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FOREST AND STREAM. 
March 23, 1895. 
n the report; of the Climax shoot, was a remarkably narrow 
escape. Ib must be remembered that "Dutchy" is a "south 
paw" shooter, and that it was the right barrel of his gun that 
burst. 
Mr. S. A. Howes, Secretary of the Michigan State Trap- 
hooter's League, announces that the League's annual tourna 
ment will be held on April 18, 19, at Battle Creek, Michigan. 
The annual meeting and election of league officers will be held 
on the evening of April 18. 
In a letter, dated Weir City, Kansas, March 9, Mr. W. W. 
Mcllhany, asks that Forest and Stream will make a mention 
of the programme of the tournament of the Amateur Trap- 
shooter's Association of Missouri and Kansas. Mr. Mc- 
llhany 's request will be granted all the move readily because 
the programme contains some really interesting reading mat- 
ter. The fact that "Jack" Parker. "T)es-Chree-Shos-Ka Jack," 
some call him, will manage the tournament is a guarantee that 
here will be the smoothness of well-oiled machinery connected 
with the running of the shoot. 
A new gun club has been organized in Springfield, O., under 
the title of "The Home City Grun Club." Its officers are: 
President, Joseph Beck; Treasurer, W. G. Hollo way; Secre- 
tary, Frank Wragg; Captain, Harry Downey; Lieutenant, 
Hugh L. Ford; Purchaser, Philip Haerr. The Secretary. Mr. 
Wragge, writes as follows: "In accordance with instructions 
from the club, I write to inform you of the fact that we have 
organized a new gun cluo in our'city, called the "Home City 
G-un Club." We have a charter list of fifty (50) members, and 
n addition about twenty-five (25) applications. We have 
modeled our constitution and by-laws after the ones published 
n Forest and Stream some time since We expect to hold a 
ournament on our opening day, and will send you notice of 
ame, also scores." 
The Altoona Flod and Gun Club has decided to make its tour 
nament three days instead of two as previously announced. It 
dates are now July 10-12. July 10 will be devoted mainly to a 
100 target race, with a target allowance; the race will be, in 
ace, precisely similar as to conditions as the one shot on the 
first day of last year's Interstate shoot at Pittsburg, Pa. 
Plans are on foot to reorganize the old Fountain Gun Club, of 
Brooklyn, N. Y., one of the oldest associations of the kind in 
this part of the country. The club when organized will prob- 
ably hold its shoots at Dexter Park, L. I. 
| In regard to the Easter Monday tournament of the Standard 
Gun Club, of Baltimore, Md., at Point Breeze, Mr. W. F. 
Clemems, secretary of the club, writes that the club offers a 
purse of $25 to the high score in a five man team race, at 20 
targets per man, entrance free. All members of a team must 
be residents of the same county; city shooters barred. 
The Lake Side Rod and Gun Club, of Burlington, Vt., held 
its annual meeting on March 13. The following is the list of 
officers elected for the ensuing twelve months: President, B. R. 
Seymour ; Vice-President, W. P. Conger; Secretary, J. S. 
Denning; Treasurer, W. S. Phelps; Captain, E. E. Morgan; 
Directors, C. F. Reynolds, E. H. Shattuck, F. Howes, H.E. 
Spear, L. O. Harding. 
Mr. J. Harlan Murrele, secretary of the newly organized 
"Diahoga Gun Club," writes as follows: "The sportsmen of 
Athens, Sayre and Waverly, Pa , have just organized the 
Diahoga Gun Club. The following is a list of officers elected: 
President, J. S. Hamaker; Vice-President, William Heavner; 
Secretary, J. Harlan Murrelle ; Treasurer, R. S. Hickey ; 
Captain, A. H. Nevins. A membership of thirty is at present 
em oiled, but the number will be largely increased in a few 
weeks. Grounds directly at the Athens terminus of the W S. 
& A. Electric Railway have been secured, and arrangements 
are pending for the erection of a club house. Weekly practice 
shoots and a monthly tournament for the county championship 
badge, known as the Sporting Life badge, will be the regular 
order of business. Tournaments will be held several times 
each year, to which all shooters are cordially invited. The 
American Association rules will govern all contests. Notice of 
all events will be given in Forest and Stream. 
A three days' tournament will be held at London, Ont., on 
April 9-13, under the management of Jack Parker. The tour- 
nament committee guarantees $1,000, experts being handi- 
capped by distance and by having to shoot at unknown angles. 
