Ar<Q 29, 1808.] 
FOREST AND STREAM^ 
179 
Heikes Wins the B. C. Cup. 
Chioaqo, m., Aug. 20.— The city of Chicago has been especially 
favored the last few weeks in shootinK matters — a very welcome con- 
trast to th« long season of torpor which has prevailed here. The last 
event of interest is the Heikes-Gilbert match to-day for the E. C. cup 
and the target championship. While it is possible that some of the big 
live-bird matches may at times have attracted a greater interest than 
this, it is likely that no individual match at targets has ever been 
awaited with more Interest— certainly never in Chicago, where both 
men are so well and favorably known and where their skill at the 
game is bo well appreciated. Heikes was for two years a citizen of 
Chicago, and Gilbert has been living here practically for some time 
this summer. Both men are esteemed highly as the types of skill, 
courage and modesty combined, and both men have a universal pop- 
ularity. It has for two weeks been a common saying that it was too 
bad that these two men should meet in a contest where one had to be 
defeated, for the friends of one are the friends of the other, and, more- 
over, the two men themselves are warm personal friends, as much so 
now, moreover, as before the race. 
In the matter of odds on the race, there was no disguising the fact 
that Heikes was the favorite by a great majority. In spife of Gil- 
bert's fine performance before the traps during the past season, he 
had, in the opinion of conservative shooters, no license to beat the 
redoubtable man from Dayton. Even had Gilbert defeated Heikes, 
Heikes still would have remained, in the opinion of the shooters of 
America, the unapproachable target shot of the country. There has 
been no man like him in the history of trap-shooting. What the 
future may bring forward no one can tell. Gilbert may in the future 
prove himself year after year for ten years as good a shot as Heikes 
has been, but only time can establish that. It does not seem likely 
that we shall soon again see so brilliant and consistent a performer in 
the target game as RoUa Heikes. Certainly it was no disgrace for 
Gilbert to be beaten by such a man, and the close run which Gilbert 
gave the winner only serves to heighten the respect in which Gilbert 
is held as a master of the gun. Gilbert is thirty years of age, weighs 
between 155 and ICOlbs. He Is large-limbed and muscular, of good 
constitution and strictly temperate habits. What there may be in- 
side of him In his nervous system can only be told after more time 
has passed. He has made a brilliant record in his short career on the 
circuit, though it is the opinion of certain shooters that GUbert shoots 
under rather high pressure, and so will be more apt to go stale at 
some stage of a long tour than a man who shoots with less apparent 
exertion. Gilbert worked hard in this match, as he seems to work In 
all his shooting. Heikes shot with his customary ease and sangfroid, 
amounting at times apparently almost to carelessness. He shoots 
his targets perhaps 30ft. closer in than any man before the traps, and 
does it with such ease as to offer a most deceptive spectacle of shoot- 
ing. In this regard he is of his own kind, with no one like him, unless 
it was Billy Wolstencrof t in his best days. 
There is no shooter who In the space of one year has made the 
reputation that Fred Gilbert has, and his reputation for modesty and 
courtesy is equal with his repute for skill. Gilbert cannot t«II when 
asked of any very long runs in his shooting at tournaments, but he 
has won during the current circuit a great number of tournament av- 
B. O. HETESS, 
erages, competing vdth all the cracks of the country. At Omaha 
last year he missed only 23 targets out of 590; at Memphis this year 
he missed only 3 out of 135; at Joplin this year he missed only 4 out of 
160; at Cincinnati only 7 out of 170. He won first average at Cincin- 
nati, at Joplin and at the big E, C. shoot at New York, where he car- 
ried away the E. C. championship cup. He won second average at 
Omaha and at Atchison, and, in short, has been In the first flight right 
along. 
Helkes's record is a long and well-known one. He has been shoot- 
ing for nearly ten years and during that time has been forced to make 
his own records for himself. He is the acknowledged champion of 
target champions and has won more averages than any three or four 
men together. No one but a giant of his stolid, equable temperament, 
of perfect digestive apparatus and nerves inherited from generations 
of powerful and healthy ancestors could have established the history 
that Heikes has made for himseir. The man is a freak, like a fast 
horse or a fast boat. Each horse and each boat finally is beaten by 
age or accident, or by innovation in methods. Perhaps at some time 
BoUa Heikes will be beaten, but It will be no disgrace to him then, for 
he has done enough already, though he seems fit to do quite as much 
more, and never shot as well as he does now. Calm, unfretted and 
genial now as ever, he is as well known, as well liked and as well 
dreaded as any man we are apt soon to see in shooting circles. 
