounded by Mr. Hough in the said 
paragraph. Taking them categorically the first has been answered in 
the negative. Mr. Hough has evidently had hut a limited acquaint- 
ance with either one or the other of the branches of sport he names- 
horse racing or trap shooting; it is only fair to presume that his in- 
formation in regard to horse racing has been confined to newspaper 
reports of race meetings. If he had been fortunate enough to have 
seen much of horse racing, running and trotting, he would scarcely 
have been so unfortunate as to class trap-shooting as practiced to-day 
in "the great American tournaments" as "more dishonorable, more 
corrupt, rottener than ever horse racing was!" It is true that drop- 
ping for place does exist and that such dropping for place is really 
dishonorable; but my claim is that it merely exists, does not pervade 
the whole system. There are many reasons for this. In the first 
place the men who are best able to practice it on account of their skill 
are the men who belong to the expert class. Eighty per cent, of this 
class enter all through the programme, paying the whole amount 
asked in a lump sum at the beginning of each day, and are entered and 
shoot in the same squad throughout that day. With probably twenty- 
five or thirty more shooters to follow them, how can they divine into 
what hole they should drop? Those men do not need watching. It is 
the expert who hangs around and enters last, or nearly last, on the 
list, as Mr. Hough says in another paragraph. He is the man to be 
watched, and he is watched; I may add that I have also seen him. 
The practice of receiving entries up to the time of the last squad 
going to the score, sometimes later, is to blame for his being able to 
practice his crooked work. Is there, then, not a partial preventive 
right here? Could not a rule be made, and adhered to, that no entries 
in any event would be received after the first squad has completed its 
string? Then shoot experts first, semi-experts next and amateurs 
last. The latter i8 generally lucky when he gets a pice of the purse; 
his chances are greater of dropping out altogether rather than into a 
place. 
The second proposition, in regard to the "rounder at the trap tour- 
nament," is all right. Such a man would naturally "be as odious" as 
'•the ringer at a horse race." 
The third proposition may be dismissed as summarily as the second. 
There's no fault to be found with it. 
Where Mr. Hough and I disagree is as to the degree of crookedness 
which exists in the trap-shooting tournaments of the present day. On 
this point it would be very interesting if Mr. Elmer E Shaner, the gen- 
tleman who has so ably managed for the past two seasons the tourna- 
ments of the Interstate Manufacturers' and Dealers' Association, 
would give nis views on the subject. Anything Mr. Shaner might say 
(and trap-shooters will agree that this is no mere flattery) would have 
weight. Intimate connection with the ins and outs of at least a score 
of large tournaments during the past two years must have left him 
with some idea as to the status of trap-shooting at the present time; 
and will also probably have caused him to think out some plausible 
pcheme to prevent this evil of dropping for place. Dropping for place 
must first be attacked. Get rid of that, or reduce it to a minimum, 
and then tackle the pooling or combining parties. The latter will be a 
tough nut to crack; but with dropping for place done away with, it 
might almost be tolerated as an evil that cannot be downed. 
Further down in his letter Mr. Hough says: "There are more than 
fifty shooters in America." Yes, there are, thousands of them, and 
new gun clubs are being organized every week solely for the purposes 
of trap-shooting. The misfortune is that all of those thousands are 
not either wealthy men of leisure or expert shots. None but the 
latter can ever go to a tournament and expect to come out whole or 
nearly so. The money left behind at large tournaments is considerable. 
Take the expenses of a three days' target tournament that took place 
this summer: 23,000 targets at 3 cents each were thrown=$660; hotel 
bills, etc, for 3 dayB at 83 per day Can extremely moderate figure for 
that "etc."!) for 30 Bhooter8=$370. We thus have a sum of $930 
absolutely left behind by the Bhooters, no account being taken of what 
was taken away by some of them. Trap shooting is a sport, but it's 
a mighty expensive sport as shown by the above figures, to which 
could be added the cost of about 20,000 cartridges at an average cost, 
including expressage, of probably 3 cents each; add also the price of 
the railroad tickets. Figures undoubtedly talk, and such figures as 
those given above speak very loudly. 
