Aug. 1, 1896. 1 
B'OREST AND STREAM, 
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The W. C. A. Meet. 
[Special to Forest and Stream.'] 
W. 0, A, Camp, Dodge's Point, Mullet Lake, Mioh., July 21.— The 
W O A. has here fhe best place for a canoe meet it ever bad and 
will probably never find a better anywhere In tbe United States, but 
it i8 a shame that a location so ideal and hospitality so princely as 
thattenderedby the Dodge's Point Club ot Cheboyjcan are enjiyed 
by less than a dozen men out of the entire Association. Not an offloer 
oC the Association is here except the chairman of the reRatta com- 
mittee, and if the W. C A. were utterly dead there could not be a 
worse fact apparent. The names of those present are O. A. Wood- 
ruff and W. H. Crawrord, Ruckawa C. C, and W. H. Kemper, of Day- 
ton, O.; N. B. Oook, Kenwood 0 C, Chicago; W. H. Yardley, St. Paul, 
Minn. ; T 8 Gates, Columbus, O. : S. B. Mettler. Harry OhaOn and W. 
W. Todd. WUoo-Whoo C. C, Jackson, Mich.; C. H. Gould and W, C. 
Noack, Detroit C. C; Geo L, Alexander, Grayling, Mich. Of course 
with so meager a representation the meet is not really a meet at all, 
and not even a quorum can be obtained for the election of ofBoers. 
This is simply deplorable, for the members never in their history had so 
perfect a chaDce for a delightful time. Even the confirmed Ballastites 
call this point superior to anything they have ever seen. Wind and 
water are line for flailing and swimming, the scenery is lovely and the 
arrangements the best ever known, The local gentlemen and their 
families are pleasant and hospitable to a degre"? and not one element 
is lacking for a successful meet except attendance. 
The regatta is, ot course, hardly entitled to the name. The Long- 
worth cup race will not be sailed, for there is not a Class C canoe in 
camp— here on the finest cruising grounds the association ever saw. 
The Class B race, for the Gardner cup, was won by W. W. Todd, 
of Detroit, in two straight heats, untimed; T. 8. Gates, second. Five 
entries. 
The Class A races, for the W. O. A. trophy, had five entries in the 
first heat. The wind was hard and squally. Canoe Wood broke her 
steering gear and w^s over four times in spite of all her veteran skip- 
per, O. A. Woodruff, could do. The heat was won by that old sailor 
and Association standby. N. B. Cook, of Chicago, in canoe Carrier 
Pigeon, which he has decked in with washboards until he has near a 
bath-tub cockpit Ha ban also on a bulb keel and lOOlbs, of ballast. 
In this heat Mr. Todd, of Detroit, was second. 
Tbe second heat of the trophy race was a pretty afifair between 
Carrier Pigeon and Wood, the only entries. Wood was never passed 
from the first buoy and was admirably handled; the entire race sailed 
without a tack on any leg, and the buoys shaved by near jibes time 
after time. The wind was light and steady. The boats kept well 
together, Wood ahead, however, by some distance at the finish. 
Paddling, for the Minnehaha cup (a new and handsome trophy 
offered by Minnehaha Club, of Detroit), called out but two entries: 
Noack, of Detroit, and Yardley, of St. Paul, the former winning by 
one-third the course. 
Paddling, class 1, was also won by Noack; Yardley second. 
Paddling, class 2, was won by Yardley; 8. B. Mettler, ot Jackson, 
Mich., second. No other races have been run. No cruising has yet 
been done. Residents have offered many Invitations, and those 
present are delighted with Mullet Lake as a place for a meet, and 
simply pity those who did not come. 
W. C. A. Camp, Dodge's Point, Mullet Lake, Wis., July 33.— No more 
lovely summer country lies out of doors than that of the upper por- 
tion of the Michigan south peninsula, and no part of that favored sec- 
tion surpasses in point of general attractions the beautiful body of 
water which bears the unpoetic name of Mullet Lake. The grounds 
committee of tbe W. C. A., who visited this region last September, 
were well content as soon as they found this spot, and their decision 
would receive the indorsement of the entire membership of tbe W. 0. 
