June 29, 1895.] 
FOREST AND STREAM. 
641 
BLUE ROCK SECOND ANNUAL. 
Early Days in Cleveland. 
Cleveland, 0., June 20. — Early in the present century about sun- 
down a solitary horseman might have been discovered wending: his 
way along the best bank of the Cuyahoga River toward the shore of 
Lake Erie, where the Indians had just started the town of Cleveland. 
At that time the Maumee River ran through Cleveland, but has been 
moved over to Toledo since, because Toledo was always crying for its 
Maumy and Cleveland wasn't; so that was how it happened, and this 
is why the solitary horseman rode along the Cuyahoga and not the 
Maumee, as was stated in the first place. The solitary rider was Paul 
North on his good horse Blue Rock, and he discovered Cleveland and 
organized the first tournament among the Indians on the lake front, 
and when the oyster shells gave out they made artificial oyster shells 
and called them Blue Rocks, after the horse. So that was where tar- 
gets began and also where tournaments began, and that is why the 
Blue Rock annual tournament came to be known as the great grandpa 
shoot of all the target fixtures. The old Chamberlin tournaments 
made of history back in the '80s, and no shoots have ever attracted 
more attention or brought together a more typical collection of the 
noted shots of the country, or offered a more numerous, more hotly 
contested or more valuable competition. Every year the shooters 
from all over the country drift into Cleveland to "lay in a stock of new 
shoes for the baby. Every year the fame of Cleveland, of the Cham- 
berlin Cartridge and Target Co., and of Paul North and his good horse 
Blue Rock, spreads wide and wide through the land, so that each year 
this shoot becomes more representative and more elaborate, and has 
more expected of it by the critical shooters of America. 
. There were several of the old Chamberlin tournaments so sailed, 
and since the consolidation into the Chamberlin Cartridge 
and Target Co., there have been two, including that of the 
present year. It is the history of the great tournament 
centers for the most part that they rise, reach their zenith 
and decline in a few years, but the vitality of the Chamberlin fixture 
has proved such that it may be said to be no more than in the prime 
of life long after other series of shoots have passed into the sere and 
yellow leaf. Nowhere has the sport of artificial target shooting had 
better stimulus of brains and cash, and to no other source of benefit 
are the shooters of the country more indebted than to the liberal 
management which has always backed these shoots. This year the 
handsome sum of $1,200 was added to the purses, from $30 to $50 
being added to each event of the three days 1 programme. It is no 
wonder that inducements so royal (with the usual high average badge 
and $150 to the next fifteen guns) brought out the great attendance of 
the present week. Knoxville, with $3,000 added, had 102 shooters. 
Memphis, with $2,000 added, had only 104. With $1,200 cash and a 
prestige built on years of success, the Blue Rock annual for '95 called 
out 96 shooters the first day and 86 the second. The additional 
shooters up to the above records would be costing $100 to $200 apiece 
for three days, so that the Cleveland event can only be called a great 
one, both in numbers and in financial basis. In fact it is one of the 
regular and popular fixtures of the year, and its reputation is a name 
to conjure with. If we say that the Blue Rock second annual is up to 
the standard of the past, we shall have made very critical and very 
satisfactory comment upon it. In spite of unfavorable weather, 
which is the worst handicap a shoot can have, the event was an entire 
success, as usual, as reference, to the masses of scores will show. 
THE NEW GROUNDS. 
The grounds chosen for this year's tournament were the old East 
End Club grounds, formerly used as a rifle range. They lie at the top 
of a high plateau which rises back of the "Blue Rock Springs." A 
swift trolley ride through the best of the beautiful city of Cleveland 
brings one to the foot of a steep defile through a heavy native forest. 
At the summit is a wide green expanse, fringed on the ravine side 
with heavy foliage, and rimmed on the background with great native 
trees. Here lay the cosy club house, the high pullers' boxes, the sev- 
eral tents, canopies, etc., which furnished the ample accommodations 
for the shooters. Two sets of the famous bluerock traps with handy 
low screening were backed by a planked firing floor, which was pro- 
tected by a wide canvas awning. Seats were placed under the tents 
back of this. A blackboard was located at each end of the long score, 
the pullers being id towers high above the score in the middle of the 
line. Of course the electric pulls were used. With Paul North con- 
stantly on hand to supervise the shooting, and Mr. J. H. Webster, of 
the Chamberlin Cartridge and Target Co., presiding over the books, 
it need not be said that the event passed off smoothly and with perfect 
system. AH arrangements were made for a good shoot, and a good 
shoot was had. They were not there for anything else. The Republi- 
can League convention, which crowded the Cleveland hotels and made 
them uncomfortable stopping places, did not give as good a show as 
the Blue Rock second annual, and did not play to as good business. 
