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FOREST AND STREAM. 
April 6, 1895. 
May 30- June 1.— Grand Rapids. Mich.— Valley City Gun Club's 
annual tournament under the auspices of the Interstate Associa- 
tion: targets; $500 added money. C. F. Rood, Sec. 
June 3-8 —Chicago, 111.— Illinois State Sportsmen's Association 
annual tournament. Convention at Sherman House, June 4. 
June 11-13— Memphis, Tenn.— Memphis Gun Club's annual 
tournament; §2.000 added money. 
June 13-14.— Fargo,N.D.— First annual tournament of the North 
Dakota State Sportsmen's Association; targets. Programmes 
ready May 15. W. W. Smith Sec'y. 
June 13-15— Omaha, Neb. — Annual tournament of the Nebraska 
State Sportsmen's Association: $500 added money. F. S. Parmeleo 
Sec. 
June 19-21.— Cleveland, O.— Chamberlain Cartridge and Tar- 
get Company's second annual tournament; $1,200 in cash added. 
June 24-28.— Saratoga, N. Y.— Annual tournament of the New 
York State Sportsmen's Association, under the auspices of the 
Saratoga Gun Club. H. M. Levengston, See. 
July 11-12. — Altoona, Pa.— Third annual tournament of the 
Altoona Rod and Gun Club at Wopsononock; targets. W. G. 
Clark, Sec. 
July 17-18.— Macon, Ga.— Tournament of the Interstate Associa- 
tion under the auspices of the Macon Gun Club; S200 added. 
Aug. 20-24. — Holmesburg, Pa, — Pennsylvania State Sports- 
men's fifth annual tournament, under the auspices of the Key- 
stone Shooting League, of Philadelphia. John C. Shalleross, Sec., 
Frankford, Pa. 
Aug. 29-31.— Hot Springs , S. D. — Hot Springs Gun Club's sec- 
ond annual tournament. 
Oct. 9-11. — Newburg, N. Y. — West Newburg G. and R. Asso- 
ciation tournament. W. C. Gibb. See. 
Control of Trap-Shooting. 
At the meeting held January 24, at the Astor House, by a num- 
ber of representative trap-shooters, a committee was appointed to 
draw up a constitution and by-laws for a National Trap-Shooters' 
Association. The committee is composed of Major R. H. Breint- 
nall, W. H. "Wolstencroft, B. C. Everinghim, L. H. Schortemeier 
and Edward Banks. The by-laws, which they will submit at the 
meeting of April 3, are given below: 
PROPOSED BY-LAWS. 
No. 1. The order of business at all meetings shall be: 
I. Roll-call, receiving of credentials, and payment of dues. 
II. Reading of the ininutes of previous meeting. 
III. Communications. 
IV. Reports of officers. 
V. Reports of committees. 
VI. Unfinished business 
VII. New business. 
VIII. Election of Governors. 
No. 2. No member shall speak more than twice on any one 
question, nor more than five minutes at any one time, unless with 
the assent of the meeting. 
No. 3. Every member present shall be required to vote on all 
questions, unless he is directly or personally interested, or excused 
by a majority vote of the members present. 
No. 4. Tu all cases of charges preferred, as provided by the Con- 
stitution, such charges must be made in writing, and filed with 
the Secretary-Treasurer, who shall forthwith serve a copy of the 
same upon the person charged, and the Chairman of the Tourna- 
ment Board. 
No. 5. The Chairman of the Tournament Board shall give notice 
1o the person chai'ged of the time and place of trial, which shall 
be not less than ten nor more than twenty days from the time of 
receiving such charges, by mail, addressed to his last known place 
of residence or business, and he shall be given an opportunity to 
be heard in defense. 
No. 6. Like notice shall also be sent to the President of the 
State Association, in which the person charged resides or trans- 
acts business, and to each member of the Tournament Board. 
No. 7. The Board shall report the result of all trials and the 
penalty inflicted, if any. within five days thereafter, to the Secre- 
tary-Treasurer, filing with such report the testimony taken. 
No. 8. Immediately upon receiving sach report, the Secretary- 
Treasurer shall notify the person against whom charges have 
been preferred, of the result of the trial, and the findings of the 
Tournament Board, and the time to appeal shall run from the 
date of mailing such notice. 
