March 23, 1895. 
FOREST AND STREAM, 
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sportsman may Lave early advices of the Dupont tournament, 
we issue this prospectus. We submit our system under which 
sportsmen will classify themselves, believing that it will secure 
an adequate adjustment of all differences that may arise be- 
tween experts and amateurs and pei'mit equal enjoyment of 
the tournament by all classes. Tne more skillful amateurs will, 
we believe, prefer to class themselves as experts and share the 
larger purses and greater honors. A large number of sportsmen 
have signified their intention to he present and are already 
doing preparatory work with Dupont Smokeless. We have 
room for five hundred contestants at Spring Grove Avenue Ball 
Park and extend a cordial invitation to. every sportsman to 
come and participate in this great shooting carnival. Address 
all inquiries regarding the Dupont tournament to R. S. Wad- 
dell, general agent, Cincinnaiti, Ohio." 
Nebraska Trap Notes. 
Omaha, Neb., March 12. — In regard to the J. C. Read- J. W. 
Den, 100 live bird match, Mr. Read being the victim of a com- 
bination of disorders, the men have drawn down their money, 
with the understanding that the shoot shall come off later in 
the spring. 
The State Sportsmen's Association's annual tournament will 
be held in this city, June 13, 14 and 15. The local clubs are 
determined to make it an attractive affair. There will be §500 
of added money and prizes aggregating in value double this 
amount. Frank S. Parmelee, the Secretary, will superintend 
the arrangements and he asserts that we are to have the great- 
est shoot ever held in this section of the country. 
SAND Y GRISWOLD. 
Weir City's Programme. 
Mr. W. W. Mcllhany, Secretary of the Business Men's Gun 
Club, of Weir City, Kansas, who is also Secretary of the 
Amateur Trapshooter's Association of Missouri and Kansas, 
has mailed us a copy of his club's programme for the Ninth 
Annual Tournament of the Association at Weir City on May 
8-10. Page 1 of the programme contains a list of officers of both 
the Association and of the Business Men's Club, and also a 
capital portrait of Weir City's Mayor, Dr. D. W. King, Presi- 
dent of the Gun Club. Page 2 is headed by the query: Have 
you heard about Weir City, Kansas? The query, if answered 
in the negative, finds a reply in the following lines: 
"The busiest and best business town of its size in Kansas. 
Not excelled in the United States for amount of shipments and 
the number of laborers employed. It contains the largest zinc 
smelter in the world. This plant has a daily capacity of 78,000 
pounds, with twenty-six furnaces and twenty-two kilns. It 
employs 40!) men, and its monthly pay roll amouuts to 
$25,000.30. Its brand of '"Cherokee" spelter has gained a 
world-wide reputation. Weir City, being the centre of the 
great coal belt, produces an immense amount of coal, which 
gives employment yearly to thousands of men. Train-load 
after train-load of coal leaves the city daily, and the monthly 
pay-rolls of the different mining companies of Weir City 
amounts to §75.000.00. An enormous trade is done by the 
numerous merchants of Weir City, the annual sales of one store 
being over $150,000.00. The light and water plant of Weir 
City is efficient in every respect, Three deep artesian wells 
supply the 6,000 inhabitants of Weir City and the 4,000 in 
adjacent camps, with crystal pure water throughout the year, 
while the streets of the city are brilliantly lighted by elec- 
tricity, and over 1,000 incandescent lights are in use by the 
citizens. 
Recent building improvements have placed Weir City in the 
front ranks, as its fine school buildings, magnificent churches 
and solid brick business blocks present all the attractiveness of 
a progressive city of the times. Its railroad facilities are 
unsurpassed, as the Kansas City, Ft. Scott & Memphis, with 
six regular passenger trains daily, and the St. Louis & San 
Francisco Railway, with its numerous branches, reach out in 
all directions." 
The next thing in the programme to engross the attention of 
its readers is a clear and succinct statement of the rules gov- 
erning the shoot. It will be noticed that the shoot is open only 
to amateurs, and that "no pooling or dropping for place will be 
tolerated." The seed has been sowed on good ground and the 
harvest is close at hand! The rules in detail are as follows: 
"This is an association of trap shooters, with no other 
apparent object than an annual reunion, at which the amateur 
shooters of the great Southwest can meet and enjoy this popu- 
lar sport and the society of each other for a few days. In order 
that this pleasant intercourse may be conducted to the best 
interests of all, during the meeting at Weir City, the following 
general and special rules will govern all contests: 
"This shoot will be open only to amateurs, and all known pro- 
fessionals and paid agents of dealers and manufacturers will be 
barred. The statement is made here so that none can misun- 
derstand it. The shoot is being run solely for the benefit of 
amateurs. When we wrote our address of welcome we forgot 
the 'professional' and 'paid agent', and, while we have but the 
kindliest feelings for them, we must ask them to excuse haste 
and a bad pen. 