SICK AND ABSENT. 
The table which follows will show the personnel of the shooters, 
and their places of residence. It will be seen that the shooters came 
from a very wide range of country. The East was very well repre- 
sented, the West and the South fairly so. The three plucky Texans, 
Holzapfel, Moore and Miller, came on to Cleveland from Memphis 
shoot, and they are going on to New York shoot from here— a good 
instance of how far from home the tournament circuit can take a 
lover of the game. Some of the stand-bys expected did not arrive, 
notably Rolla Heikes, who was taken seriously sick with a fever after 
Memphis shoot, and is now at home at Dayton, O. Rolla probably 
got malaria on his fishing trip in Arkansas. Van Dyke was sick when 
he struck Cleveland . Tom Keller also was badly out of sorts, and 
went home at the end of the second day. Still another unfortunate 
was Billy Wolstencroft, of Philadelphia, who came all the way out 
here to shoot, but was taken very badly sick and never got to fire a 
shot in the three days. Col. Anthony bids fair to reach North 
Carolina in good health, and LeRoy Woodward, the Massachusetts 
prodigal, is now one week nearer to the town of Oampello. On the 
contrary, Mascrof t, Dickey and Eager were headed the other way from 
Massachusetts when they struck that bank of the Cuyahoga mentioned 
earlier as traversed by Mr. North in early days. 
There was the usual day of preliminary practice, about 60 guns 
taking part Tuesday. The "Pumphrey Equitable" handicap was tried. 
The experts thought it was good for the amateur, but not for them. 
The rules governing the shooting in the programme events were as 
below: Money divided 25, 25, 20, 15 and 15 per cent. All shooting at 
known traps and unknown angles. No handicap applied to events 
Nos. 1, 2, 3 and 4 each day. Events Nos. 5, 6, 7 and 8 each day shot 
under the Bluerock handicap. A $50 diamond watch charm given for 
best average in all events. No one barred. Fifteen cash prizes of $10 
each ($150) given to the next fifteen high averages in all events. Manu- 
facturers' agents barred from winning any of these prizes. A. S. A 
revised rules governed. A 10-gauge handicap was adopted, they to 
shoot at reverse traps, but only two 10-bores appearing, and there 
being a misunderstanding over the handicap of these two shooters, by 
consent of the other shooters this handicap was removed. 
Of course, in these days there are many different plans of attempt- 
ing to solve the vexing question of experts, agents and amateurs. 
The one adopted here was called the Bluerock handicap. It was ap- 
plied only to the four 20-bird races each day, the 15-bird events being 
without handicap. The method was this: All shooting at known 
traps and unknown angles. All manufacturers' agents and profes- 
sionals allowed to share in the first, second and third divisions of the 
purses only, at any time. All others winning or sharing in first, 
second or third divisions in one event must reach first, second or third 
divisions in the following event or be out of a place. Having failed 
to get a place in any event, they to be entitled to compete for all of 
the divisions in the next event, the scores in each event forming the 
basis for handicapping in the following event. It is too much to ex- 
pect of any handicap that it will give satisfaction to all the shooters 
but the daily record of entry will show that the handicap did not 
create a disbanding influence. 
The targets were thrown very nicely and evenly, not very hard and 
not too easy, but fair above the screens and at practicable angles. 
At times during the cloudy evening hours the background proved 
trying. 
A wise provision, and one showing the care and forethought ex- 
pended in the arrangements for this tournament, was the daily in- 
crease in the amount of money added. The first day had $280, the 
second $310, the third $380. This with the fifteen average prizes to- 
those who shot the programme made great incentive to stay through 
the whole three days— something on which tournament managements 
must always be doing plenty of thinking. 
The above synopsis of the shooting rules will show how carefully 
everything had been considered in advance, and how thoroughly orig- 
inal and up to date in every respect the Blue Rock second annual was 
The company and the able executive branch which had it in charge 
may feel assured that all the promise of their attractive programme 
was more than carried out, and that they have scored another success 
for the "Chamberlin shoots"— as the shooters of the country continue 
to call them. 
THE DROPPERS DROPPED UPON. 