No. 9. At least ten days' notice or the time and place of the 
hearing of an appeal, takon as provided in the Constitution, shall 
be given to the appellant, and such appeal must be heai-d and de- 
termined within thirty days after notice thereof has been re- 
ceived and the decision of "the Executive Committee published in 
at least one representative sporting paper. 
No. 10. State Associations shall, by reason of membership, as 
provide 1 in the Constitution, have the right of representation and 
vote in meetings of the Tournament Board, for the trial of all per- 
sons living in their respective States, against whom charges shall 
be preferred. 
Such representation shall be by the President, or in his ab- 
sence, the Vice-President of the State Association. 
■ State Associations shall be entitled to a voice at all meetings of 
the Association, but without vote. 
No, 11. These by-laws msi y be amended at any meeting of the 
Association by a two-thirds vote, provided that notice of the pro- 
posed amendment shall have been duly filed with the Secretary- 
Treasurer, and published in at least one representative sporting 
paper, at least thirty days before such meeting. 
DRIVERS AND TWISTERS. 
This is the Grand American Handicap week, the greatest live 
bird event of its kind in the country. In the next issue of 
Forest and Stream, that of April 13, will appear all the scores 
made at Willard Park, Forest and Stream recognizing the fact 
that in every section of this country there are trapshooters 
who want to know just what was done at this meeting. 
Manager Shaner, of the' Interstate Association, announces 
that the association will give a tournament at Macon, Ga., 
under the auspices of the Macon Gun Club, on July 17 and 18, 
the Macon Gun Club adding .$200 to the purses. 
A feature of the af ternoon's sport at the Springfield tourna- 
ment of the New Jersey Trapshooters' League on Wednesday, 
March 27, was the pursuit and capture of an English snipe by 
B lly Drake, A. Sickley, Aaron WoodrufTand John Hoffman. 
A pointer dog spent the best part of the day ranging a small 
swamp just out of guashot of the score, repeatedly flushing an 
English snipe. After the team race the four shooters above 
named advanced on the swamp, bringing the bird back with 
them. 
The success of the Interstate Association's live bird tourna- 
ment at Willard Park, Paterson, N J., is assured. The regular 
entry list closed on Saturday, March 30, with the great total of 
57 entries, an increase of three over last year's entry list. With 
57 shooters entered in the main event, it is a moral certainty 
that the side trap events wdl be well filled. 
The Auburn, N. Y., Gun Club's tournament on April 17 and 
18 next is open to all, nobody barred. I understand that this 
club is a candidate for next year's (1896) State shoot. It's 
record in '88 is a good guarantee of it's being able to run a 
State shoot successfully. 
fj Mr. T. W. Sisty, of Dunellen, N. J., writes that the Dnnellen 
Gun Club will have an all day shoot on Friday, April It). He 
adds: "We have spacious grounds, with a separate live bird 
boundary alongside our target score, and have recently placed 
in position 5 empire targets and an empire electric pull Our 
grounds are three minutes walk from Dunellen station, and 
are therefore decidedly accessible. We will have programmes 
ready for distribution in a few days, and will offer two cash 
prizes for first and second averages. If we can get 200 or 300 
extra good birds; we will also have a 7 or 10 live bird sweep, in 
addition to the target events." 
John Rothaeker and "Dtitchy" Smith are booked to shoot a 
live bird match against Al. Rust, of Philadelphia, Pa., and 
Charlie Zwirlein, of Yardvill«, N. J., on April 23. The match, 
which is for $35 a corner, 25 live birds per man, will be decided 
on Zwirlein's grounds at Yardville. 
" Fred Hoey has been doing some record work on live birds at 
Rome, Italy. Full details are not to hand, but a run of 50 
straight shows that Hoey is upholding the honor of the stars 
and stripes, in a manner that, cannot but be satisfactory to 
every American trapshooter. 
Irby Bennett, of Memphis, Tenn., the Southern representa- 
tive of the Winchester Repeating Arms Company, is in town. 
The details of the Memphis tournament have been sliarhtly 
altered in a manner that I think will add to the popularity of 
the big shoot next June. The programmes, which will be out 
shortly, will make very interesting reading. The tournament, 
by the way, has been made one of three days, not four days, as 
previously announced; the dates now are June 11-13. 