Heikes is a natural shot. The game came easy to him, and very soon 
after he took up the gun he was making trouble among all compet- 
itors In the haphazard tournaments of those days. He has made Che 
longest strings of successive breaks ever known in target shooting, and 
done more than any living man t^i establish the evenness and accuracy 
of modern guns and ammunition. At Detroit in 18B9 he ran 150 
straight. At Corry in 1890 he ran 185 straight, which record 
it was the fortune of the writer to see and report. Again 
at Corry he ran 170 straight, and In the East and West team 
race at Corry he broke 100 straight At South Bend, Ind., in 1890, he 
made the run which he himself calls his best one, 141 straight with 10 
pairs in the middle of the run. He ran 175 straight at Hamilton, Can- 
ada, and 117 straight on the Eureka Club grounds of Chicago. In 
these different runs he used different guns and ammunition, but since 
he took up the Winchester repeating shotgun he has done some of his 
most remarkahle work, and showed the efficacy of that arm to perfec- 
tion. At Columbus, Ohio, he ran 100 straight. At Chattanooga last 
year he ran 137 straight; and at Galesburg. HI., 133 straight. At De- 
troit last week he broke 98 out of 100 in a 100 bird event. Heikes has 
broken 500 targets in 37}^ minutes, from five traps at 16yds., loading 
his own guns. This he aid at Dayton in February, 1894. At Indian- 
apolis in February, 1893, using five Winchester repeaters, he broke 100 
targets in 4 minutes and 20 seconds. 
These being the records of the men, there was ample reason 
for the intense, though subdued, excitement which marked their 
appearance at the score before the large throng of shooters. 
Heikes had at Dayton, the week before his coming to Chicago, 
shot tliis same race and scored 141 in practice. On Wednes- 
day at Watson's Park he had again gone through the race, 
and so had Gilbert. Charlie Grim and Harvey McMurchy on that 
day shot a team race with Heikes and Gilbert, conditions of IheE C. 
cup race governing. The showing at that time was a curious com- 
mentary on shooting form. Grim was high man with 138, and the hot 
stayer, McMurcby, broke 137. Heikes scored 134, and Gilbert 128. All 
these scores, with the exception of Gilbert's, were higher than those 
in the championship race. 
The weather to-day was perfect, without much wind, but the tar- 
gets could not be called easy. It was difficult to get the traps to 
throw the birds according to the conditions. The straightaway bird 
was not a straightaway, but a long skater that curved to the right. 
Such wind as prevailed served to make the flight dancing ^nd erratic. 
Under moh conditions «ilbf?rt certainly was not favored, but he made 
his shooting harder for himself. He says that he is not ashamed of 
his score m the singles, but admits that he was very slow in the 
doubles, his gun being a little straight for double shooting. Nothing 
but the excellence of hia gun, an L. 0. Smith pigeon gun, scored him 
some of the breaks he made far out in the fleld. Heikes ground his 
targets more sharply, closer in, and his misses came as usual through 
under-shooting on birds which took a sudden shoot up from the trap. 
Heikes's time was about the same throughout the race, increasing a 
little in speed toward the close. Gilbert varied more, sometimes snap- 
ping the straightaway, and sometimns dwelling a hair-raising interval 
on his corner birds. Heikes used a Winchester repeating gun. Leader 
shells and 44grs. of E. C. GUbert used an L. C. Smith pigeon gun. 
Smokeless cises and SMdrs. measured (really about SJ^drs.) of Du 
Font's Smokeless. In his doubles he used U. M. C. Green Trap shells 
in his left barrel. 