Live birds and targets will be used in the various events. 
The American E. C. Powder Company has branched out 
westward, having established quite recently agencies in Chi- 
cago and St. Louis. 
Shoots advertised for next week at Dexter Park, L. I., are: 
March 26, First German Gun Club; March 27, Nassau Gun 
Club (members of the Fountain Gun Club as guests) ; March 28, 
Dexter Park Monthly Invitation shoot; March 29, Falcon Gun 
Club. 
The Brunswick Gun Club, of New Brunswick, N. J., has 
reorganized and is now on the footing of a social, as well as a 
shooting basis. The officers are: President, James Deshler; 
Vice-President, Frederick Weigel; Recording Secretary, H. H. 
Stevens; Fnancial Secietary, Rush Burton; Treasurer, Joseph 
Fisher; Captain, V. S. Voorhees; Board of Governors, R. M. 
Pettit, H. B. Smith, A. W. Pettit, W. E. Sperling. 
Mr. W. H. Willard, the new secretary of the Battle Creek, 
Mich., Rod and Gun Club, writes as follows: "The Battle Creek 
Rod and Gun Club held its annual meeting Tuesday, March 12, 
at S. A. Howes' gun store, and elected the following officers: S. 
A. Howes, President; N. E. Hubbard, Vice-President; and W. 
H. Willard, Secretary and Treasurer. The club will give its 
opening shoot Monday, April 1 On April 18 and 19 the club 
will give the annual Michigan State tournament, which every 
one is invited to attend. The programme will be varied and 
interesting to both experts and amateurs, and will contain 
novelties not introduced in a programme before. During the 
tournament the team race for the Shooting and Fishing trophy, 
which the .battle Creek Club has won twice, once from Lansing 
and once from Grand Rapids, will be shot; also the individual 
race for the expert, semi-expert, and amateur championships 
of Michigan. Valuable prizes will be given for best average 
each day. Programmes will be sent to as many shooters as 
possible. Anyone who has ever attended a shoot at Battle 
Creek is aware that the Battle Creek Club knows how to give 
a tournament. Targets will be two cents." 
The big men in live bird circles are just now doing more 
talking than shooting. Perhaps it's just as well — for the 
pigeons anyway. 
•* On April 11, the Harrisburg, Pa., Shooting Association will 
hold a tournament at live birds. The special event will be a 
handicap, distances ranging from 33 to 25 yards. For particu- 
lars address H. B. Shoop, secretary. 
* Trapshooting is evidently progressing in Russia, On March 
17 the Empire Target Company received an order for 15 of its 
new traps and 50,000 targets, from a firin in Moscow, Russia. 
The order was written in French, and had it been on any other 
subject, Charlie Hebbard would have been totally unable to 
dieipher ib. As it was it took him no time to get at the sub- 
stance of the epistle. 
The programme of the Boston Shooting Association's tourna- 
ment on April 9, 10 and 11, shows that the management intends 
to look after the interests of the large body of shooters that 
will surely be in attendance. 
Mr. John J. Sumpter, secretary of the Hot Springs, Ark., 
Gun Club, under date of March 4, writes in regard to change 
of dates: "At a meeting of the Executive Committee of the 
Arkansas State Sportsman's Association it was decided to hold 
the fifth a nnual meeting and tournament in Little Rock this 
year instead of Hot Springs, and to change the dates from 
April 8, 9 and 10 to May 13, 14 and 15. There have been a few 
cases of small pox in this city, which were greatly exaggerated 
all over the country, and a number of towns and cities have 
quarantined against us. While the committee has had no doubt 
about^tue quarantine being raised long before the time for the 
shoot, and all danger (if there ever was any) passed, still it 
was decided to change the place of meeting for this year to 
Little Rock. The Little Rock Gun Club has generously taken 
charge of the shoot, and as they never do anything by halves, 
the committee has agreed to change the dates from the second 
Monday in April to the second Monday in May, in order to give 
the boys more time, which will mean a most successful tourna- 
ment. I have already received about fifty letters and postal 
cards from sportsmen throughout the country asking for pro- 
grammes, and to all of these I would say that as soon as they 
are ready they will receive one. Mr. Paul R. Litzke, of Little 
Rock, has been elected Assistant Secretary of the association 
by the Executive Committee, and will take pleasure in answer- 
ing all letters of inquiry. Anyone desiring programmes can 
procure same by addressing Mr. Litzke at Little Rock." 