Capt. Bartlett, of the Burgess Gun Company, has arrived in 
the East after a long business tour in the South. Bartlett will 
now be found breaking targets in all the big tournaments: he'is 
shooting this week at Willard Park. 
"Sim" Glover, the Rochester crack, came to New York on 
Monday of this week. Glover entered in the Grand American 
Handicap some time ago, and had a gun built for him specially 
for the Interstate's tournament at Willard Park. Somehow 
the gun didn't come up to his expectations, so Skn spent Mon- 
day trotting around to borrow a suitable weapon. 
My apologies are hereby tendered the Secretary of the 
Rockaway Point Rod and Gun Club for the omission of the 
scores of his club's March sh^ot for this issue. Where those 
same scores have hidden themselves is a mystery. 
Roxhorough, Pa., has a new gun club, which is known as the 
Gentleman's Gun Club. It was organized on March 27, with 
William Clegg as President; Jacob Boehret, Treasurer, and 
Charles Knettle, Secretary. 
The McClure Gun Club, of Chester, Pa., has elected the fol- 
lowing as its officers: President, N. W. Garvine; Vice-President, 
John Driscoll: Secretary, J. B Nelling; Recording Secretary, 
W. J. Tazewell; Treasurer, Thomas P. Fennell; Captain, Wil- 
liam Gibbs: Directors, John Oliver and W. H. Hall. 
The Brooklyn, N. Y., Times, of March 28, contained the 
following, which will be of interest to a large number of live 
bird shooters in this section: "The Nassau Gun Club passed 
into history yesterday afternoon after its shoot at Dexter 
Park, and hereafter the famous old Fountain Club will shoot 
on the samp grounds on the same day. As it was the last shoot 
of the Nassau Club, so it was the first outing of ihe Fountain 
Club in many months. Each organization competed for its 
own prize. The Fountain's brought with them a solid silver 
cup, presented by Vice-President William R. Brixey, which is 
to be oompeted for, for eighteen months Then each man will 
take the total of his highest six scores, and if any of the mem- 
bers should tie, such ties must be decided in a 25 bird race." 
Mr. Edward C. Meacham, late President of the E. C. 
Meacham Arms Company, of St. Louis, died on March 26. Mr. 
Meacham was well-known to sportsmen and to the sporting 
goods' dealers of this country, particularly in the South. The 
company will continue to do business under the same name. 
Judging from the way the boys are talking, the Boston 
Shooting Association's tournament at Wellington, Mass., on 
April 9-11, should be extremely well attended. 
The New Jersey Trapshooters' League has devised an excel- 
lent scheme for keeping up local interest in trapshooting in its 
monthly tournaments. The team races at their monthly races 
are always closely watched, and produce a very satisfactory 
number of entries. The next tournament takes place at 
Maplewood on April 11. 
The Interstate Association has perfected its plans for a great 
campaign in the South this season, and the Southern gun clubs 
are not backward in showing that they appreciate the efforts 
of the association .to further the interests of trapshooting, as 
well as to advertise the various companies comprising the asso- 
ciation. 
The orogramme of the ninth annual tournament of the Ohio 
Trapshooters' League, which will be held May 14-16 at Dayton, 
Ohio, under the auspices of the Buckeye Gun Club, arrived at 
this office on Monday of this week. A notice of its contests will 
appear shortly. EDWARD BANKS. 
Illinois State Sportsmen's Association. 
Chicago, 111., March 30. — The executive committee of 
the Illinois State Sportsmen's Association met at the 
Sherman House, this city, last Thursday night, at 8 p. m., 
a full membership being out, also President Shepard, of 
the association and Secretary Meyers, together with John 
Watson, of Watson's Park, where the State tournament 
is held. The business of the meeting had to do mainly 
with the tournament preparations, and much of the busi- 
ness was routine, connected with the membership of 
clubs, payment of dues. etc. There are about thirty 
clubs in good and regular standing, and the shoot would 
be a great one even if it had no open tournament, as it al- 
ways does. The committee gave the programme print- 
ing to Mr. Herman B. Meyers, the obliging and efficient 
secretary. Mr. Watson said that he would make his cus- 
tomary donation to the association for the open pro- 
gramme, which will, as usual, follow upon the close of 
the State events. Mr. Watson really gives this open 
shoot himself, though it has always been held under the 
auspices of the association, and he always follows im- 
plicitly the association 's suggestions in details. The com- 
mittee will send out a circular to the trade asking for 
merchandise donations, all prizes to be accounted for 
prior to May 1. 