It is this expense, together with the ties of business, that keeps down 
the attendance at our tournaments far more effectually than either 
the crooked work or the "rounder" may do. It is the necessary ex- 
pense incurred by attending and shooting at any tournament which 
forbids that tournaments being "really, open to all, and not only open 
to a few." Edward Banks. 
A Public Outrage. 
It is a most fortunate thing for the welfare of pigeon shooting that 
such matches as the Morfey-Batsch race at Elizabeth, N. J,, on Nov. 
14, are seen but seldom. The finish of that race was a disgrace to the 
principals and to those who in any way participated in the shoot. It 
is also most unfortunate that a young and enterprising club, such as 
the Elizabeth Gun Club, should receive such a black eye through the 
work of some of their fellow members. Although the match was a 
private one, and not in any way promoted by the gun club, yet it was 
held on the club's new grounds and the authorities should hsve seen 
to it that nothing should inure to the discredit of their organization. 
In this they wepe negligent, thereby losing a certain amount of caste 
in the trap-shooting world. The story of the race is decidedly unpleas- 
ant writing. 
In the first place the match was stated to be for $100 a side, Morfey 
giving his opponent 20 dead birds. Morfey refusing to give Batsch these 
odds, the race was shot on even terms. That fact alone created some 
suspicion as to whether the shoot was to be a square one or a fake. 
That Batsch, an untried maD, should be backed against a man like 
Morfey at even terms for $100 a side looked like either a piece of fool- 
ishness or a fake. I am afraid it was the latter, as I am told on good 
authority that there was only $15 a side on the race: that is, each side 
was running the risk of losing $15 besides the cost of the birds on the 
chance of winning what? Just the sum of $15! Two hundred birds 
at 25 cents each cost $50! There may have been gate money in it; 
there probably was, as 25 cents admission was charged at the gate. 
About 100 persons were present at the shoot and I suppose the major- 
ity paid the admission fee. Now that wouldn't pay expenses. Any- 
way the race was started, Morfey running away from Batsch right 
on the start; he shot in really fine form, killing his first 52 straight, a 
good score although the birds were nothing extra. At the commence- 
ment of the 53d round Morfey was 12 birds in the lead. Out of his 
next 13 he dropped 3 while Batsch went straight; Morfey 's lead was 
thus 9 birds. Just about this time, the 66th round, Morfey openly 
made a bet of $20 that he would beat Batsch by 10 birds. It looked as 
if he meant it as he afterwards made a remarkable run of one barrel 
kills; several of his friends put up money on the same terms, Morfey 
assuring them that he was going to beat Batsch 10 birds if he could. 
He told me personally that such was his intention. 
The race was 'an interesting one to watch, both men shooting in 
good form. From the 50th to the 88th round Batsch missed but one 
bird, Morfey having dropped live meanwhile was only 6 ah-ad. Then 
came a break. Morphy had missed his 87th bird, whether intentionally 
or not I can't say; it looked to me as if he feathered it with his first 
barrel. Batsch went to the score for his 88th bird and fired both 
charges of shot into the ground between the score and the traps; the 
bird was a left-quartering driver from No. 4 trap ! Each man then 
missed 8 in succession, neither one making any pretense of aiming at 
the bird; sometimes they even saved a shell, firing but one barrel. 
Batsch's 90th gave him some trouble to lose; the bird could hardly fly 
at all; in fact, although not a pellet of lead hit it, it was unable to fly 
out of bounds. Batsch elected to go and gather it himself. What fol- 
lowed was disgraceful. He could have gathered the bird a dozen 
times, he had it in his hands once and it should have been scored to 
him; finally, however, he chased it out of bounds. It was a nearly im- 
possible feat, but he did it. Some of Morfey's friends, who now 
smelled a rat very strongly, urged him to kill; he said he'd not kill till 
Batsch did. The score shows that when Batsch did at last kill Morfey 
did the same. 