A were It here. The Madison and Dshkosh and Milwaukee men, if 
any of them were present, would admit that their local attractions 
could claim small degree in comparison with those of this northern 
country. Even the most devout admirers of Ballast Island stick their 
flags ;to Mullet Lake. Mr. Woodruff, who still ruQles up at word of 
disparagement of Ballast or reference to the diary of the Ballast 
Island Summer Girl, frankly says that he does not think Mullet can be 
surpassed in the entire country as a site for a canoe meet. The water 
is very bright and pleasant, and free from the stagnant quality ot in- 
land lakes, such as those of Madison or Winnebago, and yet it has 
been found quite warm enough for comfortable swimming, which is 
not the ca-^e at the Snow Islands, above here, where it was once 
thought the camp might be located. The winds have proven steady, 
yet not violent, and a racing or a cruising breeze has marked almost 
every day. The weather has been ideal, the nights cool and the days 
temperate. There are no mosquitoes at all at this season, 
even on the trout creeks of the region, and indeed there 
can hardly be anything unpleasant urged against the locahty, which 
has 80 many things to recommend it. A canoe meet here can be 
really a meeting of canoeists and not a summer resort party. There 
is something to see and something to do and somewhere to go. The 
flavor of the forest and the waters is about it all, and the small craft 
do not seem purposeless and merely accessory, but essential and 
primary. Not that this country la rude or that it is inaccessible. The 
tenderest canoeist can reach Cheboygan, 6 miles away, by palatial 
steamer or by palace car, and thence ship by steamer, carriage or 
bicycle direct to Dodge's Point, the superb and commanding site of 
of the W. C. A. camp. From Chicago or Milwaukee boat can be taken 
for Mackinaw City, or if one cares to vary his journey he can land at 
Traverse City and thus work north to this point, passing a dozen 
summer places of great degree of popularity. He can come via the 
Grand RapMs & Indiana line to Petoskey or take the same line a little 
further to Oden-Oden. The latter is perhaps the best way to go in to 
Mullet Lake, though not the most direct. It takes one over half a 
day ot steamer travel (by small boats built for the route) over the 
lovely and circuitous route known as the laland Eoute, from Oden- 
Oden through Crooked Lake, Crooked River, Burt Lake, Indian 
Biver and Mullet Lake. The first boat stops for dinner at Topinabe, 
at the upper end of Mullet Lake, and the concluding eight 
miles to Dodge's Point is made by the second little steamer, 
which runs down over the Cheboygan end of the line. 
Thus one may navigate delightfully fifty miles of the 
waters which cut off the upper cap of the Michigan south penin- 
sula. He will be aU the time in the great pine wilderness. He will be 
at the shores of such trout and grayling streams as the Maple, the 
Pigeon, the Sturgeon, the Carp, and even at the camp will have a trout 
stream (Nigger Creek) within five miles of him, where the trout aver- 
age over lOin. and go up to 21bs.. as the writer hereof knows. In all 
this country the irredeemable wildness of the northern pine wilder- 
ness preserves it from the civilized hand of man. It is left for the 
canoeist and the angler and the traveler. This Is the place to go, and 
not to a land of hotels, peanut stands and beer gardens. Mullet Lake 
is not the only place in the region for a canoe camp. There may be 
sites almost equally good near Traverse City, and it would seem de- 
sirable that one or two more sites should be tried. By that time It 
can be determined whether canoeing is really going to oe anything in 
the West. If it is, it can surely be best developed by going into a 
canoeing country in canoeing fashion. If it is not, then the lovers of 
Ballast should have their wishes received with absolute respect, for 
they would indeed be almost the majority and the minority also, after 
the fashion of that ancient mariner who was the cook and the 
captain bold and the crew of the captain's gig, But even did those 
regulars, the old guard of the W. C. A., who have really held It 
together, have offered to them another year the choice between 
Ballast, Winnebago, Madison, Mullet Lake, and one or two 
other points of this region, it is no certain thing that they would 
ever again vote for Ballast, for the latter spot has no one point 
of superiority to this point, except a small one In regard to accessibil- 