On March 16 a competition will take place on the Boiling 
Springs Gun Club's grounds, at Rutherford, N. J,, for the 
Shooting and Fishing trophy. Any and all clubs eligible to 
compete for this trophy will have the opportunity given them 
on this date. The conditions are: Teams of six men, 50 targets 
per man, (30 singles, one man up, five unknown traps, and ,10 
pairs). The trophy represents the team championship of New 
Jersey. t EDWARD BANKS. 
The Grand American Handicap- 
Pittsburg, Pa., March 16. — Editor Forest and Stream: In 
my article of last week, bearing on. the Grand American 
Handicap, a typographical error accidentally crept in it and in 
one particular sentence changed the entire meaning of the 
writer's words. The sentence in question, as it appeared in 
Forest and Stream, read: "In one of them, and especially in the 
Grand American Handicap, have the interests of every shooter, 
high and low, expert and amateur, been neglected." The 
absence of the letter "n" created the havoc. Instead of the 
word "one" it should have read ."none." While there is 
little doubt but that the readers of Forest and Stream readily 
recognized the true meaning of the sentence, 1 felt that a slight 
reference to the matter might not be out of place and besides 
would make all the more clear a statement that means just 
what it says. 
The widespread enthusiasm that has been created by the 
Grand American Handicap is a matter of much pleasure and 
encouragement, and in return the assurance is given by the 
management that in order to merit further approbation all 
that is possible in the way of careful arrangements and judic- 
ious handling of the tournament will be carried out from start 
to finish. Already the closest attention has been given every- 
thing in connection with this, the greatest of great shoots, as it 
is the desire of the management to conduct the event without a 
flaw upon its record. Justice and equity will be accorded 
one and all, so that there will be no occasion for the slightest 
murmur of complaint. The many leading and distinctive 
features are bound to meet with unanimous approval. To 
begin with, arrangements have been made with Mr. Ben. O. 
Bush, of Kalamazoo, Mich., to furnish a set of his electric live 
bird traps and his patent Electric Unknown Pull. In an event 
of so great importance as the Grand American Handicap, it is 
essential that the order in which the traps are pulled should be 
absolutely unknown to all persons, the puller included. Mr. 
Bush's Electric Unknown Pull accomplishes this, and the order 
in which the traps ara pulled will be positivelv unknown. Ar- 
rangements have also been made with Messrs. W. G. Clark and 
Thomas House, of Altoona, Pa., to f unish a set of their Cones- 
toga traps, which were so highly spoken of in Forest and 
Stream's report of the Boiling Springs Club's tournament in 
last week's issue. The work of the handicapping committee 
will be characterized by careful judgment and consideration in 
each and every instance. It will be the aim of the official 
handicappers, to positively ascertain the correct shooting form 
of all contestants. The relative standing and ability of each 
entry will command their closest scrutiny, since above all 
other details they are staunch in their determination to accord 
justice in every case, so .that all shooters will be placed on an 
equal footing thus insuring a fair field and no favors and with 
equal opportunities to all to win the coveted prize. 
ELMER E. SHANER, Manager. 
Illinois State Sportsmen's Association. 
Mr. H. B. Meyers, of 148 Monroe street, Chicago, Ills., Secre- 
tary-Treasurer of the Illinois State Sportsmen's Association, 
has issued the following notice to the secretaries of all gun clubs 
in the State of Illinois: 
"The twenty-first annual convention and tournament of the 
Illinois State Sportsmen's Association will be held in Chicago 
beginning J une 3 to 8, and it is the wish of the off cers of the 
association to make this a most memorable affair in two oar- 
ticulars, first, that of the discussion of game protection and, 
secondly, to receive a large list of entries to the shooting con- 
tests of the tournament. In view of the very lengthy reports 
of the officers on the subject of game legislation, the directors 
have deemed it wise to make the convention a two days' affair 
and devote the entire session of Monday evening, June 3, to the 
reports of officers and the discussion of game protection, and on 
Tuesday evening. June 4, to the election of officers and other 
business that may come before the convention. 
"I respectfully call attention of all gun clubs to articles IV. 
and V. of our constitution, as herewith appended, and invite 
clubs not now members of this association who desire to partici- 
pate in the convention and tournament to comply with the 
provisions of the same at an early date, and to the members 
no iv on the roll to remit their dues and assessments with a full 
list of officers and members by May 1, 1895." 