The judges of the race were Mr. H. McMurchy, of the Hunter Arms 
Co., and Mr. F. P. Stannard, of Montgomery Ward & Co., Dr. Proth- 
ingbam, of Chicago, acting as referee. The traps were not operated 
as well as they might have been, and balks were frequent. Each man 
accepted and broke one apiece. Gilbert was balked nine times, on two 
different times having to wait for a third bird. Heikes was balke^ 
seventeen times. Twice the traps broke a second bird, and twice he 
was obliged to wait for a fourth trial before he could shoot. With old 
shooters this makes little difference, and Heibes did not miss a bird 
after a balk, nor did Gilbert, except in the doubles. Gilbert's 148th 
bird was broken lightly, and one judge called it lost. The other 
claimed a break, and referee decided it dead. Heikes on his 23d pair 
missed both birds, the only "Dutch double" made by either. On his 
16th pair, when Heikes was one ahead in the race, his gun failed to 
feed up the cartridge for the second shot. Under the rules he was 
given another pair, which he broke promptly. Heikes missed his 2d 
bird in the race and Gilbert his 16th. Gilbert seemed to grow slower 
throughout the race, It anything, and Heikes rather increased his 
speed, and finished with a slap-Dang gait. At the known traps and 
unknown angles Heikes scored 48 and Gilbert 47. At the unknown 
traps and known angles Heikes scored 45 and Gilbert 41. In the 
doubles, where Heikes was thought to be handicapped by bis gun, he 
again went out one bird in the lead, breaking 40 to Gilbert's 89. He 
thus beat Gilbert at each phase of the game, and won by a total of 
three birds The race was a tie at the 110th bird and again at the 120th, 
At the 130th Heikes was one ahead, and at the 140th he led by four, 
falling back one in the last 5 pairs. 
The next challenger for the E. C. cup will have to go to Dayton to 
shoot, and it need not be said that he will receive a shooting entertain- 
ment if he wins the cup there. It is a hard matter to catch Heikes 
out of form, and the man who catches him in form at Dayton is going 
to have the hottest target race of his life. Heikes himseir. usually re- 
ticent, and modest as a girl as to his own ability, quietly said to a 
friend not long ago, that he doubted If any man could beat him at 
Dayton this summer if he continued to feel as well as he did at pres- 
ent. The following are the scores of the race: For the E. C. cup and 
the individual expert target chatapionship at 50 targets, known traps 
and unknown angles; 50 targets, unknown traps and known angles; 
50 pairs, A. S. A. rules. 
Unknown angles: 
R O Heikes , . .1011111111111111110111111111111111111111111111111— 48 
Fred GUbart 1111111111111110111110110111111111111111111111111—47 
Expert rule, one man up: 
R O Heikes 1010111111111111111110111011110111111111111111111-45 
Fred Gilbert 1110111110101111111111111111011111101011111111111—44 
Pairs: 
RO Heikes 10 11 10 II 10 11 10 01 11 11 10 10 11 
11 11 11 11 11 11 11 11 10 00 11 11—40 
Fred Gilbert 11 11 11 10 11 10 II 11 11 10 11 10 11 
10 10 11 11 10 10 01 11 11 10 11 10—39 
Grand totals: Heikes 133, Gilbert 130. E. Hodgh. , 
1206 BoYCE BuiLniNG, Chicago. 
Central Gun Club, of Duluth. 
DcTLtrrH, Minn., Aug. 15.— The fourth annual tournament of tht Cen- 
tral Gun Club, of Duluth, was held on Aug. 1<!-13, at its new grounds 
on London road. These grounds are first-class tor trap-shooting, as 
the shooters face the lake and have a clear background. The grounds 
are easily reached by a line of electric cars, which pass directly by 
the principal hoiejs. On the grounds the arrangements were most 
complete. Five bluerock traps throwing blueroeks were in line, the 
electric pull being used. An electric buzzer announced to the shooter 
that another bird \vas ready after any break by the trap. The weather 
for the two days of the shoot was all that could be desired. The local 
marksmen were somewhat surprised and a great deal disappointed 
that none of the range town shootets, who always do such good shoot- 
ing, were represented. Aside from this everything was satisfactory 
to all concerned. There were shooters from all parts of the country, 
but those who attracted particular attention were S. Glover, of Rocn- 
ester, N. Y.,and Catamaran, of St. Paul; these two made a very pretty 
race for first average. Glover would probably have won first average 
if it had not been for his 4yds. handicap in the last event, in which he 
lost two birds, while Catamaran made a straight, thus winning first 
average by one bird over Glover, catamaran's general average was 
89.3, Glover 88.8, while Sachem, Duluth's able representative, won third 
with 86.8. 