ity. From Cleveland, Dayton or Chicago it can be reached in a little 
less time, though at very muchless expense. All those points, andalso 
Detroit, Milwaukee, Madison, Davenport and St. Paul, can without 
trouble get into this region and for all but two or three of those cities the 
country is much more central and accessible than Ballast. After seeing 
several meets of the W. C. A. I would not ttiink it best to go again to 
Madison or Osbkosh ; but I think the Western boys should be willing 
to go as far east as this and the Ballast boys be willing to go as far 
north, Itis asking too much of Wisconsin or Illinois or Minnesota 
men to go to Ballast, which has almost nothing of further interest to 
offer, and whose sole claim is that of accessibility, and ot accessibility 
for only a few. Fobest and Streasi has fought the Ballast idea and begs 
to take upon itself some credit for the fact of a Northern meet. In 
this It has acted upon the notion that the sport was to grow. If it is 
to stand s ill Forest and Stbkasi has no further word to say against 
Ballast, The members of the W. C. A. will be the ones to decide the 
J)ollcy and the belief of the association. Perhaps their course will 
argely determine the future of the W. C. A. Viewed from the stand- ■ 
point of the present meet, the future is not bright; yet this may be no 
criterion at all, for the country is passing through an era 
of unprecedentedly depressed business feeling, and other sports 
are just now springing up. Those of the W. C. A. who stayed away 
from the twelfth annual meet perhaps did so for business reasons 
largely. Perhaps they will come out another year. There seems no 
definite reason that the end of the world has come for canoeing in the 
West, and indeed it is the amateur sports of the rod, the gun, the 
paddle, which find their source and support in the deepest and most con- 
stant impulses of human nature, and which are therefore most likely 
to survive, even at the expense of others more mushroom and expan- 
sive. If the sport does flourish in the West, it will be the firm belief 
of FoRBST AND Stream that this journal has pointed to its representa- 
tive body a way better than the old way . Of all the meets of the W. 
■C. A. which FoRBST and Sxrkam has reported it Is prouder of this 
HuUet Lake meet than of any or all the others, small and meager 
hough It be. It is a step in the right direction. There is a song of 
a gentleman who never cared to wander from hi's own flrpside, but 
history does not state that he was a canoeist. Forhst and Stream 
has a warm afl'ection for the W. C. A., and all Forbst and Stkbam has 
cared to do is to show that there is more than one place on tb is wide 
earth. Mullet Lake Is not the only place, either. There is a volume 
of wisdom In the slang expression, "There are others." Just at 
present, in the enjoyment of tbe man? pleasant features of this 
place, it seems difficult to realize this. Next year let us hope that all 
the boys may meat at some such piaffe as this, and if it be Mullet Lake 
again there will bs no cause for tears. 
The Dodee's Point Club, of Cheboygan, under whose auspice? the 
meet is held here, is a country club of forty-four members, owning 
one of the handsomest bits ot property, in the State. They have only 
recently purchased their property, upon which they erected a hand- 
some three-story club hou^fe last August, the latter known as the 
Waldemere. Here the W. C. A. men have been privileged to take their 
meals, and have sat at the beat table they have known in at least six 
years or probably at all. The site ot the club house is fine, crowning 
a gentle eminence running out into the long sheet of water called 
Mullet Lake. There is a grand open esplanade which might serve a<< 
parade ground for a four-cnmpany post of cavalry, all this h<}dged 
and backed by a lovely native forest. Prime bits and views olTar at 
every hand. "A railroad station and post office and telegraph offlca 
are within H mile, and there is a telephone to Cheboygan, which is 
distant only six miles, over a good and pleasant road. So the wild- 
ness is well tempered for any shorn lambs who fear the tooth of the 
actual wilderness. The circular driveway of the club house is well 
lined with large house tents, where many of the club members live at 
times for several weeks, and one member, Mr. 0. E. Mould, h'is erected 
a woods cottage of handsome design and equipment. The Whoo-Whoo 
Club, of Jackson, Mich., also own property and have up a large house 
tent. These temporary homes all front upon an incomparable 