The articles in the constitution which Mr. Meyers calls atten- 
tion to are worded as follows: 
"Article IV. — Any sportsman's association or club in the 
State, organized for the protection of game birds or fish, or for 
he enforcement of laws against the killing of either of them, 
may become a member of this association, upon written appli- 
cation being made, accompanied by a copy of its constitution 
and a list of its officers, upon a majority vote of the Board of 
Directors being had to admit such association or club." 
"Article V. — Sec. 1. The annual dues from each subordinate 
association or club shall be five dollars, payable in advance; 
and each association or club shall be liable for an assessment 
not to exceed ten dollars in any one year; said assessment only 
to be made upon vote of the association, at a regular or special 
meeting. Sec. 2. Any association or club in arrears for dues 
or assessments shall not be entitled to a vote at the annual con- 
vention ; nor shall any person be entitled to contests for prizes 
offered by this association, as a member of such association or 
club." ' 
He Wouldn't Do So Now. 
MICHIGAN. — I have had a gun for seven years. When I was 
eleven I shot in a glass ball shoot at Devil's Lake. I didn't use to 
think anything of banging away at a flock of birds on the ground. 
But I wouldn't do it now, and it all comes of reading the Forest 
and Stream. WILLARD S. COE. 
Gives It First Place. 
MAINE. — I have purchased Forest and Stream for years at the 
news-stand, and give it the first place in the ranks of sportsmen's 
journalB. J. V. H. HARRIS. 
Onondaga Sportsmen's Club. 
Syracuse, N. Y., March 15.— The medal shoot of the Onon- 
daga Sportsmeu's Club this afternoon included a Supper Shoot, 
the losing side paying for a supper at W. S. Barnurn's Hotel, at 
Maple Bay. The match brought out about twenty sportsmen 
the opposing sides being captained by D. M. Lefever, and C. T- 
Arno. The shooters worked hard for their respective sides, 
but poor scores were made, as the wind was blowing a gale, 
and the traps were strung up to their highest tension. Arno's 
team won by nine targets, but both teams enjoyed the spread 
which was prepared for them. Col. Courtney and C. A. Ginty 
tied for a class medal and in the shoot off the colonel broke all 
his targets, winning by a single break. Chas. Becker won B 
Class after a hard battle, with the score of 33. Will Jeumngs 
carried away the C Class, with 33 to his credit. The day was 
fine, but the strong wind that was blowing made the shooting 
hard. Scores : 
Medal and supper shoot, 50 targets, unknown angles: 
Lefever's Team. 
D. M. Lefever 1010111111111101100111111 
1101101101011110110001101—36 
C. Wagner 11000111110011 1 1 1 10001101 
1 1 1 1111111011000011111111—36 
C. L. Becker 01101111C1100U1101101101 
1 0101 1 01 01 1 1 011 101 1110101— 33 
II. Jones 00011101 11011 110101101 100 
1000111111 10001 01 1 iOIOOII— 30 
A. G. Courtney 01101 10011011 110110011111 
0111111111111011110110101 -37 
J. Montgomery 000111111 1 110001101001011 
1 1110101001100110 1 1010111—31 
W. Morris 1101 0000 1 1 11 00011 1 00000 1 0 
OOOOOlOlOlOllllOlllllOlll— 26 
Geo. Sanford 1000100110001111000010101 
1000101101101010101110100—25—254 
Arno's Team. 
C. F. Aruo 1011101010001101111101110 
i Oil ion mi 1 101 moioiio—35 
A. C. Ginty 0111110110110101110101111 
10 11 101 1 J 00 10111111111101—37 
W. Holdeu 000111 100110010111 01b 1100 
01110101001 1001 1011001110— 27 
Geo. Mann 1 OlOllOOOlOUOlllOl 0110111 
11001111101011 1 1 1 11011101- 33 
Blizzard 0101111111101111100011111 
11111111011001111111 10110—39 
Dan Walters ,11 001 1001001 1010100010100 
0111011110101010011100101—20 
Joe Glenon 1111010101111000110111111 
1 lllOllllOlolOllOllOOllll— 36 
Jim Boyd 0110110111110110011011110 
0 1000011011 00 1 1010 1101 Oil— 30— 2( ;?, 
The following shooters shot in the medal race, but were not 
entered in the supper teams: 
F. Lefevei 10111110110111101110011 10 
1 111110001 011 011011110110 -36 
W. Jennings 11101 0 11 11 00001 1110111011 
110011101 01011 10111100111—33 
Elder Forsythe 1100111101110110111101111 
OlllllOOOOOOuOlOOllllOOll-31 
No. 2, 15 targets, $1, three moneys : F. Lefever, 11; Wagner, 
12; Glennon, Blizzard, Ginty and Courntey, 11; Boyd, D. Le- 
fever and Morris, 10; Becker, 9; Mann and Holden, 7. 