Below will be found the scores of the entire two days' shoot, which, 
although they do not show a very large number of entries, yet show a 
successful shoot, financially and otherwise: 
Events: 1 S 3 U 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 IS IS lU 15 16 
Targets: 10 15 15 15 20 15 25 10 10 15 15 15 20 25 10 15 Broke. 
Catamaran 8 13 15 15 16 12 22 9 10 13 12 14 18 21 10 15 223 
Glover 9 11 14 11 19 13 25 10 9 14 14 14 16 20 10 13 222 
Sachem 8 12 14 11 17 14 22 10 9 14 14 14 17 18 9 14 217 
J C 9 13 12 15 16 12 23 10 9 14 13 14 15 2i 7 13 216 
Redfern........ 5 12 15 13 19 14 24 8 7 13 13 13 16 17 10 13 212 
Phillips 8 13 15 13 19 13 31 7 9 13 14 12 15 17 10 14 311 
Wilson 7 13 14 13 15 12 20 8 10 14 18 14 15 22 6 14 209 
Braun..... 10 11 13 12 19 12 22 9 10 14 9 13 16 19 6 12 207 
Thompson 9 13 14 11 19 11 21 6 9 14 15 14 14 13 8 13 204 
Gold Bug 8 13 13 11 19 12 20 8 9 12 13 14 16 15 8 12 203 
Burk 9 11 14 10 17 11 23 6 7 13 13 12 19 16 9 13 202 
Hub 8 13 10 13 19 11 33 9 7 13 12 12 16 16 10 13 201 
Hill 10 12 12 11 16 14 22 6 b 15 11 13 14 17 6 13 200 
Shell 7 9 12 11 16 8 21 10 9 14 14 13 17 17 8 12 158 
Kansier 8 11 13 11 15 11 21 9 9 14 10 12 18 19 9 7 197 
Robin Hood,... 7 10 1113 14 14 21 9 S 11 9 14 14 20 8 13 19! 
O'Shaughnessy. 8 12 12 11 16 15 15 6 8 13 13 11 15 19 6 13 193 
Powell 5 8 10 13 18 13 23 7 7 11 13 10 IN 17 8 13 190 
Bonehill 7 9 13 13 18 9 20 7 8 13 9 13 13 IS 5 10 184 
Warren 6 10 13 13 17 11 15 5 7 13 11 11 14 18 7 11 180 
Gripp 9 11 10 10 16 11 23 5 8 9 10 11 13 17 5 11 178 
Parks 8 11 12 11 12 11 20 8 7 14 10 14 15 10 6 8 177 
Elton 5 10 14 10 12 9 19 9 8 9 11 14 10 13 6 9 1R8 
Waas • 6 9 11 11 11 9 14 8 7 10 9 13 6 12 9 9 164 
Moark 6 15 13 13 16 13 15 w , 90 
Squib 8 15 10 10 w 43 
Of the above sweeps Nos. 1, 8, 5, 7, 10, 12 and 10 were at known 
angles; Nos. 3, 4, 6, 8, 9, 11, 13 and 15 at unknown angles; No 14 at re- 
versed order. Cbntrai,. 
Audubon Gun Club. 
Buffalo, N. T., Aug. 15. — No. 1 event was club badge shoot. Kirk- 
over won A class badge, Brandle B class, W. R. Eaton C class. All 
other events were at unknown angles except No. 4, which was expert 
rule and won by McArthur, as usual: 
13 3 4 5 6 Events: 13 3 
Events: 
E O Burkhardt. . 19 14 17 10 18 12 
Kelsey 22 12 18 12 21 13 
Forrester 34 11 16 9 31 . . 
O S Burkhardt .. 23 11 17 13 19 14 
Bennett 23 14 16 11 18 . . 
Norris, 24 14 17 9 20 14 
PG Myers 14 10 14 8 17 . . 
Tom Tidier 21 11 .... 18 13 
W R Eaton 19 9 14 
McCarney 19 9 9 
A Coombs.,.,,.. 15 6 
4 5 6 
14 20 14 
6 y. 