beach, and lie among thick virgin forest. In front of the 
club house is a grand lawn, fronted by a large boat house 
and fine dock. A canoe dock, 96ft. long, adds the only thing 
needed to make this an ideal place for the W. 0. A. meet 
But good as It all Is naturally, the half is not told until 
one mentions the generous hospitality and warm-hearted courtesy of 
the club members, of which enough can really not be said They have 
done everything possible to make the visit ot th? W. C A., a pleasant 
one, and not the least of the privileges of the meet will be rated the 
new acquaintances and friendship'? formed. It was a great disap- 
pointment to the members ot the Dodge's Point Club, as well as to the 
W. C. A., that so few were present at the meet. There was talk here 
of an attendance of 100 to 150, and that a scant dozen of men should 
represent the total seems too bad, Tbe club put up the new boat 
house in oreparation for this meet, and when the canoeists stepped 
from the dock the first thing to meet their eyes was the banner bear- 
ing the legend "Welcome, W. O. A," And the W. C. A. was made 
welcome and royally entertained. The ladies of the club have left no 
effort unmade by way of hospitality, and the gentlemen have been 
equally careful and kind. The canoe camp made such return for this 
as is possible In the unioue canoe methods There were camp-fires, 
well attended and enjoyable, fireworks, music, sailing and paddling 
parties, Welsh rabblt'parties, etc.. the festivities sometimes prolonged 
mto tbe small hours. Mr. K, O; Penny, manager of the Waldemere, 
and Mrs. Jos. McKie, stewardess, added more than a little to the com- 
fort of the boys. In such entertainment as the W. C. A. could offer 
tbe big tent of that standard and reliable club, the Ruckawa C. C, of 
Dayton, 0., was foremost, indeed the only one. Messrs. Crawford 
and Woodruff, ot the Ruckawa, represented camp life as it should be 
done by a dozen clubs at this meet, and the Association should thank 
them for sustaining its credit so thoroughly. When the W. C. A. meet 
comes to be held without the Ruckawa Club and the presence of W. 
H. Crawford and O. A. Woodruff' it will be time for it to adjourn sine 
die. Mr. Yardley, solus, made a good aid. 
Mrs. Crawford was present a few days, coming down from the Craw- 
ford cottage at the Snow Islands. Many young ladies from Cheboy- 
gan and other points visited friends at the club house or cottages and 
incidentally learned of the fascinations of a canoe camp, adding much 
to the fascinations of the same in the manly hearts of the sailor men 
there present. Those who did not come will never know what they 
missed. The gentlemen from St. Paul, Detroit and other points are 
practically certain to wish to return to a place where every prospect 
pleases, and only man is un beautiful. 
The W. C. A. trophy tables at the Waldemere made a pretty dis- 
play, including the three old-time cups, the Gardner, Trophy and 
Lon gworth cups, and the new and handsome cup offered by the Min- 
nehaha Club, of Detroit, for paddling competition There was a fine 
barometer offered for race No. 1 by Chase S. Osborn, State game 
warden, and for the other races a choice assortment of kodaks, pen- 
nants, fishing rods, compasses, knives, belts, golf hose, mugs, flasks, 
etc., etc , among which one must not forget the quaint sampler design 
offered by Mrs. Turrill, mother ot John Turrill. who for once in his 
life overlooked a good thing and stayed away. 
CONCLUSION OF THE RACKS, 
It will be noted that the present meet of the W. C. A. can hardly be 
called an official one, and it will have been observed that the races 
were not timed; therefore it would be bootless to go into much de- 
scription of them. Three races remain to be mentioned after those 
already reported. The hurry-scurry was won by Noack, of Detroit 
Boat Club; Yardley, of St. Paul, second. Tbe third heat of the 
trophy was sailed very late in the evening of Monday with a light 
breeze. The racing programme as usual lagged and was tardy in 
getting off, but it was really undesirable to sail a race so nearly in the 
dark that the winning boat could barely be distinguished as she 
crossed the line. Two only entered for this, Cirrier Pigeon and 
Wood. Mr. Cook had relieved the former of some ballast, and though 
the wind was light, he got a puff that laid him over at the third buoy, 
though he righted and came in all right. Mr. Woodruff sailed as 
usual a brainy race, and wasted no Lime or space at the buoys. Mr. 