"No pooling or dropping for place will be tolerated. 'This is 
putting it plain, yet we but state the facts.' To aid in main- 
taining this stand, the management would like to have every 
shooter, before entering any event, sign the register agreeing 
not to drop for place, or to pool, and to help the management 
to suppress this evil. 
"The graduating handicap will be used, which is simply this: 
All shooters start on equal basis of known traps and known 
angles. All winners of first and second moneys will shoot in 
the nest event at known traps and unknown angles, and so 
continue until they fall below these moneys, when they may 
return to known traps and angles. To those who think this is 
no handicap, we say come aid try it. Our unknown angles 
will be so regulated that one trial will convince the veriest 
amateur that they are a handicap. The rise for 10 and 12 
guage guns will be the same, but 10 guage guns will shoot the 
traDS in" reverse order; that is: When 10 guage stands at No. 1, 
he will shoot No. 5 bird; at No. 2, he shoots No. 4 bird; at No. 
3, he shoots No. 3 bird; at No. 4, he shoots No. 2 bird, and at 
No. 5, he shoots No. 1 bird. 
"The Owl shoot, the Kansas vs. Missouri Team shoot, and the 
individual Championship shoot cau be contested for only by 
shooters residing in Kansas, or Missouri. Other events are 
open to any amateur. 
"All shooting will be rapid fire from five traps (except at 
unknown traps, when only three will be used), and American 
Association Rules will govern, except that we reserve the right 
to regulate height and speed of unknown angles; and it will rest 
with the referee to use "no bang no bird" system, according to 
his judgment, i. e.. unless the referee shall judge that the 
shooter wilfully refused to fire his gun, another bird will be 
allowed. All purses (except 6 and 7 on Thursday, and 8 on 
Friday) will be divided into four moneys: 40, 30, 20 and 10 per 
cent. All ties will he divided or shot off in the next event. 
Each shooter in a tie may draw his pro rata. Shooting will 
commence promptly at 8.30 A. M." 
In the programme it will be found that all events are uniform 
both as regards entrance money and targets; each is at 15 tar- 
gets, §2 entrance. This, of course, is necessary wherever the 
graduated handicap is used. The second day's programme con- 
tains the "Owl team shoot," three men to a team, bona fide 
members of the same club, 30 targets to a man, viz, : 10 known, 
10 unknown, 10 expert rules. The Kansas vs. Missouri team 
shoot also takes place the sameday: this is a six man team race, 
25 targets per man, everything known. The sum of $10 is 
added to every purse in the ordinary sweepstakes, $50 being 
added to the Owl shoot purse; the club adds altogether about 
$300 in cash. The programme concludes with two pages of 
"Pointers," which contain a fund of information. The first of 
these "pointers" states that "Jack" Parker will rim the shoot. 
What they think of him in Weir City is best told in their own 
words: "To those who have never met him, we will say that the 
Business Men's Gun Club considers that the crowning success 
of their efforts to provide a good meeting has been achieved in 
securing this popular and practical representative of the trap 
in the capacity of manager." Railroad rates at a single fare 
and special hotel rates have also been secured. The "Weir City 
Hotel will be the headquarters of th 3 shooters. The closing 
sentence is: "Grounds will be open and traps ready for practice 
on Tuesday. May 7." 
For further particulars or programmes address W. W. Mc- 
llhany, Wen- City, Kansas. 
Bronx River Gun Club. 
West Farms, N. Y., March. — A few members of the Bronx 
River Gun Club put in en appearance at the club grounds this 
afternoon. Targets and live birds furnished the sport, five 
target events being decided first, followed by four live bird 
races, 5 birds each sweep, American Association rules govern- 
ing in all events. The live birds were a good lot of strong 
flyers, a brisk Wind aiding them materially. Scores: 
No. 1, 10 targets, everything known: Wheeler, 8; Nicholas, 
and McManus, 7; Edwards, 6. 
No. 2, same: Edwards aud McManus, 7; Usher and Nichols, 5. 
No. 3, same: Nichols, 10; Edwards, 9; Wheeler. 6; McManus, 
5; Usher and Martin, 4; Henry, 3; Sport, 1. 