McArthur 18 13 19 
Brandle 19 . , . 
Kirkover 23 .. 17 
Wm Hines, Jr... 13 11 12 
Jacobs 21 . . 13 . . . 12 
J J Reid 15 9 8 8 11 12 
Woodshed 6 10 9 . 
Middaugh .. 17 .. 14 8 .. .'. 
H Kinner 11 . . ,\ "5 
Lyons 10 
BUI Kny 13 12 
Omaha Gun Club. 
Omaha, Neb., Aug. 15.— Belowarethescoreaof theOmahaQunOlub, 
made at its regular weekly shoot held to-dsy: 
Whitener 1111111111101111111111111-24 
Brucker llOinilOinillllllllini-23 
Carmichael II 11101111110111111111111—23 
Parmelee 1101111111011111111111111- £3 
Loomis 1111011111111111111011111-23 
Read 1111110111111111101110111-32 
Johannes 10101111111011 101 1111 < 111— 21 
McFarlane llinillllllOllllOlUliOOl - 20 
Hughes IIIIIIIOIIIUIOIIOIIIIOIO-SO 
Montmorency 0111101101111011110111101-19 
EKalb ...i., i,..,.00n011]01111010111ini0l— ]8 
Marsh ; OOllllOlUlllllOllllOOnO-lfi 
Dickey 0011111111110111000101010—16 
.W. D. Kbnvon, See'y, 
The Buffalo Pro^amme. 
Wk have received a synopsis of the programme for B. F. Smith's 
tournament at Audubon Park, Buffalo, Sept. 1-4. Of course there 
wUl be practice shooting on Monday, Aug. 31, but no regular pro-* 
gramme will be shot out. 
On Tuesday, Sspt. 1, the Arab day of the shoot, the program-nB 
calls for the following events: 
Events. Targets. Angles. Entrance. Added. 
I, . . .15 bluerooks Unknown $3.00 .'815. 
2 20 blueroeks Unknown 3. 50...... 830. 
8*. , .15 blueroeks Known 3,00 500 Walsrode shells. 
4. ...15 blueroeks Unknown. .... . 3. 00...,,. $15. 
S ...25 blueroeks Unknown 3.50. .835. 
6*... 20 blueroeks Unlmown 2.60 815. 
7.. ..15 blueroeks Unknown 2.00 815. 
8. ...20 blueroeks Unknown 2.50 830. 
9*... 15 blueroeks Known 2.00 500 Du Pont shells. 
10. ...15 blueroeks Unknown 2.00 $15. 
II. ...20 blueroeks Unknown, 2.50 $30. 
12*.. .20 blueroeks Unknown 2.00 1 fine fishing rod. 
* Events marked with an asterisk are open only to shooters who do 
not average better than 75 per cent. All other events are open to all. 
On Wednesday, Sept. 2. the programme is the same as on the pre- 
vious day, with the exception that In event No. 6 there will be 500 
loaded King's Smokeless shells added to the -purse. Thursday, Sept. 
3, the third day of the tournament, is a live-bird day. There are two 
events on the programme: No. 1, 7 birds, $7; No, 2, 15 birds, $15. 
Birds are included in each entrance fee. 
On Friday, Sept. 4, the main event of the tournament wiU be shot. 
This will be a 25 live-bird event, $i5, birds included, handicap rise, 
8760 guaranteed; an elegant trophy wUl be given to the winner in ad- 
dition to his share of the purse. 
In all target events there will be 4 moneys, and the purses will be 
divided under the Rose system, with ratio points of 5, 3, 2 and 1. The 
purses In the live-bird events on the third day will be divided also 
under the same system, but only into 3 moneys, with ratio paints of 5, 
3 and 2. The parse in the 35-bird handicap on the last day will be di- 
vided as follows: $600 to the three high guns— $300 to the first. 8200 
to the second and 8100 to the third; all surplus divided into 5 moneys 
in the proportion of 35, 30, 30, 10 and 5 per cent., and to go to the five 
next high guns. 
Substantial average prizas are offered for the four best averages 
made in all open events. Jack Parker will be on hand to run the 
shoot, and to see that the targets and traps are kept running, and 
that the boys have all the shooting they want. 