The foregoing comment on the Blue Rock tournament for 1895 would 
show it to be a good shoot, well conducted and well attended. In this 
regard it would not be absolutely unique, for there are many good 
shoots run in the course of the year. "Set in one respect, and a very 
notable one, this tournament was unique and absolutely unparalleled 
in the history of any recent trap shooting. 
Dropping for place was detected and punished! 
Time out of mind managements have hung up the warning that 
dropping would not be tolerated, but the shooters have never seen the 
threat enforced, and have come to regard it as a dead letter. The 
men who do that sort of thing were at Cleveland in good force, and as 
usual they began to ply their tidy trade at the first opportunity. On 
the first day there was not so much of it. On the second day a dozen 
men were openly and notoriously playing the places, and there was 
much comment on it among the shooters. As usual, no one liked to 
say anything about it to the management, and Paul North, busy with 
the thousand details of the field hustling, had no inkling of the state 
of affairs. On the last day of the shoot the place-playing became still 
more open, and Paul North got a suspicion of it. Two shooters espe- 
cially who were paying their entries one shoot at a time, and going in 
at the foot of the list, attracted attention. At the score these two, 
John A. Ruble, of Chicago, and young Thomas, of Logansport, Ind., 
were both 16 out of 18, with two birds each to shoot. A friend ran up 
to one of them and whispered something and both men turned and 
looked at the blackboard. Then they both missed their last two birds, 
so going into the 16 hole. At once on seeing this Paul North stepped 
up to the two men and told them that their entry would thereafter be 
declined. Two shoots, Nos. 7 and No. 8, were thus barred for them, 
and both shooters left the grounds. 
For Ruble, whose tournament record is a notorious one, no sym- 
pathy whatever was expressed by any one, and it was agreed by all 
the shooters that he had had only tardy justice. In the case of Thomas 
the matter was a little different. This boy is only 16 years of age, and 
just starting out shooting. Hub parents are reported excellent people, 
who surely would not like to think their son guilty of any dishonor- 
able action. Probably the boy himself, mistaught by wrong associa- 
tions, thought he was doing something smart and not dishonorable in 
thus dropping into a money where he did not belong. One can only 
feel regret that it was this youth and not some of the dozen older and 
deliberate sinners who received justice at the hands of the manage- 
ment, but it cannot be denied that justice was done, and had the proof 
been brought to view in the other cases they also would have had 
justice. Let us believe that Mr. Thomas will not take this hardly or 
bitterly, hut will set in better order the early ways of his growth as a 
shooter. 
This, then, is at least one instance of a management which thought 
proof of sufficiently good sort was at hand to fasten the charge of 
dropping on a shooter. It has always been said, "You can't prove it." 
That is all nonsense. It can be proved sufficiently well to bar the dropper 
out of the further competitions. It can be proved in a great many 
more cases when a management has sand enough to look for proof. 
Proof as good as the above is nearly always at hand. A great many 
are always sayin g that dropping is very much in the mind of news- 
paper men, and that to condemn it is evidence of "crankiness." If to be 
just plain honest is to be cranky, then let us have more cranks, plenty 
of them, all we can get. In that the management here enforced the doc- 
trine that it hung up, namely the doctrine of plain honesty. No one 
given to the crime of honesty can to anything but glory in their firm- 
ness and their justice. I am willing to say that Paul North went up 
about a mile high in my estimation at one jump. After continually 
reading this regular programme bluff at dropping over and over again, 
all over the country, and never seeing a hand raised to enforce it, I am 
glad at length to see one man and one management not scared to do the 
square thing. I am .sorry for the young boy who suffered by this, 
but I am glad of the incident, and I sincerely believe that that one 
incident is of more value to trap shooting, of more value to the 
Chamberlin Cartridge and Target Co., than all the rest of this tourna- 
ment, good as it was. The times are going to change in trap shooting 
in this country. The old ways will not do. The crookedness will have to 
go. The day of plain honesty will have to co me. 
NEXT YEAR'S BLUE ROCK DATE. } 
The management on the last evening of the shoot announced that 
it would claim this same week in 1896 for the Blue Rock Third Annual. 
First Day. 
All events during this tournament were at 
Nob. 1, 2, 3 and 4, $30 was added; to Nos. 5 to 
money was $3 in each event. 
Events: 13 3 45678 
Targets: 15 15 15 15 SO SO SO 20 
Walton .... 13 11 10 12 19 17 18 17 
Flick 15 10 14 11 16 15 17 20 
Smeck 15 14 13 13 19 18 16 19 
Andrews... 14 13 13 15 20 18 14 .. 