Some people may not understand all this missing. Very little ex- 
planation is necessary. It seems, from Morfey's own statement made 
openly in the club house after the shoot, that he (Morfey) had bet $10 
LUut be -would not beat Batsch by 10 birds -when he "saw which way 
things were going." As soon as'Batsch found, or suspected, that 
Morfey's money was going up in a different way to that first $20 bet, 
he determined, as the race was lost anyhow, to try and protect his 
friends. He therefore missed intentionally, but Morfey had the whip- 
hand; he had but to miss whenever Batsch did to win his "$40." 
I must say that Morfey was not getting all that was coming to him; 
at any rate during the last half of the match. It required no wizard 
to spot Batsch's trap every time he went to the score; an eye on the 
pulling ropes was all that was necessary, Two wrongs, however, never 
make one right, and Morfey's actions in the latter part of the race 
will be hard to excuse. It was a deliberate throwdown in a few 
cases; a matter of diamond cut diamond in the remainder. 
In order to give this outrage on those who paid to see the match 
more prominence, the full score is attached. The flight of certain 
birds is not given for the obvious reason that neither shooter tried to 
kill those birds. Score: 
Match, 100 live birds a side, $1— a side: 
Trap score type— Copyright, iS9A, by Forest and Stream Publishing Co. 
Batsch 0 2 0 1 0 1 1 1 1 * 2 1 0 1 2 1 11112012 2—19 
120221102022200211122111 0—19 
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221221111121211221121221 1-25 
2 112 
0212111000000002201 1—15—78 
Morfey. 
...2 1 1 1 2 1 1 2 1 1 2 2 2 1-1 2 2 1 2 2 1 2 1 2 1—25 
<- r\->->->\ /^//N./ T^-v 7* \ / T i 
121111221211122211112111 2-25 
110112112120120121111111 1—22 
1«1112102210000000001101 2—13—85 
In justice to Mr. Robert E Chetwood, the president of the Elizabeth 
Gun Club, and to what he terms "a large majority of our club mem- 
bers," it is only fair to state that he, as president of that club and on 
behalf of the majority, has written a personal letter to Forest and 
Stream repudiating the actions of the principals in the above match, 
and expressing mortification at the outcome of the shoot. Mr. Chet- 
wood states that resolutions had been passed a few days previous to 
the match, forbidding absolutely any betting or drinking on the 
premises of the club. He adds that these resolutions will be strictly 
enforced in future and will have to be adhered to; otherwise "we will 
not belong to the club, but will withdraw from it if liquor is obtainable 
and open betting is carried on. * * * We have not changed our inten- 
tion in that reBpect." Edward Banks. 
Watson's Park. 
Scores made during this month are as follows: 
Nov. 5.— Von Lengerke and S. Parker, 100 empire targets, 5 unknown 
traps: 
Von Lengerke . . . .00100001011011101111011100110011111011011111101101 
00111111110110101110000110000010110011100110011111-61 
S Parker 11111111010101000101111010101011110011101000101110 
00101101000011010011000010000000110011011010110011—52 
Nov. 6.— George Klelnman and J. M Wilson, and W P. Mussey and 
Charles Grimm. 50 live birds per man: * 
Geo Kleinman.21211122202111110111223311211122012122211111222101— 46 
J M Wilson.... 21211022111220322121112221102112120121221211212212— 46— 92 
W P Mussey.. .21221102122212202012220120202111132220102111210122-41 
Chas Grimm.. 02111111212212201111111211212221222112212111111212— 48— 89 
Nov. 10.— Sweeps, 10 live birds, $10 entrance. 2 moneys: 
No. 1. No 2. 