There was considerable talk over the handicap question. 
Mr. Meyers said that a great many young shooters had 
come to him and said they could not afford to go into a 
shoot and be "wolfed out" of their money. He thought 
a good plan would be to take the style of "non winner" 
handicap used on the turf, by which a winner of an event 
could nob qualify to win any event following. Thus, a 
winner of first in the open sweep would fall out, as would 
the next winner of first and so on. The experts thus 
gradually dropping out, the poorer shots would be left in 
to contend among themselves on a more equal footing, 
and would so stand a chance of getting an occasional 
look at some money. At the same time, a set of traps 
could be provided for the experts, so that they would not 
be left idle after falling out of the unclassified sweep as 
above mentioned. The idea seemed to meet with some 
favor. A tournament committee, consisting of Messrs. 
R. B. Organ, L. N. Hamiline and C. S. Wilcox was ap- 
pointed, and will have charge of all handicapping, etc. 
under the shooting regulations. These may take measures 
to follow the present strong sentiment against crooked 
shooting at their shoot in June. Mr. Watson thought it 
would be very hard to prove a case of dropping, but did 
not object to the appointment of a referee to watch the 
shooting and expel any shooter found guilty of dishonest 
shooting. No referee has been appointed, and it may be 
none will be, but the association might now very wpII 
take cognizance of the fact that there has been much 
progress in such matters of late, and progress of a sort 
much worth their while to imitate if they wish to be well 
up with the current of shooting affairs. Chicago is en- 
titled to front, rank among shooting cities, and should be 
behind in no vital issue. It should be the first^to expel 
the dropper from the society of ^shooters. 
909 Security Building, Chicago. [E. Hough. 
lave birds at Wilmerding. 
Wilmerding, Pa., March 23. — Four members of the Wilmer- 
ding Gun Club shot a race at live birds this afternoon on the 
private grouuds of Mr. J. S. Mcintosh, each man shooting at 
25 pigeons. The birds were a good lot of strong flyers that 
were hard to stop, there being so many drivers among them. 
The dead birds were retrieved in first class style by Mr. John 
Brant's English setter dog, Art. Scores: 
Bishop 10202002002*2110022011121—1 5 
J. S. Mcintosh 102221112*110101022011121—19—34 
F. Mcintosh 10112102012*11**112121102— 18 
W. Sharrard. 122001*0000*0*211111110X1-12 -30 
A. A. MACKERT. 
Campbell Beat Brocaw- 
The scores given below were made on March 19 at Yardville, 
N. J. The occasion was a match between L. Campbell, of 
Little Silver, N. J., and W. J. Brocaw, of Easton, Pa., Camp- 
bell winning by three birds. Match was shot under the new 
Long Island rules, conditions being as follows: 
35-live birds, 25 yards rise, 50 yards boundary, $100 a side: 
L. Cam pbell 1011111110110111 011111110 
1001010111 — 2fi 
W. G. Brocaw 1110010111101001110100110 
0111111011 —23 
Hartford Gun Club. 
Hartford, Conn., March 30 —The Hartford Gun Club's pro- 
gramme for its all day shoot on April 12, includes the following 
events: Seven 10 target races at 50 cents entrance; one 15 target 
race, §1 entrance; one 20 target race, $2 entrance, and a 25 
target race, $2 50 entrance. Targets are extra at 2 cents each. 
Purses divided into four moneys, and all events at known 
angles. 
The scores made in the weekly club shoot this afternoon were 
as follows: 
" Ford » ' 0110111111111101111111111—22 
Risley 1111101111110111111001111—21 
Viberts OlllllllllllllOlllllOOlll— 21 
Goodwin OOllllllOlimillOlOOllll— I'.i 
Melrose 0011IOO[11111110111011101— 18 
Tucker 11 11 011 1 1 1 001 1110000 1 1 1 1 1— 18 
Wads worth 0001111011111. 1 001 1 1 1101 \1— 18 
Hopinns ,110000111011110111110101 1 — IT 
Seyton 00010111101 lOlUOlOlOllll-16 
Lucas 110000111101010011U 11110— 10 
Collins 0001110111010111100110011—15 
Smith 1100001011100100110011011—12 
D. S. WADS WORTH, Secretary. 
Bronx River Gun Club. 