Woodruff won by a big lead, Mr. Cook not giving him so hard a bout 
as before. Mr. Woodruff having thus taken the last two heats won 
the trophy. The second prize was a handsome kodak. The passen- 
ger race had work to fill, though there were only four entries. Carrier 
Pigeon, Wood, Psyche and Isabel. These having at length taken in 
crews, got away under almost a dead calm late Tuesday morning. 
This was to the liking of Carrier Pigeon, N. B. Cook skipper, who won 
with ease. Woodruff was a good second, and Isabel, Grandpa Gates 
skipper, an exceedingly bad third, for which he won the "Ruckawa 
cup," a vast tin loving cup, larger than a wash boiler, and decorated 
with the legend, "The Ruckawa Cup, July, 1896." Psyche, Todd skip- 
per, withdrew on the first leg, seeing no sailing ahead in so faint a 
breeze. Race untimed The consolation race, sailing and paddling, 
had two entries, T. S. Gates and W. H. Yardley, the former winning 
handsomeiy. This closed the regatta. 
Mr. Alexander, attorney for the Michigan Central R R., extended 
an invitation to the angling members of the W. C. A. to fli^h on the 
preserve of the Fontinalis Club, near Vanderbilt, in the Sturgeon 
River, of which a few members availed themselves for Wednesday. 
One of the best angling countries of the West lies immediately about 
Mullet Lake As has been earlier stated, the attractions for cruising 
are not surpassed by any region of the West. Perhaps enough has 
been added by way of local description to certify all canoeing readers 
that Mullet Lake this year had every requisite for a gloriously suc- 
cessful canoe meet, except the canoeists. Whc-ever the meet may fall 
for next year, it is earnestly to be hoped that the faithful ones of this 
year will again be on hand, and that their ranks will be filled, as they 
should always he, with numbers from Wisconsin, Illinois, Michigan, 
Minnesota, Iowa and Ohio. No more gentlemanly sport exists, and 
none more attractive to spectators. No pastime Is oetter or more 
restful or more healthful than that of a week in camp. The experi- 
ence of this year, while it may seem to indicate disaster in the ranks 
of the W. C. A., may very well be the forerunner of a better day, for 
the added knowledge of localities may lead to a reconciliation of the 
different beliefs in regard to the proper spot for holding the annual 
meets. 
It was a matter of regret that Mr. Stearns, the able secretary who 
got out the best year book the Association ever printed, was detained 
away by the recent death of his brother. Com. Pennewell was also 
absent. No quorum being possible for election o£ ofidoers, the present 
officers will hold over. E. Hough. 
1206 BoYOE BuiLDiNO, Chicago. 
Canoeing in England. 
Thkek is DO disguising the fact that the outlook for canoeing in this 
country is most discouraging; while there are many canoe clubs in 
fairly prosperous financial condition, with good club houses and large 
fleets of canoes, there is no life or activity in either cruising or racing. 
Not only have no new canoes been built this year, but there have thus 
far been no races, and the division meets have failed to bring out even 
a fair attendance in spite of earnest efforts on the part of its officers. 
We hope, from what we hear, that the Grindstone meet will show a 
marked revival ot interest, though it should be but temporary; and 
that the discouraging state of affairs reported at the W, 0. A. meet 
may not be duplicated. The condition of the sport in England is dis- 
cussed as follows in tbe Field of July 18; the cable has already 
reported briefly • hat Mr. Howard has won tue challenge cup: 
The canoe sailing races of the year, which have taken place this 
week at Burnham-on-Crouch, in Essex, may usefully be compared 
with the racing in years gone by, so that we may form a fairly prac- 
tical view as to whether the sport is being run on the best lines. Un- 
fortunately, at the time these notes go Into type only two days' racing 
out o£ fly© has been accomplished, and the most important event, the 
£50 challenge ouo race, sailed on the I7th, of course, cannot be re- 
ported in the Field until next Saturday, the 35th. 