Geo Kleinman 1122111112-10 2021122211-9 
Chas Grimm 1211111112-10 2112011121—9 
C W Budd 1012111121— 9 2111122012—9 
Dr Forthingham 1221112121—10 1111111210—9 
J M Wilson 2211212112—10 1110012222-8 
W S Irwin 2101111200— 7 
H McMurchy , , 1210111122— 9 2120110121—8 
Ed Bingham 2222222220- 9 
C H Smith 1020200000—3 
Same day, 100 empire targe's per man, 5 unknown traps: 
Meade 10011111111111110011011111110100101011011110010011 
11001101011111101011111111111110111111001011110111—74 
S Parker 11100101011010010110011010101111111111010101111110 
11100111101011100111000111111001110100100111011111—66 
Same day, 16 empire targets, $3 entrance, 1 money: 
No. 1. No. 2. 
C W Budd 011111111011011—12 10111C111101101— 11 
Chas Grimm 101110111111101—12 111111111111101—14 
H McMurchy 100111001111101—10 111011011110111—12 
Geo Kloinman 101001010111110- 9 110111100111101—11 
Forthingham 111111011100110-11 001111111011111—12 
Bingham , 111101011110101—11 101111101110111—12 
Dr. Forthingham and W. S. Irwin. 50 live birds per man, $50: 
Dr Forthingham.. 21 011112111012111211212221211221112110121211212202— 46 
W S Irwin -. . . .20122212110122120222222221221121222220211112101212-45 
Same day, 10 live birds. $10 entrance, 2 moneys: 
McMurchy 2100110112— 7 Capt Brewer 2211211212—10 
Grimm.-. 1120001211— 7 B Rock 2122010122— 8 
Budd 2112121121—10 J Cole 0222212111— 9 
Ed Bingham 2222222222-10 
Miss and out, $5: 
Budd 121110 Irwin 0 
Grimm 21121111221121 Brewer 21221312212112 
McMurchy 12211122012121 
Same day, 100 empire targets per man, Meade vs Lansing: 
Meade 01101111 110101 100111 11111011101101111011 011 1011111 
1110001101110111101101011011 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 11 1 01 1 1 1 1 1 111—77 
Lansing 11011110101111111110011111100111001000110111111000 
11100100011101011111111111100111101111100110011110-69 
Nov lk— South Chicago Gun Club. 20 live birds, for club medal: 
P Miller.... 20002212111012122110— 16 G Sibley . ...22200221002221201020— 13 
A Reeves. .10012121011222102121— 16 
Same club, 80 empire targets, for club medal: 
Sibley 00000110100110000001000001 0110— 9 
A W Reeves 011011101100100111101111111111—20 
B Miller , 101100111110100011111100110010-18 
B. Rock vs. W. J. Irwin, 50 live birds per man, $50: 
B Rock 1123201 210022200011 1211112212211012] 22211120222222—42 
W T Irwin 2012003<i0010100122001022213310211222221111102l22l— 37 
Same day, 10 live hirda. $l<> entrance, 2 moneys: 
Grimm 1210112202— 8 Budd 2211202211— 9 
Brewer 22222121v2-10 Gubben 1101012210- 7 
Bingham 1 2202222222- 9 Parker 2222212211—10 
B Rock 2210211100— 7 Ravelrigg. 
Rockaway Point Gun Club's Scores. 
The following scores were made by the Rookaway Point Rod and 
Gun Club members at their regular monthly shoot, the entrance 
money being nominal in all events: 
No. 1,10 targets, everything known: Scott 6, E. Bourke 2, Spott 3, 
Place 5, Jennings 3, Schortv 8. 
No. 2, same conditions: Scott 3, Sdiorty 10, Heyer 7, Spot 5, Place 6, 
Colman 4. 
No. 3, same conditions: Scott 4. Place 7. Sehorty 8, Colman 3. 
No. 4, same conditions: Floyd 6. Scott G, Place 6, Schortv 9. Loeble 
6, Horstman 0. Ties for second and third shot off and won by Floyd 
and Scott respectively. 