Fulford.... 13 15 15 14 19 20 19 16 
"Weller" ..13 7 7 8 17 15 14 16 
Peck 15 11 13 13 38 18 18 19 
Williams... 9 11 13 13 14 37 14 17 
IJpson 13 12 12 34 18 19 18 20 
"Kiota".... 15 12 13 14 19 18 36 17 
Graham.... 15 14 15 12 15 34 38 20 
"Redwing" 35 34 15 35 38 20 39 38 
VanDyke.. 15 12 11 12 39 38 20 39 
Trimble ... 35 13 13 30 19 19 20 20 
Gambell... 13 14 13 15 20 20 19 20 
"Ray" 14 12 15 14 20 18 IS 20 
Waadell.... 32 30 12 12 15 17 .. .. 
Anthony .. 14 11 13 13 17 18 14 16 
Harrison... 14 9 34 14 16 36 35 17 
Shaaber.... 8 12 12 9 18 16 15 19 
Melot 8 11 12 7 16 12 15 13 
Bibbee 12 12 13 33 38 14 12 
Burton 13 13 13 14 35 33 ... 
Elliott 14 12 11 13 17 15 16 18 
Wheeler... 13 13 14 14 18 19 19 18 
Eager 14 11 13 14 17 38 19 19 
Davis 14 13 12 9 15 37 18 20 
Rennick... 13 15 14 11 17 36 .. .. 
Browning... 35 34 34 33 3S 37 37 20 
Young 34 33 33 35 39 20 18 17 
J Br'wning 14 13 14 33 39 38 37 18 
Becker.... 34 33 33 34 38 39 38 38 
Bigelow.... 14 13 14 15 18 18 17 19 
Alexander. 15 14 13 11 16 16 11 19 
Powers. ... 14 14 14 12 19 18 20 19 
Ruble 13 13 14 31 17 19 17 17 
Budd 33 13 14 11 20 14 19 19 
Bird 12 9 12 34 34 14 16 14 
Landis 10 12 13 12 16 17 20 . . 
Sanders.... 12 9 12 9 15 13 . . . . 
Schoonover 13 11 13 1116.. 15 
Fry 12 
Weakland.. 10 
Events: 
Targets : 
Dickey , 
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15 15 15 15 20 20 SO SO 
11 10 14 13 18 19 19 17 
9 9 11 17 15 14 10 16 
Mascrof t 
Modoc 13 9 11 11 Anson 
Hammond. 12 35 13 15 20 38 38 35 
Watts 32 13 33 33 36 
Toby 6 33 12 7 16 .. 14 16 
Rich 9 31 13 12 12 14 .. 15 
Quimby.... 11 11 11 9 
Valentine.. 11 12 11 14 39 38 32 36 
Thomas.... 12 .. 13 12 10 16 17 13 
Osmun .... 9 
AKIeinman 14 13 14 32 17 18 18 16 
CJW 11 .. 10 
Events: 13345678 
Targets: 15 15 15 15 SO SO SO SO 
Bumstead.. 5 6 
Miller 12 10 
13 16 
Stein 13 14 12 10 14 
Speer 10 9 33 11 15 
Sanders.... 8 12 7 .. 11 
Rublfi 15 12 34 35 36 .. 20 20 
Greiff 12 15 10 12 
DeWolf.... 8 11 
J I C 14 12 17 .. 17 13 
G Drake 8 
Louis 10 12 
Greener 13 16 16 16 15 
Wise 6 7 Mosher 36 19 17 11 
Weakland.. .. 11 11 13 18 Fox 14 
Matthews.. .. 9 Wilmot 16 
Brechtel 12 14 15 16 .. 18 16 Cleave 16 17 
Bibbee 13 Brady 17 16 
Swope 7 Fry .. 16 
Snow 14 14 16 13 .. .. 
TJiird Day. 
The morning was misty, but the sun broke out and a glorious shoot- 
ing day closed the tournament. The improvement in the weather 
made a great improvement in the shooting. Ten events were run off 
easily, including two unfinished from Thursday; $45 was added to each 
of the first four events, $60 to each of the last four. Scores: 
Events: 13345 6 78 Events: 13345678 
Targets: 16 15 15 15 SO SO 20 SO Targets: 15 15 15 15 SO SO SO SO 
Walton.... 12 11 35 32 32 34 .. .. Graham ... 13 14 12 14 17 17 17 16 
Flick 13 11 
Smeck ,, 
Andrews 
Fulford. 
"Weller" 
Peck .... 