West Farms, N. Y., March 30.— The members of the Bronx 
Ri ver Gun Club held their monthly shoot for the medals iu 
classes A, B and C. Dr. Jno. P Adams aud C, White led for 
the medal in Class A, White winniug in the shoot off; H, 
Fensterer won in Class B, the Class C medal going to B. 
Cruger.: Scores: E. P. Miller. 20; Dr. Jno. P. Adams, 19; C. 
White, 19; H, Fensterer, 19; B. G. Loomis, 17; H. Cathcart, 
10; Jas. Duane, 16; Bertram Cruger, 10; C. H. Dittmar, 9. The 
shoot was at 25 targets per man. The next club shoots take 
place on April 13 and 27. 
JOHN T. MURPHY, Secretary. 
Dayton— Freehold- New Brunswick. 
The third aud last match in the series of three-cornered races 
between the gun clubs of Dayton, Freehold and New Bruns- 
wick, was decided on Saturday, March 23, on the grounds of 
the Brunswick gun club, The teams were 12 men, each man 
shooting at 30 targets, expert rules. The weather conditions 
were all that could be wished. Dayton won with the score of 
252 to 242 for Freehold and 226 for the Bruns wickers. Scores: 
Dayt m. 
Farr 110100110011001101111110100101—18 
Snook 001110110101001101110101010111—19 
P Emmons 100111010111011111001011111 101—21 
Doc Carroll 111111101111101111010111101110—21 
McDonald 011110101011101111101001101101—20 
J Emmons 001001010100100011000111011011—14 
Rightmire 10100 1 100111100 1 1 1 0 1 101 10111 10—20 
C H Allen lllllll 111110111011 UUlOlllll— 27 
Barclay 100111101110101111111110111101—23 
Blackwell UOllOllOlllllOOllllll 11111011— 24 
Clinton 11000001111001000111101 1011010— 17 
F Vandyk" lllOlllllOllllllllllOOlOllllll— 25— 252 
Freehold. 
Throckmorton 100011010101110011100101110011—17 
H Davis llliOllllOlllliOllUOlOOllOOl 1—22 
Campbell 1 01101 10001110110 1101 11001 1 111— 20 
Hall 110010111110110101111111010001—20 
Burtis 011101010100101101110100011111—18 
VauSchoick 111111100101111001111011111111—24 
Hance 110011111111001111101111010111—23 
Snyder 11100110101011111001100 illlOll— 19 
Deuise 111111111100010011100101101001—18 
Laird .0100011011100000111101 1 1111100-17 
Conover 110111101111011110001110111110—22 
Walling OllOllimilOllOlOlllOUllOllO— 22— 242 
Brunswick. 
J Hoagland 110011011011111011011001111101—21 
Doc Iredell 111001110110111000001111000001—16 
Reynolds 1101101 1100011111110101010111 1—21 
McDowell 011011011110101110111010110011—22 
J Fisher - HOOIUIIOOIOOOOOOIH 1 11101001—17 
H Smith 0101x0001000011101100110010101—14 
Mundy OOlOlllllCOllllllOlOOOOllOlOlO— 16 
AValker 010100101101001000010100011001—13 
C Oakley OOlllOlOLlllllllOllllOOlOllOlO— 20 
V Voorhees llllllOllOOlOllOllllOlllllllll— 24 
R Pettit 111110111111111111111110110010—25 
W Sperling 100111101001101010101010011011—1 7—226 
Live Birds at Yardville. 
Yardville, N. J., March 29.— A fifty bird race was shot here 
to-day at Zwirlein's giouuds, the contestants being Gib Geiber- 
son and F. Van Dyke. Each man shot from the 30 yards mark 
the stake being $50 a side. Van Dyke struck a bad streak in his 
first 25 losing 8 of them against 4 birds lost by Geiberson. La 
the second 25, Van Dyke pulled up very fast, tieing his op- 