No. 5, same conditions: Loeble 6, Floyd 9, Scott 9, Place 8, Sabin 2, 
Schorty8. 
No. 6. same conditions: Scott 4. Floyd 8, Place 8, Loeble 9, Schorty 
8. Loeble first, ties on 8 divided second. 
No. 7, club shoot. 25 singles per man. sween included. 3 moneys: 
Tiernan 1111100010011111011111111—19 
E Bourke 0100101100100000011010100— 9 
Schorty 1111111111011110101110111—21 
Loeble 1100010111110101111101001— lfi 
LyonB 1011110110101001110011011—16 
Weeks 1 0000000001 OOOOOOOOOOOOOO— 2 
J Bourke 00100010000001 10000100011- 7 
Scott 1001011111010011100101000—13 
Floyd 1111110011111011111111011—21 
J Meyer 0010110001100000001001000— 7 
Bowen 1 00001 1 011111 001 100010001— 12 
Spott 00100000100U010101010000— 8 
Place 1000000111111111010010001—13 
Sabin .1001101101111010001111101—16 
Steinbrucker 0000000101101010101101000—10 
Floyd and Schorty first. Tiernan second. Loeble and Lyons third. 
No. 8. 10 sineles, everything known: Tiernan 6, Schorty 9, Prindle 1. 
Floyd 9, Bowen 8. E. Bourke 3, Lyons 4. Sabin 2. 
No. 9, same: Stoney 3, Schorty 7, Floyd 9, Bowen 1, Tiernan 7, E. 
Bourke 1. 
No. 10: Flovd 7. Tiernan 5, Schorty 8. "Woods 7, Bowen 6. 
No. 11, 5 pairs empires, one money: Tiernan 5, Schortv 4, Bowen 3. 
"Saw Shell. 
Boiling Springs Gun Club. 
Rutherford, N- J., Nov. 10.— The scores given below were made 
this afternoon at our monthly club target shoot. The wind swept 
across the traps, giving the targets a very erratic flight, this accounts 
in a great measure for the low scores made. Scores: 
Club shoot, 25 targets, unknown angles: 
.Tames 1 1 101 0110000011 00001 011 01—12 
Richmond 1111111100110101111101011-19 
Huck 1111011110011110111011101-19 
Frank 1 1 01 1 010001 1 1 1 001 01 01 1 000-1 4 
.Teanerette ..0001011111111111011 H0011— 18 
Van Dyke Il0llllill0lin0ll1l0001l— 19 
Paul 1111110011110111111111111—22 
Collins 00111011111111 101 1 1 1 1 01 1 1—20 
Cbaffee 1111101111111011001111110—20 
8 E Wolff , 1010010000000000010100001— 6 
The following sweepB were also shot : 
No. 1. 10 birds. 50 cents: Richmond 6. Huck 8, James 5. 
No 2, 10 birds, 50 cents: Huck 8, Richmond 7, James 6, Jeaner- 
ette 6. 
No. 3, 10 birds. 50 cents: Richmond 7, Huck 8, Van Dyke 9, Collins 7, 
Jeanerette 3 Paul 5. 
No. 4, 10 birds. 50 cents: Van Dyke 9, Paul 7, Huck 8, Richmond 9, 
Collins 8, Chaffee 6. 
No. 5. same: Richmond 7, Huck 6, Van Dyke 8, Collins 6, Chaffee 5, 
Paul 3 DeWolf 6, .Teanerette 5, James 7. 
No. 6, same; expert: Richmond 6, Huck 6, Paul 5, DeWolf 6, Van 
Dvke 7. 
No. 7. 10 birds. 50 cents: Richmond 8, Huck 7, Collins 6, Van Dyke 9, 
DeWolf 6, Chaffee 6 Jeanerette 5. Paul 7. 