No. 3, same: Morris, lb; Wagner and D. Lefever, 12; Boyd, 
11; Blizzard and F. Lefever, 10; Glennon, Courtney and Becker, 
9; Mann and Ginty, 7: Holden, 5. 
No. 4, 10 targets, $1: Courtney, 10; F. Le fever and Ginty, 9; 
Arno, Walters, Blizzard aud Becker, 8; Wagner and Morris, 7; 
D. Lefever, 6; Mann and Holden, 5, 
No. 5, same: Morris, 9; Boyd, Becker and Mann, 8; Holdeu 
and Blizzard, 7; F. Lefever, 4. A. R. K. 
The Dupont Tournament. 
Mr. R. S. Waddell, of Cincinnatti, O., special agent of the 
Dupont Powder Company, has mailed a copy of the prospectus 
of that company's tournament, 'which will be held at Cincinnati 
on May 7, 8 and 9. The tournament is "open to eve* y sports- 
man; no one barred; no handicap; contestants classify them- 
selves." The amount of cash added to purses and offered as 
prizes is $1,220. 
The system to be adopted at this tournatnent is to classify 
shooters (in a manner described below) as either experts or 
amateurs. All events are at known traps unknown angles, but 
experts shoot at one set of traps, amateurs at another set, $200 
being added to the pui'ses at each set of traps on all three days, 
the programmes for each day being precisely similar. Experts 
shoot eight events at 20 targets, $3 entrance, $15 added to each 
purse; amateurs shoot eight events also, but at 15 targets, $2 
entrance, §15 being added to each purse.- Experts have ho part 
or lot in the amateurs' purses. In addition to the above money 
added to the purses, the Dupont Company gives $300 cash to be 
divided among the experts who make the five highest averages 
in events 4 and 6 on each day, the $300 being divided into five 
moneys. Another sum of $200 is divided into five moneys 
among the amateurs in a similiar manner for the highest 
average in these six events. The condition affixed to these 
prizes is that contestants in events 4 and (i on each day must 
use Dupont's Smokeless powder. Machine and hand loaded 
shells for use in these events can be obtained on the grounds. 
If special wadding, etc., is desired, orders should be sent by 
April 1. 
The prospectus, by way of explaining the classification, ecb.. 
states: 
"The attention of contestants is particularly called to the 
following special rules, under which they are expected to 
classify themselves, and to accept the consequences of their 
own under-estimate of their skill. Any shooter making an 
average of ninety per cent, or more in any three events at traps 
for amateurs, will be excluded from subsequent events of that 
day at the traps for amateurs. Known experts will be bmited 
to the events at traps for experts. In competing for cash prizes 
for highest averages in events 4 and 6 of each day, contestants 
expecting to make an average of ninety per cent, or better in 
the six amateur prize events, should enter in events 4 and 6 each 
dav, at the traps for experts, as a ninety per cent, average or 
better in the six amateur prize events will exclude the con- 
testants from sharing in the cash prizes for amateurs. Con- 
testants at traps for amateurs may, under rule first, forfeit 
interest in cash prizes to amateurs for averages." 
The conditions and general information take up the last page 
of the prospectus and are as follows: "Rules of the A. S. A. in 
force at date of tournament to govern, except when they con- 
flict with the special features adopted herein: All shooting will 
be at unknown angles and from known traps. The system 
adopted is rapid Are, and sportsmen are requested to enter each 
morning in squads in all the events of the day. Should any 
desire to withdraw, the entrance fee of events in which they do 
not participate will be refunded. All shooting for purses and 
prizes is class shooting. The park will be open for practice 
shooting, Monday, May 6. Three cents each for targets will be 
deducted from all purses. Five blue rock traps and electric pull 
will be used at each score. These will be under the personal 
supervision of Mr. John Parker, of Detroit, who will assist 
throughout the tournament, Finely illustrated programmes of 
about twenty-eight pages vnll be ready for mailing March 20; 
these wdl be made I to all the addresses we can obtain. To 
answer the many inquiries that come to us daily, and that 