Williams 
13 12 15 16 17 18 
11 15 15 14 20 19 19 19 
14 12 14 13 16 18 35 20 
Bartlett. 
Van Dyke. 
15 13 14 13 17 
12 13 35 15 19 38 38 20 
Ray 14 13 14 34 36 38 38 35 
32 33 35 32 Becker .... 38 12 13 14 20 18 39 18 
8 11 12 9 17 12 12 13 
13 13 13 14 18 18 39 39 
14 9 32 11 17 36 13 16 
UDSon 14 35 35 34 39 20 20 39 
"Kiota" ... 34 32 15 13 19 19 18 19 
Young 33 13 14 13 20 17 17 IS 
Redwing... 35 35 34 33 19 19 20 19 
J Browning 15 33 34 34 39 39 20 20 
Gambell... 14 12 13 14 20 20 20 17 
Mosher. ... 14 14 11 12 16 18 . . . . 
Klemman.. 12 14 14 14 19 39 37 37 
Anthony... 32 30 12 13 16 13 17 17 
Burkhardt. 10 12 15 10 17 16 37 34 
Kelsey 34 32 34 30 39 38 38 20 
Alexander. 31 11 11 30 36 37 17 38 
Powers.... 34 32 35 32 20 35 18 17 
Tuttle 13 8 12 11 18 37 18 16 
Courtney.. 14 11 10 8 16 32 .. .. 
McMurchy 14 14 15 13 39 39 20 20 
Parker 35 33 32 30 36 38 20 19 
Apgar 14 13 34 13 IS 17 19 19 
Moore 13 13 15 14 30 19 19 18 
Hammond. 14 32 32 30 
Hoffman .. 34 32 34 34 17 17 17 16 
LeRoy 15 33 34 35 20 19 20 20 
MBrowni'g 11 8 11 10 17 16 36 38 
Drake 33 33 14 12 17 17 20 17 
"Shorty".. 13 11 34 13 20 19 20 20 
Hill 13 13 14 13 35 17 17 17 
Trimble ... 15 12 15 15 18 38 19 39 
Holz 35 34 33 12 19 20 20 17 
W Miller. . 
Landis . . . 
Harrison , 
Spross . . . 
Troy. 
Dickey . . 
Mascrof t , 
13 14 13 35 20 35 18 18 
15 10 11 15 18 15 17 17 
13 30 33 32 33 37 17 16 
13 11 8 14 17 19 19 20 
13 7 11 9 13 15 18 15 
Elliott 10 10 12 14 19 18 18 18 
Black 10 13 13 9 11 16 18 32 
Wheeler... 34 34 35 33 19 19 39 38 
Eager 33 33 35 32 38 20 33 15 
Davis 32 32 32 34 38 38 38 36 
Kenerson.. 35 32 34 34 37 38 37 15 
33 12 15 14 1-8 34 19 16 
11 11 8 11 
II 
12 13 14 11 16 16 . . 
7 12 12 12 18 19 17 .. 
12 12 
Events: 
Targets: 
Hoffman. . 
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15 15 15 15 SO SO SO SO 
10 14 13 10 16 16 18 15 
Woodward 14 15 9 11 19 20 18 18 
Bartlett... 33 34 33 34 39 18 18 18 
Drake 11 14 34 35 37 18 17 19 
Bacon 14 12 32 33 37 37 20 39 
McMurchy 35 15 14 14 37 38 38 38 
Keller 34 32 32 14 39 20 34 20 
Apgar 34 31 12 12 16 36 39 38 
Moore 32 33 8 33 37 39 30 34 
"Holz".... 34 33 35 33 38 39 36 20 
Miller 13 32 9 32 39 37 38 36 
Hill 33 34 33 9 36 33 38 35 
Kennerson..35 32 33 33 36 17 15 15 
Dickey . ... 13 12 14 11 15 15 16 18 
Mascroft... 10 11 13 30 36 32 36 33 
Courtney.. 33 35 31 11 18 19 35 18 
12 15 14 12 15 13 11 13 
12 33 33 34 34 38 . . .. 
13 10 14 13 18 17 15 18 
Kelsey 14 15 14 13 17 17 19 18 
Valentine.. 34 14 12 13 17 17 17 17 
Parker .... 13 12 14 12 19 15 ... . 
Marks 14 10 14 11 15 16 .. .. 
Brady 13 12 33 34 32 30 .. .. 
Fox 32 33 9 1316 16 .. .. 
Osmun .... 10 13 12 9 19 17 ... . 