No. 8. same: Richmond 6, Huck 10, Van Dyke 9, DeWolf 4, Frank 7, 
Paul 8. Chaffee 5 
No. 9. name: Richmond 8. Huck 8, Van Dyke 8, Collins 7. .Teanerette 
3, Paul 10, Chaffee 5, DeWolf 7. Wm. H. Huok, 
Shooting Live Birds at Krb's. 
Newark, N. J . Nov. 15.— The Essex Gnn Club held its club shoot at 
live birds at Erb's grounds this afternoon. There were 10 entries for 
the club race at 10 birds. Reinhardt shooting with the club for the first 
time since '93. Among the shooters also was D. Terrill, the veteran of 
the club, who will be 80 years old next spring. His 50 per cent, score 
is largely due to the fact that he was rather tired after a two days' 
hunt during which he had played out hoth his sons! Breintnall, who 
is suffering from his hands being swollen through rheumatism, and 
Herrington, whose eun broke down, both shot well. Herrington after 
the mishap to his gun shot with Hollis's gun, which its owner has got 
into such good training that it can't help but point straight. In the 
Jersey sweep, which followed the club race, Leddy was unfortunate 
enough to lose 2 birds dead out of bounds: he savs that if he "bad 
known it was only 50yds. boundary," he'd have killed them with his 
first barrel sure. Scores, club shoot, 10 live birds: 
Trap score type— Copyright isoa, by Forest and Stream Publishing Co. 
T «/\->TV^ l*r-^ Nk'-VT-V"**-? 
W G Hollis.l 11111211 1—10 W Hughes. .2 22221012 0—8 
RBreintnall.2 1 1 1 ! 
! 1 2 1 1—10 D Terrill. 
.0 •1101001 1- 
C Reinhardt2 01101 221 1—7 
R Tillon. .. .1 0 • 1 0 1 1 2 2 1— 8 
< — >->\-v^\\/> J. 
W Hayes... .2 1 1 1 0 2 2 1 1 1- 
G L Freche.» 2 1 2 • 0 2 1 1 1- 
TV -iSiSitt^t//* — >-» 
Herrington. 2 12 12 1111 1-10 H Leddy.. . .1110012112—8 
Jersey sweep, 4 birds, $3, 2 moneys: 
Breintnall 112«— 3 Herrington 1222—4 
Freche 1200—2 Leddy 1««S— 2 
Erb 1110 -3 Hollis 1111-4 
The New Utrecht Gun Club. 
The third contest for the cup presented to the New Utrecht Gun 
Club by Capt. Money and his son, N. E. Money, of the American E. C. 
Powder Company, was decided on Saturday, Nov. 17 on the club's live 
bird grounds at Woodlawn, L. I. Morfey, C. Furgueson, Jr., and 0. A. 
Sykes killed their ten birds; on the shoot off, miss and out, Morfey 
missed his third bird and retired; Furgueson then killed his fourth 
and won, Sykes dropping his bird. Scores: 
American E. C. Powder Company's cup contest, 10 live birds per 
man, club handicap, ties divided, miss and out: 
W F Sykes 1222012220— 8 *Mead 1121211111—10 
T W Morfey 1111211211-10 M F Lindsley 2222022212— 9 
Capt Money 11112«3121— 9 C A Sykes 1121121211—10 
C Furgueson, Jr 2111112221—10 A A Hegeman 1020210101— 6 
C Furgueson, 3d 0022022221— 7 W Wynn 2112020211— 8 
Dr. Shepard 0021«00021— 4 Deacon 2121011221— 9 
* Not a member. 
Hill Lost by One Bird. 