No. 4, same: Nichols, 10; Edwards, 9; McManus, Blumenberg, 
Wheeler, and Hall, 6; Martin, 5; Sport, 3, 
No. 5, same: Edwards, Nichols, and Blumenberg, 9; Wheeler 
and Henry, 7; Hall, 6; McManus and Usher, 4. 
No. 6. No. 7. No. 8. No. 9. 
Wheeler 22120—4 22222—5 11102—4 21112—5 
McManus' 01212—4 02022—3 20000—1 10020—2 
Usher 10110—3 11111—5 02222—4 12221—5 
Blumenberg 12222—5 
Hall 00020—1 21220—4 
Nicholls.. 00202— 2— 11120-Ht— 22001— 3— 01112— 4 
Edwards 12222—5 
Knapp 12221—5 11102—4 
Lever Beat Terry. 
Marion, N. J., March 16.— W. W. Lever, of Elizabeth, N. J 
and Dan Terry, of Plainfield N. J., shot a race at 25 live 
birds, $100 a side, 28 yards rise, 50 yards boundary, use of one 
barrel only, gun in any position. Lever shot his opponent out on 
the 23d round, as shown in the score given below. Sweeps filled 
in the balance of the day at the traps. Among those present 
were: Neaf; Apgar, F. Van Dyke, Nate Astfalk, of Elizabeth, 
who acted as referee, Aaron Woodruff, H. Folsom, C. W. Todd, 
Blodgett, Wm. Ross, J. R. Dickson, Tom Brantingham, Scott 
Terry and his brother, William, John Benner, W. Schorbe, 
<~!apt. Cramer, Jerry Maher, E. A. Geoff roy, F. Batseh, Chris 
Reinhardt, etc. Scores: 
45 413334415 114 5 4423442 5 
W WLever 1 1 0 1 1 0 1 1 0 1 0 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 0 00 1 1-16 
3523. 1 4531 3 5 5 * 2 1 1 1 2 31314 
r ^ %TT *»Sj!!>s- 1 \ ?s T T T 
D Terry 1 011000101 111000101011 1—13 
No. 1, 4 birds, $3: Reinhardt and Capt. Jones, 3; J. Benner, 2. 
No. 2, * same: No. 3. No. 4. 
Ross 0120—2 1101200—4 2200—2 
Reinhard 1110—3 2121020—5 
Apgar....- 1221—4 2222102—6 2111-4 
Woodruff 2022—3 1 222102—6 2120 -3 
Jones 2101—3 1111110—6 
Terry 2021—3 1121122—7 
Folsom 1120 -3 1002000—2 0102—2 
Dickson 0110—2 0021202—4 2121—4 
Geoffroy 2101012—5 0022—2 
Jersey 1122112—7 
-No. 2 and 4 were same as No. 1; No. 3 was 7 birds, $5. 
No. 5, 10 birds, $5, two moneys: Geottroy, 9; Apgar and 
Woodruff, 8; Ross, C; Folsom, 5. 
Live Birds at Morristown. 
Morristown, N. J., March 12.— Frank Class, of this place, ad 
vertised a 50 bird race, $25 entrance, birds extra, for to-day. It 
was expected that Brewer, Elliott and several other crack shots 
of New York and New Jersey would be present. As it was, 
however, the field was composed of but four shooters, the scores 
they made being given below. Class shot in great form, killing 
49 out of 50; T. W. Morfey was second with 45, E. D. Fulford 
third with 44, while James Timmons of this place, could only 
total 39, falling , down very badly in his first 25. From the 
number of first barrel kills it looks as if every shooter was dead 
on most of his birds. Scores: 
Class 2 222122222221121112310 1 2 2-24 
212122121222222111122122 1-25-49 
Morfey, 
Fulford. 
...2 1212120022112022101 11 1 1 1-21 
111112112112121111 2 01121 1-24-45 
...1 11111*012 11211001111 111 1-21 
11112 110H 1 2 1 1 1 1 0 2 1 1 1 1 1 1 1-23-44 
Tmimons 3 1111002001211 11 00 1121 0 2 0-17 
1111111110213111*21111*1 1-22-39 
Rockaway Park Gun Club. 
it . T . he £- 16mber ? °/ the Rockaway Park Rod and Gun Club held 
their March club shoot on March 9. There was a fair attend- 
ance of shooters, who kept things moving in a lively manner 
untd nearly tram time; almost 2,000 targets were thrown dur- 
ing the day The captain of the club, "Schorty," does not 
believe m throwing targets so that anybody can break them • 
on the contrary, he screws the trap springs up to the highest 
notch and throws the targets as far and as fast as possible, the 
angles being very acute. "Expert rules" means practically 
one man up, five i, u known traps, the indicator beinsr turned 
for each shot. A glance at the conditions of the different 
events will show there was a great variety of styles of shooting:. 