Waddell... 13 12 10 12 CJW 
Budd 14 15 14 35 20 39 .. .. Thomas... 
Frank 34 30 33 33 36 33 36 39 Snow 
Rennick.... 35 11 14 13 20 Weakland 
Bigelow.... 13 14 14 15 20 16 37 36 Greiff 34 12 11 13 .. .. .. .. 
Bird 10 10 8 Fry 11 .. 11 
Toby 13 12 9 11 14 12 .. .. Watts 14 14 13 
Brady. 12 11 Richards 12 .. 14 .. 14 . 
Cleve 9 10 12 11 12 15 13 12 Clay 13 13 35 16 16 10 
Wagner ... 34 32 33 North 33 39 20 38 20 
Greener.... 33 34 10 11 19 
J I C 13 9 11 13 14 9 16 13 
Modoc 9 
Ruble 11 14 9 12 17 16 .. .. 
Valentine.. 12 13 11 12 19 15 17 17 
Bibbee 13 9 10 
June 13 15 15 14 . . 
Hogan 13 16 16 20 15 
Frost 7 
Allen 12 .. 16 12 
Smith 14 13 .. 
THE HIGH AVERAGES. 
The beautiful and tasteful little diamond trophy in the form of "a 
watch charm, which was given for first tournament average, was won 
by Ralph Worthingtou ("Red Wing"), of Cleveland, who missed only 
38 birds out of the 420 shot in the regular events of the three days. 
McMurchy was second high gun, only missing 22, but he was barred 
from the money as a manufacturer's agent. Upson of Cleveland was 
next, missing 23 out of the 420 shot at, thus taking the second place in 
the paid average list. Following is a list of the 115 high tournament 
average men, besides the first prize winner, each of whom got $10. 
Each man shot at 420: 
Scored. 
RedWing 402 
Upson 397 
J M Browning 391 
Gambell 393 
Trimble 391 
Holzapfel ("Holz") 387 
Woodward ("Le Roy") 885 
Wheeler 384 
HIGH RUNS. 
Some very remarkable rims were made during the tournament. Ou 
bhaner . . . . 10 1U 11 1~ Thursday Upson made 
Tuttle , 
Mosher. 
Wagner. 
Scored. 
"Kiota" 
Young 
Becker 
Easton ("Peck") 
Spross 
IS 
18 
Stout 13 12 12 14 17 12 
Stephens... 10 11 11 12 16 30 
Quimby.... 13 13 ' 
Spross 14 13 15 13 17 17 18 19 
Prechtell.. 14 12 14 13 16 15 17 . . 
Cochran... 14 33 32 33 33 33 . . .. 
Hammond 35 35 33 33 39 37 38 17 
Snow 15 13 12 11 16 17 .. .. 
Taylor 11 .. 13 10 
Biery 13 13 9 9 
Ewalt 9 7 12 9 
Watts 12 14 15 11 17 16 .. 17 
Worthen 8 8 
Jones 11 
12 13 16 Duffy 11 
8 13 14 Schick 10 
Upson made a run of 97 out of 100. On Friday "LeRoy" 
broke 99 out of his last 100. On Friday Paul North laid down his ba- 
n in iu ' * JO ton and took up his gun and broke 63 straight just to show that blue- 
rocks are reliable breakers. Other good stiff runs were scattered 
along the individual records. Still the birds were not "pop-ups" or 
easy flights. They were thrown just evenly and strongly, but not at 
the limit. 
THE DAILY ENTRY. 
14 
Learning... 10 8 10 5 15 17 15 17 Swope 9 
Greiff 34 32 32 J. E. T,.,., 
Speer 30 10 11 9 15 Burkhardt. 
Stein 14 32 34 33 32 Sherman 33 36 
Knopf 35 33 32 14 19 DeWolf 17 
Price 15 13 10 .. 13 North 
11 15 14 
11 18 10 
19 
Thomas.... 12 14 U 10 14 18 14 19 
Frank 10 12 13 13 15 16 14 17 
Marlett 8 10 
Deadshot., 11 .. .. 
Miller. 
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On the first day the first event had 96 entries; on the seccond 86, and 
on the third 76. Toward the close of the last day some of the shooters 
had to leave to take their trains home, yet the last event of the pro- 
gramme showed 56 guns. This is truly a most exceptional showing 
for these days. 