Trenton, N. J., Nov. 16.— Eddie Hill lost by one bird in his match at 
Yardville, N. J., with T. W. Morfey, oi Paterson, N, J. The scores of 
93-92 show that both men were shooting in good form, Hill really los- 
ing the match at the start, dropping his 4th. 5th and 6th birdB. The 
birds were first-class and the tune taken to shoot the match, one hour 
and 39 minutes, proves tbat there were very few loiterers; of course 
a lot of time was saved by the retrieving of Charlie Zwirlein's black 
setter dog Nig, Frank Class acted as puller, while Cubberly worked 
the indicator. Scores: 
Hill 21200»2222112110112221212-21 
1121221122222112212112321—35 
•011211011122222121212221—22 
212212112332J22022) 221221— 24— 92 
Morfey 11021121121112121112121«1— 23 
1211123122122121121220211—25 
113211211111111121211.121— 24 
22»m»l«3122212212l02112— 21— 93 
The Northsides at Dexter Park. 
Dexter Park, L. £, Nov. 13.— Eight members of the Northside Gun 
Club took part in the monthly shoot at live birds this afternoon. The 
pigeons were a fine lot of flyers, but the Northsides were equal to the 
occasion. John and Chris Meyer and John Tiernan killed their 7 birds 
in the club race, deciding the tie in a sweepstake at 3 birds which fol- 
lowed. John Meyer killed 3 straight and won out. Scores: 
Club match, 7 live birds, handicap rise: 
John Meyer (28) 1213112-7 Harry Heyer (28) 2202111—6 
C M Meyer (28) 2211212—7 John Mencke (28) 1101222-6 
John Tiernan (2S) 2221113-7 J H Jennings (28) 1001111—5 
U C Manning (28) 1111011-6 Herman Bock (25) 1032200 -4 
No. 1. sweep, 3 live birdB: 
John Meyer 112—3 John Jennings 201—2 
John Tiernan 012—3 0 M Meyer 022—2 
No. 2. sweep, 3 live birds, then miss-and out: 
John Meyer , 1« — 1 John Jennings. 0 — 0 
John Tiernan 21021-4 C M Meyer 21020 -3 
The Buffalo Audubons. 
The members of the Buffalo Audubon Club held their annual live 
bird shoot at Daw's Park. Nov. 9 The shoot began at 10 o'clock in 
the morning and lasted ail day.- Fifteen birds was the limit, and t here 
were 33 entries. The score was as follows: C. S. Burkhardt 14, first 
prize, $5 in gold; A. Kobler, L. Fries, L. W. Bennett, 13; Kobler was 
the lucky man and won a shell loader; L. Fries captured $2 in gold; 
J. H. Ball, G- Fleischman, C. Oebmig. A. C. Heinold, Kirkover, R. 
Hankins 12; Hankins won a gun case, Kirkover $3 in gold; A. Zoeller, 
E C. Burkhardt, McMichael, J. Feist, Willett 11; A. Zoeller won a 
shell case, J Feist $2 in gold; A. Forrester, Wm, Brennan, A. Combs, 
J. O'Brian 10; O'Brian took a case of stuffed birds, Forrester $3 in 
gold. 
Thanksgiving Day the club will shoot at keystone targets. The 
prizes will consist of turkeys, ducks, geese, chickens and other birds. 
The club has some expert marksmen, and there is talk of a match 
with a gun club in Rochester. H. J. B. 
Pittsburgh, Pa.— There will be a handicap sweepstake shoot at the 
North Side Gun Club grounds, Marshall avenue. Allegheny City, Pa., 
Thanksgiving afternoon, Nov. 29. Programme: 15 targets, entrance 
$130; 15 targets, handicap, entrance $1.30; 15 targets, handicap, en- 
trance $1.30; 15 targets, handicap, entrance $1.30; 15 targets, entrance 
$1.30. Handicap races will be shot under the following ruli : Experts 
will shoot from five unknown traps, semi-experts from three un- 
known traps, amateurs known traps and known angles. Shooting 
will commence at 1 P. M. sharp. Lunch will not be served on the 
grounds. Elmer E. Shaner, "OldHoss," Fagan Montgomery, handi- 
cap committee. N. B. — The amateur will be protected. 