The purses were divided under the "straight out" system ttofe 
present preferring that system to any other suggested hitherto 
John Fleming, Secretary of the Hill Rifle Club, Fifty-third 
street between Ninth and Tenth avenues, bossed the trap boys, 
and did his work, as usual, in an excellent manner. A. Roatli 
scored all the events, while J. Salmon, of Rockaway Park, did 
the greater part of the pulling of the traps. The referee's 
department was m charge of Henry Heyer, winner of the '95 
live bird badge of the North Side Gun Club, of Queens County, 
i'i i' number of targets thrown gives ample proof that 
all the work of the shoot, clerical or otherwise, was done in a 
prompt and satisfactory manner. Among those present were: 
laos, Lyons, ooe of tue,oldesfc trapshooters in this section, and a 
prominent member of the North Side Gun Club of Queens 
County, L. I. ; T. P. McKenna, a member also of the Emerald 
Club, and appropriately enough shooting Irish shells made by 
Weekes & Co., of Dublin, Ireland; H. Walsh, who says he now 
prefers Rockaway Park to Canarsie: C. "McManus," with his 
setter doer, a son of Gladstone; B. E. Wickes, John Ertell, J. 
and E. Bourke, ruling spirits of the club; J. Meyer, C. W. 
Wash, R. Woods, H. P. Scott (the club's Adonis), John Tier- 
nan, Major Spott, a gentleman fond of shooting with both gun 
and rifle, a veteran of the Franco- Prussian war, and a skilled 
taxidermist; Prof. Carl Dietz, M. Betz, L. H. Schort, B. 
Edwards, etc. Mr. Lyons is the inventor of the pulling appar 
atus used by this club, and by the New York County Gun Club 
In all pi obability he will have a specimen of this apparatus in 
use at the State shoot at Saratoga; it is many years since he 
missed a shoot of the State Sportsmen's Association. Scores 
made during the day are: 
No. 1, 15 targets, everything known; Schorty and Woods, 13; 
Scott, 12; Wash, 11; Walsh, 9; Edwards. 7. ; 
No. 2, 10 known angles, 10 expert rules and 5 pairs, handicap 
allowances: 
Woods 00111010010101010011 11 10 10 10 11-17 
Wash 11101011111110100111 11 10 11 10 10—22 
Edwards, 5 lllOOlllllllillllOlO 11 01 11 10 11—24 
Scott, 3 Ill 11111010001111001 11 00 00 10 00—17 
Schorty 10111111111101110111 11 11 10 00 10-23 
Walsh, 6 01000001000110110100 01 00 10 11 10—12 
No. 3, same as above: 
Woods, 5 11111111111111111011 10 10 10 11 11—26 
Wash 11111011111111101111 11 11 10 10 11—26 
Edwards 00101110101101111001 10 01 00 01 00—15 
Scott, 5 .01010111110011001001 11 11 00 11 00—17 
Schorty 11111101111111111110 10 11 10 11 11- -26 
Walsh, 8 01001010110110101100 10 11 01 10 11—17 
No. 4, 15 targets, everything known, handicap allowances: 
Walsh (3) 13, Heyer (1) 13, E. Bourke (3) 11, Woods 14, Scott 
(L 11, Schorty 12, Spott (3) 9, Wash 11, Edwards (1) 9. 
No. 5, 5 known angles, 5 expert rules, 7,walking match, second 
barrel count one-half, 4 pairs, handicap allowances: 
Edwards, 2 OOlllllllllllOlll 10 11 11 00—19 
Wash 11111110112111210 11 11 10 11—21 
Spntt, 5.. 10010101011000122 00 00 10 11—11 
E Bourke, 5. 11000100000211110 10 00 00 01— 9 1-2 
Walsh, 3 11110110010111011 00 00 10 10—14 
Scott. 2 00111101110111101^11 11 10 11—19 
Schorty 01111111110111112 11 00 11 11—20 1-2 
No. 6, 10 known angles, 10 expert rules: 
McKenna 00010010010010000010— 5 
Tiernan 1000011110111111 1111—15 
Wash 10111011111111111011—17 
Walsh 10111100001100010001— 9 
Edwards 11101101110011111011—15 
Woods 1111101 011 1111 011 101—16 
Schorty 11111101011011111111—17 
E Bourke 11101011000111101111—14 
Keim 11001001010100011110—10 
Spott 11011110110010101001—12 
Lyons 101 1111 01 10111 11 101 0—1 5 
McManus 0001 0101101 0000001 00—6 
Kalton 00000011010000000001— 4 
No. 7, 5 targets, walking match, second barrel to count one- 
half: Schorty 5, Edwards and Wash 3 1-2, Tiernan 3, McKenna 
2 1-2, Bourke 2, Keim 1-2, Spott 0. 