Those who shot were: H. G. Wheeler, H. W. Eager, Marlboro, Mass. ; 
W. L. Davis, V. D. Kennerson, Worcester, Mass ; O. R, Dickey, Rox- 
bury, Mass. ; J. T. Mascroft, Sutton, Mass. ; A. G. Courtney, George 
Mosher, Syracuse, N. Y. ; O. W. Tuttle, Auburn, N. Y. ; Wm^ Wagner, 
Washington. D. C. ; E. D. Kelsey, East Aurora, N. Y. ; Ralph Valentine, 
Monroeville, O.; John Parker, J. A. Marks, W. H. Brady, J. A. Fox,W. 
Rennick, Detroit, Micb. ; W. H. Osmun, Pontiac, Mich, ; M. S. Browning, 
J. M. Browning, G. L. Becker, A. P. Bigelow, Ogden, Utah; C. A, 
Young, Springfield, O.; A^ Forrester^ Buffalo, N. Y.; C. M. Powers, 
......... 16 .' Decatur, 111.; J. A. Ruble, Chicago; C. W. Budd, Des Moines, la. ; H. L. 
Clay 18 Landis, Philadelphia, Pa.; A. F. Miller, Sandusky, O.; E. W. Bird, Fair- 
Ebert 
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Second Day. 
Thursday, the Becond day, was most unfortunate for shooting. A 
slow, persistent rain drizzled down all day, making everything decid- 
edly uncomfortable. It was a wonder that the entry held together so 
remarkably well. To the purses in events 1-4 $40 was added, while 
$45 was added to the purses in events 5-6. Scores: 
Events: 1 
Events: 
Targets: 
Graham..,. 
Bartlett.... 
3 3 4 5 6 7 8 
Targets: 15 15 15 15 SO 20 SO 20 
Walton. ... 13 11 12 9 12 17 15 14 
Flick 15 14 12 14 14 18 IS 15 
Smeck 14 13 33 33 37 30 37 33 
Andrews . . 12 15 12 10 17 18 14 IS 
Fulford. ... 15 13 14 15 18 17 16 19 
"Weller".. 9 10 10 8 12 17 12 13 
Peck 14 14 10 13 17 18 19 18 
Williams . . 10 13 14 10 17 18 18 14 
Upson 15 15 14 15 20 20 18 18 
"Kiota".... 12 14 14 13 20 19 19 IS 
Young.... 13 14 13 12 39 38 38 36 
"Redwing" 35 35 35 35 17 18 19 20 
Ray 14 14 12 12 15 35 38 38 
Gambell ... 15 14 15 13 16 20 18 18 
Stout 11 12 12 11 16 16 .. .. 
Waddell... 14 13 13 IS 36 . . . 
Anthony . . 14 12 13 12 16 14 20 36 
Landis 30 33 33 14 20 38 36 35 
Harrison ,. 33 33 33 30 11 17 13 IS 
Shaaber.... 31 14 13 15 17 18 . . . 
Troy 12 12 12 10 13 13 17 17 
Elliott 13 12 14 14 18 17 18 17 
Black 11 10 10 13 10 18 17 16 
MrMurchy 15 15 13 14 20 20 19 39 
Keller 13 15 12 15 Kelsey 
Apgar 12 13 13 13 19 18 18 16 Burkhardt 
Moore 13 12 12 18 17 17 17 15 
Wheeler. . . 13 13 14 11 19 18 19 20 
Eager 14 13 12 12 18 17 17 17 
Davis 13 14 12 15 15 16 16 16 
Kenerson.. 11 10 13 12 15 17 17 16 
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15 15 15 15 SO SO SO SO 
14 13 18 32 34 20 18 16 
14 13 14 11 17 18 14 17 
Van Dyke.. 15 14 15 35 36 17 20 19 
JBrowning 14 15 35 35 13 20 18 17 
Becker .... 12 13 15 13 14 19 18 17 
Wagner.... 11 14 13 12 19 14 .. 15 
Hoffman . . 12 11 13 15 17 17 18 16 
LeRoy 14 13 15 12 20 17 16 19 
Powers.... 15 14 14 13 18 18 19 17 
Drake 12 13 13 12 13 19 17 16 
"Shorty".. 14 13 15 13 18 18 20 14 
Hill 13 13 12 12 20 14 18 17 
Trimble.... 13 15 14 15 20 17 19 IS 
"Holz".... 14 14 34 lo 16 19 39 38 
WR Miller. 13 13 35 33 39 39 35 38 
Bird 11 12 9 8 16 17 15 14 
Budd 12 15 34 14 17 17 19 18 
Bigelow.... 14 14 13 15 18 18 18 17 
M Browni'g 12 33 33 33 20 39 14 15 
Tuttle 12 14 13 12 15 16 17 11 
Courtney.. 11 15 12 35 33 38 19 19 
Parker .... 13 15 14 10 17 18 16 19 
Renwick... 33 14 14 34 17 20 .. .. 