We say above the "races of the year," because in these races, as 
competitors, we find representative men picked from the leading clubs 
round the coast. Of course, there are some well-known sailors who. 
in recent days and for many years, have shown in the tront rank of 
canoe sailing, and who are not competing this year at Burnham; but 
It is morally certain that, should the cup be won by a challenging 
club, the old blood of the Royal C. C. would be at once stirred up, and 
the best men again put themselves forward to retrieve the cup next 
season. - , , 
To take the cup at the present time, though it can only be accom- 
plished by a flrst-rate man and boat, is by no means the same thing as 
holding the cup when the club and clubs have been roused by an 
actual win away from the old senior club. The common cry of "wolf 
has been so repeated in the last few years, with no real appearance of 
the fabulous animal, that members in early spring, hearing vague 
rumors that "Stars and Stripes" will come and take the cup, treat the 
matter on the basis that "we have had two seasons ot that and no 
race," and so they let things drift or they do not put themselves to 
expense and inconvenience to take up what has been, and may be, a 
fool's errand, owing to the foreign challenger at the last moment cry- 
ing off from competition. This, we say, is all chanffod when a for- 
eigner or another English club holds pro tern, the ehcfllenge cup; then 
it must be won back. 
This time there is no international competition, the American canoe- 
raan, Mr. Howard, being merely representative ot an English club, the 
British Canoe Association. It would, from a racing point of view, 
have bpen more satisfactory had some American club backed Mr. 
Howard's challenge; but no matter now, the title "International" is 
sure to be clapped on to the race by those across the water, even it It 
does not rise to "Championship ot the World," 
Turning now to Burnham-on-Crouch and the doings of canoemen 
there, the water is all that any one could wish as a racing place, but 
the conveniences for "tuning up," for fitting, rigging and hauling out, 
are a long way from even fairly comfortable; the getting there is long 
and stupid, the forty-one miles take close on two hours by train and 
the trains are few. Owing to the tidal nature of the place, those 
canoes which do not take the shore near about high water have to be 
moored away out in the stream among the yachts, consequently 
there is none of the old-time inspection of each other's gear and 
novelties, none of that concentration ot men, canoes and ideas as 
there used to be on the club raft at Hendon Lake, or even at Bourne 
End on the Thames, Burnham as at present fitted is a splendid place 
for small yachts, or even for canoe-yawls, but by no means is it per- 
fection for canoes, except just as to the sailing course. 
Among some of tbe competing craft there is much room for 
improvement as to condition of both rig, fitting and state of hull. One 
would have reasonably expected that, for a week's important racing, 
including the challenge cup, each canoe would be spick and sp^n with 
new gear and new sails, and tbe latest finish in varnish, etc. We were 
sorry, however, to see mildewed old sails all out of shape on one, 
tanned sails on another; rott^en played out rope running gear, and a 
want of varnish or paint. Well, it is not the way racing yachts are 
kept, nor is it the way racing canoes used to be kept, and it is decid- 
edly the way to have mishaps during a race; but no commiseration 
should be extended to slovenly-fitted craft; for such mishaps. 
Ot canoe model there is really nothing novel. The American canoe 
Yankee is simply a racing machine, 10ft.x30in., of shallow V section, 
the lightest possible displacement. She is balanced entirely and only 
by her man hiking out on a long sliding plank seat, but for which he 
could not sail ber. She differs from others to some extent in her rig, 
which is of main and mizzen form, the mizzeij, however, being nearly 
as large in area as the mainsail. She reaches along extremely fast, 
but is comparatively poor at windward work. However, by the time 
this is published we shall know just how much she is better or worse 
than the English canoes. The Pruces is practically a Sharpie model, 
or, more correctly speaking, just about on the lines of the old-fash- 
ioned duck-punts for sailing on to fowl with a big gun in winter time. 
She is rigged with bafter main and mizzen; she also is 16ft.X301n, 
and fitted with a light centerplate and a long, sliding plank 
seat. The Dragon is a more shapely form, but yet quite the 
machine tyne; she was designed by Mr. Linton Hope two years ago 
for Mr. de Quincey, and now owned by and is being sailed in the very 
able hands of Mr, Lawson. She carries her allowance of sail all in 
one balance lug, and she has a bulb-ballasted centerplate and a very 
small "bucket well," and a long sliding seat. Serpent is of semi- 
Sharpie type, but is fitted with a heavy bulb-ballasted centerplate, 
and is of the narrow or 30in. racing class. In tbe canoe-yawl class 
there are two of racing breed, semi-Sharpies, shallow things, nice 
enough to sail for an hour or so in a race, but not comfortable enough 
nor roomy enough for lone cruising or much rough-water work. 