No. 8, same as No. 2: 
Edwards, 3 11101001111111001110 10 10 11 10 10—20 
Keim, 4 10110101110001101111 10 10 10 10 10-18 
Bowen, 2 11100010111101110110 10 10 10 10 11-19 
Wash 10110111111111101101 11 10 00 11 11—23 
Schorty 11111111110001010110 10 11 10 10 11—21 
Walsh, 5 01111010110001010001 10 10 00 11 10—15 
*MeKenna 00101001100000001100 10 10 01 10 10—11 
* s pott 11101001100000001011 01 00 00 00 10—11 
*J Bourke 11000000001000000000 00" 00 11 10 10— 7 
Lyons, 3 10110111010101100111 00 10 00 10 11-17 
*Meyer 01101001110000110000 00 10 10 00 10—11 
*Wickes 10010000110010000101 01 10 00 00 10—10 
*For targets only. 
No. 9, 15 known angles, 10 expert rules 
Tiernan 11 11011111101101111101101—20 
Edwards .1111001010010100111101110—15 
Wash 1100011111111001101001111—17 
Bowen 1101101001111101111010011—17 
Scott 1111010001011111001101000—14 
Schorty 0101101111101110111111111—20 
No. 10, 25 targets, expert rules: 
Tiernan 1110111100011111111110101—19 
Edwards 1111011101010111010111100—17 
Bowen 11110111101111111011101.10-20 
Wash 1110000011111111110101111-18 
Schorty 1110110010111100111011011—17 
Bourke 0101101101011011010010100—13 
No. 11, 25 targets, everything known: 
Tiernan 0110111111111101111101110—20 
Edwards 1110011110101110111111111—20 
Bowen llOlOUlllOOOlllllll mn_20 
Wash 1101101111011111011001001—17 
Schorty 1101111111111101111111111 -23 
JACK POT. 
New Utrecht Gun Club. 
On March 13, twelve members of the New Utrecht Gun 
Club, of Woodlawn, L. I., shot a special sweepstake under the 
the Club handicaps at the Eighty-Second Street and Third 
Avenue grounds. Class A men shot at 20 singles and 5 pairs- 
class B at 23 singles and 5 pairs; class C at 24 singles and 6 
pairs. Scores: 
D Deacon, A 11111111110110011111 —17 
D C Bennett, B 11110111010111101101111 —18 
M Van Brunt, A 11100111011111011111 —16 
PA Hegeman, C ., llllOllllOUOllllllllllO— 20 
GEGrieff, A 11111111101011011111 —17 
H P Fessenden, C OOOlOlOllOllUOlOllllOll— 15 
Dr Littlefield, B 11110011011111110000111 —16 
C Furgueson, Jr, A 11001110 110111001101 —13 
A A Hegeman, A 11101110111011111111 — 17 
M F Lindsley, A. 000000111 11011010101 —10 
J Lott, C OOOllllOllOOOOlllOOlOlOO—ll 
W Gilmap, C 100001011000000000011101— 8 
Five pairs. 
Deacon 10 11 11 10 11 _8 
Bennett 01 10 11 10 10 —6 
Van Brunt. 11011110 10 —7 
P A Hegemen 00 01 00 10 10 00—3 
Grieff 11 00 10 01 01 —5 
Fessenden 00 11 10 10 10 10—6 
Littlefield 00 11 00 10 00 —3 
Furgueson 01 11 11 00 10 —6 
A A Hegeman 00 00 00 w —0 
Lindsley 10 10 10 10 10 —5 
Bott r 00 00 01 10 01 10-4 
Gl ' man - 01 10 00 00 10 00-3 
lhe above totals show that DeacOn won first money and the 
prize donated by the Club with a total of 25 out of 30 The 
other shooters finished in the following order, the numbers in 
brackets showing the totals shot at: Bennett 33, 24- Van Brunt 
?°-' ^L%4' He S eman 36, 23; Grieff 30, 22; Fessenden 36 21- 
SmS f Tnt^R 19 i ; - F ^ UeS °o« 30 ln 19; He S erai * n §6, 17; Lindsley 
d0, 15; Lott 36, Id; Gilman 36, 10. J 
Woodlawn, L. 1., March 16 -This afternoon Ifourteen mem- 
bers of the New Utrecht Gun Club entered the seventh contest 
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