Alexander. 10 11 10 14 16 17 15 16 
13 15 13 10 18 17 13 17 
13 11 12 10 15 14 17 11 
Spross 12 14 14 15 18 18 18 16 
Quill 10 13 11 8 
Stephens. . 12 15 14 13 16 19 .. ., 
Schick 9 7 
Frank 10 11 11 11 16 14 15 13 
mount, Minn.; Elmer E. Shaner, Pittsburgh, Pa.; E. M. Stout,' J. E. 
Stephens, Cireleville, O.; W. Fred Quimby, New York; George Spross, 
Toledo, O ; Thos. Cochran, Pittsburgh, Pa. ; E. F. Hammond, Ashf ord, 
N. Y.; Frank Snow, Cleveland, O.; Ed. Taylor, Cincinnati, O. ; 
E. A. Berry, R. W. Ewalt, Warren, O.: William Watts, Jack- 
son, Mich.; C. S. Schunover, Warren, O. ; H. C. Fry, Youngstown, O.; 
J. S. Speer. Sandusky, O. ; John Stein, Sandusky, O. ; E. G. Knopf 
Sandusky, O.; G. S, Price, Norwalk, O.; C. W Thomas, Logansport, 
Ind.; Frank Lamkin, Norwalk. O.; M. K. Walton, Grand Rapids, 
Mich; John Flick, Ravenna, O ; Jos. E. Schmeck, Reading, Pa.; Ed. 
Andrews, Sardinia, N. Y.; E. D. Fulford, Utica, N. Y.; N. W. Holt, 
Manchester, Mich. ; H. Easton, Sandusky, O. ; W. A. Babcock, Cleve- 
land, O. ; D. A. Upson, Cleveland, O. ; Tom W. Latham, Monroeville, 
O,; Thos. J. Graham, Rosedale, Mich. ; Ralph Worthington, Cleveland, 
O.; J. A. Prechtel, Cleveland, O.; F. V. Van Dyke, Dayton, N. J.: 
J. W. Hoffman, German Valley, N. J. ; B. LeRoy Woodward, Cam- 
pello, Mass.; B. A. Bartlett, Buffalo, N. Y.; W. N. Drake, South 
Orange, N. J.; Shorty Bacon, Dayton, O: H. McMurchv, Syracuse; 
T. H. Keller, Plainfield, N. J. ; Neaf Apgar, Evona. N. J. ; K. M. Moore, 
Farmersville, Tex.; A. Holzapfel, Curro, Tex,; W. R. Miller, Austin, 
Tex.; H. Hill, Aurora, Ind.; R. Trimble, Covington, Ky.; A. Gambell, 
Aurora, Ind. ; C. W. Raymond, Dayton, O. ; R S. Waddell, Cincinnati, 
O. ; J. T. Anthony, Charlotte, N. C. ; B. Harrison, Reading, Pa. ; J. 
Shaaber, Reading, Pa. ; O. J. Melott, Reading, Pa. : T. S. Bibbee, Elba, 
O.; L. Burton, Norwalk, O.; D. Elliott, Cleveland, O.; M. Wheatland, 
Youngstown, O.; Jos. Learning, Camden, N. J.; Gus. E. Greiff, New 
York, N. Y. ; E. O. Burkhardt, Buffalo, N. Y. ; W. F. DeWolf, Chicago; 
John Tettelbach, Cleveland, O. 
BROKEN PIECES, NOT MUCH GOOD. 
Paul North has taken to the bicycle, and appeared each day at the 
shoot in knickerbockers, being therefore a target for much shooters' 
wit. By the way, Paul tells a pretty good story on himself in regard 
to the wheel. He was riding along the street on his new machine 
when he passed some laborers who were rolling along a heavy roll of 
lead piping. "Well, boys," said Paul blithely, as he spun by, "it's 
harder work to run your wheel than it is mine." "Yis," was the in- 
stant retort from one of the laborers, "but there's better min on this 
wheel than anny shor-r-t-panted dude I" Paul says he was contented 
to ride away then. 
The lunch counter Bold loaded shells, ham sandwiches and Yucatan 
gum, all very good. 
Ed Taylor ("Old Reliable") gladdened the eyes of many by the sight 
of an old-timer. 