Wants to Trade Puffs for Powder. 
Oakland, N. J., Aug. 18.— Editor Forest and Stream: Dr. Ernest 
L Tiffany, formerly of Princeton, N. J., now of Guilford Center, N. 
Y., ordered from us last week a lib. can of E. C. powder, for which 
we sent him. the bill. You will no doubt remember Dr. Tiffany as a 
FRED BILBKRT. 
man who wrote numerous [letters under the nom de plume of Wads 
etc., puffing up Walsrode powder and numerous other articles. 
To-day we received a letter from Dr. Tiffany as follows: "You 
quite misunderstood the intent of my letter. I do not buy a 'pig in a 
poke,' nor do I buy any new powder until I have had opportunity to 
try it. As I am well known to the shooting fraternity through my 
articles in American Field, etc. (over a nam de plumed, on tests of 
smokeless powders, I have been furnished free with samples— from 1 
to lOlbs.— of every smokeless compoimd on the inarket, except the 
new Gold Dust and your E. C. No. 3, and the former I expect a sample 
of this week. The King Powder Co. was the last In, furnishing me 
with ej^lbs. of their Smokeless shotgim and lib. of their Smokeless 
rifle powder. The manufacturer who has a good thing loses nothing 
by this. If the sample Is sent free I should be glad to pay carriage 
and give it a fair test; otherwise I of course cannot accept it." 
It seems to me that Dr. Tiffany is just the man that the papers and 
the manufacturers should sit on. Although well able to afford to buy 
what he wants, he is so mean that he tries to get it for nothing. 
I can show you the original of his letter anytime you wish to see it, 
and hope tlfat should Dr. Tiffany send any articles in to you on the 
powder question, or as far as sporting goods are concerned or any 
other question you will see your way to refuse his articles. 
The American E. O. Powdkr Co., Ltd., 
^■oEL E. Money, See'y. 
Fulton Gun Club, of Atlanta. 
Atlanta. Ga., Aug. 20.— The following scores were made tc-day by 
members of the Fulton Gun Club, of this citv: 
McRae oioiioiuiioiiiiiniiioro— 18 
Day 11 1100111111111111111)01 1-22 
F.iiiott ■ iiloiiiinnmniiiiinio-23 
Everett ...11111111 11 11011 1111101111-23 
Holland 110111011 10101110101111 11— 19 
Frazier i 11110101 10001000011 iroOOl— 12 
Crabh lOlllCOllllOOJIIlllOI '111-19 
HutchinFon 0011001 1 001 001 1 00] OOOOOOO— 8 
Brittan 1111000110111101111111101—19 
Alston 1111111 10011111111 1101 11 1—33 
Clarke 1111101110111101011101110-19 
Richards 01101101 OOIOIOIOOOOOIOI 00-10 
McCune OlllOOllHOlOlIOOOOtlllOl— 15 
Orme 0100101110001010001110001-11 
Arnold , 1 900C01 1011 01 01 11 OH 1 101 1—14 
MitcheU 1110100101010111110111110-17 
Rawson 010010(1001011111001000(110-10 
Hammond 0111101011101111011101011—18 
MarrlBon i..... 1111111011110000111111011-19 
The three days' shoot at Marion, N. J., Sept. 7-9, will practically 
wind up the season so far as tournaments around New York are con- 
cerned. With the exception of the Newburgh tournament, mentioned 
elsewhere, we are not likely to have any excitement in that line until 
the Grand American Handicap of 1897 opens up the ball In the spring. 
For this reason, and also on account of the tournament being given 
by the Interstate Association, as well as for the money added to the 
Durses by the Endeaver Gun Club, there' is every likelihood of a good 
turnout of shooters at the Marion traps on the above dates. The first 
day, Sept. 7, is the annual Labor Day shoot of the Endeavor Gun Club, 
and may be considered as "preparation day" for the Interstate tour- 
nament on the next two days. 
On Sept. 8-10 Canadians wUl have a good chance to enjoy them- 
selves at the traps of the Ontario Rod and Gtjn Club, Gait, Out, The 
plub will add from $800 to 81,000 to the purses. 