They are the Kogne and Meryl. Slaney is a bold and somewhat 
tubby hulled canoe-yawl, fitted with bulb-fin and sloop rig, a craft 
which should be able to stand a considerable dusting, and would 
travel fast in a strona breeze if put to it nicely. 
Of new boats, the Vanessa and Solitaire are built to the new cruis- 
ing canoe definition, and as they are but turning up at this time, it 
were better to see further performances before judging theu: merits. 
New Jersey State Rifle Association. 
The sixth annual meeting of the New Jersey State Rifle Association 
will be held at Sea Girt, N. J., Aug. 31 to Sept. 5. The matches will 
be: 
No. 1. Members' match, 7 shots at SOOyds. 
No. 2. The Kuser match, 7 shots at SOOyds. 
No, 3. All-comers' military match. 7 shots at 200 and SOOyds. 
No. 4. TheSchuetzen match, 7 shots at SOOyds. on standard Ameri- 
can target. 
No. 5. Hayes medal match, 7 shots at 500 and 600yds. 
No. 6, The Perrine memorial match, 7 shots at 200 and SOOyds. 
No. 7. The Gen. B. P. Meany match, 10 shots at 500 and OOOyds. 
No. 8. Department of Rifle Practice match, open only to inspectors 
of rifle practice of U. S. Army and National Guard, 25 shots at 500 and 
600yds. 
No. 9. New Jersey Rifle Association trophy match, 7 shots at 500 
and eOOyds. 
No. 10. President's match for the military championship of the 
United States of America; divided into two stages; flrst stage, 10 
shots at 200 and 300yds. ; second stage, 10 shots at 500 and 60Oyds. 
No. 11. Trenton Interstate Fair match, 7 shots at SOO and 3C0ydS. 
No. 12, The Sumner match, 10 shots at 200 and SOOyds. 
No, 18. The carbine team match, open to teams of five from any 
regiment, squadron, or troop of cavalry of the U. S. Army and 
National Guard; 7 shots at 200 and SOOyds. 
No. 14. Company team match, open to teams of five from any com- 
pany of the National Guard of any State or the U. S. Army; 10 shots at 
200 and BOOyds. 
No. 15. Military revolver match, scores 6 shots each, one minute 
time limit. 
No. 16. Revolver match, 5 shots at 30yd8. on American standard tar- 
get (reduced). 
No. 17. Pool matches, to be shot in groups Of ten, all distances, 10 
shots. 
No. 18. Prizes for individual skirmish. 
No. 19. Prizes for the best aggregate score; prizes: First, to the 
competitor making highest total; second, to the competitor making 
second highest total; third, to the competitor making third highest 
total. 
No. 20. Regimental team match (interstate), open to teams of six 
from the regimental battalion and separate company organizations of 
the National Guard and Naval Reserve and the U. S Army or Navy; 
10 shots at 200 and SOOyds., and two skirmish runs of 20 shots each. 
No. 21. New Jersey National Guard match, open to teams of sis from 
each regiment of National Guard or Naval Reserves of New Jersey. 
Condions the same as in No. 20, 
No. 22. The Columbia trophy match, open to teams of six from the 
National Guard ot New Jersey ; 7 shots at 200, SOO and SOOyds , and two 
sbirmish runs of 20 shots each. 
Bullseye targets will be open all the time during the meeting; 50 per 
cent, of the receipts will be divided among the holders of bullseye tar- 
gets. 
MATCHES OF THE NATIONAL RIFLE ASSOCIATION. 
No. 1. Wimbledon cup match, open to everybody; 30 shots at 
l,000yd8. ; prize, the Wimbledon cup, value $500. 
No. 3. Hilton trophy match, open to teams of 13 from U. S. Army 
and National Guard organizations, and any other country; prizes, 
the Hilton trophy, valued at 83,000, and a medal to each member of 
team. 
No. 3. Interstate mUitary match, open to teams of 13 from U. S. 
Army and National Guard organizations; prizes, bronze "Soldier of 
Marathon," value $360, and a medal to each member of the winner's 
team. 
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